Tube Mill and Roll Form Entry Equipment
Kent Corporation offers a complete line of entry equipment for coiled strip processing. Designed to limit your downtime and minimize material waste, our equipment is customized to fit your specifications and integrate seamlessly within your production line. With manual and automatic solutions available, we prioritize operator safety and efficiency. Contact us to find the full entry system or single machine to fit your needs.
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Vertical Strip Accumulators
Save floor space with The Floop®, our revolutionary line of vertical strip accumulators. Used in thousands of coil processing lines around the world, these machines require less space and offer more storage time compared to horizontal accumulators.
Vertical Floop® Models Available
Model|Min. Width|Max. Width|Min. Thickness|Max. Thickness
| R12 | 1.5" | 7.0" | 0.020" | 0.080" |
| R227 | 1.5" | 11.5" | 0.020" | 0.100" |
| R229 | 1.5" | 10.0" | 0.028" | 0.135" |
| R321 | 1.5" | 12.7" | 0.028" | 0.165" |
| R323 | 1.5" | 12.7" | 0.028" | 0.135" |
| R324 | 2.0" | 14.3" | 0.035" | 0.165" |
| R422 | 2.0" | 15.0" | 0.040" | 0.240" |
| R521 | 2.0" | 21.0" | 0.060" | 0.290" |
Above sizes are general recommendations, please contact us to discuss your specific application.
Horizontal Accumulators
One of the most popular lines in the industry, our H-Coil horizontal strip accumulator provides the ability to run your process line while completing a coil changeover on the entry side. These accumulators are ideal for a wide range of sizes including narrow, light gauge strip and wide strips.
Horizontal H Coil Characteristics
Model|Min. Width|Max. Width|Min. Thickness|Max. Thickness
Above sizes are general recommendations, please contact us to discuss your specific application.
| HC-50 | 1" | 6" | 0.008" | 0.040" |
| HC-100 | 1" | 10" | 0.015" | 0.135" |
| HC-140 | 1" | 14" | 0.015" | 0.160" |
| HC-260 | 4" | 22" | 0.060" | 0.250" |
| HRSA-180 | 2" | 16" | 0.040" | 0.200" |
| HRSA-273 | 4" | 24" | 0.118" | 0.375" |
| HRSA-406 | 9" | 38" | 0.118" | 0.625" |
| HRSA-1320 | 12" | 52" | 0.160" | 0.875" |
| HRSA-1830 | 24" | 72" | 0.160" | 1.250" |
All Day Coil System
Meet your high production demands with the Kent Corporation All Day Coil System. Ideal for roll forming or stamping, this system provides continuous operation by feeding up to 16,000 pounds of narrow width material into your processing line. Designed for steel coil strips up to 6 inches wide, the All Day Coil System allows you to join multiple coils off-line, so once production starts, it can run without interruption. Contact a product specialist to learn more.
Features
- Non-marking
- Low speed operation
- Fully automatic coil transitions
- One-year warranty
Coil Cars
With a full line of coil cars, we have the entry line equipment you need to move different sizes of coils. Coil cars come in varying weight capacities from 10,000 pounds to 50,000 pounds and are available for loading both turnstiles and uncoilers.
We can customize a coil car for your process, with features such as burr orientation and automatic loading.
Optional Features
- Burr Orientation
- Coil Stabilizer
- Scissor Type
- Turnstile Loading
- Uncoiler Loading
Coil End Welders
Kent Corporation carries a complete line of coil end welders for nearly any application, including pipe and tube mills, roll forming lines and stamping presses. As a fast and precise way to join coils, our portable and stationary machines offer TIG, MIG, plasma and laser welding capabilities. Engineered to limit your coil changeover time and dramatically reduce the overall cost of your production, our coil end welders are a must-have piece of equipment for any strip processing manufacturer. Contact our product specialists to find the right machine to fit your needs.
Portable Coil End Welders
Kent Corporation portable end welders add convenience and mobility to your production line – allowing you to complete a typical weld in three minutes or less. Our portable line of coil end welders includes manual, pneumatic and hydraulic shearing and clamping options for strip up to 18 inches wide.
PCMS
- Light gauge material
- .015″– .065″ material
- Manual shear
- Pneumatic clamps
- Auto TIG weld
C21DC
- Light gauge material
- .008” – .065” material
- Manual shear
- Manual precision clamps
- Auto TIG weld
PMA / PMH
- Air or hydraulic shears
- Air or hydraulic clamps
- Auto TIG weld
- Wedge clamping
- Optional indexing sub base
Stationary Series
Kent Corporation stationary end welders add efficiency to your production line by reducing the scrap associated with coil changeovers and eliminating line rethreading. Available for material up to 96 inches wide, we have semi-automatic and fully-automatic options customized to fit your application.
H-Style
- 0.008"-0.750" material
- Hydraulic Sheering & Clamping
- TIG, MIG, Plasma and Laser Weld
DSAA
- 0.008"-0.500" material
- Hydraulic Sheering & Clamping
- TIG, MIG, Plasma and Laser Weld
- Available with Auto-Tail Out and Full Automation
Flatteners
Get the most out of your coils with a flattener from Kent Corporation. This entry line machine prepares the strip prior to end welding to help you waste less material.
A flattener will take the coil set (or coil hook) out of the ends of your coil so you don’t have to cut as much off the end. With a flat strip, it can easily move on to being sheared in the end welder.
Most of our flatteners use hydraulics to open and close and feature pinch rolls to drive the material through. Increase mill up-time by adding a flattener to your production process.
Hold Down - Hold Up Peelers
If you need assistance transitioning coils from your uncoiler, a Kent Corporation Peeler can help. This entry equipment can be used in an overwind or underwind application, so the coils can be loaded to come off from the top or bottom.
A peeler is great for medium to heavy gauge lines in which the operator would have difficulty manually handling the strip. If you use 3” diameter or larger mills, a hold down-hold up peeler will improve the efficiency of your processing and improve operator safety. With a variety of peelers that can work across wide ranges of tube mill sizes, we have the machine that can meet your specifications.
Turnstiles
Store coils of different sizes at the entry of steel processing lines with Kent Corporation turnstiles. Eliminate downtime and boost productivity with turnstiles featuring two, three and four arms and the ability to remove rejected coils prior to putting them into the line.
We offer the option for our turnstiles to automatically rotate. We also have options for power push offs to line up coils for loading onto coil cars and powered locking pins to automatically locate arms in the load position.
Contact our product specialists to find the best solution for your tube mill.
Uncoiler
At Kent Corporation, we carry a full line of single and double-ended uncoilers for all types of processing lines including roll forming and tube and pipe mills.
Single-arm uncoilers support one coil at a time. A double-arm uncoiler allows you to load the next coil while one is already in use, further reducing changeover time. Both versions of uncoilers have a variety of features and options.
Weight capacities range from 3,000 – 30,000 pounds per arm (or side). Double arm uncoilers that weigh 5,000 lbs. or less usually feature manual rotation and mandrel expansion. With increased weight, the machines go from manual to hydraulic to more efficiently and safely handle the increased weight.
Features
- Manual or hydraulic rotation
- Manual or hydraulic expansion
- Automatic tension control to help maintain tension of the steel strip going into the line
Powered feed-up drives to help get the coil started off the uncoiler- Automatic coil depletion detection for automatic tail out on full entry systems
