A method and configuration for automated operation of a two-roll mill. Also provided is a method for continuous or semi-continuous operation of a two-roll mill.

A multi-stage roll type sheet molding apparatus includes four or more molding rolls including a touch molding roll, a main molding roll and finish molding rolls disposed in the horizontal direction in parallel to each other, in which a molten sheet is supplied downward from above to a first nip part interposed between the touch molding roll and main molding roll, the sheet is compressed by the molding rolls, and the compressed sheet is windingly fed sequentially from the main molding roll to the finish molding rolls, thereby molding a sheet having a specific thickness. The apparatus further includes a rear-stage side rail for guiding the finish molding rolls in a horizontally movable manner and second to fourth hydraulic cylinders for horizontally moving the finish molding rolls to in such a manner that they can pressurize the sheet.

An improved adjustable-angle pressing or nip roll is distinguished, inter alia, by the following features: the angle adjusting device comprises a double-armed lever, the moving device is constructed in such a way that, via this, a pivot axis of the double-armed lever can be adjusted relative to the process roll, and the angle adjusting device comprises, for the double-armed lever, a stop which acts at least on one side, in such a way that, in the case of further force loading by the force actuating unit, a pressing force can be generated which acts on the pivot axis of the double-armed lever and via which the pressing or nip roll can be pressure-loaded onto the roll shell of the process roll with the material web being guided through between the two rolls.

Examples include a device for coating a carrier substrate with a powdered material. The device includes an application unit having a first roller and a second roller which, at a nip thereof, form a first gap through which a powder mixture can be conveyed to form a dry film. A counter-pressure roller, together with the second roller or another roller arranged between the counter-pressure roller and the second roller, forms a second gap through which the carrier substrate to be coated can be guided for having the dry film applied to the carrier substrate. The first gap between the first and second rollers can be adjusted based on a position-based positioning drive by being set to a constant and/or defined gap width, and the second gap can be adjusted based on a force-based positioning drive, and can be set to a constant and/or defined contact force or linear force.

Examples include a device for coating a carrier substrate with a powdered material. The device includes an application unit having a first roller and a second roller which, at a nip thereof, form a first gap through which a powder mixture can be conveyed to form a dry film. A counter-pressure roller, together with the second roller or another roller arranged between the counter-pressure roller and the second roller, forms a second gap through which the carrier substrate to be coated can be guided for having the dry film applied to the carrier substrate. The first gap between the first and second rollers can be adjusted based on a position-based positioning drive by being set to a constant and/or defined gap width, and the second gap can be adjusted based on a force-based positioning drive, and can be set to a constant and/or defined contact force or linear force.

An electrode calendering system for reducing post-calendering electrode wrinkling includes at least one roller configured to compress an electrode and a sleeve. The roller is defined by an outer surface configured to contact the electrode. The outer surface has a first edge portion at a first side of the roller and a second edge portion at a second side of the roller opposing the first side. The first edge portion and the second edge portion of the roller align with first and second outer edges of the electrode when the electrode contacts the roller. The sleeve is disposed about the outer surface of the roller along the first edge portion, the sleeve having a controllable thickness to adjust a pressure between the first outer edge of the electrode and the sleeve. Other example systems and methods for reducing post-calendering electrode wrinkling are also disclosed.

A calendering and stretching plant for producing a stretched mono-material polymer film, including a flat extrusion head placed upstream of a calender, and a stretching unit placed downstream of the calender. The calender includes at least a pair of calendering rollers, including a first calendering roller, or casting roller, and a second calendering roller. or pressing roller. The flat extrusion head is placed at an operating distance X from the calender of between 100 mm and 1000 mm with reference thicknesses of between 500 micron and 50 microns. The greater the thickness, the smaller is the distance X and vice-versa. The casting roller and the pressing roller are provided with a controlled cooling/heating system.

This method for producing a crystalline resin sheet includes press-rolling a sheet-shaped molten crystalline resin composition between a pair of pinch rolls. The crystalline resin composition includes a crystalline resin and a soluble nucleating agent. When the radius of the pair of pinch rolls is denoted by R, the average thickness of the sheet after press-rolling is denoted by L, and the sheet take-up speed in the pair of pinch rolls is denoted by V, an adjustment is performed so as to control the average elongational strain rate (R, L, V) in the sheet elongation direction represented by a specific formula to be more than 30 s.sup.1 but no more than 80 s.sup.1.

A rolling assembly, including at least one roll pair with two cooperating rolls and a safety device. The safety device includes a hydraulic accumulator and a measuring device. The hydraulic accumulator includes an accumulator with a first and second accumulator chamber. A hydraulic fluid is disposed within the first accumulator chamber. A compressible gas is disposed within the second accumulator chamber. The hydraulic accumulator includes a moveably arranged separating member separating the first accumulator chamber from the second accumulator chamber. The roll pair has a working position and a safety position. A radial distance between the rolls is larger in the safety position than in the working position. The hydraulic accumulator is configured to move the roll pair from the working position to the safety position. The measuring device is configured to continuously detect a position of the separating member within the hydraulic accumulator.

Examples include a device for coating a web-format carrier substrate with a dry film. The device includes an application unit having first and second rollers forming a first gap therebetween. A counter-pressure roller, together with the second roller or a further roller forms a second gap through which a substrate path for the carrier substrate to be coated leads. A measuring device includes a sensor system for measuring the grammage of the dry film. A positioning drive is provided for adjusting the gap width of the first gap. The sensor system connects to a control device configured to vary the gap width of the first gap based on the grammage determined by the sensor system and via a connection to a drive means of the positioning drive, and/or to vary a ratio between the circumferential speed of the first roller and the circumferential speed of the second roller.