EoW November 2011

Cable sheathing, armouring, printing & marking

Complete systems from Canada

Because there is virtually no friction in forming, high speeds can be obtained without heating up the tape or damaging the tape coating.

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

The steel tape pay-off and welder from Tensor

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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 : headoffice@tensorfiber.com Website : www.tensorfiber.com

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.

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EuroWire – November 2011