Facts About Lamination Process Control and Thickness Recovery After Lamination 2

Glossary of Terms

Mayer Bar -A wire wound rod used for the metering of adhesive in a lamination process.

Nip Roller - A roller that rides on top of the fiber glass blanket to provide compression and contact to the blanket and facing prior to windup.

Kiss Coater - Two adhesive rollers one on top of the other. The bottom roller picks up the adhesive and transfers it to the top roller that in turn transfers it to the facing.Application rate is adjusted by metering the distance between the two rollers.

Design of Experiment - A considered course of action aimed at answering one or more carefully framed questions in which the experimenter chooses certain factors for study, deliberately varies those factors in a controlled fashion, then observes the effect of such action.