EP2852705B1 - Buse en cascade pour l'application de plusieurs couches - Google Patents

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EP2852705B1
EP2852705B1 EP13721262.7A EP13721262A EP2852705B1 EP 2852705 B1 EP2852705 B1 EP 2852705B1 EP 13721262 A EP13721262 A EP 13721262A EP 2852705 B1 EP2852705 B1 EP 2852705B1
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Andreas Pesch
Eduard Davydenko
Robert Meitner
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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
    • B05C5/007—Slide-hopper coaters, i.e. apparatus in which the liquid or other fluent material flows freely on an inclined surface before contacting the work
    • B05C5/008—Slide-hopper curtain coaters
    • 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
    • B05C9/00—Apparatus or plant for applying liquid or other fluent material to surfaces by means not covered by any preceding group, or in which the means of applying the liquid or other fluent material is not important
    • B05C9/06—Apparatus or plant for applying liquid or other fluent material to surfaces by means not covered by any preceding group, or in which the means of applying the liquid or other fluent material is not important for applying two different liquids or other fluent materials, or the same liquid or other fluent material twice, to the same side of the work
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21H—PULP COMPOSITIONS; PREPARATION THEREOF NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES D21C OR D21D; IMPREGNATING OR COATING OF PAPER; TREATMENT OF FINISHED PAPER NOT COVERED BY CLASS B31 OR SUBCLASS D21G; PAPER NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D21H23/00—Processes or apparatus for adding material to the pulp or to the paper
    • D21H23/02—Processes or apparatus for adding material to the pulp or to the paper characterised by the manner in which substances are added
    • D21H23/22—Addition to the formed paper
    • D21H23/46—Pouring or allowing the fluid to flow in a continuous stream on to the surface, the entire stream being carried away by the paper
    • D21H23/48—Curtain coaters
    • 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
    • B05C5/0262—Coating heads with slot-shaped outlet adjustable in width, i.e. having lips movable relative to each other in order to modify the slot width, e.g. to close it

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  • the invention relates to a cascade nozzle for applying a plurality of layers of liquid or pasty application medium on a moving surface, in particular of paper, cardboard or other fiber, according to the preamble of claim 1.
  • WO 2011/145172 A1 is a generic cascade nozzle known.
  • curtain applicator Cosmetic Coater
  • WO 2001/54828 A1 and WO 2005/024133 A1 known.
  • WO 2001/54828 A1 cascade nozzles are known for a multilayer web coating, which operate on the principle of a sliding nozzle.
  • the cascade nozzles are designed as individual nozzles and combined to form a structural unit.
  • the individual nozzles are arranged in parallel one behind the other.
  • the cascade nozzle has a number of individual nozzles corresponding to the number of application layers. This allows the Do not mix application media until they exit the respective nozzle. From these nozzles, the application medium reaches an inclined sliding surface, where the liquid films produced by the individual nozzles are brought together and subsequently passed in the form of a closed multilayer liquid film on the inclined sliding surface to a nozzle lip. At the trailing edge of the nozzle lip forms a multilayer curtain.
  • the application medium or the coating mass should be applied as uniformly as possible over the entire web width.
  • the application thickness must be as constant as possible over the entire web surface.
  • a basic prerequisite for this is a uniform distribution of the coating composition over the outlet width of the cascade nozzle with regard to the volume flow. In order to achieve this, it is known to vary the gap width of the discharge gaps of the application nozzles by means of a device for influencing the transverse profile of the gap width.
  • EP 0 662 386 B1 For the cross profile influencing are off EP 0 662 386 B1 and WO 2011/145172 A1 Devices are known which work with a mechanical profile correction of the gap width.
  • EP 0 662 386 B1 describes a mechanical gap adjustment on a cascade nozzle by the deformation of the nozzle body in the form of a centrally mounted bending beam via screws or piezo elements. This gap adjustment is arranged spatially far away from the nozzle gap and therefore works very inaccurate.
  • WO 2011/145172 A1 It is known to directly deform die lips via adjusting screws located behind them.
  • the adjusting devices are arranged directly on the nozzle columns. The adjustment of the outlet column for the individual layers is possible only at a standstill, since the individual nozzle modules must be moved apart for the adjustment.
  • the object of the invention is therefore to provide a cascade nozzle with a large correction potential in order to ensure a high uniformity of the distribution of the application medium over the outlet width and is inexpensive to manufacture and in operation.
  • a cascade nozzle that combines a mechanical and volumetric cross profile control.
  • the cross profile correction on the outer layers is carried out by means of a mechanical gap adjustment.
  • the transverse profile correction on the inner layers takes place with the aid of a volume flow influencing of the supplied volume flow of application medium, the device for influencing the volume flow operating in zones using valves.
  • the device for influencing the volume flow operating in zones using valves.
  • it is preferably a valve and a control cylinder with servomotor, which are each connected to a supply line for application medium per layer.
  • the volume flow control is adjusted zone by zone over the web run width. The adjustment is possible in online mode without interrupting production, resulting in significant cost advantages.
  • the flat sliding surface formed on the upper side by the end faces of the block-like nozzle parts in a cascade nozzle for forming a flow base for the application medium of the individual layers flowing in stages enables multilayer film flows with thin outer layers in a stable curtain.
  • a thin wetting layer as a lower layer and a thin layer as an upper layer Function layer are applied.
  • the outer layers which moreover usually consist of an expensive application medium, can be applied very thinly with a good transverse profile correction by means of a mechanical gap adjustment.
  • Medium thicker layers, where a sufficiently large volume flow flows, can be easily and cheaply applied by volumetric cross profile correction.
  • the invention relates to a cascade nozzle for applying a plurality of layers of liquid or pasty application medium on a moving paper, cardboard or other fibrous web.
  • the cascade nozzle has at least three individual applicator nozzles 4, 5, 6 extending over the machine width, arranged one behind the other and each having an outlet gap 1, 2, 3 for discharging layers of application medium.
  • the application nozzles 4, 5, 6 between each two nozzle parts. 7 formed and connected to a respective supply line 8 for application medium.
  • the nozzle parts 7 are combined to form a structural unit with the formation of an upper side 9, along which the application medium discharged from the application nozzles 4, 5, 6 slides over to a nozzle lip 10 where it flows off as a multilayer coating curtain.
  • the nozzle parts 7 can be clamped together using a bolt 11 to a nozzle unit, for example.
  • the outlet width of the respective outlet gap 1, 3 of outer applicator nozzles 4, 6 is adjustable via a mechanical gap adjustment 12.
  • the interposed inner application nozzle 5 is associated with a device 13 for controlling the volume flow. If a plurality of inner application nozzles 5 are provided, for example for the formation of a four-, five- or six-layered curtain, then each of these inner application nozzles 5 is preferably associated with such a device 13 for influencing the volume flow.
  • the gap width of the respective outlet gap 1, 3 of the outer application nozzles 4, 6 is set smaller by a spacer 14 than the gap width of the outlet gaps 2 of inner application nozzles 5.
  • the gap widths of the outlet gaps 1, 3 of the outer application nozzles 4, 6 are less than 400 microns, preferably less than 300 microns, set.
  • the gap width of the outlet gap 2 of the respective inner application nozzle 5 is set to 400 to 700 ⁇ m, preferably greater than 500 ⁇ m.
  • the outlet gap 1, 3 of the respective outer application nozzle 4, 6 is bounded on the outside by a nozzle wall 15 which is zonally different zones by means of a series of adjusting elements 16 in their distance to an opposite outlet gap wall 17 for a cross profile adjustment along a web width.
  • the adjustable nozzle wall 15 is preferably lip-shaped.
  • the spacer 14 is, for example, in screws as adjusting elements 16 from formed respective bolt.
  • the device 13 for controlling the volume flow operates in zones using valves 18.
  • Fig. 4 shows for a flow direction F by way of example the construction of a supply line 8 between two nozzle parts 7 under a structural design of these nozzle parts 7. Thereafter, the application medium is fed to a layer via a distribution chamber 19. Between the distribution chamber 19 and the outlet gap 2, the device 13 is provided for the flow control.
  • This device is in each case a valve 18 and a control cylinder with servomotor 20, which adjust the flow rate.
  • a compensation chamber 21 can still be formed downstream of the respective outlet gap 2 according to a machine-width flow gap 22 and in front of the outlet gap 2. It is referred to in this respect DE 10 2009 048 820 A1 ,
  • the cascade nozzle according to Fig. 2 is different from the one in Fig. 1 illustrated and described in that the distribution chamber 19 is formed in the nozzle part 7, on which the other channel elements of the supply line 8 to the outlet gap 2 of the central application nozzle 5 are formed.
  • the cascade nozzle according to Fig. 3 is different from the one in Fig. 2 represented by the fact that two inner application nozzles 5 are provided. Each of these inner application nozzles 5 is assigned to a volume control device 13, which can preferably be adjusted in zones. Incidentally, the above applies accordingly.

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  1. Buse en cascade pour l'application de plusieurs couches d'agent d'enduction liquide ou pâteux sur une bande de papier, carton ou autre matière fibreuse en mouvement avec au moins trois buses d'application (4, 5, 6) s'étendant sur la largeur de la machine, agencées les unes derrière les autres et présentant respectivement une fente de sortie (1, 2, 3) pour la sortie de couches d'agent d'enduction, pour quoi les buses d'application (4, 5, 6) sont réalisées entre respectivement deux parties de buse (7) et sont raccordées à respectivement une conduite de fourniture (8) pour un agent d'enduction, les parties de buse (7) sont réunies en une unité structurelle en réalisant un côté supérieur (9) le long duquel l'agent d'enduction sorti par les buses d'application (4, 5, 6) glisse par chevauchement vers une lèvre de buse (10) et s'y écoule comme rideau de revêtement à plusieurs couches, la largeur de sortie de la fente de sortie (1, 3) respective des buses d'application extérieures (4, 6) est réglable par le biais d'un réglage de fente mécanique (12) et à laquelle ou auxquelles buses d'application (5) intérieures agencées au milieu est associé respectivement un dispositif (13) pour l'influence du débit volumétrique, caractérisée en ce que la largeur de la fente de sortie (2) d'une buse d'application (5) intérieure est réglée de 400 à 700 µm, de préférence supérieure à 500 µm, et la correction de profil transversal sur les couches intérieures est effectuée à l'aide d'une influence du débit volumétrique du débit volumétrique fourni d'agent d'enduction, dans lequel le dispositif (13) travaille pour l'influence de débit volumétrique par zone en utilisant des vannes (18).
  2. Buse en cascade selon la revendication 1, caractérisée en ce que la largeur de la fente de sortie (1, 3) respective des buses d'application extérieures (4, 6) est réglée plus petite par un élément d'écartement (14) que la largeur des fentes de sortie (2) des buses d'application intérieures (5).
  3. Buse en cascade selon la revendication 1 ou 2, caractérisée en ce que les largeurs de fente des fentes de sortie (1, 3) des buses d'application extérieures (4, 6) sont sélectionnées plus petites que 400 µm, de préférence plus petites que 300 µm.
  4. Buse en cascade selon l'une des revendications 1 à 3, caractérisée en ce que la fente de sortie (1, 3) de la buse d'application (4, 6) extérieure respective est délimitée côté extérieur par une paroi de buse (15) qui est réglable différemment par zone à l'aide d'une rangée d'éléments de réglage (16) dans sa distance à une paroi de fente de sortie (17) opposée.
  5. Buse en cascade selon la revendication 4, caractérisée en ce que la paroi de buse (15) réglable est réalisée en forme de lèvre.
  6. Buse en cascade selon l'une des revendications 1 à 5, caractérisée en ce que des parties de buse (7) agencées entre des parties de buse (7) côté extrémité réalisent côté avant et côté arrière une buse d'application (4, 5, 6) avec respectivement une partie de buse (7) se raccordant de manière contiguë.
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