This unique book will help readers understand how to design and operate web equipment to avoid wrinkles, web breaks, registration, guiding, and other web problems. It covers many aspects of web handling for manufacturing, converting and printing, and is applicable to any web, including paper, film, foil, novnwovens, and textiles. Highly recommended.

From the Preface: “The goal of web handling is simple: to move a web as quickly and as reliably as possible through a machine. Web handling seeks to preserve a web as contrasted to manufacturing which creates it and converting which modifies it. Preservation might include, for example, geometries so that the web remains free of breaks, cracks, wrinkles, and unintended size changes. Preservation also might include protecting the web's properties or even its passengers such as coatings and inks...”

Target Audience: Product, process, and maintenance engineers responsible for web machinery and operations; plant managers; quality specialists.

Table of Contents:

Introduction to Web Handling

Material Mechanics

Dimensional Control

Tension and Tension Control

Downweb Tension Variations

Crossweb Tension Variations

Temporal Tension Variations

Guiding

Nips

Slitting

Spreading

Winding

Wrinkling

Web Breaks

Appendices

Glossary

Index

Note: The Mechanics of Rollers and The Mechanics of Winding are companion volumes to this title.