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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1989
Filed:
Aug. 29, 1986
James W Ditto, Golden, CO (US);
James W Jensen, Boulder, CO (US);
Adolph Coors Company, Golden, CO (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus controlling the lateral position of a moving web of material having a central longitudinally extending web axis extending generally parallel to the direction of movement of the web so as to maintain the central longitudinally extending axis of the web at a substantial constant lateral position relative a fixed longitudinally extending axis associated with a fixed web alignment station based upon the detected longitudinal distance between certain portions of a series of longitudinally spaced apart, substantially identical, generally transversely extending indicia in a longitudinally extending indicia path parallel to the central longitudinal axis of the web.