Device and method for regulating the tension of a running web

• US 7,059,984 B2
• Filed: 06/05/2004
• Issued: 06/13/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Erhardt + Leimer GmbH, Biochemie GmbH (Novartis Ag)
• Original Assignee: Erhardt & Lerner GmbH
• Inventors: Vaeth, Joerg
• Primary Examiner(s): Charles, Marcus
• Application Number:
  US10/861,838
• Publication Number:
  US 20040245363A1
• Time in Patent Office: 738 Days
• Field of Search: 474/101, 474/102, 474/117, 474/85, 474/87, 474/139, 474/106
• US Class Current: 474/101
• CPC Class Codes: D21F 7/005 Wire-tensioning devices

Abstract

A device serves to regulate the tension of a running belt. The belt is deflected on rollers of which one is designed as a force measuring roller and is connected to a displacement sensing device. This roller is provided with at least one force sensor that determines the force applied to the belt. In addition, this roller is position adjustably held by an actuating drive in order to be able to adjust the tension of the belt. The actuating drive is in an operative connection with a regulating device that is influenced by a correction device. This correction device determines the web tension from the force applied to the belt measured by the force sensor and from the position of the force measuring roller, that changes with the position of the tension regulating roller, and transmits this output as an actual value to the regulating device.

Claims

1. A device for regulating the tension of a belt for pressing a web against the surface of a rotating drum in which the belt is deflected on rollers of which at least one comprises a force measuring roller, said force measuring roller comprising at least one force sensor for measuring the force applied by said force measuring roller on said belt and in which at least one of the rollers comprises a tension regulating roller position adjustably held by an actuating drive in an operative connection with said force sensor via a regulating device, said force sensor being in an operative connection with a correcting device that calculates the traction of said belt based on said force applied by said force measuring roller on said belt and a value dependent on the position of said force measuring roller and wherein the output of said correcting device is used by said regulating device in order to adjust the position of said force measuring roller.

2. The device according to claim 1, wherein said connecting device is influenced by the position of said tension regulating roller.

3. The device according to claim 1 or 2, wherein some of said rollers are adjacent to said force measuring roller and wherein said correcting device is influenced by the relative position of the force measuring roller and said adjacent rollers.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein the positions of said adjacent rollers are fixed and wherein said correcting device is associated with a storage device in which at least the positions of the said rollers adjacent to said force measuring roller are fixed.

5. The device according to claims 1, wherein said the correcting device is influenced by at least two force sensors of the force measuring roller that vectorially detect the bearing force of the force measuring roller in order to calculate the position of the force measuring roller.

6. The device according to claims 1, wherein said tension regulating roller and said force measuring roller comprises a single roller.

7. The device according to claim 1, wherein all of said rollers act on the same belt side.

8. The device according to claim 1 wherein said belt comprises a belt for use in a cellulose dewatering machine, paper manufacturing machine or carding machine.

9. A method for regulating the tension of a running belt for pressing a web against the surface of a rotating drum, in which the belt is deflected by rollers at least one of which comprises a force measuring roller that applies a force against the belt that is being measured and in which at least one of the rollers comprises a tension regulating roller that is adjusted by an actuating drive by regulating the belt traction, said method comprising the step of positioning the force measuring roller differently during the adjusting of the actuating drive, during which the belt traction is calculated from the measurement of the force applied to the belt by the force measuring roller and a value dependent on the position of the force measuring roller.

10. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the step of calculating the web traction from the measured force applied on the force measuring roller and a correction factor that is influenced by the positions of the rollers as well as by the changing position of the tension regulating roller.

11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of scanning the belt by at least one sensor that generates a signal dependent on the position of the force measuring roller.

12. The method according to claim 9, further comprising the steps of determining the force applied to the belt by the force measuring roller vectorially and calculating the position of the force measuring roller from the direction of the applied force in order to determine a correction factor for calculating the web traction from the measurement of the applied force.

13. The method according to claim 9, wherein said belt comprises a belt for use in a cellulose dewatering machine, paper manufacturing machine, or a carding machine.