Description Overview Benninger continuous dyeing and developing range. Configured with the steamer above a Kusters dye padder to enable pad batch and pad-direct pad steam dyeing with reactive dyes. Has a booster padder in line with the steamer mouth for high add-on (95%) chemical application. Used for dyeing and developing woven cotton and the cotton portion of polyester/cellulose blends by pad steam techniques. Configured for vat, reactive, sulphur and azoics dyeing methods. Specifications Roller width: 2400 mm. Maximum fabric width: 2200 mm. Fabric gsm avg: 400 gsm. Number of dosing and circulation pumps with flow meter: 2 dosing and 2 circulation pumps. Speed of machine working and mechanical: 0 to 100 mpm, average speed 40 mpm, working width 2.4 m. Fabric capacity in steamer (tight strand and bed): 95 meter tight strand. Number of flow meters in washing compartments: 8 flow meters for water in 9 washing compartments and 3 flow meters for chemicals. Roll hardness in impecta/high efficiency squeezer: 70 to 75 shore hardness, no impecta/high efficiency squeezer. Ph controller system in final washing compartments: 2 ph controller systems. Construction And Control Fabricated from stainless steel with the infrastructure being made of painted mild steel. Ac motors and KEB drives with Siemens PLC. Fully automatic control via Siemens PC for temperatures, flow rates, dosing and fabric tension via load cells. All the wash boxes are enclosed mangle separated with optimum counter flow of water. Machine Components Erhardt + Leimer entry guiders – air controlled Entry scray 1000 meters maximum capacity. Kusters dye padder. With the mangle air pressure activated with oil pressure to the center of mangles. Separate dye and chemical feed via flow meters for 4:1 ratio feeding for cold pad batch reactive dyeing. Batching device for a frame rollers for cold pad batch dyeing. Steamer Chemical booster at steamer level close to steamer entry mouth to facilitate vat dye developing. Steamer with 90 meters of threading rollers and steam conditioning unit to ensure zero air and saturated steam. Water seal and nip and feed into the continuous wash range. Wash range Entry scray 1000 meters maximum content (cannot be used in conjunction with steamer). Designed to facilitate the washing of cold pad batch fabrics. 9 Ben extractor wash boxes. Wash boxes 3 and 4 with peroxide feed and ph control for vat developing and double threading giving 35 meters content each. Wash boxes 5 and 6 with “soaping” chemical feeds and double threading giving 35 meters content each. Plaiting device for plaiting fabrics into pallets. Designed for “wet plaiting” 100% viscose to allow none contact stenter drying. Drying cylinders 18 steam heated drying cylinders. 2 water fed cooling cylinders. Scray maximum content of 1000 mts. Erhardt and Leimer guiders - air controlled. Angled inspection board. Batching device – for a frame rollers. Condition And Reconditioning The following reconditioning done on the machine in year 2011: Brand new seal for Kusters dye pad. New rubber covering for dye pad rollers. New inverters in electric panel. New touch screen PLC system. New epoxy rustless industrial paint. Steamer is complete rebuilt. New bearings for all the moving parts. New seals for all rollers under water. New rubber for all squeezing padders. New rubber for all bowing rollers. New teflon coating for all drying cylinders. And much more.