Method and apparatus for determining blowout in a corrugation
AssigneeGreif Packaging LLC
InventorsDavid W. Casey, Gregg A. Bryan, Karl U. Wuerminghausen
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Abstract
A corrugator includes a separation sensor for sensing separation of a corrugated medium and liner of a corrugated paperboard. Sensing the separation, also known as blowout or fluff out, allows the corrugator to be controlled to prevent problems which arise when corrugated paperboard having such a separation continues downstream along the corrugator. Typically, the corrugator is operated to cease downstream movement of the paperboard while a faulty segment which includes the separation is removed and the problem causing the separation is fixed, thereby providing for subsequent production of corrugated paperboard which is properly glued.
Claims18
A method comprising the steps of:
- gluing a corrugated medium to a liner as the medium and liner are moving downstream through a corrugator to form a corrugated paperboard;
- wherein the corrugated medium has opposed side edges and the liner has opposed side edges;
- and the corrugated paperboard has opposed first and second flat sides which face away from one another and define therebetween a thickness of the corrugated paperboard;
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- sensing with at least one ultrasonic separation sensor a separation of the glued medium and liner from one another;
- wherein the at least one ultrasonic separation sensor is intermediate the side edges of the corrugated medium and intermediate the side edges of the liner throughout the downstream movement of the corrugated medium and liner;
- and the at least one ultrasonic separation sensor comprises a sending unit and a receiving unit which are on opposite sides of the corrugated paperboard whereby the first flat side of the corrugated paperboard faces the sending unit and the second flat side of the corrugated paperboard faces the receiving unit so that the corrugated medium and liner pass directly between the sending unit and receiving unit throughout downstream movement of the corrugated paperboard through the corrugator;
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- wherein the step of sensing comprises producing ultrasonic sensing waves with the sending unit and transmitting the ultrasonic sensing waves to the receiving unit through the corrugated paperboard so that the ultrasonic sensing waves pass through the corrugated medium and liner throughout downstream movement of the corrugated paperboard through the corrugator.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.