In traverse winding the strip moves side to side as it winds, building a wide, stable package that holds many times the length of a pancake roll of the same strip. Converting lines get fewer changes and splices, and narrow materials travel without collapsing. The trade-off is more complex winders and some risk of edge damage.
Heard on the job
Customer wants the elastic ears spooled, not on pancakes, to cut the splices per shift.
Also heard as
- traverse winding
- traverse-wound spool
- spool
Related terms
Festoon
Package in which narrow nonwoven strip is folded back and forth into a box instead of being wound on a roll.
Pancake
Shop word for a narrow slit roll wound straight on itself, far wider in diameter than it is tall.
Slitting
Cutting a wide nonwoven roll lengthwise into narrower rolls on a slitter-rewinder.