Device and Method for Controlling the Fixation of an In-Line Thread Treatment
AssigneeInventech Europe AB
InventorsMartin Eklind, Joakim Staberg
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Abstract
A method and device for controlling the fixation of a treatment material being applied to a thread during a thread treatment process are disclosed. The method comprises performing a thread treatment process, forming part of the thread consuming process, by: i) applying a treatment material to the thread; and ii) applying an amount of energy to the thread to at least partly fix the applied treatment material to the thread; wherein the method further comprises controlling the amount of energy being applied to the thread as a response to a detected operational status of the in-line thread consuming process.
Claims20
-31. (canceled)
A method for controlling the fixation of a treatment material being applied to a thread during a continuous in-line thread consuming process, the method comprising:
- performing a thread treatment process, forming part of the thread consuming process, by:
- i) applying a treatment material to the thread;
- and
- ii) applying an amount of energy to the thread to at least partly fix the applied treatment material to the thread;
- wherein the method further comprises
- controlling the amount of energy being applied to the thread as a response to a detected operational status of the in-line thread consuming process.
A thread treatment device for use with an associated continuous in-line thread consuming device, the thread treatment device comprising:
- a treatment unit configured to apply a treatment material to the thread;
- a fixation unit configured to apply an amount of energy to the thread to at least partly fix the applied treatment material to the thread;
- and
- a control unit configured to control the amount of energy being applied to the thread as a response to a detected operational status of the associated in-line thread consuming process.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.