Roll fed flotation/impingement air ovens and related thermoforming systems for corrugation-free heating and expanding of gas impregnated thermoplastic webs
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
B29C-044/34
B29C-044/20
B29C-051/08
B29K-067/00
B29K-105/04
출원번호
US-0243243
(2016-08-22)
등록번호
US-9884440
(2018-02-06)
발명자
/ 주소
Branch, Gregory
Nadella, Krishna
출원인 / 주소
Dart Container Corporation
대리인 / 주소
McGarry Bair PC
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초록▼
Disclosed herein are roll fed air heated flotation ovens and related thermoforming systems, assemblies, and machines that enable the corrugation-free expansion of a gas impregnated thermoplastic web passing through an oven chamber (without use of a pin-chain assembly), as well as to related methods.
Disclosed herein are roll fed air heated flotation ovens and related thermoforming systems, assemblies, and machines that enable the corrugation-free expansion of a gas impregnated thermoplastic web passing through an oven chamber (without use of a pin-chain assembly), as well as to related methods. In an embodiment, a gas impregnated thermoplastic web is conveyed and expanded through an elongated air heated oven chamber, wherein the elongated oven chamber includes a plurality of downwardly directed heated air nozzles positioned at regular intervals along and within the upper portion of the oven chamber, and a plurality of upwardly directed heated air nozzles positioned at regular intervals along and within the lower portion of the oven chamber, but staggered apart from the downwardly directed heated air nozzles such that the gas impregnated thermoplastic material web undulates in an up and down wavelike fashion, thereby minimizing sagging, bagging, puckering, and/or buckling of the web.
대표청구항▼
1. A method for generating microcellular bubbles in a thermoplastic material, the method comprising: conveying a thermoplastic material impregnated with a gas, through an oven chamber, wherein the thermoplastic material is continuously conveyed through the oven chamber; andblowing air through at lea
1. A method for generating microcellular bubbles in a thermoplastic material, the method comprising: conveying a thermoplastic material impregnated with a gas, through an oven chamber, wherein the thermoplastic material is continuously conveyed through the oven chamber; andblowing air through at least two upwardly directed nozzles and at least two downwardly directed nozzles, toward the gas impregnated material inside the oven chamber, with the blowing air, heating the gas impregnated material, causing microcellular bubbles of gas in the material to nucleate and grow inside the material, while the material moves through the oven chamber, with only the blowing air, suspending the material while the material moves through the oven chamber and with only the blowing air, directing the material to undulate through at least two complete undulations as the material moves through the oven chamber and while microcellular bubbles nucleate and grow inside the material wherein impinging heated air streams from the at least two upwardly directed nozzles and at least two downwardly directed nozzles cause heating and uniform expansion of the gas impregnated material such that corrugation-free expansion of the gas impregnated material is enabled. 2. The method of claim 1 wherein conveying the gas impregnated thermoplastic material through the oven chamber includes pulling the material through the oven chamber. 3. The method of claim 1 wherein conveying the gas impregnated thermoplastic material through the oven chamber includes the material moving in substantially a same direction through the oven chamber. 4. The method of claim 1 wherein blowing air through the at least two upwardly directed nozzles and the at least two downwardly directed nozzles includes blowing air through a first upwardly directed nozzle, a first downwardly directed nozzle, a second upwardly directed nozzle, and a second downwardly directed nozzle, such that as the gas impregnated material moves through the oven chamber: the material is first urged up by air blown from the first upwardly directed nozzle, then, the material is urged down by the air blown from the first downwardly directed nozzle;then, the material is urged back up by the air blown from the second upwardly directed nozzle;then, the material is urged back down by the air blown from the second downwardly directed nozzle. 5. The method of claim 1 wherein heating the gas impregnated material includes heating the material to its glass transition temperature. 6. The method of claim 1 wherein directing the material to undulate as the material moves through the oven chamber includes directing the material to form two peaks and two troughs as the material moves through the oven chamber. 7. The method of claim 1 wherein the material leaves the oven chamber before the microcellular bubbles have finished growing. 8. The method of claim 1, further comprising cooling the material immediately after the material leaves the oven chamber, causing the microcellular bubbles of gas in the material to stop growing inside the material. 9. The method of claim 1 wherein the material leaves the oven chamber after microcellular bubbles have stopped nucleating inside the material. 10. The method of claim 1 wherein the material leaving the oven chamber moves at a speed that is 1.5 times faster than the speed of the material entering the oven chamber. 11. The method of claim 1 wherein the material leaving the oven chamber has a width that is 1.5 times longer than the width of the material entering the oven chamber. 12. The method of claim 1 wherein the material leaving the oven chamber has a relative density that is 20%. 13. The method of claim 1, further comprising thermoforming the material after the material leaves the oven chamber. 14. The method of claim 1, further comprising: advancing, via a nip roller, material accumulated in an enclosure toward a thermoforming system; andthermoforming the advanced material. 15. The method of claim 14 wherein advancing material accumulated in the enclosure includes intermittently advancing material toward the thermoforming system.
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