1. Field of Invention
The invention concerns a process for the preparation of sheets, that contains the following characteristics of the process:
2. Description of the Prior Art
Processes of this kind are used usually in connection with tubular film extrusion plants. Often a film tube is extruded, laid flat, squeezed and subsequently fed to a winding equipment. It is particularly mentionable that the tubular film sheet usually runs through a so-called reversing device after the squeezing.
All afore-mentioned functional units are known in published form. Thus e.g. the DE 100 40 055 lays claim to such a reversing device and also shows the associated squeezing and lay-flat (flattening) devices.
In order to transform the film tube into film sheets one uses different types of cut-off devices that are attached to the winding equipment and transform the tubes into film sheets immediately before the beginning of the winding process. Usually for this purpose trimming sections are arranged at both the edges of the collapsed film tube. This process however results in a lot of wastage. Since modern standard procedures however allow for an exact adjustment of the diameter of the extruded tubular film and the breadth of the collapsed film tube, in many cases a trimming section is not used. Instead of that cleavers are attached to the winding equipments that slit open the collapsed tubular sheet directly at its edges and thus avoid unnecessary wastage.
This type of the production of sheets from film tubes is however not suited for thin sensitive or sticky films. These films are affected by the action of the cleaver on the collapsed film tube. Films of the aforementioned type are thus still prepared with the help of trimming sections that are put on the film after the film has run through the reversing device.
Therefore the task of the present invention is to suggest a process that makes trimming sections redundant and contains the costs of the device.
The task is solved by the fact
Through this measure the aforesaid cut-off device can cut the film tube while air is still present in the film bubble, so that no damage of the interior surface of the film tube occurs when the blade cuts through the film and interpositions in the internal space of the film tube.
Further preferential design forms of the process for the production of sheets have a reversing device that reverses the sheets that result from the cutting process, as they lie flat on each other.
In the production of bonding films it is particularly advantageous if the sticky film layer forms the outer circumference of the extruded film tube. In this way the sticking of both the sheets is avoided particularly during their common transport through the reversing device.
Further design forms of the invention are based on the drawings and the graphic description.
The individual figures illustrate:
The
In the conveying direction z the development of the tube is described as follows:
The film tube 1 that is extruded from a tubular film extrusion unit (not illustrated in the figure) usually has a circular profile. A flattening device 2 is attached in the transfer direction z. This flattening device 2 compresses the profile successively from two opposite sides. Behind the flattening device 2 the film tube 1 is led through a presqueezing device 6. The associated pre-nip rollers 16 and 26 are distanced from one another such that the straight sides of the film tube 1 do not lie on each other yet. An air cushion remains in the film tube 1 through the squeezing process that is not yet complete. The figure also illustrates an attachment of two cut-off devices 4, 5. These cut-off devices 4, 5 each contain a blade 8. The blades 8 are attached to the machine frame in a manner that is not illustrated more elaborately in the figure. These blades 8 are arranged such that they slit open the film tube 1 at its end roundings. In the further course of the process the sheets 7, 17 resulting from the slitting run through the squeezing device 3 that consist of two nip rollers 13, 23. This device serves to press both the sheets 7, 17 flatly on each other and thus prevent the inclusion of air between both the sheets 7, 17. For the purpose of clarification the sheets 7, 17 are illustrated in
A suitable reversing device is described in detail in e.g. the published documents DE 100 40 055 A1. The common leading of both the films lying on each other into a reversing device is basically also possible in another reversing device.
The side view of the device in accordance with the invention illustrated in
The devices illustrated in the figures disclose a particularly advantageous method to cut the film tube 1 before reaching the squeezing device 3. However it is also possible to cut the film tube before the squeezing device 3 without providing a presqueezing device 6.
At this juncture it should be mentioned once again that
Moreover it must be emphasized once again that reversing devices with differing numbers on deflecting rollers 102, 104 and air turning bars 103, 105 are also known. In this connection reference is made once again to published documents such as the DE 100 40 055, DE 43 03 952 or EP 0 873 845.
Particularly advantageous are reversing devices whereby one turning bar and one deflecting roller form a functional pair. In such functional pairs one deflecting roller and one turning bar carry out a reversing movement that takes place in relation to an axis that runs orthogonal to the rotational position of the deflecting roller around its axis of main symmetry. By all rules this axis is vertical and aligned with it in the main conveying direction of the film. Reversing devices with one, two or even three functional pairs are known. The word functional pair and its meaning for the described reversing devices are explained in the application DE 100 40 055.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
102 43 958 | Sep 2002 | DE | national |
This application is a continuation application of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/524,558, filed Feb. 14, 2005 now abandoned, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein. The predecessor application, U.S. application Ser. No. 10/524,558, is a nationalization of PCT/EP03/010345 filed Sep. 12, 2003, and published in German.
Number | Name | Date | Kind |
---|---|---|---|
3061875 | Gerow | Nov 1962 | A |
4115048 | Alderfer et al. | Sep 1978 | A |
4270891 | Hopper | Jun 1981 | A |
5437544 | Achelpohl | Aug 1995 | A |
6705980 | Hoene et al. | Mar 2004 | B2 |
20020012785 | Leduc | Jan 2002 | A1 |
20020048617 | Hoene et al. | Apr 2002 | A1 |
Number | Date | Country |
---|---|---|
43 03 952 | Jun 1994 | DE |
19501668 | Feb 1996 | DE |
296 21 374 | Mar 1997 | DE |
100 40 055 | Mar 2002 | DE |
0 813 169 | Dec 1997 | EP |
Number | Date | Country | |
---|---|---|---|
20110001276 A1 | Jan 2011 | US |
Number | Date | Country | |
---|---|---|---|
Parent | 10524558 | US | |
Child | 12801727 | US |