Web threading system
CA 1052154 A · Owner: Crown Zellerbach Corporation · Inventors: Reba, Imants; Hogland, Gerald H.
Overview
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An improved system for directing a web of flexible material to a predetermined location, and more particularly a, system for directing the end or tail of a moving web into threading engagement with rolls forming a nip or the like. In this system a gas such as air is directed through a restricted opening under pressure whereupon it attaches itself to a flow attachment surface due to the "Coanda effect" so that it entrains, ambient air and the moving web tail. In a preferred form of the system, after the web tail has been entrained and conveyed a predetermined distance, a substantial portion of the combined flow of the entraining gas and the entrained ambient air are diverted off toward a …
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- Granted April 10, 1979. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended April 10, 1996.
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