Method for producing laminate

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9486959-B2
Application number	US-201414769793-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2014
Priority date	Feb 22, 2013
Publication date	Nov 8, 2016
Grant date	Nov 8, 2016

Abstract

In the present technology, when rolling rubber material extruded from a first rubber extruder ( 32 ) with a first pair of rollers ( 36, 36 ) to form a first sheet-shaped member (S 1 ) and layering and rolling the first sheet-shaped member (S 1 ) and the second sheet-shaped member (S 2 ) supplied from an original material with a second pair of rollers ( 38, 38 ) to contiguously produce a laminate having the first sheet-shaped member (S 1 ) and a second sheet-shaped member (S 2 ) laminated therein, the gap between the first pair of rollers ( 36, 36 ) is controlled on the basis of the detection result of the thickness (d 1 ) of the first sheet-shaped member (S 1 ) rolled by the first pair of rollers ( 36, 36 ), the detection result of the thickness (d 2 ) of the second sheet-shaped member (S 2 ) supplied from the original material, and the detection result of the thickness (d 3 ) of the laminate body.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for producing a laminate comprising:
a first step of rolling rubber material extruded from a first rubber extruder with a first pair of rollers to form a first sheet-shaped member;
a second step of layering and rolling the first sheet-shaped member and a second sheet-shaped member supplied from an original material to contiguously produce a laminate having the first sheet-shaped member and the second sheet-shaped member laminated therein; and
a gap between the first pair of rollers being controlled based on a detection result of a thickness d 1 of the first sheet-shaped member rolled by the first pair of rollers, a detection result of a thickness d 2 of the second sheet-shaped member supplied from the original material, and a detection result of a thickness d 3 of the laminate;

wherein:
the laminate is a conveyor belt including a belt core body, a first cover rubber laminated on one surface of the belt core body, and a second cover rubber laminated on another surface of the belt core body,
the first sheet-shaped member is the first cover rubber,
the second sheet-shaped member is a first intermediate laminate having the belt core body and the second cover rubber laminated therein,
the laminate further includes an ear rubber arranged on both side sections of the belt core body in a width direction between the first cover rubber and the second cover rubber,
before the second step, a third step is performed of rolling the ear rubber extruded from a second rubber extruder with a third pair of rollers to be laminated on the second cover rubber of the second sheet-shaped member at both side sections of the belt core body in the width direction to form a second intermediate laminate,
in the second step, the second intermediate laminate, including the second sheet-shaped member, and the first sheet-shaped member are laminated,
in the second sheet-shaped member, a width of the belt core body is less than a width of the second cover rubber and a band-like ear rubber placement surface on which the belt core body is not positioned is formed to have dimensions corresponding to a width of the ear rubber at both sides in the width direction of a surface of the second cover rubber having the belt core body laminated thereon,
a positioning structure is provided for positioning the ear rubber extruded from the second rubber extruder in the width direction of the second cover rubber with respect to the ear rubber placement surface of the second sheet-shaped member, and
the positioning of the ear rubber is controlled by the positioning structure based on a detection result of positions P 1 of both side end surfaces in the width direction of the belt core body directly before being rolled by the third pair of rollers and a detection result of a position P 2 in the width direction of the ear rubber directly before being rolled by the third pair of rollers.

2. The method for producing a laminate according to claim 1 , wherein
in the second step, both side end sections of the laminate in a width direction fed out from a second pair of rollers are cut, and the both side end sections that are cut are contiguously returned to an upstream side of the first rubber extruder to be used as rubber material.

3. The method for producing a laminate according to claim 1 , wherein
the laminate includes a fiber reinforcement layer and a first coating rubber laminated on one surface of the fiber reinforcement layer and forms a part of the belt core body of the conveyor belt in a thickness direction,
the first sheet-shaped member is the first coating rubber, and
the second sheet-shaped member is the fiber reinforcement layer.

4. The method for producing a laminate according to claim 1 , wherein
the laminate is a belt core single body of a conveyor belt including a fiber reinforcement layer, a first coating rubber laminated on one surface of the fiber reinforcement layer, and a second coating rubber laminated on another surface of the core body,
the first sheet-shaped member is the second coating rubber, and
the second sheet-shaped member is the fiber reinforcement layer and the first coating rubber.

5. The method for producing a laminate according to claim 1 , wherein
the laminate is a first intermediate laminate including a belt core body and a cover rubber laminated on the belt core body and forming a part of a conveyor belt in a thickness direction,
the first sheet-shaped member is the cover rubber, and
the second sheet-shaped member is the belt core body.

Assignees

• Yokohama Rubber Co Ltd

Inventors

• Urabe Koji

Classifications

• B32B2413/00

  Belts · CPC title

• B29C2043/5825

  dimensions or shape, e.g. size, thickness · CPC title

• B29C48/92

  Measuring, controlling or regulating · CPC title

• B29C48/07

  Flat, e.g. panels · CPC title

• B29C2948/92438

  Conveying, transporting or storage of articles · CPC title