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US 7,279,045 B2Granted
Apparatus for wetting a running filament strand
AssigneeSaurer GmbH & Co. KG
InventorMatthias Strebe
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Abstract
An apparatus for wetting an advancing filament bundle. A fluid is applied by means of a nozzle in the form of a fluid spray jet to the filament bundle advancing in spaced relationship with the nozzle. A portion of the spray jet is shielded before impacting upon the filament bundle, so that the application of fluid to the filament bundle is determined by the degree of shielding of the spray jet. With that, the invention is adapted for finely adjusting the fluid application to the filament bundle.
Claims12
An apparatus for wetting an advancing filament bundle, comprising
- a spray box which includes an inlet and an outlet for guiding the advance of a filament bundle therethrough,
- a nozzle mounted within the spray box in spaced relation to the advancing filament bundle, with the nozzle being connected to a source of fluid and located to direct a fluid spray jet toward the filament bundle,
- a shielding member arranged in the spray box between the nozzle and the advancing filament bundle, such that the fluid spray jet produced by the nozzle is partially shielded and impacts only in part upon the filament bundle,
- an actuator for performing a movement of the shielding member relative to the nozzle, or for performing a movement of the nozzle relative to the shielding member, and a control unit connected to the actuator for controlling the movement performed by the actuator and thus controlling the amount of the fluid applied to the filament bundle, and
- a sensor for sensing the speed of advance of the filament bundle, with said sensor being coupled to the control unit, and with said control unit being configured to signal the actuator as a function of the sensed speed so that the actuator maintains a substantially constant application of fluid to the filament bundle at varying speeds.
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An apparatus for wetting an advancing filament bundle, comprising
- a spray box which includes an inlet and an outlet for guiding the advance of a filament bundle therethrough,
- a nozzle mounted within the spray box in spaced relation to the advancing filament bundle, with the nozzle being connected to a source of fluid and located to direct a fluid spray jet toward the filament bundle,
- a shielding member arranged in the spray box between the nozzle and the advancing filament bundle, such that the fluid spray jet produced by the nozzle is partially shielded and impacts only in part upon the filament bundle, and
- an actuator for performing a movement of the shielding member relative to the nozzle, or for performing a movement of the nozzle relative to the shielding member, and a control unit connected to the actuator for controlling the movement performed by the actuator and thus controlling the amount of the fluid applied to the filament bundle, and
- wherein the spray box connects via a return flow line to a tank, and a measuring unit is provided for determining the fluid quantity that is returned to the tank through the return flow line.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.