A number of modifications can be made to adhesive rollcoaters. Machines can be modified to:
• Apply a stripe of adhesive or coating
• Apply multiple stripes of adhesive or coating
• Coat thick parts such as foam blocks
• Apply heavy coating using a knurled roll
• Apply dots of adhesive
• Coat parts and then laminate them to release paper
• Glue and laminate a rigid sheet to a flexible sheet such as foam, cloth, or release paper
• Coat a web of material
• Add a recirculation system and reservoir for adhesive
• Custom Widths
Smoothing Presses are powered nip rolls, and can also be modified in several ways:
• Air cylinders can be added to increase squeeze pressure
• Can be coupled to a hotmelt coater to laminate parts to release paper after coating.
• Can be built into an assembly machine to laminate film adhesive to a part (see drawing below)
• Can be built for lamination of parts up to 6″ thick
• Can be used as a press feed – large sheet of material can be fed into cutting presses, or the scrap sheet can be pulled out of the press.
• Custom widths can be made.
• Rollers can be made of stainless steel, aluminum, or plated steel in place of the standard urethane surfaced rollers.