EP0585794B1 - Dispositif de revêtement - Google Patents

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EP0585794B1
EP0585794B1 EP93113550A EP93113550A EP0585794B1 EP 0585794 B1 EP0585794 B1 EP 0585794B1 EP 93113550 A EP93113550 A EP 93113550A EP 93113550 A EP93113550 A EP 93113550A EP 0585794 B1 EP0585794 B1 EP 0585794B1
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coating device
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Hermann Idstein
Günter Dr. Hultzsch
Dieter Töpfer
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C—APPARATUS FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05C5/00—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work
    • B05C5/02—Apparatus in which liquid or other fluent material is projected, poured or allowed to flow on to the surface of the work the liquid or other fluent material being discharged through an outlet orifice by pressure, e.g. from an outlet device in contact or almost in contact, with the work
    • B05C5/0254—Coating heads with slot-shaped outlet

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  • the invention relates to a coating device with an application for applying a liquid layer on a band-shaped carrier material that is guided over an application roller.
  • the storage of the application roller comes special Attention too because of a well executed Storage a high running accuracy in axial and radial direction is obtained.
  • the running accuracy is used as a deviation from the ideal axis of rotation defined, the deviation being a sum error all interacting components on the application roller occurs.
  • Rolling bearings with particularly high accuracy can have a deviation with a minimum value of 3 ⁇ m from the ideal axis of rotation. This minimal theoretical radial runout of such Rolling bearing is caused by further individual errors
  • Application roller enlarged. When the application roller rotates can mistake the left side of the application roller to reduce the distance between Guide application roller and coating device, while at the same time there is a Increase the distance between the application roller and the coating device results.
  • a coating device which contains an adhesive onto an endless strip of paper, for example cigarette paper.
  • paper strips move over a first roll, from which the adhesive is transferred to the paper strip.
  • a second role by a pair of arms is worn, which can be pivoted about a suspension point, is in the narrow Contact with the first roller by a tension spring on the pair of arms and thus the second roll pulls towards the first roll.
  • the second roll is two of the same size Equipped rings, the outer diameter of which is slightly larger than that Roll diameter. Due to the tensile force of the tension spring, the rings contact the Surface of the first roll, and this creates a gap between the two Roll through which the adhesive is applied to the first in a constant thickness Roll is applied.
  • the application device described in DE-A - 33 09 343 at least a pouring layer on a moving, sheet-like base has a Supporting rotating application roller.
  • a caster is just through a crack arranged separately, near the application roller.
  • the casting gap can be adjusted of the caster can be changed with a radial component.
  • the caster can also be adjusted in any other direction according to the numerous factors To be taken into account, which must be observed in operation, such as the material properties of the Emulsion and pouring solutions, the layer thickness the band-shaped carrier material, the area of the Casting speed and the like.
  • there are no precautions are taken to avoid irregularities in the layer thickness due to radial runout Application roller and in the game of storage of the caster To take into account.
  • European patent EP-B - 0 168 986 is a sliding film coating with negative pressure at tangential application of the coating solution.
  • the sliding film flows on a vertical one Wall down and reaches the through a gap tape to be coated.
  • the tape is at this point deflected over a roller so that the coating film is tangent to the tape.
  • the Coating device is around the axis of the coating roller rotatably adjustable, and the The angle of the slideway is adjusted within a range of 20 ° to 120 ° Horizontal. This is the case of the coating device supported by arms on each side, around the axis of the coating roller are rotatable.
  • the support arms allow the Coating device in any position to be arranged along the circumference of the coating roller. Also in this known coating device no precautions are taken to run or run Bearing errors that indicate the constancy of the layer thickness affect the substrate to be coated, to compensate.
  • the object of the invention is errors in the storage the application roller of a coating device, such as e.g. Rolling fault, due to the eccentricities of the Inner rings, shape and dimensional errors of the individual Rollers as well as bearing play, temperature fluctuations and changes in tensile force of the band-shaped to be coated Carrier material and the related Layer thickness fluctuations on the carrier material to balance the applied liquid layer.
  • a coating device such as e.g. Rolling fault
  • the two runners via pivots on the housing of the coating device pivoted.
  • Each is the both skids as a skid with a sliding surface fitted.
  • each runner is as Roller skid equipped with two rollers and lie the Roll up on the outer surface of the application roller.
  • the runners are expediently on the lateral surface the application roller or on the edges of the band-shaped carrier material.
  • pneumatic elements can also be used Pressure forces on the back of the Exercise coating device and this with their Skids against the application roller or the edges of the press on the application roller of the substrate.
  • the pneumatic elements are expedient low-friction bellows cylinders.
  • the coating device is along easily movable, spherical or roller-bearing guides adjustable. Furthermore is the coating device over a Storage on the two outer sides with the two Guides rotatably connected.
  • the advantage of the invention is that a parallel and accurate distance between the Coating device for the application of a Liquid layer on a moving belt Backing material and the application roller ensured over which the carrier material band is guided.
  • the runners create a constant gap between the coating device and the application roller complied with because of all bearing errors and also uneven thickness of the carrier material Approaching or moving away from the pretensioned Coating device can be compensated and thus the distance of the coating slot from the Backing material even over long operating times is kept constant.
  • each of the coating device 1 has a runner 4, designed as a skid with a sliding surface 2 is.
  • the runners 4 lie on the outer surface of one Application roller 3 on.
  • a pressure force F is exerted, whereby the runners 4 are pressed against the application roller 3 and be biased.
  • the support themselves two runners 4 on the opposite surface line the application roller 3 from.
  • the coating device 1 is for example, systems with the same or opposite directions Rolling around a slot nozzle or around a Slip caster.
  • the coating device 1 carries a liquid layer on a band-shaped carrier material 9, which forms the coating web, which is guided over the application roller 3.
  • the two runners 4, 4 are on pivot 7, 7 on the housing 13 (see FIG. 3) rotatably articulated.
  • the coating device follows the rotation of the application roller 3 1 the significant changes in opposite surface line of the application roller 3, this surface line also being the contact line between the runners 4, 4 and the application roller 3.
  • the distance between the Application roller 3 and the coating device 1 kept constant so that an always parallel and dimensionally accurate coating gap of the coating device 1 to the opposite surface line is guaranteed, and the sum error Individual errors, such as bearing play, out of roundness Application roller, runout, form errors of bearings and application roller 3 and pendulum and springs of Application roller 3 with different and changing Tensile forces in the band-shaped to be coated Carrier material 9 by the respective descendants of the Coating device is corrected and thereby Layer thickness differences in the coating largely avoided.
  • the runners 4, 4 lie on the circumference of the Application roller 3 on. But it is also conceivable that at smooth and abrasion-resistant carrier material that coats the skids on the outer edges of the Support material 9 rest. That’s what it is possible that thickness differences of the band-shaped Carrier material 9 are corrected. Independently whether the skids 4, 4 on the lateral surface of the Application roller 3 or on the outer edges of the band-shaped carrier material 9, they serve each as a spacer between the coating device 1 or the application of Coating device and the application roller 3.
  • the coating device 1 is along to guides arranged on both sides 6, on a Carrier 8 are attached, moved. This movement will preferably executed as a pendulum, but can also be strict be linear. With the oscillating movement it is Coating device 1 via storage to the two outer sides, as described in more detail later will be rotatable with the two guides 6 connected so that the coating device 1 or the skids 4, 4 not only in the direction of the guides can make a movement, but also one Pendulum movement around the longitudinal direction of the guides. If the storage is omitted, the movement takes place along the coating device purely linear the guides.
  • the coating device 1 is also with a fine adjustment 5 equipped so that the height of the application, i.e. the slot nozzle or Lubricator set very precisely or that Process the application in very small steps can be. From Figure 3 it can be seen that each of the two guides 6 on their own carrier 8 sits on. The same components as in the first embodiment according to Figure 1 are in the second Embodiment with the same reference numerals busy. Your description will not be repeated.
  • Sliding surface 2 for the runners 4 can be, for example Plain bearing pads can be used for dry running. This can receive a solid lubricating film, e.g. Grease, or lubricated with drip lubrication using oil will. A reduction in the frictional forces and a Cooling the skids can be done in a manner not shown with the help of compressed air or water or through Cooling the application roller 3, especially in the Sliding zones of the runners can be achieved.
  • Figure 4 are different positions of the coating device 1 of the first embodiment the invention of Figure 1 when occurrence of Bearing play and bearing errors of the removal roller 3 shown.
  • the runners 4, 4 can occur Application roller 3 eccentricity and rotation the same by means of pendulum movements, as already mentioned above was mentioned to follow the guides 6, 6, making for smooth transitions between the maximum Deviations of the axis of the application roller 3 from the ideal axis direction is taken care of.
  • the spring force F on the housing of the coating device is by prestressed compression springs 10, 10 exercised with one end against the Back of the coating device 1 and with the rest against the opposite bearing 15.
  • the Guides 6, 6 are easily movable, ball or roller-bearing guides along which the Coating device 1 displaceable or adjustable is.
  • the coating device 1 is over Bearings 11 on the two outer sides with the two guides 6, 6 rotatably connected, also it must be ensured that there is a lateral play unilateral displacement of the coating device 1 allows.
  • the pressure springs 10, 10 on both sides acting prestress of the coating device 1 ensures a constant retraction of the coating device against the application roller 3.
  • Figure 4 is in full lines the position of the coating device 1 and the application roller 3, with ideal axis direction the application roller.
  • Deviations of the axis the application roller 3 from the ideal axis direction are indicated with + A and -B.
  • the different locations the application roller 3 to the coating device 1 are dashed when these deviations occur shown. So that the coating device 1 at Rotation of the application roller 3, or when the Deviations + A or -B of the opposite Surface line can follow the application roller 3, represent the guides 6, 6 and the bearings 11, 11th a smooth arrangement for the movements of the Coating device 1 in the direction of + A or -B for sure.
  • a third embodiment is shown schematically in FIG shown the invention in which instead of So-called roller skids 12 are used, each of which is equipped with two rollers 14, 14 is in pairs against two opposite Surface lines of the application roller 3 lie against or against the outer edges of the application roller 3 led carrier material 9.
  • the compressive force F is at this third Embodiment, for example, by two pneumatic elements 16 exercised instead of the compression springs.
  • At these pneumatic elements 16 are concerned For example, low-friction bellows cylinders that are on the one hand on the counter bearing 15 and on the other hand against the back of the coating device housing 1 support. It goes without saying that such pneumatic elements 16 and likewise Roller skids 12 instead of the compression springs 10 or Skids 4 in the first and second embodiment of the Invention can be used.

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  1. Dispositif de revêtement avec outil d'application pour l'application d'une couche de liquide sur un matériau de support en forme de bande, qui est guidé sur un rouleau d'application, caractérisé en ce qu'un patin (4 ; 12) est fixé près de chacune des deux surfaces frontales du dispositif de revêtement (1) et repose sous pression sur le rouleau d'application (3).
  2. Dispositif de revêtement suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les deux patins (4 ; 12) sont articulés en rotation à l'enveloppe (13) du dispositif de revêtement (1) par l'intermédiaire de tourillons (7, 7).
  3. Dispositif de revêtement suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que chacun des deux patins (4, 4) est, en tant que patin de glissement, pourvu d'un revêtement de glissement (2).
  4. Dispositif de revêtement suivant l'une des revendications 1 ou 2, caractérisé en ce que chacun des patins (12) est, en tant que patin de roulement, équipé de deux galets (14, 14) et en ce que les galets (14, 14) reposent sur la surface de virole du rouleau d'application (3).
  5. Dispositif de revêtement suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les patins (4 ; 12) reposent sur la surface de virole du rouleau d'application (3) ou sur les bords du matériau de support (9) en forme de bande.
  6. Dispositif de revêtement suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que des ressorts de compression (10, 10) précomprimés, qui reposent avec leurs extrémités contre la face arrière du dispositif de revêtement (1) et contre une contre-butée (15), exercent la force de pression F sur le dispositif de revêtement afin de presser ses patins (4 ; 12) contre le rouleau d'application (3) ou contre les bords du matériau de support (9) en forme de bande guidé sur le rouleau d'application.
  7. Dispositif de revêtement suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que des éléments pneumatiques (16) exercent une force de pression sur le dispositif de revêtement afin de presser les patins (4 ; 12) de celui-ci contre le rouleau d'application (3) ou contre les bords du matériau de support (9) en forme de bande guidé sur le rouleau d'application (3).
  8. Dispositif de revêtement suivant la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que les éléments pneumatiques (16) sont des vérins à soufflet à faible frottement.
  9. Dispositif de revêtement suivant la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que des guides (6, 6) pouvant facilement être déplacés montés sur roulements à billes ou sur roulements à rouleaux sont présents, le long desquels le dispositif de revêtement (1) peut être déplacé.
  10. Dispositif de revêtement suivant la revendication 9, caractérisé en ce qu'il est relié par l'intermédiaire de paliers (11, 11) situés sur les deux côtés extérieurs aux deux guides (6, 6) de manière permettant la rotation.
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