Festoon Web Accumulator
Optimize Web Material Handling with our Festoon Web Accumulators
Optimize your production process with our versatile line of festoon web accumulators at U.S. Webcon. Our accumulators are equipped with numerous features and options to meet your specific requirements.
Enhancing Performance
We offer a range of options for our festoon web accumulators, including integral or freestanding pull rolls, a double pass idler arrangement for maximum storage, a dual carriage design for low-tension applications, brake nips to increase web tension, and unwind and rewind stands. These options allow you to customize the accumulator to fit your unique needs and achieve optimal performance.
Effortless Web Management
Our festoon web accumulators are designed to facilitate smooth and efficient web handling. With the option of incorporating touch screens, you can easily control and monitor the accumulator’s operation. We strive to provide user-friendly equipment that streamlines your web management process.
Elevate your web material handling capabilities with our high-quality festoon web accumulators. Get in touch with our team to discuss your production needs and explore the perfect solution for your business.
What is Web Accumulation?
Web festoon accumulation refers to the temporary storage of a continuous material (such as paper, film, foil, fabric, or metal) in a 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.
What is a low tensionWeb Festoon Accumulator?
A Low Tension Web Festoon Accumulator is a motor driven dual carriage unit. The two carriages are mechanically tied together so that lower carriages weight hangs on and counter balances the weight of the upper carriage so that its weight zeroed out. The actuation is driven by a motor and uses load cells or a dancer to control tension within the unit.