SLITTING FUNDAMENTALS

PREAPRED BY :

DEBASISH DUTTA
HINDALCO.BELUR

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SLITTING ??

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COMPONENT OF SLITTER

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 WHAT IS SLITTER ?

TOP ARBOR

BOTTOM ARBOR

Slitter knife or Cutter

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 CUTTER & RUBBER

Top Cutter Top Cutter

TOP RUBBER SET

DUMMY EDGE DUMMY EDGE
CUTTING EDGE CUTTING EDGE
Rubber bigger then bottom cutter to
avoid cutter marks on the sheet

Stripper rubber

BOTTOM RUBBER SET

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MECHANISM OF SLITTING

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 MECHANISM OF SLITTING

SHEARING
X mm
FRACTURE

X mm

SHEARING

FRACTURE
STRIP THICKNESS
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 MECHANISM OF SLITTING

Top slitter knife

STRIP

Shearing Shearing
Fracture Fracture
Bottom slitter knife

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 FRACTURE ANGLE
Top Slitter knife
CONSTANT
FRACTURE
ANGLE
= 8 to 12 degree
SHEARING
FRACTURE

“FRACTURE ANGLE IS
ALWAYS CONSTANT,
Fracture IRESPECTIVE OF THE SLIT
Angle GAUGE”

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 FRACTURE ANGLE
Fracture angle remains same always ! ! ! Cutter
10% of X

x
High Gauge

Cutter Fracture angle = 8-12 Degree

10% of Y
Cutter

low Gauge Y

When gauge decreases Horizontal 10

Fracture angle= 8-12 Degree
Cutter
clearance also decreases & vice versa
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 HORIZONTAL CLEARANCE
TOP CUTTER TOP CUTTER

HORIZONTAL CLEARANCE( HC)

If gauge = 0.50mm,HC= 0.050mm

If gauge = 0.185mm, HC= 0.0185mm
HC
And so on …………………
Also few recommend
Hard material = 15% of gauge
Soft material = 8% of gauge

BOTTOM CUTTER

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 VERTICAL CLEARANCE
Top Cutter
VERTICAL CLEARANCE/OVERLAP
Top Cutter

Start with a vertical clearance

between the cutters and start
Vertical Overlap
closing the gap between the
arbors until it starts cutting

Vertical clearance
Thin Gauge

Bottom Cutter
Thick Gauge
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 VERTICAL CLEARANCE

TOP ARBOR

RUBBER RUBBER
DRIVE OPERATOR

RUBBER

BOTTOM ARBOR

1. If vertical clearance is very less = No slitting

2. But if it is excess or more then required =?

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 VERTICAL CLEARANCE
RESULT OF EXCESS VERTICAL CLEARANCE

2Xmm
2Xmm

TOP ARBOR

DRIVE SIDE
OPTR SIDE

BOTTOM ARBOR

2Xmm

Xmm

Tendency of arbor becoming bow

Abnormal rotation of shaped 14

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GOOD SURFACE CONTROL STATEGY

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 TOOLING PRACTICE

 Dedicated Tool set

 Computer aided assembly
 Knife cooling & lubrication
 Knife setup to avoid edge ripple
 Spacers & rubbers storage & housekeeping
 Arbor parallelity
 Well defined practice
 Frequent checking of Jet Nut
 Cleaning of MASTER FACE of arbor

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RECOILING ISSUES

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 VERTICAL SEPARATION OF KNIVES

•Excessive meshing of the knives results the following

•a) The fracture axis moves away from the center line of the arbors thus
increasing the loading required on the slitter head

•b) Excessive friction of the knives which accelerate wear resulting

pickup on edges

•c)The arbor may deflect

•d)The stripper rings may roll the edges of the strip to produce a short
regular ripple

•e)Knife marks
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LOOPING OR TIGHT LINE

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CINCHING

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LATERAL BOW

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ADJACENT STRANDS OVERLAP

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COIL COLLAPSE

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EDGE BURR

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PICK UP

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EDGE DETERIORATION THRO THE LINE

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EDGE DETERIORATION DURING COIL BUILDUP

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EDGE WEAVY

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WRINKLE

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WHISKER

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WIDTH VARIES ALONG THE STRAND LENGTH

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 BELL SHAPED REWIND COIL

•One edge of the coil sometimes builds at a relatively high rate to produce a
bell shaped coil

•Edge waviness

•USE IRONING ROLL TO MINIMISE IT AND CORRECT IT,GIVEN

STEADY VALUE OF TENSION AND SPEED,HOPEFULLY REST OF
THE COIL SHOULD BUILD UP CORRECTLY

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 DO’S & DON’T

DO’S
Adequate Head End Dressing
Use of sharp cutter
Open Gap Fitting
Campaign Cleaning Before Critical Product
Regular cleaning of Master Face & Iron spacers
Segregation of Rubber spacers & Iron spacers
Keep the records
Grind cutter & rubber along with

DON’T
Do not process hot coil ( Recommendation within 55 degree)
Do not insert any body parts during run condition
Do not stand nearby scrap baller ( in extreme necessary “off” the baller)
Do not operate with single manpower
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