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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2002
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2000
Kunitoshi Sasaki, Kitakyusyu, JP;
Mikiyoshi Simojima, Imabari, JP;
Shouichi Endo, Niigata, JP;
Shinji Yonezawa, Kitakyusyu, JP;
Yoshino Gypsum Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided are a process and an apparatus for producing gypsum boards, both of which feature minimized occurrence of defective products and especially excellent continuous productivity and superb efficiency. Making use of the facts that lining paper sheets for gypsum boards are insulators and a gypsum slurry held between the lining paper sheets is a good electrical conductor, a detection of an electric current flowing between an upper forming unit and a lower forming unit or a like method makes it possible to promptly detect any localized tearing which may occur in the overlay paper and/or underlay paper due to an undesired object or the like mixed in during continuous production of gypsum boards and moreover, to readily remove the undesired object or the like as a cause for the tearing without stopping the production of gypsum boards while preventing the localized tearing from spreading over the entire width of the paper. The production process and apparatus, therefore, permit stable and continuous production of gypsum boards.