Web material inspection system
First Claim
1. A system for inspecting and characterizing a continuous web material such as may lie wound into a roll, said system comprising recording storage means for providing a duplicate image of the web material, means for reviewing the recording storage means image to detect a predetermined characteristic of the image, means for determining a position along said image as the image is reviewed, and means responsive to the predetermined characteristic of the image being detected to record an indicia of image position corresponding to detection of said predetermined characteristic.
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Abstract
A system for inspecting and characterizing continuous web material such as may be wound into a roll. This system includes a recording storage means for providing a duplicate image of the web material and a device for reviewing the recording storage means image to detect a predetermined characterisitc of the image such as a defect therein. The position along the image is detected and a switch is responsive to both the content information and position information to record an indicia of image position corresponding to detection of the predetermined characteristic.
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- 1. A system for inspecting and characterizing a continuous web material such as may lie wound into a roll, said system comprising recording storage means for providing a duplicate image of the web material, means for reviewing the recording storage means image to detect a predetermined characteristic of the image, means for determining a position along said image as the image is reviewed, and means responsive to the predetermined characteristic of the image being detected to record an indicia of image position corresponding to detection of said predetermined characteristic.
- 17. A method for inspecting and characterizing continuous product including the steps of recording a duplicate image of the product in a recording storage means, reviewing the recording storage means image to detect a predetermined characteristic of the image, determining a position along the image as the image is reviewed and recording an indicia of image position upon detection of said predetermined characteristic of the image and corresponding to detection of said predetermined characteristic.
- 23. A system for inspecting and characterizing web material comprising means for storing a duplicate image of indicia of the web material, means for reviewing the stored image to detect a predetermined characteristic thereof, means for determining positions along the image as the image is reviewed, and means responsive to the predetermined characteristic of the image that is detected to record and indicia of image position corresponding to detection of said predetermined characteristic.
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