WO1997038275A1 - Uv dryer with improved reflector - Google Patents

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WO1997038275A1
WO1997038275A1 PCT/GB1997/000940 GB9700940W WO9738275A1 WO 1997038275 A1 WO1997038275 A1 WO 1997038275A1 GB 9700940 W GB9700940 W GB 9700940W WO 9738275 A1 WO9738275 A1 WO 9738275A1
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V9/00—Elements for modifying spectral properties, polarisation or intensity of the light emitted, e.g. filters
    • F21V9/04—Elements for modifying spectral properties, polarisation or intensity of the light emitted, e.g. filters for filtering out infrared radiation
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V29/00—Protecting lighting devices from thermal damage; Cooling or heating arrangements specially adapted for lighting devices or systems
    • F21V29/50—Cooling arrangements
    • F21V29/56—Cooling arrangements using liquid coolants
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V31/00—Gas-tight or water-tight arrangements
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V7/00—Reflectors for light sources
    • F21V7/22—Reflectors for light sources characterised by materials, surface treatments or coatings, e.g. dichroic reflectors
    • F21V7/24—Reflectors for light sources characterised by materials, surface treatments or coatings, e.g. dichroic reflectors characterised by the material
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F21—LIGHTING
    • F21V—FUNCTIONAL FEATURES OR DETAILS OF LIGHTING DEVICES OR SYSTEMS THEREOF; STRUCTURAL COMBINATIONS OF LIGHTING DEVICES WITH OTHER ARTICLES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • F21V7/00—Reflectors for light sources
    • F21V7/22—Reflectors for light sources characterised by materials, surface treatments or coatings, e.g. dichroic reflectors
    • F21V7/28—Reflectors for light sources characterised by materials, surface treatments or coatings, e.g. dichroic reflectors characterised by coatings
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F26—DRYING
    • F26B—DRYING SOLID MATERIALS OR OBJECTS BY REMOVING LIQUID THEREFROM
    • F26B3/00—Drying solid materials or objects by processes involving the application of heat
    • F26B3/28—Drying solid materials or objects by processes involving the application of heat by radiation, e.g. from the sun

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  • This invention relates to UN dryers, in particular, for use with high speed printing machines.
  • UN dryers are frequently used in the printing industry for drying photopolymerisable inks.
  • a lamp or bank of lamps having a high UN output is required, in order to cure the inks during the short time when the sheets are passing the mouth of the dryer.
  • UN lamps also emit a substantial amount of heat and the larger or longer the lamp, the greater the amount of waste heat which needs to be disposed of.
  • the present invention seeks to provide a solution to this problem.
  • an ultra ⁇ violet dryer wherein a UN lamp is supported in a reflector housing, said housing including a reflector body member having a reflective surface adjacent the lamp and other surfaces spaced therefrom and cooling means for passing a cooling medium over said other surfaces to cool said body member, wherein the reflective surface comprises a thin, flexible strip of heat-conductive sheet material bearing dichroic film, said film exhibiting a high degree of transmission towards infra-red radiation and a high degree of reflection towards UN radiation.
  • the reflective surface of the reflector preferably comprises a thin, flexible, polished strip of heat-conductive material such as metal, e.g. stainless steel, having one surface disposed for reflecting UN light towards the printed sheets or web, and the other in close contact with the reflector housing.
  • the reflector housing may be air or water cooled and, because the dichroic film is transmissive towards infra-red radiation, the underlying metal strip becomes hot and heat is conducted from the strip of sheet material to the reflector body member.
  • a heat-conductive paste may be applied to the back surface of the strip.
  • the strip is fastened to the body member in such a way as to ensure close contact of the back surface of the strip with the corresponding surface of the body member. Where a paste is present, the fastening device ensures that the paste is squeezed between the contacting surfaces.
  • a reflector which is a thin flexible sheet material is advantageous because there are difficulties in coating dichroic films onto curved surfaces.
  • the dichroic film is coated onto a flat metal sheet which is then deformed to take up the same curvature as the reflector body member.
  • the UN dryer is preferably cooled using water.
  • the UV dryer includes movable shutters to close off the reflector mouth when the web is stationary. Under such conditions, the shutters can become extremely hot and they are preferably cooled in accordance with this mvention by passing a water-cooling stream along the pivot axis of the shutter blades.
  • Figure 1 is a plan view of the dryer showing the arrangements for conducting cooling water to the shutter blades
  • Figure 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, showing the dryer shown in Figure 1
  • Figure 3 is a view on the line 3-3 in Figure 2, showing details of the internal construction of the dryer on a larger scale.
  • the dryer comprises a housing (1) in which a UN lamp (2) is mounted and the housing includes a pair of shutter blades (3), pivoted on an axis (4).
  • an extrusion or casting (10) forming a reflector body, preferably manufactured from an aluminium or an alunrinium alloy, having longitudinally arranged water jackets (11) through which water can be circulated to remove heat from the body.
  • the reflector surface comprises two thin elongate strips of metal (12) which are received in a recess (14) in the body (10) on one side, at or close to the centre line passing through the reflector and at the other side of their width by a clamp (13).
  • the metal strips (12) are made from a heat- resistant flexible metal such as stainless steel or alurninium and typically have a thickness of from about 0.2 to about 0.5 mm, preferably 0.3 mm.
  • the strips need not be continuous but may be a series of contiguous sections arranged lengthwise of the lamp housing.
  • the reflector strips are releasably clamped in position by means of the clamps (13) pressing on one edge and the edges of the recess (14) holding the other side of the width strip. This pressure causes the strips to be deformed so that they are pressed in intimate contact with the surface of the body.
  • a heat-conductive paste e.g. a silicone paste, may be squeezed between the two surfaces to ensure good thermal contact.
  • Water jackets (11) are constructed so that they lie close to the metal strips (12), thereby more effectively cooling by conducting heat away from the metal strips.
  • dichroic beam splitting or filters are described in the book by H.A. Macleod "Thin Film Optical Filters", published by Hilger, see especially page 309.
  • the technique for depositing dichroic films is described by Bowhoff & Pincus on pages 58 to 75 of Scientific American (223), December 1970.
  • the film or coating forms an optical interference layer on the stainless steel substrate. By applying uniform films of alternate low and high refractive index, a quarter wave stack can be produced in which the film has the same optical thickness as a quarter wavelength in the UN band, e.g. 350 ⁇ 400 nm.
  • the dichroic coating is produced so as to reflect a majority of light in the 240 ⁇ 400 nanometer waveband, generally more than 80%, and preferably more than 90%. At the same time, the coating should transmit the majority of incident R. radiation and reflect less than 30%, preferably less than 25%, of radiation in the 450 ⁇ 2000 nanometer waveband.
  • the filter can be formed by alternate layers of silicon dioxide and ha&ium dioxide layers.
  • the layers are vapour deposited onto the sheet metal using a vacuum chamber and an electron beam gun to vaporise the coating material.
  • an oscillating circuit may be employed to energise the two electron guns alternately. Coating may be continued until a substantial number of layers have been deposited, e.g. 50 to 100 layers.
  • a heat-absorbing coating may be applied to the metal surface prior to the coating with the dichroic filter film.
  • Typical coatmgs are copper, nickel or chromium which are conveniently applied by electroplating.
  • the lamp is essentially water-cooled but a passageway (15) is arranged within the housing to provide for a curtain of compressed air to be emitted from slots or holes (16) so as to blow air over the lamp envelope itself.
  • the slots or holes (16) are angled so as to direct a curtain of air into the gap between the reflective surface and the lamp envelope as shown by the single-headed arrows.
  • This air movement creates a venturi effect on the other side of the envelope, causing air to be sucked into the corresponding gap on the other side, as indicated by the double-headed arrows.
  • air circulates substantially co-axially around the lamp and this results in an important cooling effect on the lamp. This has the further advantage of keeping the lamp free from deposits of ink which can sometimes be carried in the airstream towards the lamp.
  • the dichroic filter coating on the reflector helps to keep the reflector clean because it lowers its temperature, thereby causing less degradation of deposits of ink and other stray materials derived from materials being printed or the inks.
  • Water-cooling is provided by pipes connected to apertures (20) in a heat sink block.
  • Apertures (20) are connected to passages (21) via 0-ring seals.
  • Passages (21) are connected to passages (22) passing through the pivot points of the shutter blades, thereby causing water to flow through the pivot points and cooling the shutters themselves.
  • the heat sink may include a cross-bore (23) which connects the water supply to passages (25) formed in a block (26) in the base of the housing.
  • the invention enables the dryer to be constructed in a very compact form. This extends the number of printing machines which can be fitted with UV dryers and increases the speed at which such machines can be operated using UV ink drying.
  • Figure 3 is drawn essentially to full size and it can be seen that a reflector opening of about 55 to 60 mms is employed using a UV lamp having a lamp envelope of about 35-40 mms diameter.
  • the lamp will be about 1 metre long and have an output of about 25 KW.
  • the UV dryer operates with about 50% less LR. radiation reflected back into the lamp and a significantly greater proportion of UV radiation reflected. As a result, the temperature measured beneath the web was reduced from about 250°C to 180°C.

Abstract

This invention relates to UV dryers and provides an ultraviolet dryer wherein a UV lamp (2) is supported in a reflector housing (1), said housing including a reflector body member (10) having a reflective surface adjacent the lamp (2) and other surfaces spaced therefrom and cooling means (11) for passing a cooling medium over said other surfaces to cool said body member, wherein the reflective surface comprises a thin, flexible strip of heat-conductive sheet material (12) bearing dichroic film, said film exhibiting a high degree of transmission towards infrared radiation and high degreee of reflection toward UV radiation.

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UV DRYER WITH IMPROVED REFLECTOR
This invention relates to UN dryers, in particular, for use with high speed printing machines.
UN dryers are frequently used in the printing industry for drying photopolymerisable inks. When used with high speed printing machines, a lamp or bank of lamps having a high UN output is required, in order to cure the inks during the short time when the sheets are passing the mouth of the dryer. Unfortunately, UN lamps also emit a substantial amount of heat and the larger or longer the lamp, the greater the amount of waste heat which needs to be disposed of. The present invention seeks to provide a solution to this problem.
According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided an ultra¬ violet dryer wherein a UN lamp is supported in a reflector housing, said housing including a reflector body member having a reflective surface adjacent the lamp and other surfaces spaced therefrom and cooling means for passing a cooling medium over said other surfaces to cool said body member, wherein the reflective surface comprises a thin, flexible strip of heat-conductive sheet material bearing dichroic film, said film exhibiting a high degree of transmission towards infra-red radiation and a high degree of reflection towards UN radiation.
The reflective surface of the reflector preferably comprises a thin, flexible, polished strip of heat-conductive material such as metal, e.g. stainless steel, having one surface disposed for reflecting UN light towards the printed sheets or web, and the other in close contact with the reflector housing. The reflector housing may be air or water cooled and, because the dichroic film is transmissive towards infra-red radiation, the underlying metal strip becomes hot and heat is conducted from the strip of sheet material to the reflector body member. By arranging for air-cooling fins or water- cooling passages to be positioned close to the surface of the reflective body member which is in close contact with the flexible substrate, efficient transfer of heat to the cooling medium is achieved. As a further aid to heat transfer, a heat-conductive paste may be applied to the back surface of the strip. The strip is fastened to the body member in such a way as to ensure close contact of the back surface of the strip with the corresponding surface of the body member. Where a paste is present, the fastening device ensures that the paste is squeezed between the contacting surfaces.
The provision of a reflector which is a thin flexible sheet material is advantageous because there are difficulties in coating dichroic films onto curved surfaces. In accordance with this invention, the dichroic film is coated onto a flat metal sheet which is then deformed to take up the same curvature as the reflector body member.
Accordmg to another feature of the invention, the UN dryer is preferably cooled using water. In one embodiment of the invention the UV dryer includes movable shutters to close off the reflector mouth when the web is stationary. Under such conditions, the shutters can become extremely hot and they are preferably cooled in accordance with this mvention by passing a water-cooling stream along the pivot axis of the shutter blades.
One embodiment of a dryer in accordance with the invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:-
Figure 1 is a plan view of the dryer showing the arrangements for conducting cooling water to the shutter blades,
Figure 2 is a side elevation, partly in section, showing the dryer shown in Figure 1, and Figure 3 is a view on the line 3-3 in Figure 2, showing details of the internal construction of the dryer on a larger scale.
Referring to the drawings, the dryer comprises a housing (1) in which a UN lamp (2) is mounted and the housing includes a pair of shutter blades (3), pivoted on an axis (4).
Details of the construction of the dryer shown in Figure 3 from which it will be noted that the movement of the shutter blades is controlled by a disc (5), which is rotatable by an air, electric or hydraulic motor, not shown, in order to open and shut the shutters using linkage arms (6 and 7). The details of the operation of the shutter blades and their construction is described in our PCT appbcation WO 93/02329.
Mounted within the housing (1) is an extrusion or casting (10) forming a reflector body, preferably manufactured from an aluminium or an alunrinium alloy, having longitudinally arranged water jackets (11) through which water can be circulated to remove heat from the body. The reflector surface comprises two thin elongate strips of metal (12) which are received in a recess (14) in the body (10) on one side, at or close to the centre line passing through the reflector and at the other side of their width by a clamp (13). The metal strips (12) are made from a heat- resistant flexible metal such as stainless steel or alurninium and typically have a thickness of from about 0.2 to about 0.5 mm, preferably 0.3 mm. The strips need not be continuous but may be a series of contiguous sections arranged lengthwise of the lamp housing.
The reflector strips are releasably clamped in position by means of the clamps (13) pressing on one edge and the edges of the recess (14) holding the other side of the width strip. This pressure causes the strips to be deformed so that they are pressed in intimate contact with the surface of the body. A heat-conductive paste, e.g. a silicone paste, may be squeezed between the two surfaces to ensure good thermal contact. Water jackets (11) are constructed so that they lie close to the metal strips (12), thereby more effectively cooling by conducting heat away from the metal strips.
The metal strips themselves carry a dichroic film which acts as a selective filter and reflector. This film is applied by vapour deposition in a controlled thickness. The principles of dichroic beam splitting or filters are described in the book by H.A. Macleod "Thin Film Optical Filters", published by Hilger, see especially page 309. The technique for depositing dichroic films is described by Bowmeister & Pincus on pages 58 to 75 of Scientific American (223), December 1970. The film or coating forms an optical interference layer on the stainless steel substrate. By applying uniform films of alternate low and high refractive index, a quarter wave stack can be produced in which the film has the same optical thickness as a quarter wavelength in the UN band, e.g. 350~400 nm. In this way, the film will exhibit maximum reflectance in the UV wavelengths, and the maximum transmittance in the infra-red bands. The dichroic coating is produced so as to reflect a majority of light in the 240 ~ 400 nanometer waveband, generally more than 80%, and preferably more than 90%. At the same time, the coating should transmit the majority of incident R. radiation and reflect less than 30%, preferably less than 25%, of radiation in the 450 ~ 2000 nanometer waveband.
Various materials can be used to foπn the dichroic filter layer. These include metal oxides and high temperature resistant salts such as fluorides. In one embodiment, the filter can be formed by alternate layers of silicon dioxide and ha&ium dioxide layers. The layers are vapour deposited onto the sheet metal using a vacuum chamber and an electron beam gun to vaporise the coating material. By using a vacuum chamber having two electron guns, each focused on a crucible containing one or more of the two coating materials, alternate layers can be deposited. An oscillating circuit may be employed to energise the two electron guns alternately. Coating may be continued until a substantial number of layers have been deposited, e.g. 50 to 100 layers.
A heat-absorbing coating may be applied to the metal surface prior to the coating with the dichroic filter film. Typical coatmgs are copper, nickel or chromium which are conveniently applied by electroplating.
In the embodiment described, the lamp is essentially water-cooled but a passageway (15) is arranged within the housing to provide for a curtain of compressed air to be emitted from slots or holes (16) so as to blow air over the lamp envelope itself. The slots or holes (16) are angled so as to direct a curtain of air into the gap between the reflective surface and the lamp envelope as shown by the single-headed arrows. This air movement creates a venturi effect on the other side of the envelope, causing air to be sucked into the corresponding gap on the other side, as indicated by the double-headed arrows. As a result, air circulates substantially co-axially around the lamp and this results in an important cooling effect on the lamp. This has the further advantage of keeping the lamp free from deposits of ink which can sometimes be carried in the airstream towards the lamp.
The dichroic filter coating on the reflector helps to keep the reflector clean because it lowers its temperature, thereby causing less degradation of deposits of ink and other stray materials derived from materials being printed or the inks.
Water-cooling is provided by pipes connected to apertures (20) in a heat sink block. Apertures (20) are connected to passages (21) via 0-ring seals. Passages (21) are connected to passages (22) passing through the pivot points of the shutter blades, thereby causing water to flow through the pivot points and cooling the shutters themselves. The heat sink may include a cross-bore (23) which connects the water supply to passages (25) formed in a block (26) in the base of the housing.
Additional connections are made to the passages (11) in the body of the reflector housing (10). Suitable valves may be included between these connections in order to regulate the relative flow of water through different parts of the cooling system.
It will be seen from Figure 3 that the invention enables the dryer to be constructed in a very compact form. This extends the number of printing machines which can be fitted with UV dryers and increases the speed at which such machines can be operated using UV ink drying.
Figure 3 is drawn essentially to full size and it can be seen that a reflector opening of about 55 to 60 mms is employed using a UV lamp having a lamp envelope of about 35-40 mms diameter. The lamp will be about 1 metre long and have an output of about 25 KW.
Tests have shown that using the construction described above, the UV dryer operates with about 50% less LR. radiation reflected back into the lamp and a significantly greater proportion of UV radiation reflected. As a result, the temperature measured beneath the web was reduced from about 250°C to 180°C.

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1. An ultra-violet dryer wherein a UV lamp is supported in a reflector housing, said housing including a reflector body member having a reflective surface adjacent the lamp and other surfaces spaced therefrom and cooling means for passing a cooling medium over said other surfaces to cool said body member, wherein the reflective surface comprises a thin, flexible strip of heat-conductive sheet material bearing a dichroic film, said film exhibiting a high degree of transmission towards infra-red radiation and a high degree of reflection towards UV radiation.
2. A dryer as claimed in claim 1 in which the flexible strip is flexed and held in contact with a curved surface of the reflector body member by a fastening device.
3. A dryer as claimed in claim 2 wherein the reflective surface is formed from a plurality of said thin, flexible strips.
4. A dryer as claimed in any one of the preceding claims wherein the thin, flexible strips comprise a metal having a thickness of from 0.2 to 0.6 mm.
5. A dryer as claimed in claim 4 wherein the dichroic coating reflects more than 80% of incident radiation in the wavelength band 240-400 nanometers and reflects less than 30% of incident radiation in the wavelength band 450-2000 nanometers.
6. A dryer as claimed in any one of the preceding claims which includes lamp cooling means for directing an air stream over the lamp, wherein the air stream is directed between the reflective surface at one side of the lamp and the lamp envelope, thereby causing cooling air to circulate around the lamp envelope.
7. A dryer as claimed in any one of the preceding claims wherein the reflector body member includes internal passages for circulating cooling water therethrough.
8. A dryer as claimed in any one of the preceding claims wherein the reflector has a mouth which is closeable by at least one pivoting shutter and wherein the shutter is cooled by passing cooling water through a hollow pivot for the shutter.
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