Turret Head Slitter™: A massive two (2) head quick-change Turret Head™ Slitter produces precise width tolerance slit strips with minimum burr throughout the entire range of gauges and mechanical properties. The Slitter arbors are mounted in precision machine tool bearings installed in massive one-piece stress-relieved and precision ground solid steel block arbor bearing housings that weigh nearly 3-tons each. The rotatable inboard Turret housing is supported on a huge anti-friction bearing that provides rigidity and precise slitter head alignment. The solid one-piece outboard arbor bearing housing is mounted on zero-maintenance precision anti-friction machine tool slides and is opened and closed by hydraulic cylinder. Huge aluminum-bronze slides guide the vertically adjustable upper arbor bearing boxes and provide for "zero" axial arbor movement. The upper arbor bearing boxes are vertically positioned by motorized anti-backlash screw jacks equipped with electronic encoder digital position readouts for fast and precise set-up. The unique unobstructed Turret Head™ Slitter head design permits heavy slitter tooling set-ups to be made quicker and easier than with any other Slitter head design. Re-tooled slitter head changeover can be accomplished in less than 2-minutes.

Massive Turret Head™ Slitter sets up and changes heads quickly.

Scrap Handling: Like Independence Tube's Marseilles, IL, Braner/Loopco Slitting Line, the new Decatur line employs a pair of Hydraulic Scrap Winders rather than Scrap Choppers to handle and dispose of edge trim scrap. The Scrap Winders are arranged to make heavy-gauge edge trim threading fast and easy. Edge trim is guided into the Winders through wide-open hydraulic oscillators, and the scrap is wound onto tapered cones. Variable winding tension is controlled from the main operator console. Finished scrap bundles are pushbutton unloaded into a scrap container. Compared with a Scrap Chopper, a Scrap Winder has no special cutter tooling, no synchronized DC motors and controls, no scrap chutes, and no scrap conveyor. The absence of maintenance intensive components results in bullet-proof reliability and minimal down-time. Properly designed scrap winding systems are exceptionally reliable, are easy to maintain, and offer excellent operating efficiency.

Heavy-Duty Scrap Winders provide excellent performance and exceptional reliability.

Exit End: 98,000# x 5/8" coils are rewound to a 30" ID x 84" OD on a massive 2-ratio parallel shaft helical gear Recoiler with a 24" diameter main shaft. The huge main shaft eliminates the need for an outboard support. The collapsible Recoiler drum is constructed from 2" thick heat-treated forged steel drum segments and employs a 4" round gripper bar. A rigid floor-mounted Overarm Separator guides slit strips onto the Recoiler drum. Overarm Separator mounted hydraulic cylinder powered coil tail hold-down pads prevent hi-strength coil tail clock-springing during tail-out and coil OD banding - an important operational and safety feature. Slit strips are directed into the Recoiler gripper by a Telescoping Hydraulic Feed Table.

Recoiler w/ Overarm and Tail Hold-Down.

A Floor Level Coil Car efficiently unloads and transports slit coils away from the Recoiler. A wireless radio pushbutton control allows the operator to maintain a safe distance from the Car and coil while operating.

Coil Unloading Car with Wireless Controls.

Proven performance, excellent technical support, and bullet-proof reliability made Independence Tube's selection of a Braner/Loopco Turret Head™ Slitting Line for their new Decatur plant a "no-brainer."

Independence Tube Corp.
2000 Independence Ave. N.W.
Decatur, AL 35601
phone: (800) 376-6000  fax: (256) 340-7420
www.independencetube.com