Transport speed control system for glass annealing installation
AssigneeNippon Sheet Glass Co., Ltd.
InventorsNaotomo Akashi, Takeshi Yokokawa, Katsuaki Ninomiya, Harumi Shima, Takeshi Horiguchi
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Abstract
A transport speed control system for a glass ribbon annealing installation comprising means to control a peripheral drive speed of those of glass ribbon transporting rollers which contact a portion of the glass ribbon at positions downstream of at least a substantially mid-position of the glass ribbon with respect to a direction of transport, to be higher than an advancing speed of that portion of the glass ribbon.
Claims6
A transport speed control system for a glass ribbon annealing installation comprising:
- a plurality of glass transport rollers juxtaposed in a glass ribbon annealing lehr, each of said plurality of rollers having a peripheral surface;
- drive means for driving said rollers;
- said plurality of rollers being divided into a plurality of groups;
- means for sensing the speed of rotation of said peripheral surface of each of said rollers resulting from the effects of thermal expansion, salt caking and eccentricity of each of said groups of rollers;
- means for selectively controlling the circumferential drive speed of each of said plurality of groups of rollers in response to a signal from said sensing means;
- said control means controlling said drive means for driving at higher speeds those groups of rollers which contact a portion of said glass ribbon at a position downstream of a least the mid-position of said glass ribbon with respect to a direction of transport;
- said control means controlling said drive means for driving at lower speeds those groups of rollers which contact a portion of said glass ribbon at a position upstream of said mid-position of said ribbon;
- said control means controlling the speed difference between said higher speed rollers and said lower speed rollers to prevent any abrasion from occuring on the surface of said glass ribbon;
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- said control means further controlling said difference in roller speeds to accomodate thermal expansion and eccentricity of said rollers and of adhesion thereto of salt cakes.
A transport speed control system for a glass ribbon annealing installation comprising:
- a plurality of glass transport rollers juxtaposed in a glass ribbon annealing lehr, each of said plurality of rollers having a peripheral surface;
- drive means for driving said rollers;
- said plurality of rollers being divided into a plurality of groups;
- means for sensing the speed of rotation of said peripheral surface of each of said rollers resulting from the effects of thermal expansion, salt caking and eccentricity of each of said groups of collers;
- means for selectively controlling the circumferential drive speed of each of said plurality of groups of rollers in response to a signal from said sensing means;
- said control means controlling said drive means for driving at higher speeds those groups of rollers which control a portion of said glass ribbon at a position downstream of at least the mid-position of said glass ribbon with respect to a direction of transport;
- said control means controlling said drive means for driving at lower circumference speeds those groups of rollers which contact a portion of said glass ribbon at a position upstream of said mid-position of said ribbon;
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- said groups of rollers juxtaposed on said lehr including an initial upstream group and a final downstream group and intermediate groups therebetween;
- each of said groups of rollers having a circumferential speed which is different from its adjacent group of rollers, said initial group of rollers having the slowest speed and said final downstream group of rollers having the fastest speed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.