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US 8,075,941 B2Granted
Method and arrangement in coating line
AssigneeNextrom Oy
InventorsTimo Hietaranta, Jari Nykänen
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InventorsTimo Hietaranta, Jari Nykänen
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The invention relates to a method and an arrangement in a coating line, in which a fibre (2) is uncoiled from a fibre start (1) by means of a pulling device (5) to an extrusion head (3) that comprises a die part (7) and a torpedo part, by means of which on the surface of a primary coated fibre there is arranged a buffer layer which is in tight contact with the primary coated fibre, and in which method the tightly coated fibre is cooled downstream of the extrusion head (3) in a predetermined manner. First there is determined a target value for line tension by means of the correlation between a line tension and a force required for stripping a buffer layer and the line tension between the extrusion head (3) and the pulling device (5) is measured. The obtained measurement data is compared with the target value to be obtained by means of the correlation between the line tension and the force required for stripping the buffer layer and the position of the die part (7) and/or the torpedo part of the extrusion head (3) is adjusted in the axial direction of the fibre such that the measurement value to be obtained from the line tension measurement attains the target value.
A method in a coating line, in which a fibre is uncoiled from a fibre start by means of a pulling device to an extrusion head that comprises a die part and a torpedo part, by means of which on the surface of a primary coated fibre there is arranged a buffer layer which is in tight contact with the primary coated fibre, and in which method the tightly coated fibre is cooled downstream of the extrusion head in a predetermined manner, the method comprising the following steps:
An arrangement in a coating line, in which a fibre is arranged for being uncoiled from a fibre start by means of a pulling device to an extrusion head that comprises a die part and a torpedo part, which are arranged to apply a buffer layer on the surface of a primary coated fibre, which buffer layer is in tight contact with the primary coated fibre, and in which production line the tightly coated fibre is arranged for being cooled downstream of the extrusion head in a predetermined manner and which production line comprises means for measuring the line tension between the extrusion head and the pulling means, the arrangement further comprising a control unit that is arranged to adjust the position of the die part and/or the torpedo part of the extrusion head in the axial direction of the fibre on the basis of the measurement data obtained from the means measuring the line tension and the target value obtained by means of the correlation between the known line tension and the stripping force.
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