Abstract: The device for the optical detection of the lateral position of features on the surface of traveling material webs has an optical imaging system including an objective lens (14) and light-sensitive receiver elements (16) arranged in a line and two illumination devices for illuminating the detection area (7), the first (20) of which is arranged in such a way that light beams of variable color emitted by it do not arrive at the imaging system by mirror reflection, while the second is composed of a punctiform light source (10) and a focusing lens (12; 13) that are arranged and disposed in such a way that beams emitted by it converge after mirror reflection on the detection area (7) in the lens (14) of the imaging system.

Abstract: A bridge of a corrugating machine controls corrugated fiberboard single-face webs fed from single-face corrugating machines. The bridge comprising a stored web supply formed by the bottom-most of the single-face webs, the stored web supply loosely-lying; a fixed guide element introducing a first reversal of direction of the web in the direction opposite a course of fabrication; a fixed redirecting element; a redirecting roller mounted in a frame swivelable about a vertical axis, the redirecting roller cooperating with the fixed redirecting element to cause a second reversal of direction of the web back in the direction of the course of fabrication, wherein the redirecting roller is disposed above the fixed redirecting element such that a web course section is created running parallel to the swivel axis; and a steering frame having a braking roller feeding the web to a preheating station, the braking roller creates a desired web tension load.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the contactless detection of the position of a moving webs. The web has on one side of the web a detector electrode covering its entire width and on the other side in the area of the web edges transmission electrodes fed by an oscillator in phase opposition, so that the capacitive couplings between the transmission electrodes and the detector electrode respond in opposing fashion to deviations of the web from the central position. The signal received by the detector electrode is processed by a current to voltage converter with a very small input impedance so that the potential of the detector electrode remains at zero, and virtually no capacitive displacement currents flow to a screening electrode In this way, the sensitivity of the measurement array is independent of the web width.

Abstract: A sensor device for a noncontact sensor for the control of moving strips of conductive material. One or more detector electrodes are capacitively coupled to a counterelement. An oscillator governs this coupling and forms two coupling fields at the two edges of the strip. Lateral movement of the strip interacts with the two coupling fields. The at least one detector electrode is embraced by at least one shielding electrode, the shielding electrode being coupled through an amplifier of unity gain factor in such a manner to the at least one detector electrode that the potential of the at least one shielding electrode follows the potential of the detector electrode.