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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 1986

Filed:

Jan. 27, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:

John East, Highworth, GB;

Ian Maxwell, Reading, GB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
72-9 ; 72256 ; 72257 ; 425 79 ;
Abstract

A continuous extrusion product issuing from a continuous extrusion apparatus is threaded through a treatment die (to change its cross-section) and is continuously drawn therethrough by a tensioning device controlled by a system which (a) senses the temperature of the product as it leaves the extrusion apparatus, (b) converts (in a function generator) a temperature signal so produced into a tension reference signal, (c) compares a tension feedback signal (derived from a sensor adjacent the extrusion apparatus) with that tension reference signal, and (d) controls the tensioning device in accordance with the difference of the tension reference and feedback signals so as to prevent the sensed tension in the product (extending between the extrusion apparatus and the treatment die) from exceeding a safe value which is less than the yield stress tension of that product at the sensed temperature.


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