A CIPP liner feed roller for manipulating and feeding CIPP liner by pulling CIPP liner from a liner source and feeding it to where it is needed. The CIPP liner feed roller generally includes a main roller attached to a frame, a clamping roller attached to the frame and configured to be in parallel with the main roller, wherein the distance between the clamping roller and the main roller can be adjusted using one or more actuators, a drive unit comprising a motor configured to control the rotation of the main roller within the frame, a controller coupled to the drive unit and the one or more actuators, wherein the controller is configured to control the rotation of the main roller and the distance between the clamping roller and the main roller, and a support beam attached the frame and configured to be in parallel with the main roller.

This application relates to the field of battery production equipment technologies, and in particular, to a cutting-off apparatus and battery assembly line production equipment. The cutting-off apparatus at least includes a slitting mechanism and a supporting element. With the provision of a supporting element connected to the slitting mechanism, the supporting element can provide a supporting force acting on a target electrode plate when the slitting mechanism in a cutting-off position is cutting off the separator. Then, when the separator rebounds due to being cut off and impacts the target electrode plate, the target electrode plate can avoid skewness due to the rebound of the separator under the support of the supporting element, thereby alleviating the problem of wrinkles of the electrode plate caused by the separator being cut off during winding of an electrode stack and reducing the risk of defects inside the battery.

A gripping apparatus includes an impermeable layer defining a vacuum port, a first flow media layer associated with the impermeable layer, and a second flow media layer opposed from the first flow media layer to define a receiving space therebetween.

A CIPP liner feed roller for manipulating and feeding CIPP liner by pulling CIPP liner from a liner source and feeding it to where it is needed. The CIPP liner feed roller generally includes a main roller attached to a frame, a clamping roller attached to the frame and configured to be in parallel with the main roller, wherein the distance between the clamping roller and the main roller can be adjusted using one or more actuators, a drive unit comprising a motor configured to control the rotation of the main roller within the frame, a controller coupled to the drive unit and the one or more actuators, wherein the controller is configured to control the rotation of the main roller and the distance between the clamping roller and the main roller, and a support beam attached the frame and configured to be in parallel with the main roller.

A material layup apparatus (100) for producing wind turbine blades using fiber plies (31), comprising a first gantry (1) with a transversal beam (11) extending over a mold receiving space (10). The first gantry (1) comprising at least one gripping unit (4a,4b) attached to the transversal beam (11) and being moveable both in the transversal direction (T) and in a vertical direction (V) so as to be lowerable into and retractable from the mold receiving space (10). Further, the material layup apparatus (100) has a second gantry (2) comprising a transversal beam (21) extending over the mold receiving space (10) providing a storage area (24) for a stack (3) of fiber plies (31). The second gantry (2) is adapted to be moveable in the longitudinal direction (L) into a ply-pickup position in that the storage area (24) of the second gantry (2) is arranged under the at least one gripping unit (4a,4b) of the first gantry (1) so that at least one ply (31) of the fiber plies (31) provided on the stack (3) of fiber plies (31) can be picked up by the at least one gripping unit (4a,4b). Thus, a transversal material layup that currently includes many process steps that include manual labor can be automated and by that productivity as well as safety can be increased.

A gel felt production system includes a conveying device including a plurality of first rotating rollers that are rotatably. The plurality of first rotating rollers are disposed at intervals along a conveying direction of the conveying device. An input end of the conveying device is configured to input a wet felt, and an output end of the conveying device is configured to output a gel felt. A method for producing the gel felt using the gel felt production system is further provided.

An apparatus for removing wrinkles from a sheet material, includes: an expander roll that rotates in a bent state with respect to a rotation axis bent to straighten and remove wrinkles formed in a sheet material being transferred to be wrinkle-removed; a roll bender that generates a bending moment to bend the expander roll; a roll rotator that rotates the expander roll; a roll controller that controls the operation of the roll bender and the roll rotator; a vision camera that photographs one surface of the sheet material being wrinkle-removed, so as to generate an input image; and a wrinkle detection module that detects wrinkles in the sheet material to be detected, using the input image.