EP3476785A1 - Mécanisme tendeur de bande - Google Patents
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- EP3476785A1 EP3476785A1 EP17198745.6A EP17198745A EP3476785A1 EP 3476785 A1 EP3476785 A1 EP 3476785A1 EP 17198745 A EP17198745 A EP 17198745A EP 3476785 A1 EP3476785 A1 EP 3476785A1
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- web
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H23/00—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs
- B65H23/04—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs longitudinally
- B65H23/048—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs longitudinally by positively actuated movable bars or rollers
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H23/00—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs
- B65H23/02—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs transversely
- B65H23/022—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs transversely by tentering devices
- B65H23/025—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs transversely by tentering devices by rollers
- B65H23/0258—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs transversely by tentering devices by rollers with a bowed axis
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H23/00—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs
- B65H23/04—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs longitudinally
- B65H23/16—Registering, tensioning, smoothing or guiding webs longitudinally by weighted or spring-pressed movable bars or rollers
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
- B65H2404/10—Rollers
- B65H2404/11—Details of cross-section or profile
- B65H2404/113—Details of cross-section or profile made of circular segments
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2404/00—Parts for transporting or guiding the handled material
- B65H2404/10—Rollers
- B65H2404/15—Roller assembly, particular roller arrangement
- B65H2404/152—Arrangement of roller on a movable frame
- B65H2404/1521—Arrangement of roller on a movable frame rotating, pivoting or oscillating around an axis, e.g. parallel to the roller axis
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H2408/00—Specific machines
- B65H2408/20—Specific machines for handling web(s)
- B65H2408/21—Accumulators
- B65H2408/217—Accumulators of rollers type, e.g. with at least one fixed and one movable roller
- B65H2408/2171—Accumulators of rollers type, e.g. with at least one fixed and one movable roller the position of the movable roller(s), i.e. the web loop, being positively actuated
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- the invention relates to a web tensioning mechanism for tensioning a print media web conveyed along a feed path, the mechanism comprising a dancer that extends over a width of the web, and a number of biasing members arranged to bias the dancer against the web.
- a media web is frequently withdrawn from a roll and conveyed along a feed path that is defined by a number of parallel rollers over which the web is passed with or without deflection, so that the web is guided to and through, for example, a printing machine, a finisher, and the like.
- the web is wound on a coil in a large number of layers so that the total length of the web is as large as possible and the web can practically be considered as "endless".
- the coil may initially have a considerable weight and, if the width of the web and, correspondingly, the length of the coil is large, a shaft supporting the coil may bend under the weight of the coil, with the consequence that the distribution of the web tension over the width of the web becomes non-uniform.
- a similar effect may also occur if the overall tension of the web is so large that one or more of the rollers that define the feed path and at which the web is deflected yield to the web tension and become bent.
- a non-uniform tension of the web due to bending of one or more rolls or rollers may cause damage to the web or may compromise the quality of the resulting product, e.g. the print quality, due to non-uniform stretching of the web.
- a web tensioning mechanism of the type indicated above permits to control the web tension by controlling a force with which the dancer is biased against the web, whereby the web is deflected so that any possible slack in the web is removed.
- the dancer is a roller that extends over the entire width of the web and is supported in bearings at both ends. The bearings may be biased against the web by a single biasing member or by two separate biasing members.
- US 4 669 646 and US 3 786 975 disclose so-called web-spreading rollers which are divided into a plurality of segments that are supported on respective adjusting means.
- the adjusting means may be adjusted so as to enforce a certain curvature of the roller that is composed of the various segments, thereby imposing also a corresponding curvature to the web so that the web will be spread when it passes over the roller.
- the curvature of such a spreading roller has a certain impact on the distribution of the web tension, such spreading rollers are not suitable for appropriately controlling the distribution of the web tension over the width of the web.
- the web tensioning mechanism according to the invention is characterized in that the dancer is divided lengthwise into a plurality of segments, and the number of biasing members is at least equal to the number of segments.
- each segment has its own biasing member or members, which permits to control the force with which the segment is biased against the web individually for each segment, thereby to control the distribution of the web tension over the width of the web.
- the biasing members are arranged to bias all segments of the dancer against the web with a uniform biasing force per length, which results in a uniform distribution of the web tension regardless of whether or not the coil or any other rollers along the feed path are bent.
- each of the segments of the dancer may be supported with its opposite ends in a forked bearing structure that is biased against the web by a single biasing member.
- separate biasing members may be provided for separate bearing structures at the opposite ends of each segment.
- the ends of neighboring dancer segments may be flexibly linked to one another and each link may be supported on a corresponding biasing member, so that the adjacent ends of two different dancer segments share a common biasing member.
- the flexible links between the segments may be formed by articulated universal joints, for example, or by a continuous flexible shaft passing through and supporting all the segments of the dancer.
- a print media web 10 is withdrawn from a coil 12 and conveyed along a feed path 14 only part of which has been shown in the drawing.
- the coil 12 is wound on a core 16 that extends over the entire width of the web 10 and is supported with its opposite ends in bearings that have not been shown here.
- the portion of the feed path 14 that has been shown in Fig. 1 includes a deflection roller 18, at which the web 10 is deflected by 90° in this example, and a so-called dancer 20.
- the dancer 20 is a roller which also extends over the entire width of the web 10 and serves to control the tension of the web.
- a number of biasing members 22 are provided for biasing the dancer 20 against the web 10.
- the web 10 is deflected at the dancer 20 by 90°, so that the conveying direction of the web changes from an approximately horizontal direction between the coil 12 and the dancer 20 to an approximately vertical direction between the dancer 20 and the deflection roller 18, and the dancer is biased in a downward direction, so that the web tension will increase in proportion to the biasing force exerted by the biasing members 22.
- the dancer 20 is divided into a plurality of segments 24.
- the dancer has only three segments 24, but the number of segments may be significantly larger in a practical embodiment.
- each segment 24 is rotatably supported at a support beam 26.
- the adjacent ends of each pair of neighboring segments 24 share a common support beam 26. All four support beams are rotatable independently of one another about a shaft 28.
- the adjacent ends of two neighboring segments 24 are interconnected by a flexible link, so that they are connected for joint rotation about their longitudinal axes but can be angled relative to one another to a certain extent, so that the support beams 26 are free to move independently of one another.
- the biasing members 22 may be constituted by pneumatic cylinders, for example, and are linked to the respective support beams 26 at a point between the shaft 28 and the dancer 20, whereas the top ends of the biasing members are supported by a common cross bar 30. All support beams 26 have the same length, and the distance between the shaft 28 and the joint linking the biasing member 22 to the support beam 26 is the same for all support beams, so that the biasing members 22 urge the segments 24 downwards with the same leverage.
- the pneumatic cylinders constituting the individual biasing members 22 all have the same active piston area, so that, when all biasing members are connected to a common pneumatic pressure source (not shown), all segments 24 of the dancer will be biased downward with an equal force. Further, since all segments 24 have the same length in this example, the biasing force per segment length will be the same for all segments.
- the three segments 24 of the dancer 20 virtually divide the width of the web 10 into three sections, and since the biasing force per segment length is the same for all three segments, the tension of the web 10 will also be the same in all three segments.
- Fig. 2 is a schematic view of a dancer 20a of a tensioning mechanism according to another embodiment of the invention.
- the dancer 20a is divided into six segments 24, and each segment 24 has its opposite ends rotatably supported in a forked support member 32 that is held in position and biased downwards by an associated adjusting member 22.
- the number of adjusting members 22 is equal to the number of segments 24 of the dancer, and the individual segments of the dancer are not connected to their respective neighbors. Instead, the segments 24 are aligned only by being held in position by their biasing members 22 and support members 32.
- Fig. 3 illustrates a modified embodiment wherein separate biasing members 22 are provided for the opposite ends of each segment 24, so that the total number of biasing members 22 is twice the number of segments.
- Fig. 4 is a schematic view of a dancer 20b in which the neighboring segments 24 are respectively interconnected by articulated universal joints 36, so that, similarly as in Fig. 1 , each pair of neighboring segments 24 may share a common biasing member 22.
- Fig. 5 illustrates the response of the tensioning mechanism shown in Fig. 4 to a non-uniform tension of the web 10 the cross-section of which has been shown as a dashed line. It has been assumed here that, for some reason, the tension of the web 10 is larger in the central part than near the lateral edges, so that the biasing members 22 that are closer to the width-wise center of the web 10 yield upwards and allow the web to assume a curved cross-sectional shape, whereby the differences in web tension are absorbed.
- Fig. 6 shows an example of a dancer 20c having segments 24 which are supported on a common flexible shaft 38 which constitutes flexible links between the adjacent segments.
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- Controlling Rewinding, Feeding, Winding, Or Abnormalities Of Webs (AREA)
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GB851139A (en) * | 1959-01-26 | 1960-10-12 | Schjeldahl Co G T | Improvements in or relating to feeding webs |
US3648342A (en) * | 1969-04-29 | 1972-03-14 | Ahlstroem Oy | Movable combination of rolls |
US3786975A (en) | 1971-08-05 | 1974-01-22 | Jagenberg Werke Ag | Apparatus for broad-drawing sheet materials |
US4669646A (en) | 1983-07-22 | 1987-06-02 | Oy Wartsila Ab | Arrangement for web spreading |
EP0754641A1 (fr) * | 1995-07-21 | 1997-01-22 | Gerber Garment Technology, Inc. | Rouleau danseur segmenté et mécanisme d'entraînement pour des matériaux en bande |
US5825374A (en) * | 1997-03-12 | 1998-10-20 | Raster Graphics, Inc. | Apparatus and method for advancing a web |
DE19938618A1 (de) * | 1999-08-14 | 2001-02-22 | Swegmark Invest Ab Boras | Vorrichtung zur Korrektur von Verzügen |
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GB851139A (en) * | 1959-01-26 | 1960-10-12 | Schjeldahl Co G T | Improvements in or relating to feeding webs |
US3648342A (en) * | 1969-04-29 | 1972-03-14 | Ahlstroem Oy | Movable combination of rolls |
US3786975A (en) | 1971-08-05 | 1974-01-22 | Jagenberg Werke Ag | Apparatus for broad-drawing sheet materials |
US4669646A (en) | 1983-07-22 | 1987-06-02 | Oy Wartsila Ab | Arrangement for web spreading |
EP0754641A1 (fr) * | 1995-07-21 | 1997-01-22 | Gerber Garment Technology, Inc. | Rouleau danseur segmenté et mécanisme d'entraînement pour des matériaux en bande |
US5825374A (en) * | 1997-03-12 | 1998-10-20 | Raster Graphics, Inc. | Apparatus and method for advancing a web |
DE19938618A1 (de) * | 1999-08-14 | 2001-02-22 | Swegmark Invest Ab Boras | Vorrichtung zur Korrektur von Verzügen |
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CN110844664A (zh) * | 2020-01-15 | 2020-02-28 | 广东希望高科数字技术有限公司 | 一种数码印花机的上布机构 |
CN111114130A (zh) * | 2020-01-15 | 2020-05-08 | 广东希望高科数字技术有限公司 | 一种扫描式纺织数码印花设备 |
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