Strip tension required to generate tight straight-wall slit coils is generated by a Pad Tensioner and a Non-Marking Roll Tensioner. The Pad Tensioner is employed when slitting non-critical coil, and the Roll Tensioner is utilized for processing surface critical coated carbon steel, aluminum, and stainless coil. The Pad and Roll Tensioners can be engaged independently or in tandem. An Exit End Shear squares coil tails and eliminates the need to re-thread the line when splitting coil ODs.

Changing from one slitting order to the next requires re-tooling of the Slitter, the Tension Stand, and the Overarm. Quick tooling changeover of all three components is essential in order to achieve production efficiency. The Turret Head™ Slitter can be changed in one minute. The same is true of Wilkinson's Tension Stand and Overarm Separator tooling arbors. The Tension stand and Overarm Separator are both equipped with lightweight "slip-off" quick-change tooling arbors that can be exchanged with pre-tooled arbors in one minute.

Wilkinson's Recoiler is equipped with a 20" diameter rewind drum mounted on a 14" shaft and driven from a two-ratio parallel shaft helical gear reducer by a DC motor that generates the massive torque necessary to rewind high-strength strip into straight-wall tight slit coils.

The Overarm Separator is supported from the inboard and outboard ends in order to assure the Overarm tooling is square and parallel with the Recoiler when running. Hydraulically engaged non-marking Coil Tail Hold-Downs safely secure high-strength coil tails during coil OD banding.

Slit coils generated from Wilkinson's Turret Head™ Slitting Line are quickly and efficiently packaged for shipment on an Automatic Slit Coil Packaging Line capable of handling 10,000# coils in widths from 1" through 24". An "Operatorless" Programmable Downender automatically retrieves coils from the 4-Arm Turnstile and deposits them onto a conveyor line. Coils are quickly radially-strapped and forwarded to an Automatic Coil Stacker that stacks coils onto pallets positioned on a Coil Sorting Table. Palletized coils are weighed and wrapped as they progress down the discharge conveyor line.

Proven Design, Exceptional Performance, Bullet-Proof Reliability, plus know-how accumulated from building 600+ Slitting Lines made Wilkinson Steel and Metal's selection of a Braner/Loopco Turret Head™ Slitting Line a "no-brainer."

Wilkinson Steel and Metals
888 South East Marine Drive
Vancouver, BC V5X 2V3
phone: (604) 324-6611  fax: (604) 301-3222
www.wilkinsonsteel.com