This Brueckner is a used stenter and dryer — sometimes called a tenter frame — dating from 1998 and currently located in Italy. Stenters and dryers of this type are used in textile finishing to heat-set, dry, and dimensionally stabilise woven or knitted fabrics by stretching them to a controlled width while passing them through a series of heated chambers. Brueckner is a well-established German manufacturer of textile finishing machinery, recognised across the industry for producing high-specification stenters, dryers, and coating lines for fabric producers worldwide.
This particular machine is configured as a double-deck unit, meaning two independent fabric paths are arranged one above the other within the same frame, allowing two layers of fabric to be processed simultaneously. The heating system comprises four chambers in a superimposed arrangement — two upper and two lower — each gas-fired using Eclipse brand burners, of which there are eight in total, two per chamber. Eclipse is a reputable manufacturer of industrial combustion equipment, and their burners are widely used in textile heat-setting applications.
The useful working width is 1,800 mm, which defines the maximum fabric width that can be processed through the machine. Fabric can be fed into the machine either from a layered (folded) pile or from a large roll, giving flexibility in how upstream production is organised. At the exit, fabric is delivered in plate form — that is, folded down into a flat stack — rather than wound onto a roll. An exhauster system is fitted to expel spent combustion fumes from the chambers, and the electrical cabinet is mounted on a raised structure above the machine footprint, a configuration commonly used to keep controls accessible while preserving floor-level working space.
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