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Title:
押出し成形製品の冷却方法及び厚さ制御方法
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JP3605114
Kind Code:
B2
Abstract:
Automatic thickness profiling for use in blown film and other extrusion lines. The automatic system is integrated into an air cooling ring device either external and/or internal to the bubble or extrusion. It comprises one or more high resolution circumferentially variable annular air outlets which act to cool the molten resin in a circumferentially variable way. Thin slide plates remain fixed in place except when adjusted to open or close the local annular air outlet by the action of at least one scanning actuator. The actuator is positioned by control signals generated by a control computer which calculates the appropriate local dimension of the variable air outlet in response to circumferential position correlated with thickness variations detected by a film thickness sensor. The film thickness above the frost line is mechanically scanned around the extrusion. In the case of making blown products with internal cooling, counteracting adjustments are made as local flow areas of the internal cooling device are changed to maintain constant the entrapped air volume. The novel actuation system is also shown to be useful in locally adjusting a finely segmented air lip. A method of correlating thickness changes with respective cooling zones is also disclosed.

Inventors:
Cree, Robert Y
Application Number:
JP51580195A
Publication Date:
December 22, 2004
Filing Date:
December 01, 1994
Export Citation:
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Assignee:
ADEX Incorporated
International Classes:
B29C48/10; B29C48/92; B29C55/28; B29L7/00; (IPC1-7): B29C47/88; B29C47/92; B29C55/28
Domestic Patent References:
JP6031804A
JP4270632A
JP3150128A
JP2084317A
JP1317743A
JP1314135A
JP56099628A
JP54155260A
JP47111711A
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Kazuo Shamoto
Shosuke Imai
Tadashi Masui
Tadahiko Kurita
Yasushi Kobayashi
Fujihiro Kanda