A processing system and a method for processing a flexible substrate (e.g., a web) use a tensioner with a vacuum plate that can be moved along a transport direction of the flexible substrate with an indexer that intermittently moves the flexible substrate for processing. The tensioner and the indexer are controlled so that a relative speed between the indexer and the vacuum plate of the tensioner is maintained above a predefined threshold under all working conditions, even when the flexible substrate is stopped.

Provided is a conveyance device including a roll storage unit that stores a continuous sheet conveyance medium in a roll, a tractor that sequentially engages engaging parts in engagement holes formed along the length of the conveyance medium and conveys the conveyance medium stored in the roll storage unit, a roll drive unit that delivers the conveyance medium stored in the roll storage unit toward the tractor, a slack detection unit that detects slack in the conveyance medium between the roll storage unit and the tractor, and a control unit that controls the roll drive unit based on the detection value of the slack detection unit.

A film intermittent carrying device: includes a film delivering mechanism, a delivering and accumulating mechanism, accumulating the film and discharging the film, a winding and accumulating mechanism accumulating the film while discharging in an amount corresponding to an amount of the film discharged, and a film winding mechanism taking-up the film constantly. The delivering and accumulating mechanism includes first and second fixed rollers, an upstream-side movable roller moving to pass through a middle position between the first and second fixed rollers, and an upstream-side friction preventive unit configured to reduce a friction between the film and the upstream-side movable roller. The winding and accumulating mechanism includes third and fourth fixed rollers, and a downstream-side movable roller moving to pass through the middle position between the third and fourth fixed rollers, and a downstream-side friction preventive unit configured to reduce a friction between the film and the downstream-side movable roller.

A transportation path changing device (1) of the invention is a transportation path changing device that changes a transportation path of a continuous sheet-like object (3) that is being transported. The device includes: an oscillating section (2) that oscillates in an intersecting direction Y intersecting with a flow direction X of the transported object, and that increases/decreases the length of the transportation path of the transported object (3); a first moving means (6) that is connected to the oscillating section (2), and that moves the oscillating section (2) in the intersecting direction Y; a second moving means (7) that moves a portion or the entirety of the first moving means (6) in the intersecting direction Y; and a control section (9) that controls the first moving means (6) and the second moving means (7).

The present disclosure provides a tension control device including a turn bar which is disposed between an upstream device delivering a belt-shaped web and a downstream device receiving the web and of which a pressing member presses the web and a control unit which feedforward-controls a pressing force applied from the turn bar to the web on the basis of a schedule relating to a conveying speed of the web of any one of the upstream device and the downstream device.

Described is a compensating device applicable on intermittent advancement packaging machines with wrapping material constituted by a film made of a flexible plastic material, for continuous compensating of a stretching of the film during drawing thereof, the machine comprising a first drawing group of the film, a mobile element able to exert a determined force on the film during advancement, the mobile element being conventionally known as a dancer and a second drawing group of the film arranged downstream of the first drawing group, where each drawing group is provided with a sensor for detecting markers located at regular intervals along the film, the compensating device being constituted by a third drawing group, located between the first and second drawing groups, the third drawing group being provided with a marker sensor, the third drawing group being provided with independent motorisation and an automatic roller opening system.

The present disclosure provides a tension control device including a turn bar which is disposed between an upstream device delivering a belt-shaped web and a downstream device receiving the web and of which a pressing member presses the web and a control unit which feedforward-controls a pressing force applied from the turn bar to the web on the basis of a schedule relating to a conveying speed of the web of any one of the upstream device and the downstream device.

A system and method is provided that allows for the non-interrupted coating of a pulled substrate with coating materials, even while a coated portion of the substrate is held stationary for cutting. The present invention eliminates waste and improves efficiency and yield, and is particularly applicable to laboratory drawdown coaters.

A processing system and a method for processing a flexible substrate (e.g., a web) use a tensioner with a vacuum plate that can be moved along a transport direction of the flexible substrate with an indexer that intermittently moves the flexible substrate for processing. The tensioner and the indexer are controlled so that a relative speed between the indexer and the vacuum plate of the tensioner is maintained above a predefined threshold under all working conditions, even when the flexible substrate is stopped.

A method for protecting a unit for converting a web substrate to limit a jam of the substrate inside the unit, the unit converting the substrate when the unit is stopped, in a packaging production machine: the steps of: detecting at the outlet of the unit that the converted web does not come out; stopping a motor of an infeed arrangement to prevent the substrate from entering the unit; stopping a motor of a feathering drive; and simultaneously stopping the machine, and guiding the substrate to an accumulation storage.