UNIFEEDER2
Posted September 16, 2015
BTSR International S.p.A, based in Italy, will launch innovative yarn control technologies at ITMA (Hall 7, Booth G101) in November.
The company, represented in North America by PAF Sales, Inc., Greensboro, N.C., will highlight its rolling feeding control technology and its yarn storage feeding technology.
High-tech revolution in yarn storage feeding
BTSR also will launch UNIFEEDER2, an innovative solution drastically overcoming the state-of-art of yarn storage feeding technology and destined to dramatically impact socks, hosiery and knitting textile sectors.
A new concept multi-patented system features the new concept “Yarn Anti-twist
System” and guarantees a total combined yarn feeding and storage control, thus representing the first “positive storage” feeder concept introduced on the market.
UNIFEEDER2 comes with innovative unique features and high-tech functions and represents a drastic jump ahead compared with the traditional storage feeding technological offer.
New concept working principles such as the BTSR patented “Yarn Anti-twist System,” the Anti-Gravitational Floating Ring and the Output Constant Tension Self-Adaptive Technology represent radical product innovations, bringing unique benefits in terms of production quality and repeatability (constant size, yarn misplating and breakage prevention) and of unlimited styles programming.
The UNIFEEDER2’s unique technology includes input yarn breakages and knots detection control as well as yarn tears compensation, providing real-time machine stop signaling and preventive needles breakages, yarn waste and second-rate production. UNIFEEDER2 is much more than a simple storage feeder as it provides advanced unique functions such as “Yarn Graduation Compression” capability (i.e for technical textile applications, sock leg, seamless, etc.). The possibility to measure in real time the yarn consumption (LFA) and self-compensate its variation (i.e. due to fluff accumulation in the yarn finger) are unique features on the market.
This all-in-one device features incredibly minimized size and weight (up to less than 50 percent than traditional storage feeder), thus allowing the simplest and cost-saving installation configurations (i.e. single ring). It is a “plug and play” solution requiring low energy consumption, unlimited styles of programming possibilities and an advanced display for easy data setting and monitoring.
UNIFEEDER2 is universally retrofittable on all types of socks, pantyhose, seamless and circular knitting machine brands by working as standalone device with direct connection to the machine. UNIFEEDER2 represent a high-profitable investment for textile operators who implement this solution. Every production manager will be able to measure the correlated fast ROI in terms of production efficiency, cost savings and machine maintenance.
ITMA exhibitor preview
BTSR to launch yarn control technologies
ROLLING FEEDER
ROLLING FEEDER technology meets bare elastomer feeding control
BTSR extends its sales and market penetration with ROLLING FEEDER, the revolutionary new concept device for bare elastomers feeding control. It is devised to impact seamless and knitting sector habits and trends tied to bare elastomers applications.
ROLLING FEEDER is a unique solution in the market, thanks to its capability to combine in a single device the flexibility and user-friendly use of BTSR constant tension feeding technology with product quality, resulting from bare elastomeric yarns feeding at constant LFA/speed (BTSR® patent).
The feeder is easily installed, is user friendly and is retrofittable on any machine.
Thanks to the BTSR self-adaptive electronic technology, ROLLING FEEDER is able to work at constant tension yarn feeding during yarn “start/stop” working phases (or during strong yarn pattern selections) and to automatically shift at constant LFA/speed feeding during the garment production.
Based on the derulè yarn reeling-off working concept, ROLLING FEEDER technology allows for the elimination of the yarn “twisting effect” (flat yarns) and guarantees the capability to feed elastomeric yarns at constant speed/LFA
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The ROLLING FEEDER system features the BTSR patent-pending “Double Working Modality Master-Slave’ system (derulè at constant tension / derulè at constant LFA), with the possibility to select a single or multiple devices as MASTERs and a group of units as SLAVEs, thus guaranteeing the absolute stitch matching, preventing yarn plating faults in vanisè process and guaranteeing top quality garment production.
Combined with ULTRAFEEDER devices (MASTERs) installed on the machine for background yarns feeding control, ROLLING FEEDER (SLAVEs) are able to work at a constant “stretch ratio,” thus guaranteeing a fully automatic constant yarn feeding/stretching and top quality repeatability.
ROLLING FEEDER is designed to enhance operators’ working life by minimizing and simplifying labor operations, thus guaranteeing the most demanding production efficiency goals achievement and getting the top quality production.
Source: BTSR