Blown film scanning method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9050760
APP PUB NO 20130154145A1
SERIAL NO

13712509

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A method is provided for measuring and controlling a cumulative physical property, such as the thickness, of a tubular blown film, wherein the tubular blown film is being extruded from a ring-shaped extruder having a plurality of film physical property controllers disposed around the ring-shaped extruder. Where the physical property is thickness, the method includes the steps of (1) collapsing the tubular film to create a two-ply web and slowly rotating the film while taking a plurality of thickness measurements across the two-play web at various sections of the film, (2) calculating initial estimates of the thickness of each section using a first algorithm, (3) refining the initial estimates of the thicknesses of each section by successive iterations using a second algorithm, and (4) optionally adjusting at least one film physical property controller to control the final estimate of the thicknesses of each longitudinal section.

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NORDSON CORPORATION28601 CLEMENS RD WESTLAKE OH 44145-1148

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Bedford, Robert Joshua Tree, US 1 1

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