Plastic Coil technology summary

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Interchangeable dies punch patterns for plastic coil, plastic comb, wire and other binding methods.

HOW IT WORKS: Plastic coils are a continuous spiral that spins into the documents through punched oval or round holes. Once inserted, the ends are cut and crimped to prevent the coil from "twisting" out of the book. Machines punch the holes and the coils can be inserted by hand or with a machine. The cutting and crimping is accomplished either with a special pair of pliers or another machine.

DOCUMENT THICKNESS: Determining what size coil to use is fast and easy. Measure the thickness of the document you are binding and determine the diameter, then bump it up 2 sizes for the correct coil diameter for Binding.

Example: If you have a 1/2 inch book(13mm) you will need to bind it with a 15mm Coil.

PRODUCTION SPEED: Production speed
depends on the thickness of the
document and the equipment used.
Typical example: Binding a 1/2 inch
document with semi automatic equipment
may range from 1 a low of 150 books per hour up to 250.

Semi-automatic coil inserters
can significantly increase
production speeds.

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