Genuine Wichita clutches, brakes and spares having been manufactured to ISO 9001 have proved themselves in service throughout the world for many years.  Throughout the complete range of units, the best features of pneumatic disc type clutches and brakes are efficiently combined with the advantages of trouble free axial pressure airtubes to give fine control and high heat dissipation characteristics. Well over 3000 permutations are available, with a selection of cooling, air ventilation, copper wear plates and many other variations, with torques up to 2 000 000 Nm.

Wichita clutches and brakes are suitable for an extremely wide range of industrial and marine applications and are used extensively where problems relating to speed, smoothness, frequency of engagement or disengagement, tension control and braking without overheating are to be found.

Typical applications involve the control of web tension for paper, foil, and plastic converting, precision cycling with high inertia masses, controlled slip-start-up drives and continuous power absorbers for dynamometers.

Special Features

• Disc diameter from 100 mm to 2700 mm

• Torque range up to 2 000 000 Nm

• All air connections are external

• Positive disengagement

• Fast engagement times (from 0,04 secs)

• Maintenance free axial pressure airtube

• Wide range of units

• Air and water cooled designs.

Wichita Tension Controllers

• Closed or Open Loop

• Loadcell or Dancer Arm

• Fully Digital

• Compact Design

• PID Compensation

• Taper Tension

• Flying Splice Function