Method for controlling an edge section of a film track

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12208557-B2
Application number	US-201917287269-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 5, 2019
Priority date	Nov 6, 2018
Publication date	Jan 28, 2025
Grant date	Jan 28, 2025

Abstract

The invention relates to a method of controlling an edge section (RA) of a film track (FB) in a flat film machine ( 100 ), comprising the following steps:
acquiring a thickness profile (DP) in at least one edge section (RA) of the film track (FB) in a transverse direction (QR) transverse to the production direction (PR) of the film track (FB), comparing at least a partial section of the acquired thickness profile (DP) of the edge section (RA) with a preset profile (VP), determining a profile deviation (PA) as a result of the comparison, performing a controlling intervention on the flat film machine ( 100 ) based on the determined profile deviation (PA).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method of controlling an edge section of a film track in a flat film machine, comprising the following steps:
acquiring a thickness profile in at least one edge section of the film track in a transverse direction transverse to the production direction of the film track,
comparing at least a partial section of the acquired thickness profile of the edge section with a preset profile,
determining a profile deviation as a result of the comparison, and
performing a controlling intervention on the flat film machine based on the determined profile deviation,

wherein the edge section comprises a thick section and a thin section,
wherein the thick section has a thickness being greater than a normal thickness of the film track in a middle section of the film track,
wherein the thin section has a thickness being smaller than the normal thickness of the film track in the middle section of the film track, and
wherein different preset profiles are provided for the thick section and the thin section.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the steps of acquiring, comparing, determining and performing the controlling intervention are carried out on both sides of both edge sections of the film track.

3. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the method steps are carried out for identical or essentially identical edge sections of the film track.

4. The method according to claim 2 , wherein the method steps are carried out for symmetrical or essentially symmetrical edge sections of the film track.

5. The method according to claim 2 , wherein identical or essentially identical preset profiles are used for both edge sections.

6. The method according to claim 2 , wherein symmetrical or essentially symmetrical preset profiles are used for both edge sections.

7. The method according to claim 2 , wherein at least the acquired thickness profile, the determined profile deviation or the performed controlling intervention is applied to an opposite edge section.

8. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the controlling intervention is at least qualitatively or quantitatively based on the determined profile deviation.

9. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method steps are carried out during the performance of a production of a feed product.

10. The method according to claim 1 , wherein an acquisition position of an acquisition module is changed during a changing from a feed product to a follow-on product on the flat film machine.

11. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature of the film track is monitored in order to acquire the thickness profile.

12. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the temperature of the film track in the region of a cooling roller is monitored in order to acquire the thickness profile.

13. The method according to claim 1 , wherein in an outlet section downstream of an outlet nozzle of the flat film machine, a lateral extension change of the at least one edge section is acquired.

Assignees

• Windmoeller & Hoelscher

Inventors

• Schmitz Torsten
• Colell Waldemar
• Groepper Bernd-Alexander

Classifications

• B29L2007/008

  Wide strips, e.g. films, webs · CPC title

• B29C48/31

  being} adjustable {, i.e. having adjustable exit sections · CPC title

• B29C48/08

  flexible, e.g. films · CPC title

• B29C2948/92152

  Thickness · CPC title

• B29C2948/92647

  Thickness · CPC title