Tensioning control device

• US 10,220,973 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2016
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Becton, Dickinson & Co
• Original Assignee: Becton, Dickinson & Co
• Inventors: Gisler, Scott William, McNeill, Philip C., Verma, Kaushal
• Primary Examiner(s): Gray, Linda L
• Application Number:
  US15/299,796
• Publication Number:
  US 20170036800A1
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 15/16 Means for tensioning or winding the web
• CPC Class Codes: B41J 3/4075 Tape printers; Label printers
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 3/08 to container bodies B65C3/065 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 3/16 by rolling the labels onto cylindrical containers, e.g. bottles
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 9/42 Label feed control
• CPC Class Codes: B65C 9/46 Applying date marks, code marks, or the like, to the label during labelling manually-controlled or operable apparatus having printing equipment B65C11/02; ticket printing and issuing G07B1/00 ; apparatus for ticket validating or cancelling G07B11/00
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 23/1806 in reel-to-reel type web winding and unwinding mechanism, e.g. mechanism acting on web-roll spindle
• CPC Class Codes: B65H 2801/75 Labelling machines

Abstract

A tensioning control device having a first motor that applies a torque to a first end of a substrate in a first direction and a second motor that applies a torque to a second end of the substrate in a second direction that is generally opposite the first direction is disclosed. In this manner, the first motor and the second motor apply torque to the substrate in opposing directions, thereby placing the substrate in tension. In one embodiment, the first motor applies a torque to the first end of the substrate that is equal to the torque applied to the second end of the substrate by the second motor. By placing the substrate in tension in this manner, an actuator is able to incrementally move the substrate in a forward direction and a backward direction independent of the tension applied to the substrate.

Claims

1. A tensioning control device for tensioning a substrate, the tensioning control device comprising:

a printer configured to print onto a portion of the substrate;

a first motor applying a first torque to a first end of the substrate in a first direction; and

a second motor applying a second torque to an opposing second end of the same substrate in a second direction, the second direction generally opposite the first direction thereby placing the substrate in tension.

2. The tensioning control device of claim 1, wherein the first torque applied to the first end of the substrate is equal to the second torque applied to the opposing second end of the substrate.

3. The tensioning control device of claim 1, further comprising an actuator adapted to move the substrate in a forward direction and a backward direction.

4. The tensioning control device of claim 3, wherein the actuator is adapted to move the substrate in the forward direction and the backward direction independent of the tension applied to the substrate.

5. The tensioning control device of claim 3, wherein the actuator is adapted to move the substrate by predetermined increments.

6. The tensioning control device of claim 1, wherein the substrate is configured to include a label and configured to be applied to a syringe.

7. The tensioning control device of claim 6, wherein the label includes information relating to the syringe or contents contained within the syringe.