WO2003060233A1 - Nozzle array - Google Patents
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- WO2003060233A1 WO2003060233A1 PCT/FI2003/000022 FI0300022W WO03060233A1 WO 2003060233 A1 WO2003060233 A1 WO 2003060233A1 FI 0300022 W FI0300022 W FI 0300022W WO 03060233 A1 WO03060233 A1 WO 03060233A1
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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
- 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
- D21H23/50—Spraying or projecting
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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
- B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
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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
- B05B1/00—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means
- B05B1/02—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to produce a jet, spray, or other discharge of particular shape or nature, e.g. in single drops, or having an outlet of particular shape
- B05B1/04—Nozzles, spray heads or other outlets, with or without auxiliary devices such as valves, heating means designed to produce a jet, spray, or other discharge of particular shape or nature, e.g. in single drops, or having an outlet of particular shape in flat form, e.g. fan-like, sheet-like
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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
- 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
- B05B13/0207—Means for supporting work; Arrangement or mounting of spray heads; Adaptation or arrangement of means for feeding work the work being an elongated body, e.g. wire or pipe
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- the invention relates to the coating of a mobile web-like material with high- pressure spraying techniques and is directed to the nozzle array used in such coating.
- the invention is especially applicable to paper coating.
- Spray coating has appeared as one of the most recent coating techniques. It has the particular advantage of not requiring any mechanical coating means in contact with the web, such as an abrasive blade or a rotating rod.
- the spray technique called high-pressure spray technique has proved particularly promising; it comprises driving merely a coating mixture without any gaseous medium under high pressure through a nozzle with a small hole, so that the mixture is atomised into small droplets.
- the pressure may be e.g. 1...200 MPa and the nozzle opening area e.g. 0.02...0.5 mm .
- a typical maximum droplet size is about 100 ⁇ m.
- Such an apparatus comprises a nozzle array with one or more nozzle rows consisting of several nozzles in the transverse direction of the web.
- the nozzles are disposed so as to provide a coating jet on the web that covers the web as evenly as possible. Then the jets generated by adjacent nozzles in a nozzle row suitably overlap at their edges.
- the coating mixture is distributed under the same pressure from one single feed pipe to each nozzle. This allows the flow of only the nozzles fed together to be adjusted by varying the pressure, the concentration or the viscosity.
- the jet shape provided by the nozzles depends on the shape of the nozzle opening. The general aim is to provide a jet having a larger width in the transverse direction of the web than in its longitudinal direction. The nozzle opening is then accordingly oval.
- Paper coating by spraying is described e.g. in the publications FI B 108061 (corre- sponding to WO 9717036) and Nissinen V, OptiSpray, the New Low Impact Paper Coating Technology, OptiSpray Coating and Sizing Conference, Finland, 15 March 2001.
- a nozzle array as defined in claim 1 has now been invented for use in coating of a web-like material.
- the other claims describe some preferred embodiments of the invention.
- the nozzle variable to be measured may be especially the nozzle opening area.
- the area can be determined especially by optical methods.
- the determination may e.g. comprise leading a light beam, such as a laser beam, to the opening, and measuring the portion of the beam retained by the opening.
- the area can also be directly obtained e.g. as pixels on the image surface of a CCD camera. Instead of the area, the width and the length of the opening can be determined, using their product as a variable. These can also be optically determined using a microscope, for instance. Optical measuring methods are also easy to automate.
- the nozzle array yields a coating distribution on the web that is as even as possible and also remains as even as possible as the nozzles wear.
- the coating can be achieved with the desired thickness within each array by altering the feed values whenever necessary.
- the classification described here is considerably more rapid and simple than classification based directly on flow measurements of the nozzles. Used nozzles can be returned and reclassi- fied.
- the invention is applicable e.g. to the classification of nozzles to be used for coating papers such as printing papers or cardboards.
- a classified nozzle array yields a coating of optimally even quality.
- Figure 1 shows the distribution of the yield and fan width of an unclassified nozzle array.
- Figure 2 shows the change in the yield deviation of a nozzle array as the nozzles wear.
- Figure 3 shows a typical deviation of the yield of a nozzle array and its classification in accordance with the invention.
- Figure 4 shows optical measurement of the nozzle area.
- Figure 5 shows the position of the two outermost nozzles in the nozzle array and the distribution of the coating achieved with these.
- the inventors examined the mass flow provided by each nozzle in a typical batch of 36 nozzles and the width of the jet fan using water under a pressure of 100 bars.
- the nominal diameter of the nozzles was 0.3 mm.
- the results are shown in table 1.
- the bars show the yield, and the curve shows the width of the jet fan.
- a variable correlating with the yield is selected, which is determined for each nozzle.
- the nozzle opening area shows the most exact correlation with the flow.
- a satisfactory result is also obtained by measuring the diameter of the flow opening at one or more points. In the case of an oval opening, for instance, the width and the height can be determined.
- the permissible limit may be e.g. ⁇ 2%.
- Figure 3 shows a typical deviation of the flow rate of a nozzle array, which has been divided into acceptable part arrays.
- One way of classifying nozzles is to measure with a microscope the width and height of the nozzle opening and to use the product of these as a classification variable.
- a 100-fold magnifying microscope achieves 0.001 mm precision.
- the enclosed table shows the dimensions of the holes of a batch of 10 nozzles and the corresponding mass flow. The mass flow was obtained by spraying water under a pressure of 100 bars for 2 minutes into a vessel and by weighing the water amount.
- the nozzle opening area can be determined with high precision using e.g. the arrangement of figure 4.
- a laser beam 3 having a diameter larger than the opening is taken from a laser source 1 to the opening of the nozzle 2.
- the laser beam 4 is determined with a detector 5.
- the control and computing unit 6 calculates the difference between the laser beams, and using this as a basis, the opening area and also the main dimensions are calculated if desired.
- the results can be shown on a display.
- Such measuring apparatuses are commercially available (e.g. Keyence).
- Optical measuring of the kind described above can also easily be automated.
- Figure 5 shows the jet patterns 7.1 and 7.2 formed by fan-shaped jets of the two outermost nozzles 2.1 and 2.2 in a nozzle array and the weight distribution 8 of the formed coating.
- the jet edges are adequately overlapped in the intermediate area 9, so that the amount of coating becomes constant also in the area between the nozzles.
- the weight distribution will be optimally even across the entire web.
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- Particle Formation And Scattering Control In Inkjet Printers (AREA)
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Priority Applications (6)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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EP03729502A EP1466050B1 (en) | 2002-01-15 | 2003-01-14 | Nozzle array |
JP2003560306A JP2005515056A (en) | 2002-01-15 | 2003-01-14 | Nozzle array |
AU2003201180A AU2003201180A1 (en) | 2002-01-15 | 2003-01-14 | Nozzle array |
CA002473193A CA2473193A1 (en) | 2002-01-15 | 2003-01-14 | Nozzle array |
AT03729502T ATE553258T1 (en) | 2002-01-15 | 2003-01-14 | NOZZLE SERIES |
US10/501,607 US20050139157A1 (en) | 2002-01-15 | 2003-01-14 | Nozzle array |
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FI20020073 | 2002-01-15 | ||
FI20020073A FI111870B (en) | 2002-01-15 | 2002-01-15 | Munstycksserie |
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PCT/FI2003/000022 WO2003060233A1 (en) | 2002-01-15 | 2003-01-14 | Nozzle array |
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US (1) | US20050139157A1 (en) |
EP (1) | EP1466050B1 (en) |
JP (1) | JP2005515056A (en) |
CN (1) | CN1312358C (en) |
AT (1) | ATE553258T1 (en) |
AU (1) | AU2003201180A1 (en) |
CA (1) | CA2473193A1 (en) |
FI (1) | FI111870B (en) |
WO (1) | WO2003060233A1 (en) |
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WO1997013036A1 (en) * | 1995-10-05 | 1997-04-10 | Valmet Corporation | Method and apparatus for coating a moving paper or cardboard web |
US6063450A (en) * | 1997-05-27 | 2000-05-16 | Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen Gmbh | Method and apparatus for directly or indirectly applying a liquid pasty application medium to one or both sides of a continuous surface |
WO2001002098A1 (en) * | 1999-06-30 | 2001-01-11 | Metso Paper, Inc. | Method and apparatus for spreading treating agent on a moving web |
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FI20020073A (en) | 2003-07-16 |
AU2003201180A1 (en) | 2003-07-30 |
FI111870B (en) | 2003-09-30 |
FI20020073A0 (en) | 2002-01-15 |
CA2473193A1 (en) | 2003-07-24 |
ATE553258T1 (en) | 2012-04-15 |
EP1466050A1 (en) | 2004-10-13 |
US20050139157A1 (en) | 2005-06-30 |
CN1312358C (en) | 2007-04-25 |
JP2005515056A (en) | 2005-05-26 |
EP1466050B1 (en) | 2012-04-11 |
CN1633535A (en) | 2005-06-29 |
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