Jet Abrasives, Inc.

A cartridge roll is a strip of abrasive cloth wound and bound with glue around a mandrel to form a cylinder. It is generally specified either as "straight", "tapered" or "half-tapered" (a.k.a sidewall tapered), referring to the form the strip of abrasive cloth takes from being rolled. Cartridge rolls are principally but not exclusively used for high-speed deburring and finishing of cast metal parts. They provide an extremely economical finishing solution to a wide variety of applications, whether on inside or outside diameters, difficult angles and irregular contours. As a cartridge roll is used, the outer layer breaks down, repeatedly uncovering fresh layers of abrasive cloth. Cartridge rolls are most frequently ordered in X-weight aluminum oxide resin bond cloth. They are also fairly common in J-weight aluminum oxide resin bond and gluebond cloth (especially for jewelry applications) for fine polishing. They are also available, but rarely found in silicon carbide, zirconia alumina. Other minimally abrasive cloth or paper materials may be rolled into cartridge roll form to creatively produce a desired finish. Because of the requirement for each successive layer of the material to break down, only light duty cotton backed materials are generally used to make cartridge rolls.