Laminating machine, and a method for laminating sheets of a material
AssigneeKoenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsPhilipp MECKELEIN, Michael SCHELLER
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Abstract
A laminating machine has at least one material source, configured as a sheet feeder, for sheets of a material to be laminated. The laminating machine also has at least one imbricating device for arranging un-laminated sheets in an imbricated manner with respect to one another. The laminating machine further has at least one laminating unit for producing a laminated material web from the sheets. At least one thickness control device is arranged in a transport path which is provided for the laminated material web downstream of the at least one laminating unit. A control region of the thickness control device intersects, at least partially, with the transport path which is provided for the laminated material web.
Claims16
1-30. (canceled)
A laminating machine (01), wherein the laminating machine (01) has at least one material source (100) for sheets (03) of a material (02) to be laminated, configured as a sheet feeder (100), and wherein the laminating machine (01) has at least one shingling unit (200;
- 206;
- 207;
- 208) for placing non-laminated sheets (03) in a shingled arrangement relative to one another, and wherein the laminating machine (01) has at least one laminating unit (310) for producing a laminated material web (02) from the sheets (03), characterized in that downstream of the at least one laminating unit (310) along a transport path provided for the laminated material web (02), at least one thickness monitoring device (354) is provided, the monitoring zone of which overlaps at least partially with the transport path provided for the laminated material web (02).
A method for laminating sheets (03) of a material (02) by means of a laminating machine (01), wherein the sheets (03) are moved by means of a shingling unit (200;
- 206;
- 207;
- 208) into a position in which they overlap one another only partially, and wherein the sheets (03) are fed to a laminating unit (310) of the laminating machine (01), where they are laminated in the mutually overlapping position by bonding to at least one laminating material (321;
- 331), and are joined to form a laminated material web (02), and wherein the thickness of the laminated material web (02) is monitored by means of a thickness monitoring device (354), and wherein, if the thickness of the laminated material web (02) is greater than the anticipated thickness, the thickness monitoring device (354) sends at least one thickness signal, characterizing said thickness that is greater than the anticipated thickness of the laminated material web (02), to a machine controller of the laminating machine (01).
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.