Open Frame Web Festoon Accumulator
Economical Open Frame Web Festoon Accumulators
At U.S. Webcon, we offer economical open frame web festoon accumulators designed to enhance your web material storage capabilities. We provide a solution tailored to your specific needs with a range of features and options.
Flexible Options for Enhanced Performance
Our accumulators come with integral or freestanding pull rolls, enabling seamless integration with your existing setup. The double pass idler arrangement ensures maximum storage capacity, optimizing your operations. With a dual carriage design for low tension and brake nips to increase web tension, our accumulators guarantee precise control over your web material.
Comprehensive Support and Versatility
We offer unwind and rewind stands as part of our open-frame web festoon accumulator package. Additionally, optional touch screens provide you with intuitive control for seamless operation.
Elevate your web material storage capabilities with our high-quality open-frame web festoon accumulators. Contact us today to discuss the perfect solution for your business. Experience optimal performance with U.S. Webcon.
What is Web Accumulation?
Web festoon accumulation are used for temporary storage of continuous web material (such as paper, film, foil, fabric) in a web processing line to allow for uninterrupted operation of upstream and downstream equipment. It is commonly used in web processing industries to manage speed variations, facilitate roll changes, and maintain tension control.
What types of Web Accumulators are there?
- Vertical Accumulators – Use a series of rollers that move up and down to store material.
- Horizontal Accumulators – Store material in a horizontal path, often using a festoon system.
- Double or Tripple Pass Accumulator – temporarily stores material by passing it through multiple times, using less floor space by sing a festoon system.
What is the difference between a Four Post and Open Frame designs?
A four post Web Festoon Accumulator is machine designed to be larger and carry more accumulated web with mechanical counter balancing to reduce carriage weight. An open frame unit is a lighter unit designed to carry a maximum of 80 to 100 feet of accumulation.