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Web-stretching process

US4652409A · kind A · utility

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18Claims
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Filing dateNov 23, 1984
Grant dateMar 24, 1987
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Expiry dateNov 23, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB29C55/165
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for producing a stretched web of plastics material wherein a web of plastics material is passed through an apparatus in which the web, gripped at its edges by web gripping devices mounted on carriages which run on guide rails is stretched by increasing the distance between adjacent gripping devices by altering the degree of extension of an articulated chain to which the carriages are attached.

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