The Reel & Shaft Handling Company offers the Weston Reelstand in its low cost and innovative range shaft-less reelstands.
Managing Director, Stephen Weston, explains, “Most reel fed printing presses and converting machines use heavy airshafts to support the reels as they unwind or rewind. It is recognised that constant handling of these shafts can cause injury and fatigue to operators. Lightweight shafts are only suitable for light reels. Existing types of shaft-less reelstands are generally designed for heavy reels in the 1.5 –2tonne range and above. The challenge was to develop an affordable shaft-less reelstand capable of picking reels up from the floor and suitable for small reel applications.”
What was developed surpassed all expectations. Not only was the new reelstand simple and relatively inexpensive to manufacture, but it allows features such as automatic web tracking, aligning the reel as it unwinds or rewinds. The design will also scale up to handle the largest of reels.
Weston Reelstand - Shaftless, Auto-Guided
The reelstands are available in three models; CENTRELINE, with the reel held in the central position, RANGER, which will allow the operator to manually align the reel during operation and TRACKER, which incorporates a built in PLC to allow automatic alignment of the reel via a signal from proprietary web guide equipment.
WESTON "WORKHORSE" SHAFTLESS REELSTANDS:
The "WORKHORSE" is low-cost, simple reelstand that offers shaftless unwinding and winding, complete with sideshift and the option of web tracking, at a fixed height. The "WORKHORSE" looks at the problem of loading reelstands from a different perspective, particularly where multiple stands are used.
By engineering out the lifting and lowering of the arms, but retaining the sideways opening & closing of the arms, the cost is reduced significantly. Now, if the customer has several reelstands, the cost savings multiply!
The "WORKHORSE" is designed to be loaded with The Reel and Shaft Handling Company's range of Reel Loading equipment, such as the RAMA Agility, Armanni Reel Truck, or scissor lift tables. This offers greater flexibility and lower overall costs!
Why not take a look at our Reel Handling web pages, look at Reel Handling and Reelstands as an integrated process and consider doing things a little differently and more cost effectively?
