EP0523408A1 - Dispositif pour déposer sans contact une bande de liquide sur une bande de matériau en mouvement - Google Patents

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EP0523408A1
EP0523408A1 EP92110577A EP92110577A EP0523408A1 EP 0523408 A1 EP0523408 A1 EP 0523408A1 EP 92110577 A EP92110577 A EP 92110577A EP 92110577 A EP92110577 A EP 92110577A EP 0523408 A1 EP0523408 A1 EP 0523408A1
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Josef Dipl.-Ing. Öttl
Karl-Heinz Dipl.Ing. Reichel-Langer
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B12/00—Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area
    • B05B12/08—Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material to be discharged, of ambient medium or of target ; responsive to condition of spray devices or of supply means, e.g. pipes, pumps or their drive means
    • B05B12/12—Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material to be discharged, of ambient medium or of target ; responsive to condition of spray devices or of supply means, e.g. pipes, pumps or their drive means responsive to conditions of ambient medium or target, e.g. humidity, temperature position or movement of the target relative to the spray apparatus
    • B05B12/126—Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material to be discharged, of ambient medium or of target ; responsive to condition of spray devices or of supply means, e.g. pipes, pumps or their drive means responsive to conditions of ambient medium or target, e.g. humidity, temperature position or movement of the target relative to the spray apparatus responsive to target velocity, e.g. to relative velocity between spray apparatus and target
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B12/00—Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area
    • B05B12/08—Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material to be discharged, of ambient medium or of target ; responsive to condition of spray devices or of supply means, e.g. pipes, pumps or their drive means
    • B05B12/12—Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material to be discharged, of ambient medium or of target ; responsive to condition of spray devices or of supply means, e.g. pipes, pumps or their drive means responsive to conditions of ambient medium or target, e.g. humidity, temperature position or movement of the target relative to the spray apparatus
    • B05B12/124—Arrangements for controlling delivery; Arrangements for controlling the spray area responsive to condition of liquid or other fluent material to be discharged, of ambient medium or of target ; responsive to condition of spray devices or of supply means, e.g. pipes, pumps or their drive means responsive to conditions of ambient medium or target, e.g. humidity, temperature position or movement of the target relative to the spray apparatus responsive to distance between spray apparatus and target
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05B—SPRAYING APPARATUS; ATOMISING APPARATUS; NOZZLES
    • B05B13/00—Machines or plants for applying liquids or other fluent materials to surfaces of objects or other work by spraying, not covered by groups B05B1/00 - B05B11/00
    • B05B13/02—Means for supporting work; Arrangement or mounting of spray heads; Adaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work
    • B05B13/04—Means for supporting work; Arrangement or mounting of spray heads; Adaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work the spray heads being moved during spraying operation
    • B05B13/0463—Installation or apparatus for applying liquid or other fluent material to moving work of indefinite length

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  • the invention relates to a device for the contactless application of a strip of liquid, in particular a strip of glue, to a running web of material with at least one application head which is provided with at least one nozzle which is arranged at a distance from the web of material and which can be activated or passivated by means of a valve which depends on can be controlled from the desired order sample.
  • a device of this type is known from DE 37 40 045 A1.
  • the continuous liquid application has many advantages in terms of freedom from wear and failure connected.
  • devices of this type have been developed from devices in which the nozzle is in contact with the web. This explains why the path distance of the nozzle has so far not been taken into account when the valve was actuated. The consequence of this, however, is that with increasing web speed, ever larger errors with regard to the beginning and end of the applied liquid lines have to be accepted, which is particularly disadvantageous in the case of a glue application.
  • this object is achieved in that the application points of the valve can be changed by a correction value which can be determined as a function of the speed of the material web and at least the web distance of the nozzle, in relation to the basic pattern-dependent values.
  • the order pattern-dependent basic values can be ascertainable by means of a program control device that can be clocked by a sensor that scans the path, with which an auxiliary control device that determines the correction value is coupled in a cascade.
  • the cascade according to the invention advantageously results in simple feedback and accordingly leads to particularly high accuracy.
  • both the speed and its factors can be derived from the clocks available from the sensor, so that in spite of the speed dependence of the correction value and the position dependency of the basic value, only one sensor with a downstream signal processing element is advantageously required.
  • a further expedient measure can consist in the auxiliary control device having an input unit for manual input of the parameters entering the correction value. This enables a high degree of variability and versatility while being extremely user-friendly.
  • the auxiliary control device can be designed in such a way that a time factor is formed from the parameters that can be entered into these, which time factor is multiplied by the speed of the web, the correction value resulting in the form of a certain number of cycles that depends on the distance-dependent delay can also be subtracted in the form of a cycle number. This enables a particularly simple circuit design.
  • the viscosity and the pressure of the liquid and preferably also the dead time of the valve can advantageously be entered as parameters. Taking such a large number of parameters into account results in particularly high accuracy. As a result of taking the dead time of the valve into account, not only the time of flight of the liquid but also the delay of the valve can be compensated for in an advantageous manner.
  • the material web 1 indicated in the figure can be, for example, a printed paper web that is fed to a folder.
  • a glue application in the form of an interrupted glue strip 3 is applied to the material web 1 at the folder inlet indicated by a deflecting roller 2. In this way, the webs of a web package lying one on top of the other can be connected to one another in a line.
  • an application head 4 is provided above the deflection roller 2 which is surrounded by the web 1, which is connected to a supply line 5 and has a nozzle 6 through which a thin jet of glue 7 can be sprayed onto the web 1.
  • the nozzle 6 is distanced from the material web 1. The distance is labeled a. Since the nozzle 6 is not in contact with the running material web 1 comes, a high level of interference and wear is guaranteed.
  • a program control device 10 is provided for controlling the actuating device 9 of the valve 8 formed here by an electromagnet.
  • the central computer module contains a freely programmable memory 11 into which the desired glue pattern can be programmed in the form of the length and distance of the glue lines forming the interrupted glue strip 3 or the use points of the valve 8 assigned to them.
  • an input device 12 is assigned to the memory 11.
  • the program control device 10 is clocked by means of a sensor 13 which can be actuated as a function of the web run. This can be an angle encoder which scans an incremental disk 15 connected to a deflection roller 14 which is surrounded by the material web 1.
  • a signal processing element 16 Downstream of the sensor 13 is a signal processing element 16, which processes the pulses received by the sensor 13 in such a way that an exact pulse profile, for example a rectangular profile, results.
  • Each path covered by the material web 1 can be represented as the number of pulses occurring within this path.
  • the points of use for opening and closing the valve are determined by means of suitable counting devices integrated in the memory 11, using those in the memory 11 stored values and the pulses supplied by sensor 13 are counted.
  • the path indicated by the distance 1, which the material web 1 travels between the sensor 13 and the nozzle 6, is taken into account here by means of a delay element 17 arranged downstream of the memory 11. This delays the switching signals received from the memory 11 by the number of pulses of the sensor 13 corresponding to the distance 1.
  • the output of the delay element 17 is connected to the valve actuation device 9 with the interposition of a line amplifier 18.
  • the glue jet 7 needs a certain time to pass through the distance a.
  • the material web continues to move within this flight time.
  • the flight time must therefore be taken into account when determining the operating points of the valve 8. For this purpose, the above-mentioned delay of the forwarding of the switching signals corresponding to the route 1 is shortened accordingly.
  • an auxiliary control device 19 is provided which is cascaded to the program control device 10.
  • the signal processing element 16 is designed such that not only the position but also the web speed corresponding output signals are generated.
  • the signal processing element is provided with two outputs at which the memory 11 or the cascade comprising the auxiliary control device are located. At the output assigned to the memory 11 the number of pulses, i.e. a position signal, is pending. A signal corresponding to the path speed in the form of the number of pulses per unit of time is present at the output assigned to the auxiliary control device 19.
  • the path speed taken from the signal processing element 16 is multiplied by a time factor corresponding to the desired correction.
  • the result of this calculation process is a certain number of pulses by which the above-mentioned delay corresponding to the distance 1 must be reduced.
  • This subtraction takes place in the delay element 17, into which a comparator 20 can be integrated, which has an input at the output of the cascade comprising the auxiliary control device 19 and a further input at the output of the adjacent delay device 21.
  • the delay element comprising the comparator 20 and the delay device 21 accordingly has two inputs, one of which is assigned to the memory 11 and the other to the auxiliary control device 19.
  • the auxiliary control device 19 contains a computing device 22 which is preferably coupled to a memory and which is assigned an input device 23 for manual input of the parameters which come into play in the time factor mentioned above.
  • the distance a between nozzle 6 and material web 1 is primarily used as a parameter.
  • Further parameters can be the glue viscosity and the pressure in the supply line 5. Since the valve 8 and the valve actuating device 9 also have a certain dead time between the arrival of a switching signal and perform a switching operation, this dead time can also be used as a parameter. When using all parameters, the overall accuracy is particularly high.
  • the path speed present at the output of the signal processing element 16 assigned to the auxiliary control device 19 should be 15 ⁇ 10 3 pulses per second.
  • the time factor determined from the individual parameters with the aid of an operating program contained in the computing device 22 should be 10 -3 seconds.
  • the multiplication to be carried out by the computing device 22 accordingly leads to a correction value of 15 pulses.
  • the basic value in the form of the delay in the switching signals clocked out of the memory 11, which is accomplished with the aid of the delay device 21, must be shortened by this value.
  • the distance 1 should be 150 pulses.
  • the switching signals clocked out of the memory 11 are now not delayed by the stated basic value of 150 pulses, but only by the difference between the basic value and the correction value, that is to say only 135 pulses, which compensates for the flight time and dead time.

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  • Treatment Of Fiber Materials (AREA)
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  • Application Of Or Painting With Fluid Materials (AREA)
EP92110577A 1991-07-04 1992-06-23 Dispositif pour déposer sans contact une bande de liquide sur une bande de matériau en mouvement Expired - Lifetime EP0523408B1 (fr)

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DE4122105 1991-07-04
DE4122105A DE4122105C2 (de) 1991-07-04 1991-07-04 Vorrichtung zum berührungslosen Auftragen eines Flüssigkeitsstreifens auf eine laufende Materialbahn

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DE4122105C2 (de) 1995-02-02
DE59203549D1 (de) 1995-10-12
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US5308398A (en) 1994-05-03
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