ProGage Touch Thickness Tester
The ProGage Touch Thickness Tester from Thwing Albert is a precision deadweight micrometer. Its advanced technology enables quick and accurate measurement of sheeted materials such as paper, plastic film, tissue and toweling, nonwovens, and textiles. Featuring a color touchscreen and an intuitive user interface, operators can perform tests and report critical data quickly.
4 Models Available:
40 mil
100 mil
200 mil
500 mil
Application: Paper & Pulp, Textile, Cardboard
Property: Thickness
The ProGage Touch Thickness Tester is a precision deadweight micrometer. Its advanced technology enables quick and accurate measurement of sheeted materials such as paper, plastic film, tissue and toweling, nonwovens, and textiles.
Featuring a color touchscreen and an intuitive user interface, operators can perform tests and report critical data quickly. A variable speed motor provides increased testing throughput with up to 20 tests per minute (based on configuration) while maintaining a high degree of accuracy. The rigid design guarantees exceptional parallelism, stability, and precise calibration.
The mechanical configuration features a weighted lever design reducing the amount of pressure applied to a specimen. This is significant when measuring the thickness properties of materials that can be influenced by varying pressures such as high loft nonwovens and paper tissue products.
The ProGage offers customizable parameters including measurement speed, dwell time, opening distance and return speed to allow the operator to meet specific methods or create and save custom setups. This feature proves beneficial when testing necessitates the capability to swap pressure feet to comply with various materials or standards.
To ensure data integrity and security, the ProGage offers password protected user profiles to limit access to specific screen views and lock the ability to modify parameters. Statistical data is displayed instantly upon the press of a single button, allowing for swift and comprehensive analysis.
- Touchscreen interfaced
- Interchangeable pressure feet and augmenting weights
- Variable speed motor – up to 20 tests/min
- Rigid frame for zero & parallelism stability
- Store up to 99 samples
- Results: Average, High, Low, Standard Deviation
- Single or continuous test mode
- Easy unit conversion: mil, μm, mm, in
- Adjustable opening distance between the pressure foot and anvil
- Send data direct to USB flash drive
- PC connectivity via USB port
- MAP4 Software compatible
- PC compatible, RS-232 port
- Standard Pressure Feet:
- Paper Foot: 0.630” (16mm) Dia, 50.33 kPa
- Film Foot: 0.250” (6.35 mm) Dia, 51.71 kPa
- Film Foot: 0.250” (5.35 mm) Dia, 172.4 kPa
- Tissue Foot: 1.406” (35.7 mm) Dia, 2.0 kPa
- Nonwoven Foot: 2.221” (56.4mm) Dia, 0.5 kPa
- Other feet can be made to meet a wide variety of sizes and weights.
| Weight | 54.5 lbs |
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| Dimensions | 10.1 × 12.5 × 15.9 in |
| Model Name | ProGage Touch |
| Testing Property | Thickness |
| Industry | Corrugated, Foils/Metals, Medical, Nonwovens, Packaging, Paper, Paperboard, Plastic Film, Pulp, Rigid Plastics, Rubber/Foam, Tissue, Textiles |
| List of Standards | ASTM D374, ASTM D645, ASTM D1777, ASTM D6988, BS3983, BS4817, BS3983, BS4817, DIN 53105, DIN 53353, EDANA 30.4-89, EN20534, ISO 534 Preferred Method, ISO 3034, ISO 4593, ISO 12625-3, TAPPI T411 |
| Accuracy | 40 mil: ±0.00004 in (±0.001 mm), 100 mil: ±0.00005 in (±0.0012 mm), 200 mil: ±0.00025 in (±0.0064 mm), 500 mil: ±0.0005 in (±0.013 mm) |
| Parallelism | 40 mil: ±0.00004 in (±0.001 mm), 100 mil: ±0.00005 in (±0.0012 mm), 200 mil: ±0.00025 in (±0.0064 mm), 500 mil: ±0.0005 in (±0.013 mm) |
| Display Resolution | [40 mil: 0.00001 in, 0.01 mil, 0.001 mm, 0.1 micron] [100 mil: 0.00001 in, 0.01 mil, 0.001 mm, 0.1 micron] [200 mil: 0.00005 in, 0.05 mil, 0.005 mm, 0.5 micron] [500 mil: 0.0001 in, 0.1 mil, 0.01 mm, 1 micron ] |
| Opening Distance | 65 to 750 mils (1.65 to 19.05 mm) |
| Measurement Speed Distance | Range from 0.0005 to 0.500 in (0.012 to 12.7 mm) |
| Dwell Time | 0 – 20 seconds (selectable) |
| Pressure Foot Speed | 0.025 to 0.500 in/sec (0.64 to 12.7 mm/sec) |
| Pressure Foot Diameter Size | 0.19 in to 2.221 in (4.83 mm to 56.41 mm) (Special sizes available), (Special applications allow interchangeable pressure feet option) |
| Pressure Foot Anvil Size | Standard: 2.5 in (63.5 mm), Optional: 4.25 in (107.9 mm) – meets EDANA method |
| Sample Rate | 128 samples per second, during a test |
| Power Consumption | 120-230VAC, 36VA |
| Power Requirements | Input Voltage: 120-230 VAC ±10%, Frequency: 50-60 Hz |
| Software Available | DAS / MAP4 |
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