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Cable sheathing, armouring, printing & marking
Tensor Machinery provides a complete armouring system
for steel, aluminium and copper tape applications from 15 to
100mm tape widths. The equipment typically includes tape
pay-offs, accumulators, welders, corrugators
and rollforming.
For the tape pay-offs Tensor offers driven
and non-driven designs depending on
the tape material and the type of tape
accumulator used, and up to 200 metres of
tape accumulation to ensure the line never
slows down when performing a tape weld. The
tape accumulator can be designed for either
smooth tape or corrugated tape. Which one to
purchase depends on the tape material and for
the application it is being used.
The tape welder can weld all three tape
materials in seconds providing a small overlap
weld. This is a resistance type welder where the
tape maintains a strength of 90 to 100% after
it is welded. For the tape corrugator, Tensor
provides an easily adjustable corrugation depth using a single
crank lever. This provides an even corrugation across the tape
width. Both the upper and lower corrugator rollers can be driven
to provide an accurate corrugation pitch. The corrugator can be
provided with a variety of corrugation pitches.
For tape forming Tensor suggests rollformers. A rollformer is
a series of rollers that smoothly forms a tape into a round tube
shape with a slight overlap. Tape widths as small as 15mm can be
formed into a round tube.
Because there is virtually no friction in forming, high speeds can
be obtained without heating up the tape or damaging the tape
coating.
All the Tensor armouring equipment can be designed to
operate as a complete system or individual components can be
purchased ready to be integrated into any existing armouring
line. It can also supply yarn server as well as deliver a complete
sheathing line ready to install and start producing cables.
Tensor Machinery Inc – Canada
Fax : +1 514 636 3288
Email:
Website:
Complete systems from Canada
▲ The steel tape pay-off and welder from Tensor