Adjusting rolls
AssigneeVoith Patent GmbH
InventorsJosé Luiz Campos Souza, Marc Erkelenz, Torben Beckmann
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for adjusting a suction roll. The method includes: recording images and/or videos of the exterior of the roll and transmitting the recording to a computing unit; determining the actual values of the position of the sealing strips and/or edge deckles and/or other, non-visible components by the computing unit through image analysis of the image and/or video recording of the exterior of the roll and/or by acquiring values from an embedded sensor system; and displaying the determined actual values by superimposing the position of the non-visible components on a display with the image and/or video recording.
Claims6
A method for adjusting a suction roll, in which the suction roll includes a marker for a position of sealing strips, the method comprising:
- recording images and/or videos of an exterior of the suction roll, including the marker, and transmitting the recording to a computing unit;
- performing image analysis on the recorded images and/or videos of the exterior of the suction roll to determine, in the computing unit, actual values of the position of the sealing strips within the suction roll and/or a position of edge deckles within the suction roll and/or a position of other, non-visible components within the suction roll;
- superimposing over a display of the recorded images and/or videos of the exterior of the suction roll images of the determined actual values of the position of the sealing strips within the suction roll and/or the position of the edge deckles within the suction roll and/or the position of the other, non-visible components within the suction roll;
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- using the superimposed images of the determined actual values of the position of the sealing strips within the suction roll and/or the position of the edge deckles within the suction roll and/or the position of the other, non-visible components within the suction roll over the display of the recorded images and/or videos of the exterior of the suction roll and the marker as a reference for adjusting the position of at least one of the sealing strips and/or the edge deckles and/or the other, non-visible components within the suction roll.
An apparatus for adjusting a suction roll, in which the suction roll includes a marker for a position of sealing strips comprising:
- a camera for recording images and/or video recordings of an exterior of the suction roll and the marker;
- a computing unit;
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- a display,
- wherein the camera is coupled to the computing unit to transmit the image and/or video recordings of the exterior of the suction roll to the computing unit, and
- wherein the computing unit is configured to:
- perform image analysis of the recorded images and/or videos of the exterior of the suction roll and the marker from the camera to determine actual values of the position of the sealing strips within the suction roll and/or a position of edge deckles within the suction roll and/or a position of other, non-visible components within the suction roll, and
- superimpose over a display of the recorded images and/or videos of the exterior of the suction roll the determined actual values of the position of the sealing strips within the suction roll and/or the position of the edge deckles within the suction roll and/or the position of the other, non-visible components within the suction roll, and wherein the superimposed images of the determined actual values of the position of the sealing strips within the suction roll and/or the position of the edge deckles within the suction roll and/or the position of the other, non-visible components within the suction roll over the display of the recorded images and/or videos of the exterior of the suction roll and marker from the camera are usable as a reference for adjusting the position of the sealing strips within the suction roll and/or the position of the edge deckles within the suction roll and/or the position of the other, non-visible components within the suction roll to an optimal position for operation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.