Pneumatic surface follower with negative feedback of a variable

Details Pneumatic surface follower with negative feedback of a variable Pneumatic surface follower with negative feedback of a variable

1981-10-26

1984-05-22

Strecker, Gerard R.

Electricity: measuring and testing

Magnetic

Combined

324229, 73 377, G01B 710, G01B 1304, G01N 2772

Patent

active

044504047

ABSTRACT:
A gauging apparatus for sheet materials and the like comprises a surface follower body (14,20,30) adapted to be constrained without substantial solid bodily contact and guided (e.g., by gas bearings between 32 and 36 and 38) for movement along a surface follower path that intersects the path of a traveling sheet (10) to be gauged. The body has a passage (46) adapted to carry a flow of pressurized gas to be discharged against one surface of the sheet. The discharge of the gas is effective when the body is at a predetermined distance from the surface to generate a levitating force (on 20) urging the body away from the sheet surface. Means (70,64,62) responsive to the pressure of the gas in the passage exerts on the body (at 64) a counteracting force that tends to move the body closer to the surface. The counteracting force increases when the pressure increases and decreases when the pressure decreases, and coacts with the levitating force in such a manner that the predetermined distance of the body from the surface is normally maintained substantially constant and is relatively unaffected by minor variations in the pressure of the gas in the passage.

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Technical Bulletin 1505, "Non-Contacting LVDT Gage Heads, " Schaevitz Engineering, Pennsauken, N.J.

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