General Information about Schmidt-Tension Meter
General Information about
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Operating Elements
- All SCHMIDT tension meters feature the 3-roller measuring system. The center measuring roller is deflected by the tension of the measured material. This measuring principle assures highest accuracy and repeatability.
- All rollers are equipped with precision ball bearings.
1 Measured material
2 Measuring roller (center guide roller)
3 Outer guide rollers
4 Filament guide
5 Scale
6 Thumbpiece
7 Sample holder clip
8 Material thickness compensator
Material Thickness Compensator
- SCHMIDT hand-held tension meters are equipped, if necessary, with a material thickness compensator. This compensates different material diameters for a particular range.
1 Material sample
2 Disc
3 Disc
4 Sample holder clip
SCHMIDT Calibration
- To ensure highest precision, each tension meter is individually calibrated according to the SCHMIDT factory procedure. For calibration a known weight is suspended from the standard calibration material, vertically, as shown in the figure.
This method is accepted - worldwide - as the industry standard.
Special Scales
- Special calibration to customer-supplied material is optionally available. This takes into account the customer material`s rigidity and diameter, if it differs significant from the SCHMIDT calibration material. Special calibration to two different materials is optionally available..
Measuring head width
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