Abstract: A method and an apparatus (1) are used to detect the position of the edge (2) of a moving product web (3). The apparatus (1) has piezoelectric elements (5), which firstly output ultrasonic pulses (10) and secondly pick them up and convert them into an electrical signal. The product web (3) is arranged between the piezoelectric elements (5) and a reflector (11) for this purpose. If the product web (3) is located in the measurement range of the piezoelectric element (5), it attenuates the ultrasonic pulses as a result of reflection or absorption during the double passage of the latter. The position of the product web edge (2) is calculated from this attenuation.

Abstract: A device (5) for swinging a roll (4) for a moving web (15) consists of a shaft (6) extending through the roll (4), with provision made for gearings (7, 8) on the ends of said shaft. A servo-drive (10) engages the gearing (7), putting the shaft (6) into rotation and displacing its end (9). Gearing (8) on the counter end (12) of the roll (4) translates the rotary motion of the shaft (6) into a motion of thrust of the counter end (12) in the opposite sense, so that shaft (6) is swiveled by the single servo-drive (10) around its central point (13). Roll (4) is rotatably supported on shaft (6) and is jointly swiveled with the latter (FIG. 1).

Abstract: A process and apparatus for guiding and keeping a material web spread out uses a spreading roll and with contact pressure elements and a control member controlled by a control system monitors the control path in a way such that the spacing of the contact pressure elements from the spreading roll is varied. Because of the advantages that the control path has in the present case, a rapid and stable control of the position of the material web is assured. This is advantageous especially in connection with highly sensitive material webs such as, for example, wide-meshed textile webs.

Abstract: For guiding webs of paper or cardboard, a guide cylinder extending across half of the web grips onto the surface of the web and achieves moving corrections on the webs by rotation or swinging. The long, linear support zone of the guide cylinder causes a high mechanical stress, whereby the guide cylinder exerts almost no corrective effect in its center zone. By dividing the guide cylinder into at least two spaced-apart, parallel guide rolls having their axes disposed perpendicular to the running direction of the material web, a suitable larger effective area is obtained for correction of the direction of movement.

Abstract: An process for controlling the force exerted on a moving web of material, including a batten roller having an adjustable drive and a fixing roller having a pressure sensor. An amplifier is coupled between the pressure sensor and the adjustable drive. A web pulling device pulls the web in a downstream direction across the batten roller and the fixing roller. The pressure sensor generates a first signal representing the tensile force on the web as it passes the fixing roller. The first signal is amplified to provide a control signal to the drive for adjusting the speed of the batten roll.

Abstract: A profiled rod for a web-spreading roller has an elongated basic body of approximately C-shaped cross section with holding legs on both sides and with a friction-grip elastic support on its back. The support is fastened to an intermediate support made of stiffer material than the support itself and the intermediate support is pushed lengthwise onto the basic body and detachably fastened to its back and holding legs with a clamping claw.

Abstract: An edge sensor for a moving web of material includes an elongated light source on which is mounted a receiver containing an active receiver element made of a plastics material with light-absorbing properties. The receiver element comprises an elongated light input surface and at least one light exist on which a light detector is provided. The receiver element is an elongated hollow body made of a light-absorbing plastics material which is supported directly in the receiver in such a way that is light input surface is directly exposed to the light from the light source which falls on the web. A hollow body which is, or can be made, self-supporting directly and without accessories results in a simpler structure and optimal use of light. The hollow body is particularly suitable for use in the tube supports of a standard commercial fluorescent tube housing.

Abstract: A roll changer for delivering a web of material has, for edge-aligned connection of the trailing end of a delivered web with the leading end of the web from a new roll, in addition to the web edge-sensor controlling the position of the delivery roll during such delivery, a roll sensor responsive to the position of the edge of the outermost turn of the new roll, adjusting the axial position of the new roll. The sensors are switched to the respective controllers upon rotation of the roll turret to deliver a new roll to the waiting position.

Abstract: A process and device for determining the location of at least one edge of a moving web within a measurement zone and in which a linear array of liquid crystal light modulators is interposed between a light source and a light receiver extending transversely to the edge along a scanning zone while a controller successively activates the light modulators to scan a transparent surface zone along the measurement zone. The point at which light is last received (because of obstruction by the edge) or the first received in a pass (because of lack of obstruction by the edge) at the receiver from the source through the scanning transparent zone is used as the measure of the location of the edge.

Abstract: An apparatus for guiding and spreading a textile web comprising spreading rollers extending across the full width of the web and mounted on a unit in the support for the spreading rollers, pairs of fingerlike guide rollers which can be inclined toward one another in the direction of travel of the web. The holders and the two pairs of guide rollers can be moved together and apart by a threaded spindle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of guiding a web of paper or foil material in a web-guiding device, such web having print marks applied to it at least over stretches of the web, as well as to such a web-guiding device with a correcting device, the latter being adjustable when the center of the web runs off course and with a controlling system connected to an edge-sensing system, whereby the position of the print marks relative to an imaginary guide line is controllable over stretches of the web carrying print marks, and additional correction relating to the latter can be made, if required. According to the invention, print marks signals are produced by means of a print mark sensor and linked with the correction signals of the edge-sensing system, with priority of the print mark signals.

Abstract: An electronic control and regulation device for a machine or like apparatus has a plurality of printed circuit boards in a housing, each of the printed circuit boards having interconnected analog and digital circuitry with respective analog and digital terminals. The analog and digital terminals of all of the boards are interconnected respectively by analog and digital conductor bundles, the analog conductor bundle running to the machine or apparatus to be controlled, and serving as well to supply the electric current to the analog part of each printed circuit board.

Abstract: There is disclosed a device for guiding and spreading out a moving material web, which includes a spreading station, a guide station and at least one edge-sensing system downstream from the guide station. The spreading station is arranged downstream from the guide station, so that very high web speeds can be realized because the web corrections are executed very gently and without whipping up the correcting pulses.

Abstract: A photo-electric scanning device 1, with tubular housings 2, 3 with light source 15 and receiving element 16 and 17, respectively, arranged transversely and enclosing a web between them. The receiving element 17 cooperates with the light source 15 either according to the reflection principle or the light barrier principle. For light source 15 two receiving elements 16, 17 are provided which are capable of being actuated, of which either the first 16 cooperates with the light source 15 according to the reflection principle or the second 17 according to the light barrier principle. The first receiver 16 is closer to the light source 15 than the second receiving element 17. In this manner, operation is continuous with both receiving elements 16, 17.

Abstract: A control system is used in combination with a tilt-box arrangement for controlling the transverse displacement of a web and having a stationary support frame and a roller frame pivotal on the support frame about a frame axis and carrying at least one roller rotatable about a roller axis transverse to the frame axis. The web is engaged over the roller and moves in a transport direction transverse to the frame axis and to the roller axis. A drive is connected between the support and roller frames and operates to pivotally displace the roller frame in opposite angular directions from a center position with the roll axis perpendicular to the transport direction toward respective end positions and thereby laterally deflect the web engaged by the roller.

Abstract: A marking system for a textile web in production comprises a heat-, water-, and chemical-resistant substrate layer having a front and back face, pigment forming indicia carried on the front face of the layer, and a heat-, water-, and chemical-resistant cover layer formed of a transparent and flexible synthetic resin and embedding the substrate layer and pigment at least over the front face thereof. The cover layer is bonded to the web. The cover layer secures the indicia on the substrate layer and the latter on the web. The pigment is printed on the front face of the substrate which itself is made of glass fibers. The substrate layer is provided on its rear face with a layer bonding it to the web. The bonding layer in turn can be an adhesive, or can be of the same water-, chemical-, and heat-resistant material as the cover layer.