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OTHER OFF-LINE EQUIPMENT Slit Mult Lifter SLIT COIL PACKAGING
Coil Tippers

• Mechanical or hydraulic
• Coil saddle with urethane or nylon wear

pads
• Optional slot for C-hook or coil grab
• Optional conveyors for coil transfer

Coil Mounters

This free-ranging, custom-engineered coil mounter Specially designed lifter facilitates fast and Is your packaging line choking your slitting line?
moves easily throughout a plant. It combines the safe placement of a slit coil onto the mandrel
benefits of fork trucks, upenders and coil cars to of an un-coiler. Bushman AvonTec designs and manufactures a full range of slit coil packaging systems to work in conjunction
maximize productivity. Like rail-mounted cars, these with standard and special application slitting lines. These systems are available in economical, manually
units are designed to handle a wide range of sizes and • It automatically adjusts to varying operated configurations or in sophisticated, automated, PC-controlled high production systems designed to
weights. Available with 12- or 24-volt DC motors, coil diameters. meet virtually any plant layout.
this steerable, walk-along coil mounter handles steel
and wire coils as well as rolled products like paper or • The full length handle makes it easier Benefits of Bushman AvonTec coil packaging systems:
plastic. to maneuver the lifter. • Increase material flow and revenue
• Reduce product damage
• Faster and safer than using a • Reduce maintenance costs and downtime
conventional C-hook. • Reduce labor costs
• Increase profitability
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SLIT COIL PACKAGING SYSTEM COMPONENTS

COIL CARS TURNSTILES NON-FERROUS PACKAGING PACKAGING LINE LAYOUT

Slit mults may be transferred to the exit turnstile Most slit coil packaging lines are located directly  
by coil transfer cars, Automatic Guided Vehicles after the exit turnstile of the slitting line they
(AGV), or an overhead crane with a C-hook. service. Coil cars move coils to a turnstile which
Photos of several types of coil cars are below. stores up to four sets of slit coils. Coils can be
loaded or removed by a C-hook, coil car or
downender.

Slitting line entry end coil car Four-arm turnstile Non-ferrous coils wrapped in plastic film  
Slitting line exit end coil car
DOWNENDERS If you need to handle non-ferrous coils or other The layout above is one example of the many
Coil downenders remove the coils from an eye- materials with delicate edges, Bushman~AvonTec packaging lines Bushman AvonTec has designed.
horizontal to an eye-vertical position for can help you.
packaging. Most customers use a Pick & Place DO YOU NEED A NEW PACKAGING
downender to improve productivity and reduce Non-ferrous packaging utilizes control equipment LINE OR AN UPGRADE TO AN
coil damage. that is PLC based with automation designed to be EXISTING LINE?
user friendly. Complete slit mult tracking
systems are available for non-ferrous packaging Almost every packaging line we have built has
and include interfaces to the slitter and to shop a different layout to suit process requirements
production/stock control systems. and building designs. Let us help you with the
most efficient layout, for example:

• Matching production capacity
requirements.

• Most advantageous material flow
arrangement for your plant.

• Best operator locations for easy access.

Non-ferrous coils wrapped in plastic film

Propane powered master coil transfer car Pick & place downender

SLIT COIL PACKAGING SYSTEM COMPONENTS

AUTOMATIC SPACER PLACERS AUTOMATIC COIL STACKERS CSoOpRy gToAesThIeOreN TABLES SCoKpIyDgDoeEs DherCe OIL STACK PACKAGING

A spacer placer automatically places three or four High throughput packaging lines use automatic Sortation tables allow the operator to process The usual stack packaging process involves:
wooden spacer blocks radially on top of a slit coil stacking and sorting to increase productivity and multiple customer orders from one master coil.
so that another coil can be placed on top. This reduce labor needs. Automatic stacking and • Weighing the skidded stack.
allows multiple slit coils to be packaged together sorting can be provided using a sortation table Four, six, eight OR 12-position powered • Securing the coil stack to the skid with
on a single pallet without being damaged. Coils with multiple stacking positions or a shuttle car sortation tables provide fast and flexible sorting
can then be easily un-packaged and handled at system. capability. Features include: either:
the final destination. o Steel or plastic strapping.
• Smooth hydraulic powered, gear-driven o Stretch film wrapping and roping.
rotation.
• Visual checking of shipping package and
• Precision center bearing. application of shipping labels.
• Auto indexing provided to any position.
• Each position mechanically latched for • A stretch film wrap and top sheet
application is often used to seal the
consistent positioning accuracy. secured coil stack.

Automatic spacer placer Travel lift stacker Eight-position sortation table
Vacuum lift
COIL STACKERS Shuttle cars provide an alternative to sortation
MANUAL COIL STACKERS tables when minimal sorting is required. Shuttle
Coil packaging lines with low throughput usually cars may be equipped with either:
find manual coil stackers to be economical. Free
standing jib cranes fitted with a coil ID lifter are • Variable frequency electrical motor drives
frequently used to lift the eye banded coil and for smooth, accurate position indexing
place it on a pallet.
• Automatic indexing

A weigh scale typically produces a “ticket” that is
attached to the skid of coils. This “ticket”
includes information such as weight, customer
name, barcode, etc.

Jib crane with coil ID lifter Overhead carriage with VFD Shuttle car

SLIT COIL PACKAGING SYSTEM COMPONENTS

PAPER & PLASTIC FILM SKIDDED COIL STACK HANDLING DOWNENDERS (Cont.) EYESBUABNDTINITGLTEABBLAESR
WRAPPING & ROPING
Eye-to-sky handling Fixed position downenders are better suited to Eye banding tables incorporate steel or plastic
Exit storage conveyors can include plastic film Slit mults may be removed from the storage heavy gauge coils. A pusher arm on the turnstile strapping systems with or without seals. Manual,
wrapping equipment. Some customers conveyor with: slides the coil on to the downender arm. semi-automatic and fully automatic options are
incorporate a wrapper with roping to secure the available. Spin roll or iron cross style tables are
slit mults to the skid to avoid the need to use steel • Fork lift truck off of the end storage available.
strapping. conveyor.
Fixed position downender Manual steel strapping
• stretch wrappers are available from • Crane and motorized telescoping pallet Semi-automatic steel strapping
several manufacturers such as Signode, lifter off of the storage conveyor. CONVEYORS
Wulftec, etc. Conveyors move the product to each stage of the
packaging process. Space and price
• For use with Bushman AvonTec rotary considerations frequently dictate the quantity of
table. conveyors selected. More conveyors provide
extra storage to free up the turnstile area as soon
• No need to band coil to skid. This as possible without waiting for all the mults in a
depends on the type of transport that batch to be eye banded.
is used, truck or rail.

• Improved coil protection.

Auto indexing conveyor

Coil tipping to eye-horizontal Direction change conveyor Automatic plastic strapping

Sometimes, after the coils are packaged in the
eye-vertical position, they must be tipped up into
the eye-horizontal position for shipping to the
customer. Typically wide coils, greater than 15
inches, are shipped this way. An in-line upender
will tip the coil stack through 90° to eye-
horizontal position for removal by a C-hook or
pole truck.