Menges Roller Co. - Profiling / Grooving


Menges Grooved & Serrated Rollers Experience first hand the difference "Value Added Engineering" from Menges Roller can make when purchasing grooved rollers for your specific application. Discover, as many of our satisfied customers have, how our custom compounds linked with the proper groove pattern can drive profits right through the roof! You'll quickly notice the difference in the form of improved quality, increased production speeds, scrap reduction, and less down time. The process starts with only a phone call. One of our Sales Engineers would be more than happy to match our roller knowledge with your particular operating environment to deliver the right product for your needs. That's "Value Added"! The only thing you'll regret is that you didn't call sooner.	Every type of groove profile imaginable.

Menges Wrinkle Stopper
Ideal in smoothing out wrinkles in thin gauge materials such as foils, paper and film. They are available in durometers from 25 to 40 Shore A and tough enough for continuous environments. Wrinkle Stoppers can run in idler positions and can be placed wherever they are more effective. We can convert your existing roller into a Wrinkle Stopper or manufacture a new core to be used as a spare. Try this widely acclaimed roller today and start smoothing out your wrinkle problems.

Menges Herringbone
Used as not only a web spreader, but also as a feed roller in the harshest environments. Ideal for boardly products such as SPS board, corrugated, sheet steel and other hard to feed and hard to align products. The Menges Herringbone serration coupled with one of our proprietary rubber compounds will stand up to the toughest "in-feed" applications around.

Diamond Serration
Used for many applications but most often in flexible packaging. Performs superbly and is used by many OEM's as a layon roll. Has excellent channeling abilities to move air or liquid away from substrates.

Metal/Wood Contact Rollers
Used in metal polishing lines and wood sanding applications to create a more aggressive sanding action between the substrate and sand paper. Also, the grooves channel away heat from the surface of the roller to provide longer roller life. Used by many of the premier metal and wood finishers in the industry today.

Fluted Roller Serrations
Used in glue spreading, sausage processing, corrugated industries, and many special industrial applications where lateral serrations can be beneficial.

Circumferential Serrations
Used to help align substrates in "in-feed" operations, or to allow bulky material to pass between rollers without being crushed. Grooved rollers can be used in pairs and can be strung to eliminate the wrapping up of the substrate where webs change direction.

Parabolic Crowned Rollers

Increase your machine speed…

Experience first hand how a properly calculated Parabolic Crown can increase the speed, function and operation of your equipment. It is a proven fact that all rollers under a manipulating load or hydraulic pressure experience roll deflection and unequal elastic polymer flow across the nipped roll face. The deflection described above, follows engineering's basic beam principle, shown here.

ILL. #1

A crown is a designed contour on the surface of a roll above the diameter and is continuously decreasing non-linearly from the center point to both ends.

If you are in search of smoother runs, better quality, faster performance, coupled with longer rubber life with better wear, longer bearing life and reduced machine vibration… look no further.

Many customers have tried crowns such as those shown in illustration #2, which uses no rhyme or reason other than trial and error to produce a taper from a larger roll diameter in the center. This is NOT a true crown. A true crown, used to equally distribute load force and equalize nip impression, requires a true radius or cosine crown, as shown in illustration #3.

ILL. #2

ILL. #3

There are two methods available to determine the crown needed for a given nip load.

Use an accurate drawing, engineering data and formula to calculate core and shaft deflection, (one of our sales engineers can make these with your accurate print and load data).

Produce an actual footprint of your nip impression using special carbon paper. By measuring the difference from the middle to the outside of the roll face (- 2" from each end due to elastic flow off of the outside roll edge). See illustration #4. A wider impression on tile ends, compared with the middle indicates a crown or that additional crowning is required.

ILL. #4

A nip impression can also confirm roller alignment, side to side pressure differences, indicate whether a roll will run hotter (greater hysteresis), and faster wear on ends compared to the middle. Inside nip action is also detected with this impression. Nip stresses and speeds will vary as the substrate passes through, resulting in poor performance.

Menges Roller wants you to experience the difference that true parabolic profiles can make in your operation.

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