US 11,920,299 B2 · Formation detection system and a process of controlling

Abstract

A formation detection system comprising: (a) one or more sensors and (b) one or more lights that illuminate a location of interest so that the one or more sensors can monitor the location of interest; wherein one of the one or more sensors are located substantially planar with a wire of a paper machine and proximate to a slice opening so that the one of the one or more sensors is adjacent to a cut through so that the one of the one or more sensors is capable of measuring stock above the wire and removed water below the wire, and wherein the one of the one or more sensors is capable of measuring a distance between an impingement location of a stock jet and the wire from a forming board.

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Dependent claims

A formation detection system comprising:

a. one or more sensors, wherein at least one of the one or more sensors is a camera and
b. one or more lights that illuminate a location of interest so that the one or more sensors can monitor the location of interest;
wherein one of the one or more sensors is located at a beginning of a press section of a paper machine, a dryer section, or both and at an end of the press section of a paper machine, a dryer section, or both, and
wherein the one or more lights illuminate a sheet of paper at the beginning of the press section, the dryer section, or both and at the end of the press section of a paper machine, a dryer section, or both so that the one or more sensors are capable of monitoring formation of the sheet of paper within the press section, the dryer section, or both.

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A formation detection system comprising:

a. two or more sensors wherein the two or more sensors include:
i. a first of the two or more sensors is directed to a location along a paper machine corresponding to a first sheet of paper and
ii. a second of the two or more sensors is directed to a location along a paper machine corresponding to a second sheet of paper;
b. two or more lights located adjacent to the two or more sensors;
and
c. a control system;
wherein formation of the first sheet of paper and formation of the second sheet of paper are matched up by the control system to form joint data so that when the first sheet of paper and the second sheet of paper are joined, formation data regarding the first sheet of paper and the second sheet of paper is recorded individually;
and
wherein the first of the two or more sensors and the second of the two or more sensors comprise a camera that monitors the formation of the first sheet of paper and the formation of the second sheet of paper respectively.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Formation detection system and a process of controlling

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