Production line for producing sheets based on hydraulic binder and method of manufacturing the same

• US 7,651,327 B2
• Filed: 11/24/2004
• Issued: 01/26/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 02/26/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Continental Building Products Operating Company, Llc (Compagnie de Saint-Gobain SA)
• Original Assignee: Lafarge Platres (Holcim Limited)
• Inventors: Rigaudon, Michel, Jallon, Paul, Laurent, Jean Louis, Solomut, Jean Paul
• Primary Examiner(s): Griffin; Steven P
• Assistant Examiner(s): Malekzadeh; Seyed Masoud
• Application Number:
  US10/904,738
• Publication Number:
  US 20050127545A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,889 Days
• Field of Search: 425/289, 425/308, 425/110, 425/113, 425/115, 425/142, 425/150, 425/224, 425/373, 425/374, 425/385, 425/80.1, 425/83.1, 425/82.1, 425/145, 425/106, 425/11, 425/112, 425/295, 425/363, 156/347, 156/40, 156/42, 156/44, 156/45, 156/192, 156/209, 156/346, 156/367, 264/118, 264/119, 264/280, 264/284, 264/171.25, 264/173.1
• US Class Current: 425/224
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 11/08 for reshaping the surface, e.g. smoothing, roughening, corrugating, making screw-threads
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 11/0863 for profiling, e.g. making grooves
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 11/166 with devices for determining the correct cutting moment, e.g. measuring rollers or the like
• CPC Class Codes: B28B 19/0092 to webs, sheets or the like, e.g. of paper, cardboard
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 83/162 With control means responsive to replaceable or selectable information program

Abstract

A production line for producing sheets based on hydraulic binder, the production line including in an upstream zone of the production line, marking device for marking a facing material of the preform with a mark; in a downstream zone of the production line, detecting device for detecting the mark made by the marking device; a cutting device; and an actuating device for actuating said cutting device after receiving a detection signal from the detection device.

Claims

1. A production line for producing sheets based on hydraulic binder from a preform, comprising:

in an upstream zone of the production line, a marking device for marking a facing material of the preform with a mark;

in a downstream zone of the production line, a detecting device for detecting the mark made by the marking device;

a cutting device;

an actuating device for actuating said cutting device after receiving a detection signal from the detecting device;

an additional detecting device for detecting the mark so that the mark is detected at least twice;

a device for making an impression in the preform; and

an additional actuating device for actuating said device for making an impression in the preform after receiving a detection signal from the additional detecting device, wherein

the mark is distinct from the impression.

2. The production line according to claim 1, wherein the marking device comprise a piece forming an inking stamp.

3. The production line according to claim 1, wherein the detecting device comprise a photoelectric sensor.

4. The production line according to claim 1, further comprising:

means of introducing laths under the preform;

the additional actuating device actuating said means of introducing laths under the preform after receiving the detection signal from the additional detecting device.

5. The production line according to claim 4, wherein the additional actuating device anticipates that each lath be introduced substantially where an impression has been made or opposite the place where the impression has been made.

6. The production line according to claim 1, wherein the device for making an impression consists of an apparatus comprising at least:

a frame;

two first pulleys supported at a first end of the frame and two second pulleys at a second end of the frame;

the first pulleys and second pulleys being in parallel planes;

the pulleys of the first pulleys and second pulleys facing each other being identical;

two transmission belts wrapped respectively around the first pulleys and the second pulleys; and

at least one wire fixed removably to the belts and extending between these belts so that the longitudinal axis of the at least one wire is parallel to an axis of rotation of the pulleys.

7. The production line according to claim 6, further comprising a device for covering the hydraulic binder with a second facing material.

8. The production line according to claim 6, wherein the device for making an impression comprises a plurality of wires arranged parallel to each other, along the transmission belts and fixed removably.

9. The production line according to claim 6, wherein in the device for making an impression, the pulleys are sprockets and the transmission belts are chains.

10. The production line according to claim 9, wherein in the device for making an impression, the wires are held on the chains by means of support pieces and wire gripper pins.

11. The production line according to claim 6, wherein the device for making an impression further comprises means for driving rotation of at least one of the pulleys.

12. The production line according to claim 6, wherein the device for making an impression further comprises an upper forming plate and a lower forming plate between which plates the at least one wire can pass.

13. The production line according to claim 1, wherein the device for making an impression is situated above the preform and replaces a forming plate or a forming roller, the at least one wire then passing between said upper plate and lower plate.

14. The production line according to claim 1, wherein the hydraulic binder contains plaster.

15. The production line according to claim 1, wherein the additional detecting device is provided in the upstream zone of the production line.

16. The production line according to claim 1, further comprising a forming plate provided in the upstream zone of the production line, wherein the additional detecting device is provided upstream of the forming plate.

17. The production line according to claim 1, wherein the impression is made on a top facing material of the preform.

18. The production line according to claim 1, wherein the impression is made on a bottom facing material of the preform and the mark is made on a top facing material of the preform.

20. The production line according to claim 17, wherein the upper and lower forming plates are static.

21. The production line according to claim 17, wherein the upper and lower forming plates are each rectangular in cross-section as viewed in a direction orthogonal to the direction extending from the upstream zone to the downstream zone.

19. A production line for producing sheets based on hydraulic binder from a preform, comprising:

in an upstream zone of the production line, a marking device for marking a facing material of the preform with a mark;

in a downstream zone of the production line, a detecting device for detecting the mark made by the marking device;

a cutting device;

an actuating device for actuating said cutting device after receiving a detection signal from the detecting device;

an additional detecting device for detecting the mark;

a device for making an impression in the preform; and

an additional actuating device for actuating said device for making an impression in the preform after receiving a detection signal from the additional detecting device, wherein

the device for making an impression in the preform comprises an upper forming plate and a lower forming plate between which the preform and at least one wire pass, and the at least one wire makes the impression by accompanying the preform between the forming plates, after which the device for making the impression separates the at least one wire from the preform from above the preform.