Phenomena and Causes of Poor Coating Gap


Release date:

2021-07-14

1. **Web Breaks** (1) **Material Factors**: Slurry composition, viscosity, solids content, and slurry (surface) tension. (2) **Equipment Factors**: Coating-backup roller gap; coating roller speed when the backup roller expands; diameter of the backup roller; material used for the backup roller surface; potential deformation of the backup roller; alignment between the backup roller and coating roller; misalignment between the backup roller and the front roller in the oven; as well as operational tension levels. (3) **Operational Factors**: Parameters for adjusting the web at the start and end sections. 2. **Non-Parallel Start/End Sections** (1) **Material Factors**: Uneven tensile forces acting on both edges of the substrate. (2) **Equipment Factors**: Misalignment between the horizontal planes of the backup roller and coating roller; uneven expansion of the backup roller from side to side; lack of coaxial alignment on the backup roller’s surface; and misalignment between the backup roller and the traction roller—specifically, horizontal discrepancies.

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Trailing tail
 
(1) Materials: Slurry material, viscosity, solids content, and slurry (surface) tension
 
(2) Equipment aspects: Coating-to-back-roll distance, coating roll speed during back-roll bounce, back-roll diameter, surface material of the back roll, back-roll deformation, parallelism between the back roll and the coating roll, misalignment between the back roll and the front roll of the oven, and tension during operation.
 
(3) Operational Aspects: Parameters for Head and Tail Adjustments
 
2
 
The ends are not parallel.
 
(1) Material aspect: Uneven attraction forces on both sides of the substrate.
 
(2) Equipment issues: The back roller and coating roller are not parallel to the horizontal plane; when the back roller springs open, it becomes uneven from side to side; there’s also misalignment in the coaxiality of the back roller surface, as well as a lack of parallelism between the back roller and the traction roller—resulting in changes to their horizontal alignment.
 
(3) Tension Adjustment Roller Adjustment Status
 
3
 
Front and back are misaligned
 
(1) Operational Issues: First, inconsistent gap alignment. Operating parameters are not properly adjusted. The light sensor is blocked. And the unwinding pinch roller has been left unclamped.
 
(2) Equipment: High tension on the back side of the second sheet, low tension on the front side.
 
4
 
When starting up, the blank space in the middle becomes smaller, and the last 3–4 pieces are inaccurate.
 
Equipment-wise: During initial startup, the tension was inaccurate, and the first side lacked memory functionality, causing the foil strip to slip forward by 2–3 mm upon power-up. Additionally, when starting up, the tension was activated before the back roller began rotating, and the coating head either didn’t have a pinch roll installed or wasn’t properly engaged.
 
5
 
The final segment features a parallel trailing tail.
 
Operation details: Adjust the nip roll gap (first side shows trailing, while the second side does not); when stopping the machine, the back rolls retract slowly.
 
6
 
Thick head, thin tail, or thin head, thick tail
 
Operation-wise: The start and end parameters are not properly adjusted.
 
7
 
There's action, but no effect.
 
(1) Material issue: The foil material has uneven tension on both sides.
 
(2) Equipment: The foil material leaves the backing roll momentarily due to low tension. Adjust the spacing of the coating-backing rolls.
 
8
 
The double-sided large-format blank space phenomenon
 
The photoreceptor shows no response, the first interfacial space is abnormal, and the photoreceptor is obscured.

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