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TBW – Band Heater (Tubular – 5” Width)

The Caloritech™ Tubular Band Heater (Calrod® type*, 127 mm Width) is designed for highly concentrated heating applications, such as clamping on to extruder barrels, nozzles, pipes or vessels. Multiple TBW heaters can be mounted side by side and wrapped with high temperature insulation to further improve efficiency. The unit consists of two tension bolts and two double hairpin heating elements held in place by a stainless steel band with a threaded swivel type clamping device.

TBH – Band Heater (Tubular : 2″ width)

The Caloritech™ Tubular Band Heater (Calrod® type*, 2" Width (51 mm)) is designed for highly concentrated heating applications, such as clamping on to extruder barrels, nozzles, pipes or vessels. Multiple TBH heaters can be mounted side by side and wrapped with high temperature insulation to further improve efficiency. The unit consists of two heating elements held in place by a stainless steel band with a threaded swivel type clamping device.

BC – Band Heater

The Caloritech™ BC Band Heater is an aluminized steel strip heater formed to a semicircle. A spring at the terminal end keeps the heater halves in contact with the barrel and compensates for thermal expansion. The other end is fastened by a captive chrome plated allen screw for ease of installation. These heaters are typically used to heat the barrels of plastic injection and extrusion machines, kettles, pipes and other cylinders. Designed for 240V operation; insulated for 600V Two band heaters can be connected to accommodate a 480V supply 1.5" +/- 0.0156" (38 mm +/- 0.39624 mm) wide; 0.375" +/- 0.0156" (9.5 mm +/- 0.39624 mm) thick Standard diameters available from 5" to 20" (127 mm to 508 mm) Outputs from 580 W to 3 kW