Vac-N-Tac Combination Cleaner                
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SIMCO Industrial Static Control introduces the NEW VAC-N-TAC™, the ultimate in web cleaning systems. The VAC-N-TAC system combines static elimination, a vacuum system and a contact cleaner to clean a web to 1  micron. This combination cleaner maintains a consistently clean print surface,  with minimal maintenance costs. Economically priced, the VAC-N-TAC quickly pays  for itself with increased productivity - throughput - and reductions in downtime for clean up. Your customers will also benefit through higher quality printed  materials.

The VAC-N-TAC’s easy mount design takes just minutes to  install. The system is available in single or double sided cleaning and comes  complete with a dust collector that requires only a 110v outlet.

The  VAC-N-TAC system has been engineered to address the two most critical factors that make particulate removal so difficult; the boundary layer of air and static electricity.

A boundary layer of air is caused by the friction between  the surface of a moving web and the surrounding air. It creates a layer of air close to the surface of the web that literally traps the smaller particles. Unless the boundary layer is penetrated, these particles cannot be removed.  Static electricity, caused by the contact and separation of the web on rollers,  charges the web surface, creating an electrical field that attracts airborne  particles to the surface. Once these particles contact the surface of the web, the static charge bonds them to the surface. Unless this bond is broken and the  charges are neutralized, the particles cannot be removed effectively. The  VAC-N-TAC combines three components to address the boundary layer, static charges and resulting particulate on the web’s surface. First a static bar  neutralizes the static charge and stops the attraction of particulate to the  web. A high volume, low -pressure vacuum system suctions particulate into the  dust collector. These two components clean the web to 25 microns. The third component in the VAC-N-TAC system is a Contact Cleaner Roll (CCR). The CCR  breaks the boundary layer of air for high efficiency particle removal, to 1 micron. CCRs can be hard to keep clean and the high maintenance and replacement cost on systems that employ adhesive tape cleaning rolls can be prohibitive. By using a vacuum system before the web comes into contact with the CCR, the CCR stays clean, and maintenance and operating costs are significantly reduced.

Particles down to 1 micron in size are removed in a 3-stage process  using static elimination, vacuum and contact cleaning rolls (CCR). The Vac-N-Tac  offers better value and higher performance than just contact cleaning systems,  ultrasonic cleaners or traditional vacuum collection. Specifically designed to  fit into lines with space constraints, the unit vacuum cleans the majority of particles before the CCR cleans the web. Performance evaluations reveal a  cleaning efficiency of 97% of particles down to 10 micron in size and removal of most particles to 1 micron in size.

The units are designed for quick and easy installation onto the roller shaft of your press.

Dimensional Drawing, pdf, 45kB

Specification Sheet, pdf, 369kB

Additional information available at 805-658-0207.