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Winder speed control apparatus

US5178341A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 21, 1992
Grant dateJan 12, 1993
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Expiry dateMay 21, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB65H23/1806
  • WIPO fieldHandling
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A speed control assembly for a rotatable web winding apparatus comprising a dancer engaged with a web of material wound about the winder apparatus for displaceably responding within a predetermined range of dancer positions to tension variations in the web; a first control signal generating device for generating a first control signal in response to dancer displacement from a predetermined centered position, the ratio of dancer displacement to the first control signal being variable over the range of dancer displacement positions; and a dancer response rotation control device for rotationally accelerating the winding apparatus in response to the first control signal.

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