EP1393820A2 - Rollbeschichtung - Google Patents

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EP1393820A2
EP1393820A2 EP03013406A EP03013406A EP1393820A2 EP 1393820 A2 EP1393820 A2 EP 1393820A2 EP 03013406 A EP03013406 A EP 03013406A EP 03013406 A EP03013406 A EP 03013406A EP 1393820 A2 EP1393820 A2 EP 1393820A2
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roller
mixture
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modifying material
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Roger H. Calendine
Dennis R. Fonheiser
Douglas E. Garman
Rick J. Kowsakowski
Gordon W. Redshaw
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Eastman Kodak Co
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Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
Eastman Kodak Co
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
    • G03G—ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY
    • G03G15/00—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern
    • G03G15/20—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for fixing, e.g. by using heat
    • G03G15/2003—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for fixing, e.g. by using heat using heat
    • G03G15/2014—Apparatus for electrographic processes using a charge pattern for fixing, e.g. by using heat using heat using contact heat
    • G03G15/2053—Structural details of heat elements, e.g. structure of roller or belt, eddy current, induction heating
    • G03G15/2057—Structural details of heat elements, e.g. structure of roller or belt, eddy current, induction heating relating to the chemical composition of the heat element and layers thereof
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B05—SPRAYING OR ATOMISING IN GENERAL; APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05D—PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FLUENT MATERIALS TO SURFACES, IN GENERAL
    • B05D1/00—Processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials
    • B05D1/002—Processes for applying liquids or other fluent materials the substrate being rotated

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  • This invention relates to the application of a seamless coating of a surface-modifying material to a roller.
  • rollers are used in various applications. In particular they are used for a pressure/temperature treatment of a toner image on a substrate.
  • the toner image is fixed by the pressure/temperature treatment to the substrate, which is usually paper, by passage between two rollers.
  • One of the rollers is typically referred to as fuser roller, with the other being referred to as a pressure roller.
  • the surfaces of at least one of the rollers may be coated with silicone rubber, rubber, or other materials which may have different surface characteristics than those desired for the application for which the roller is intended.
  • Materials typically used to supply modified properties are materials such as TEFLON and VITON, both trademarks of Dupont Corporation.
  • a number of polymers are encompassed within the trademarks discussed above. Some such polymers are presently tetrafluoroethylene, fluorinated ethylene-propylene resins, polymers of chlorofluoro-ethylene, polyvinylidene fluoride, hexafluoropropylene, co-polymers of vinylidene fluoride and hexafluoropropylene.
  • Surface-modifying materials for coating rollers are known. Some suitable materials are disclosed in the U.S.
  • fuser rollers are coated with a material such as a silicone rubber to provide a roller surface of a given hardness which may be overcoated with a low surface energy material to provide desired release properties which are not achievable with silicone rubber alone.
  • a material such as a silicone rubber
  • a low surface energy material to provide desired release properties which are not achievable with silicone rubber alone.
  • seamless coatings of surface-modifying materials are readily applied to an outer surface of a product roller by applying a mixture containing the surface-modifying material to a rotatable gravure roller; rotating the product roller; rotating the gravure roller in mixture-transferring contact with the product roller to transfer the mixture to the product roller; and, continuing application of the surface-modifying material to the gravure roller and continuing rotation of the product roller until a selected quantity of surface-modifying material has been transferred to the outer surface of the product roller.
  • the invention further comprises a method for coating an outer surface of a product roller with a seamless coating of a surface-modifying material by positioning the product roller in surface-modifying material transfer contact with an application roller having a central axis and an outer surface and rotating the product roller and the application roller; positioning a metering roller having an outer surface and a central axis above and horizontally displaced from the central axis of the application roller so that a reservoir of a mixture containing the surface-modifying reservoir space is positioned between the metering roller and the application roller and so that a selected spacing is present between the outer surface of the metering roller and the outer surface of the application roller; rotating the metering roller in an opposite direction to the rotation of the application roller to position a selected quantity of the mixture containing the surface-modifying material on the outer surface of the application roller so that at least a portion of the quantity of the mixture containing the of surface-modifying material is transferred to the product roller; and, continuing the transfer of surface modifying-material to the product roller until a selected amount of the mixture containing surface-
  • the present invention further comprises a method for applying a seamless coating of a surface-modifying material to an outer surface of a product roller by a method comprising rotating the product roller; applying a mixture containing the surface-modifying material to the outer surface of the product roller at a controlled rate; and, continuing application of the mixture until a selected quantity of the surface modifying material has been deposited as a seamless coating on the outer surface of the product roller.
  • the mixture may be applied to the outer surface of the product roller by a slot die, by use of a falling curtain (or a ribbon) of the mixture onto the product roller, impinging a jet of the mixture onto the product roller, or by the use of a spray.
  • the invention further comprises a method for coating an outer surface of a product roller for an electrophotographic process with a seamless coating of a surface-modifying material, the method comprising: providing a mixture containing the surface-modifying material; immersing the outer surface of the product roller in the mixture; and, withdrawing the product roller from the mixture at a controlled rate.
  • a gravure roller is used to deposit a seamless coating of a surface-modifying material on a product roller.
  • Gravure rollers 18 have been used previously to coat continuous strips of material or to transfer images to substrates and the like. Gravure rollers 18 are not considered to have been used to deposit coatings of a substantial thickness on surfaces and especially not on cylindrical surfaces. Gravure rollers 18 are rollers having a textured outer surface so that the textured outer surface facilitates transfer of a fluid from the outside of the gravure roller 18 to a surface contacted by the textured outside of the gravure roller.
  • a gravure process is shown.
  • a product roller 12 is coated with a suitable mixture 14 containing a surface-modifying material, which is supplied as a liquid consisting of a mixture 14 of the surface-modifying material and a suitable solvent.
  • the mixture 14 of solvent and surface-modifying material is adjusted to a consistency suitable for use with a gravure roller 18 and consistent with the deposit requirements on product roller 12.
  • the mixture 14 is contained in a container 16 and a gravure roller 18 is positioned to contact the mixture, which is maintained in container 16 at a level 17.
  • a doctor blade 20 is positioned to remove excess mixture 14 from gravure roller 18 as it rotates.
  • An excess layer is shown at 22 with a layer of the desired thickness after treatment by the doctor blade being shown at 24.
  • Arrows 26 indicate the direction of rotation of gravure roller 18 with arrows 28 indicating the direction of rotation of the product roller. It will be understood that the direction could be reversed by simply moving the doctor blade as necessary.
  • the process is conducted by rotation of the two rollers as shown, with the process being continued until a seamless coating of the surface-modifying material is deposited on product roller 12.
  • the process is continuous and it does not require that the solvent be evaporated fully from the surface-modifying material on product roller 12 before depositing subsequent layers.
  • the use of the rotary process ensures the deposit of a seamless coating of the surface-modifying material on product roller 12 of a desired thickness.
  • the thickness selected is from about 5 to 10 ⁇ m up to about 300 ⁇ m. While thinner or thicker coatings could be used, it is considered that this range will be suitable for most applications.
  • the application of thicker layers requires a longer contacting time and the use of thinner layers can be accomplished with reduced time.
  • the time required typically varies from about 20 seconds to about 20 minutes, dependent upon the concentration of the surface-modifying material in the mixture, roller size, desired thickness and the like.
  • Different surface-modifying materials may be coated on a product roller by positioning the product roller in a different coating apparatus of any type disclosed herein or known to the art for such coating and applying a coat of a second surface modifying material over a first surface modifying material.
  • separate apparatus could be used for a more rapid initial coating of a surface-modifying material with a slower application of a second coat of the same or a second material of a surface-modifying material.
  • the present method can be characterized as a wet-on-wet coating method.
  • the product roller after the initial contact with an applicator roller, slot die deposit, a falling curtain or ribbon, a jet or a spray of the mixture 14 is only partly, if even significantly dried, before the before deposit of the next layer as the product roller is rotated. It has been found that drying between contacts and additional deposits is unnecessary in the deposit of seamless coatings of a desired thickness on the product roller.
  • FIG 2 a variation of the process of Figure 1 is presented.
  • the gravure roller transfers the mixture 14 to an intermediate roller 32, which rotates in a direction as shown by arrows 34 to transfer the mixture 14 to product roller 12.
  • Rotation of gravure roller 18 and product roller 12 is shown by arrows 26 and 28.
  • the rollers may be considered to be in contact with each other, but in fact are maintained at a spacing such that the mixture 14 is deposited from roller to roller as discussed.
  • the rollers are spaced at a contact spacing such that the mixture 14 on gravure roller 18 is at least partially transferred to product roller 12.
  • FIG 3 a further variation of the method of the present invention is shown.
  • a product roller 12 is shown and is rotated as shown by arrows 28.
  • An application roller 36 is shown which rotates in a direction shown by arrows 38.
  • a layer 36a of the mixture 14 is conveyed by application roller 36 to product roller 12.
  • a metering roller 40 is positioned at a spacing from application roller 36 to result in the production of a layer 50 of the mixture 14 on outer surface 36a of application roller 36 sufficient to convey the mixture 14 to an outer surface of product roller 12.
  • Metering roller 40 rotates in an opposite direction indicated by arrows 42 to application roller 36 thereby maintaining the contact spacing between the two rollers.
  • a reservoir space 49 is provided and is shown filled with the mixture 14.
  • This mixture 14 is supplied through a line 41, which as indicated discharges the mixture 14 into the reservoir space 49 as shown by arrow 46.
  • a sensor 48 which may be a temperature sensor or other property sensor of the mixture, is positioned to maintain a level of mixture 14 in reservoir space 49 such that the mixture 14 is maintained in a quantity sufficient to result in a continuous feed of the mixture 14 between rollers 36 and 40 to deposit the mixture 14 on product roller 12.
  • a doctor blade 20 is shown positioned to prevent the movement of a substantial amount of the mixture 14 along outer surface 40a of roller 40.
  • FIG 4 a method is shown for coating product roller 12 with a mixture 14 containing a surface-modifying material by ejecting the mixture 14 from a fluid reservoir 52 via a slot die 54 onto product roller 12 as it is rotated. This results in the production of a seamless coating of the surface-modifying material on product roller 12. The application is continued to produce a coating of a desired thickness.
  • a fluid reservoir 52 is used with a slot for producing a falling curtain 56 of mixture 14 so that the mixture 14 is coated onto the outside of product roller 12 as it rotates by a falling curtain or ribbon coating process.
  • Figure 6 shows a further embodiment wherein a supply line 58 is used to supply the mixture 14 to a spray 60 which coats product roller 12 as it rotates.
  • Spray 60 may be a jet that ejects a fan-shaped spray with its width orthogonal to a long axis of the product roller with the jet being moved along the long axis of the product roller.
  • Spray 60 may also be a fixed location spray that sprays continuously along the length (long axis) of the product roller.
  • a roller 67 is shown in Figure 7 for use in conjunction with Figure 8.
  • the product roller 12 comprises a roller having ends 62, which are desirably capped before treatment as shown in Figure 8.
  • product roller 12 is shown immersed in the mixture, which is present in container 16 to a level 17.
  • Product roller 12 is supported by support 64 and is immersed in the mixture 14 in container 16 at a level 17 beneath a top 66 of container 16 and either with or without rotation is withdrawn at a fixed rate to deposit a seamless coating of the surface-modifying material on the outer surface of roller 16.
  • ends 62 are capped so that the coating is applied only to the outer surface of product roller 12. Repeated applications of the dipping process may be made to achieve a desired thickness of the seamless coating on the outer surface of product roller 12.
  • the process may be continued until a desired thickness of coating has been achieved on product roller 12. It is not necessary that the roller be dried between applications since the applications are continuously applied as the roller rotates. It has been found that the solvent is evaporated at a suitable rate and does not have to be fully removed from the surface-modifying material prior to application of a second layer.
  • thicknesses from about 5 to about 300 ⁇ m are readily achieved, with coatings from about 25 to about 100 ⁇ m being used more typically.
  • the product roller is rotated at a rate from about 20 to about 100 rpms.
  • the rollers contemplated for treatment by process of the present invention typically vary from about ca. 2,5 cm to about 17,5 cm (1 to about 7 inches) in diameter.
  • rollers most desirably treated by the present invention are rollers for use in electrophotographic processes.
  • Such rollers may be used for a variety of purposes but typically the rollers most commonly coated by the process of the present invention are used in fusing subsystems.
  • Fuser rollers typically have an exterior coating of silicone rubber or the like.
  • Such variations are readily achieved by depositing a surface-modifying material on the outer surface of the product roller.
  • a variety of other such rollers can also be coated by the process of the present invention. For instance, it may be desirable to coat fuser rollers, oiler rollers, primary charger rollers, transfer rollers, intermediate transfer rollers, paper or other substrate handling rollers and other rollers for electrophotographic processes with surface-modifying materials and the like.
  • fluoropolymers typically considered as fluoropolymers provide polymeric surfaces having low surface energy. Others are viewed as fluoroelastomers and not only provide surfaces having reduced surface energy, but also provide relatively flexible surfaces.
  • the properties of such materials are well known to those skilled in the art.
  • Such materials may readily be used as dispersions or mixtures of these materials or similar materials in volatile solvents, such as ketones, blends of ethers with ketones, perfluorinated solvents and the like having a boiling point at standard atmospheric pressure from about 50°C to about 160°C.
  • the polymers may be available in water-dispensable form (emulsions).
  • Such emulsions typically comprise the polymeric materials in a blend with water, organic dispersing agents, dispersants or the like as known to the art. All such dispersions, solutions, emulsions and the like are referred to herein as "mixtures.” Mixtures of the materials are produced and used as discussed in the discussion of the Figures above to provide surface coatings for product rollers.
  • the product roller may be of any suitable configuration and typically will include means for providing a central support for rotation of the roller at the end of the roller.
  • the roller may be hollow or solid, although more typically hollow rollers are used.
  • the configuration of the cylindrical roller is not critical to the practice of the present invention.
  • the direction of rotation of the rollers may be changed as desired. For instance, in Figure 1, the rotation of the rollers can be reversed, in Figure 2 the rotation of the roller can be reversed, and in Figures 4, 5 and 6 the rollers can be rotated in either direction. Similarly, in Figure 8 if the product roller is rotated, it can be rotated in either direction. In Figure 3, however, the metering roller requires repositioning if the direction of the rotation is reversed. Such variations are well known to those skilled in the art based upon a review of the descriptions above.
  • the concentration of the surface-modifying material in the mixture 14 is varied dependent upon the solubility or dispersibility of the surface-modifying material, the desired concentration of material for optimum formation of the seamless coating on product roller 12 and the like.
  • the mixture 14 is formed to have a suitable consistency, i.e., viscosity, surface-modifying material content, drying rate and the like. Such variations are known to those skilled in the art and need not be discussed in detail.
  • the product rollers coated are product rollers for use in electrophotographic processes. Not only are such rollers required in such processes with relatively specifically defined properties, but it is also necessary that the roller be produced reproducibly with seamless coatings of material on their exterior. Such rollers are ideally produced by the method of the present invention.

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DE1778758A1 (de) * 1968-05-31 1971-08-26 Wolfen Filmfab Veb Vorrichtung zum kontinuierlichen gleichzeitigen Aufbringen von Schichten auf beiden Seiten einer thermoplastischen Folienbahn
US3656999A (en) * 1969-11-24 1972-04-18 Grace W R & Co Coated roller and method of coating
EP0406902A2 (de) * 1989-07-07 1991-01-09 Praxair S.T. Technology, Inc. FlÀ¼ssigkeitsübertragungsartikel mit einem in der Dampfphase beschichteten Polymerschutzfilm
US5133998A (en) * 1991-04-08 1992-07-28 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Method of manufacturing a fixing roller
US5617191A (en) * 1994-12-16 1997-04-01 Ricoh Company, Ltd. Toner conveyor roller and image forming apparatus having the same
US5677008A (en) * 1994-04-28 1997-10-14 Taiyo Steel Co., Ltd. Continuous coating method for coating material with insufficient fluidity
EP1158365A1 (de) * 2000-05-18 2001-11-28 Du Pont De Nemours (Deutschland) Gmbh Verfahren und Gerät zum Beschichten von zylindrischen Druckformen

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DE1778758A1 (de) * 1968-05-31 1971-08-26 Wolfen Filmfab Veb Vorrichtung zum kontinuierlichen gleichzeitigen Aufbringen von Schichten auf beiden Seiten einer thermoplastischen Folienbahn
US3656999A (en) * 1969-11-24 1972-04-18 Grace W R & Co Coated roller and method of coating
EP0406902A2 (de) * 1989-07-07 1991-01-09 Praxair S.T. Technology, Inc. FlÀ¼ssigkeitsübertragungsartikel mit einem in der Dampfphase beschichteten Polymerschutzfilm
US5133998A (en) * 1991-04-08 1992-07-28 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. Method of manufacturing a fixing roller
US5677008A (en) * 1994-04-28 1997-10-14 Taiyo Steel Co., Ltd. Continuous coating method for coating material with insufficient fluidity
US5617191A (en) * 1994-12-16 1997-04-01 Ricoh Company, Ltd. Toner conveyor roller and image forming apparatus having the same
EP1158365A1 (de) * 2000-05-18 2001-11-28 Du Pont De Nemours (Deutschland) Gmbh Verfahren und Gerät zum Beschichten von zylindrischen Druckformen

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