The Rotary Slitter is a high-speed precision slitting instrument used to slit web materials up to 300 mm in width into thin webs down to 5 mm in width. The minimum cut width will be application limited. The slit webs are collected in roll formats on take-up reels. The slitting process is enclosed in a cabinet with safety interlocks. The unit is designed with a quick change blade set assembly for change over to different cut widths.
The rotary slitter consists of a web feed system, a rotary cutter module and individual take-up reels. The objective is to slit a wide web into a number of smaller web widths where each smaller web is taken up on one of the take up reels. The take up reels can then be transferred to a lamination machine or other process station for further value added operations.
Web Feed: This station consists of a web feed with a width up to 300 mm. The web tension is controlled by a clutch on the reel spindle. The slitting station acts as the drive capstan to pull the web from the feed reel.
Slitting: This station consists of a set of rotary cutter blades with precision spacers located on two motor driven synchronized spindles. The maximum web width for slitting is 300 mm. The minimum slit width is 5 mm. Precision spacers are used to control the blade spacing. It is possible to vary the blade spacing on the rotary cutter spindles to run smaller web widths at different positions on the rotary cutter.