Multi-layer arrangement of a tubular net on a support tube, and device and method for obtaining same
AssigneeViscofan, S.A.
InventorJuan Luis Arias Lopez
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Abstract
A multi-layer arrangement of a tubular net is first positioned on a transfer tube. A toothed loader is used to slide the net along the outside of the transfer tube, to an end zone thereof which is slightly conical. When the net reaches the end zone, it falls onto a support tube in an arrangement of concentric layers. In this way, the outer layers of the loaded net have a maximum diameter equal to that of the transfer tube while the inner diameter of the loaded net, which corresponds to the outer diameter of the support tube, is less than the maximum diameter of the stretched net.
Claims12
A tubular net arrangement comprising:
- a tubular net having a multiplicity of successive folded concentric layers, each layer having an inner diameter and an outer diameter;
- a support tube having a support tube diameter that is less than a maximum stretch diameter of the tubular net, the layers folded one next to the other on the support tube;
- a transfer tube associated with said support tube and having a transfer tube diameter that is greater than the support tube diameter, the outer diameter of the layers being at most equal to the transfer tube diameter, and the transfer tube being adapted to receive the tubular net outside the transfer tube, to form the multiplicity of successive concentric layers when the tubular net is transferred from the transfer tube and is folded onto the support tube;
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- the inner diameter of each layer being adjacent the support tube and being equal to the support tube diameter, and the outer diameter of each layer being spaced away from the support tube and being greater than the support tube diameter.
A tubular net arrangement comprising:
- a tubular net having a multiplicity of successive folded concentric layers, each layer having an inner diameter and a larger outer diameter and being folded one next to the other, the inner diameter being less than a maximum stretch diameter of the tubular net.
A tubular net arrangement made by the process comprising:
- placing a tubular net on an outside of a transfer tube having a transfer tube diameter and an end;
- inserting a support tube coaxially inside the transfer tube, the support tube having a support tube diameter that is smaller than the transfer tube diameter;
- moving the tubular net off the transfer tube and past the end of the transfer tube to fold the tubular net onto the support tube in the form of a multiplicity of successive concentric layers on the support tube;
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- moving the transfer tube relative to the support tube to expose the support tube as the layers are formed on the support tube;
- the successive folded concentric layers each having an inner diameter and an outer diameter, the inner diameter of each layer being adjacent the support tube and being equal to the support tube diameter, and the outer diameter of each layer being spaced away from the support tube and being greater than the support tube diameter and at most equal to the transfer tube diameter.
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