Rotary Finishing Machine Multi-station, Rotary Indexing Paint Roller Finishing Machine. Original design 

Multi-Station Paint Roller Finishing Machine:

• Machine produces bag-ready rollers using a variety of finishing stations
• 1.5” diameter mandrels, capable of finishing rollers in 3”, 4”, and 9” lengths
• Capable of finishing mini rollers and jumbo-mini rollers with machine modifications
• Can change / calibrate finishing stations individually as needed

Production rate: 1,000 rollers / hour, possibly higher

Features:

• Takes rollers cut to length, produces bag-ready rollers using multiple finishing stations.  Eliminates need to deal with paint roller tubes
• 1.5” diameter roller mandrels, can finish 3”, 4”, and 9” rollers
• Machine is magazine-fed
• Capable of finishing mini rollers and jumbo mini rollers with finishing station modifications and smaller-diameter mandrels
• Can change / calibrate each finishing station as needed to meet needed finish requirements
• Not PLC controlled

 Has the following four stations:

• Loading:
• Rollers are loaded using an adjustable pneumatic arm to load rollers of any size onto finishing machine mandrels.
• Carding:
• Unlike buffers that use slow, actively-driven carding cloth drums, we use a carder mounted on a passive mandrel, while the mandrel the paint roller is mounted on actively spins.  This results in a higher-speed (2,000-4,000 RPM) carding treatment which removes much less fabric than traditional carding solutions, reducing waste as well as the need for carder maintenance. 
• Carder penetration depth can be precisely controlled via a handwheel.
• Beveling:
• We use lightweight beveling heads that have three degrees of freedom (towards / away from roller, up / down, rotating on an axis perpendicular to the roller) to provide precise beveler head positioning for all paint roller fabrics. 
• We make use of flexible shafts to mount the beveling head motors away from the beveling units, making the units much easier to adjust.
• The solid carbide end mills and hardened beveling blades can be easily adjusted and replaced as needed.  Combined with an actively-spun mandrel, the beveling units produce sharp, consistent edges. 
• Unloading:
• Finished rollers are ejected from the mandrel using a pneumatic arm. The rollers can be deposited into a conveyor or container.

All  are custom built by Roller Essentials.