US2339045A - Means for impregnating and coating sheet material - Google Patents

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US2339045A
US2339045A US431644A US43164442A US2339045A US 2339045 A US2339045 A US 2339045A US 431644 A US431644 A US 431644A US 43164442 A US43164442 A US 43164442A US 2339045 A US2339045 A US 2339045A
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    • 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
    • D21H5/00—Special paper or cardboard not otherwise provided for
    • D21H5/0005—Processes or apparatus specially adapted for applying liquids or other fluent materials to finished paper or board, e.g. impregnating, coating
    • D21H5/0007—Pretreatment of paper to which liquids or other fluent materials are to be applied
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06B—TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS
    • D06B3/00—Passing of textile materials through liquids, gases or vapours to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing, impregnating
    • D06B3/10—Passing of textile materials through liquids, gases or vapours to effect treatment, e.g. washing, dyeing, bleaching, sizing, impregnating of fabrics
    • 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
    • D21H23/30—Pretreatment of the paper
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06B—TREATING TEXTILE MATERIALS USING LIQUIDS, GASES OR VAPOURS
    • D06B2700/00—Treating of textile materials, e.g. bleaching, dyeing, mercerising, impregnating, washing; Fulling of fabrics
    • D06B2700/27—Sizing, starching or impregnating fabrics

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  • Beaver Patent 1,958,984 discloses apparatus for impregnating and/or coating sheet material (which is understood to include material in the form of narrow strips) in a continuous operation.
  • Examples of the materials treated are'paper and textile iabrics.
  • Examples of the impregnating and/or coatingmaterials are oil, insulating compounds, varnish and rubber solution. This material may be in a liquid or semi-liquid state.
  • the sheet material in the form of a roll, is placed on a support in a vacuum drying chamber, and is passed from the roll over hot rollers, for the purpose of heating it for drying, and then through an aperture, of small width, with an appropriate packing arrangement, in the separating wall between the drying chamber and the impregnating tank. At this point the sheet material passes directly into the body of impregnating material in the tank.
  • This material is under a pressure superior to the pressure in the drying chamber-usually it is at atmospheric pressureand impregnation takes place mainly at the entry into the tank, where The sheet material then travels on through the tank and then upward from the tank to a drying or setting arrangement.
  • the present invention provides an improved form of such apparatus.
  • this improved form the whole or greater part of the drying operation is performed outside the vacuum chamber and the sheet material passes into that chamber for a short final treatment to prepare it for impregnation (as before) by the impulsive action which takes place at the abrupt change of pressure.
  • the improved. apparatus comprises a small vacuum chamber which (as before) is arranged directly adjacent to the impregnating tank so that the sheet material can pass through a slot in the separating wall.
  • This vacuum chamber preferably has a hot roller round which the sheet material passes, or other heating means.
  • Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus for feeding the strip to be treated from a roll
  • Figure 1A is a side elevation of the treatin apparatus
  • Figure 2 is a fragmentary view in front elevation, drawn to a larger scale
  • Figure 3 is a partial section taken along a central vertical plane through the parts shown in Figure 2;
  • Figure 4 is a fragmentary sectional elevation
  • Figure 5 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of a part of the apparatus, shown broken away.
  • Figure 6 is a longitudinal sectional elevation of another part of the apparatus.
  • the apparatus illustrated is intended for the impregnation of paper with an insulating oil or compound and although it may be used for the impregnating and for the coating of materials other than' paper with insulating oils or compounds or with other materials, the apparatus, for convenience, will be described in connection with the treatment of paper with an insulating oil.
  • a supply of the paper to be impregnated is formed into a roll I on a spindle 2 and the paper is drawn oif from the roll as a sheet 3 under the control of a weight 10 acting upon apulley wheel H fixed to the spindle 2.
  • the sheet From the roll I the sheet passes behind a spring tension roller 4 and from the latter around a lower roller 5.
  • the sheet 3 then passes upwards from the roller 5 around an upper roller 6 and from thence into a small vacuum tank I.
  • the path of the sheet 3 around and between the rollers 5 and 6 approximates to that of. a letter S.
  • the two rollers aremounted one above the other and are placed closed to each other and the S shaped path of the sheet provides for a large area of contact between the sheet 3 and the two rollers.
  • the upper roller 6 is mounted on a shaft 8 supported in bearings 9 and the lower roller 5 is mounted on.
  • the sheet travels in a horizontal plane.
  • 6 represents the front vertical wall of the vacuum tank 1.
  • the wall H has a horizontally disposed narrow slot H, the length of which is substantially equal to the width of the sheet 3.
  • the slot I1 is packed to minimise the entry of air through the slot into the vacuum tank I, by a pair of bars and 2
  • ) is fixed to the wall l6 of the vacuum tank by studs 26 and nuts 21 and has a small groove in its underiace to receive a rubber strip 28 which serves as a gasket to prevent air being drawn into the tank I between the bar 20 and the wall l6 of the vacuum tank 1.
  • is of angle shape in cross-section having a head 29 and a shank or stem 30 lying at right angles thereto.
  • the head 29 is of substantial thickness and lies in contact with the wall I6 and is rigidly held in place by a bar 22 which extends horizontally across the wall IS, the upper edge of the bar 22 being recessed to receive the stem or shank 30 of the rubber bar 2
  • the latter is fixed rigidly to the bar 22 by a bar 80 and studs H! which pass through the bars 22 and 80, and by nuts l9, and, as will be seen from Figure 3, the upper edge of the bar 22 provides an abutment for the head 29 of the rubber bar 2
  • is made adjustable by pro viding the bar 22 with a pair of brackets 23 fixed thereto at its ends by'studs 3
  • are so arranged that when they are in contact their contacting surfaces coincide approximately with the longitudinal axis of the slot l1.
  • the tank I can be placed under vacuum by 3.
  • the tank has a small cover 4
  • the guide roller l5 mounted within the vacuum tank I may be heated electrically by heating elements '12 having the form or fixed strips, or the roller
  • the paper sheet 3 passes vertically upwards into an impregnating tank 42 having a cover 46.
  • the impregnating tank 42 is smaller than the vacuum tank I and is mounted on top of the latter. Inside the latter are disposed guide rollers 44 and 45 and the sheet 3 passes upwards from the guide roller l5 through packed slots in the upper wall of the vacuum tank 1 and the bottom wall of the impregnatingtank 42 and as soonas the paper sheet has passed through the slots it is brought into the body of insulating oil contained in the impregnating tank 42.
  • This oil is maintained under atmospheric pressure and the sudden increase of pressure to which the paper sheet 3 is subjected gives rise to an impulsive type of impregnating action causing the oil to penetrate into the sheet.
  • the guide rollers 44 and 45 ensure that the sheet is maintained in the body of insulating oil for thorough impregnation, the sheet passing vertically upwards, from the guide roller [5 to the guide roller 44, round the latter and then vertically downwards to the second guide roller 45. From the latter the sheet 3 is drawn vertically upwards through the slot in the cover 46 on the impregnating tank 42. The sheet passes vertically upwards between a series of wipers 41 and over a small roller 49 and from thence over a roller 49 rotating in a bath of molten compound (not shown) so that one side of the paper surface is coated with the compound which acts as a lubricating layer to facilitate the subsequent handling or working of the paper. If desired, however, the bath of compound may be omitted. From the roller 49 the sheet passes vertically downwards to a roller 50 from whence it passes upwards to a roller 5
  • the roller 53, a gear wheel 54 and a chain wheel 55 are mounted on a shaft 56.
  • and a gear wheel 51 are mounted on a shaft 58.
  • the roller 50 and a gear wheel 59 are mounted on a shaft 60 and the roller 52, a gear wheel 6
  • a gear wheel 65 drives wheel 54 and rotates the roller 53.
  • , chain wheel 62 and pulley wheel 63 are driven from the wheel 55 by a chain 65, wheel 6
  • the roller 49 is driven from the pulley wheel 63 by a belt 68 which passes over a pulley 61, the roller 49 and pulley 61 being mounted on a shaft 69.
  • the impregnating tank 42 is filled with oil, the tank I placed under vacuum and the ap paratus started up, the sheet being dried by the rollers 5 and 6 which are placed close to the vacuum tank, and then drawn through the latter and from thence into the impregnant. The sheet is then dried and if desired is coated with the molten compound and finally wound up into a roll.
  • the slot in the bottom wall of the impregnating tank 42 is packed to minimise the leakage of oil from that tank into the vacuum tank 1.
  • the bottom wall SI of the impregnating tank 42 has an aperture 82 of small width to permit the passage of the sheet 60 from the vacuum tank 1 into the tank 42.
  • the blocks 83 are adjusted so that they make contact with the opposite sides of the sheet.
  • the blocks 83 extend across the impregnating tank 42 and are secured to holders 84,
  • the blocks 83 are brought into their proper positions by rotating screw threaded spindles 85 supported in brackets 86, the spindles'85 engaging with blocks 81 secured to the holders B4.
  • the blocks are clamped in position by rotating box-nuts 88 which are engaged by threw-threaded bolts 90.
  • the nuts 88 have long handles 89 to facilitate their operation.
  • the upper wall of the tank I has an aperture 9
  • rollers 5 and 6 disposed outside the vacuum chamber 1 are electrically heated by elements having the form of strips I3 mounted inside the rollers.
  • the heating means will now be described in greater detail with reference to Figure 5 of the drawings which shows the roller 5.
  • the heating arrangements for the roller 6 are the same as those for roller 5.
  • the roller 5 is hollow and is free to rotate relative to the fixed shaft 8 by the provision of antifriction bearings 92 adjacent each end of the shaft.
  • the latter extends through the ends of the roller 5 and is supported in bearings 9 carried by brackets 93 fixed to the supports I2.
  • the heating elements consisting of metal strips are mounted inside the roller 5 being fixed at their ends to insulating discs 94, the latter being carried by and fixed to the shaft 8.
  • Terminal members 95 are fixed to one end of the strips and to these are connected insulated leads 96 which are taken out through an aperture 91, in the end of the shaft 8 to a junction box 98 provided with an external connection 99 for a cable It has been indicated above that the roller I5 disposed in the vacuum tank I may be heated by heating elements having the form of strips 12.
  • FIG. 6 shows in greater detail the heating arrangements for the roller I5 and reference will now be made thereto.
  • the roller I5 is free to rotate upon a stationary shaft IDI, being mounted upon anti-friction bearings 92.
  • the shaft IOI is supported in a bearing I02 fixed to the wall I03 of the vacuum chamber I by studs I04.
  • the shaft IOI is tubular and has an aperture to enable the leads I05 connected to the strips 12 to be taken out through the end of the roller I5.
  • the method of supporting the strips within the roller is the same as that shown in Figure 5.
  • the tubular end of the shaft IN is taken out through a plate I01 which closes an aperture in the wall I06 of the vacuum tank and is fixed to that wall.
  • a vacuum tight joint is obtained between the plate and the shaft IOI by a gland I08, packing ring I09 and packi
  • the leads I are enclosed in a metal sheath III and a vacuum tight connection is obtained between the sheath and the shaft IOI by a gland I I2 which is brazed to the sheath and screws into the end of the shaft, a joint ring I I3 being placed between the gland and the shaft.
  • the end of the cable is also sealed at H4.
  • the ends of the leads I05 terminate in a junction box II5 to which the supply cables II6 are connected.
  • the junction box is supported by and fixed to a casing Ill, the latter being carried by brackets III fixed to the plate I01.
  • the improved arrangement has a number of advantages as compared with the apparatus described in Patent 1,958,984.
  • the improved arrangement also has the advantage of permitting the size of the vacuum tank to be reduced and the vacuum pump correspondingly reduced in capacity.
  • the vacuum pump capacity is also greatly reduced by virtue of the fact that, since the paper is dried outside the machine, the water vapour emitted during the drying process does not pass through the vacuum pump.
  • the removable cover for the vacuum tank is also comparatively small since it is only required to give access to the interior of the tank for the purpose of threading through the sheet material and for other simple operations before starting up the apparatus. The cover being small can be more easily handled and more readily secured.
  • the construction of the vacuum tank i also simplified since it is not necessary to provide it with glands for the drying rollers or roll of paper or other material to be treated.
  • An apparatus for the impregnation of sheet material comprising a vacuum tank having a slot in one of its walls, means for packing the slot, an impregnating tank in communication with the vacuum tank adapted to contain a body of impregnating liquid at a higher pressure than the pressure existing in the vacuum tank, members disposed outside the vacuum tank in the external atmosphere for effecting the major portion of the drying operation of the sheet material, means for heating said members, and means for drawing the sheet material into contact with those members and through the packed slot in the wall of the vacuum tank and from the latter directly into the body of impregnating liquid in the impregnating tank.
  • An apparatus for the impregnation of sheet material comprising a support for a supply of the sheet material and at least two rollers and means for heating the rollers, the support and the rollers being disposed in the external atmosphere, the rollers serving to effect the major portion of the drying operation of the sheet material, a small vacuum tank having in one of its walls a slot, means for packing the slot, an impregnating tank on top of the vacuum tank adapted to contain a body of impregnating liquid at a higher pressure than that existing in the vacuum tank, at least one of said tanks having a slot placing the two tanks in communication, means for packing said slot, a guide roller in the vacuum tank for guiding the sheet material between the two packed slots and means for drawing the sheet material from the support into contact'with the rollers outside the vacuum tank, through the packed slot in the wall of the vacuum tank,
  • An apparatus for the impregnation of sheet material comprising a small vacuum tank having a slot in one of its walls and means for packing the slot, a pair of rollersadisposed adjacent tain a body of impregnating liquid at a higher pressure than that existing in the vacuum tank,
  • At least one of said tanks having a slot placing the two tanks in communication and means for packing that slot, one of the pair of rollers outside the vacuum tank and the guide roller within that tank being so arranged that the sheet material occupies substantially a horizontal plane between those two rollers, and means for drawing thesheet material from oil the support, around the pair of rollers outside the vacuum 20 tank, through the packed'slot in the wall adjacent the pair of rollers, around the guide roller in the vacuum tank and from thence through the second packed slot directly into the body of impregnating liquid in the impregnating tank.

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