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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 1984
Filed:
Jun. 26, 1981
Donald L Cullen, Worthington, OH (US);
John A Robertson, Chillicothe, OH (US);
Autech Corporation, Columbus, OH (US);
Abstract
A non-contacting electrostatic mark/sense length measurement gauge is used to place discrete areas of electrostatic charge at very accurately spaced intervals along a relatively moving material surface. Special construction of both the electrostatic marking and sensing transducers is employed. To compensate for expected unreliability of the mark/sense length gauge, a conventional highly reliable but less accurate contacting length gauge (such as a tachometer in rolling contact with the relatively moving material) is employed. The output from the electrostatic mark/sense length gauge and from the tachometer length gauge are combined by special electronic circuits to provide a length measurement of the passing material which is both highly accurate and reliable under all expected measurement conditions.