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.
Claims21
-20. (canceled)
A method for modifying an aspect of a linear substrate within a device filled with a modifying fluid, the method comprising:
- providing the device filled with the modifying fluid;
- receiving the linear substrate at a feed speed;
- traversing the linear substrate through the device at a given speed, wherein when traversing through the device, the linear substrate is in a fluid communication with the modifying fluid;
- defining an exposure length of the linear substrate as a length of the linear substrate that is in the fluid communication with the modifying fluid in the device;
- and
- adjusting the exposure length of the linear substrate based on the feed speed and an exposure time.
A method for modifying an aspect of a linear substrate extended through a device filled with a modifying fluid, the method comprising:
- providing a device filled with a modifying fluid;
- extending a linear substrate through the device;
- defining an exposure length of the linear substrate within the device, the exposure length comprising a length of the linear substrate that is in the fluid communication with the modifying fluid in the device;
- traversing the linear substrate in the device;
- maintaining a constant exposure time for the linear substrate with the modifying fluid while traversing.
A system for modifying an aspect of a linear substrate with a modifying fluid, the system comprising:
- a device filled with the modifying fluid;
- and
- a substrate delivery mechanism to:
- receive the linear substrate at a feed speed,
- provide the linear substrate to the device, wherein the linear substrate traverses through the device at a given speed, and wherein when traversing through the device, the linear substrate is in a fluid communication with the modifying fluid,
- wherein an exposure length of the linear substrate is defined as a length of the linear substrate that is in the fluid communication with the modifying fluid in the device, and
- wherein the exposure length of the linear substrate is adjusted based on the feed speed to maintain a constant exposure time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.