Spiral Paper Tube Making Machine: An Overview
- Definition
A spiral paper tube making machine is a specialized industrial equipment designed to produce paper tubes (or paper cores) through a spiral winding process. It converts continuous paper strips into cylindrical tubes with high strength, uniform diameter, and customizable lengths, widely used in packaging, textile, printing, and other industries.
- Core Components
- Paper Unwinding Unit: Holds multiple paper rolls, feeds paper strips stably, and adjusts tension to avoid wrinkles.
- Gluing System: Applies adhesive evenly on paper strips to ensure firm bonding during winding.
- Spiral Winding Mechanism: The core part that winds paper strips spirally around a mandrel (core rod) to form tube blanks.
- Drying Device: Cures the adhesive quickly using hot air or infrared, enhancing tube strength.
- Cutting Unit: Cuts the continuous tube blank into specified lengths with high precision.
- Control Panel: Operates the machine via touchscreen or buttons, setting parameters like speed, tube diameter, and length.
- Working Principle
- Paper Feeding: Multiple paper strips are unwound simultaneously and merged after tension adjustment.
- Glue Coating: Adhesive is applied to the overlapping edge of the paper strips.
- Spiral Winding: The glued strips are wound around a rotating mandrel in a spiral direction, forming a compact tube blank.
- Drying: The tube blank passes through the drying device to solidify the adhesive.
- Precision Cutting: The dried tube is cut into finished products by the cutting unit as per preset length.
- Key Features
- High Efficiency: Continuous production, with output ranging from 10 to 100 tubes per minute (varies by model).
- Customizability: Adjustable tube diameter (10mm-500mm), length, and wall thickness to meet diverse needs.
- Cost-Effective: Uses recycled paper as raw material; low energy consumption and maintenance cost.
- Stable Performance: Equipped with tension control and automatic fault alarm systems, ensuring consistent product quality.
- Typical Applications
The paper tubes produced by this machine are widely used in:
- Packaging: Core tubes for films, tapes, and adhesive labels; shipping tubes for documents or fragile items.
- Textile Industry: Bobbins for yarn, thread, and fabric rolls.
- Printing Industry: Core tubes for printing rolls (newsprint, packaging paper).
- Other Fields: Crafts, flower arrangement, and construction (as temporary support tubes).