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US 12,097,527 B2Granted
Device for modifying a linear substrate
AssigneeSouthwire Company
InventorJuan Alberto Galindo Gonzalez
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for modifying an aspect of an exterior polymer material or polymer type material of a linear substrate with a fluid. The apparatus include a variable exposure gap within which the linear substrate is exposed to the fluid. The width of the exposure gap is varied with the speed of the linear substrate traversing the exposure gap to maintain a constant exposure time of the linear substrate with the modifying fluid.
Claims14
A method for modifying an aspect of a linear substrate, the method comprising:
- providing a processing barrel comprising a chamber defined therein, the processing barrel further comprising a linear substrate inlet into the chamber and a linear substrate outlet out of the chamber;
- defining an exposure gap between the linear substrate inlet and the linear substrate outlet, the linear substrate inlet and the linear substrate outlet being moveable between a plurality of relative positions each defining a different length of the exposure gap, wherein the length of the exposure gap is reconfigurable from zero to greater than zero;
- providing a modifying fluid comprising additives in the exposure gap;
- traversing a linear substrate across the exposure gap at a given speed to infuse additives to the linear substrate, wherein traversing the linear substrate through the device further comprises increasing or decreasing the given speed of the linear substrate;
- and
- adjusting the length of the exposure gap based on an acceleration of the linear substrate from the given speed due to the increase or the decrease in the given speed and a measurement of infusion level of the additives from the modifying fluid in the linear substrate exiting the exposure length, wherein adjusting the length of the exposure gap based on the acceleration of the linear substrate from the given speed comprises:
- increasing the length of the exposure gap with an increase in the acceleration of the of the linear substrate from the given speed;
- and
- decreasing the length of the exposure gap with a decrease in the acceleration of the of the linear substrate from the given speed.
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A method for modifying an aspect of a linear substrate, the method comprising:
- providing a device comprising an outer processing vessel having a longitudinal length and an inner processing vessel, the inner processing vessel and the outer processing vessel forming a nested arrangement along the longitudinal length of the outer processing device, the device further comprising a linear substrate inlet and a linear substrate outlet;
- defining an exposure gap between the linear substrate inlet and the linear substrate outlet, the linear substrate inlet and the linear substrate outlet being moveable between a plurality of relative positions each defining a different length of the exposure gap, wherein the length of the exposure gap is reconfigurable from zero to greater than zero;
- providing a modifying fluid comprising additives in the exposure gap;
- traversing a linear substrate across the exposure gap at a given speed to infuse the additives to the linear substrate, wherein traversing the linear substrate through the device further comprises increasing or decreasing the given speed of the linear substrate;
- and
- adjusting a length of the exposure gap based on an acceleration of a linear substrate from the given speed due to the increase or the decrease of the given speed and a measurement of infusion level of the additives from the modifying fluid in the linear substrate exiting the exposure gap, wherein adjusting the length of the exposure gap based on the acceleration of the linear substrate from the given speed comprises:
- increasing the length of the exposure gap with an increase in the acceleration of the of the linear substrate from the given speed;
- and
- decreasing the length of the exposure gap with a decrease in the acceleration of the of the linear substrate from the given speed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.