A high density polyethylene was cast by using a flat film processor which consisted of a 25mm extruder, a 20cm coathanger die, a pair of chill rolls, and a variety of electrodes on which thin needles were regularly planted in a row at intervals of
d cm. The corona shower radiated from the electrode onto the surface of the running molten film resulted in the spreading of the film width
W. At first the fluctuation of the film thickness was related to d and the voltage
E applied to the electrode. Then
W was analyzed with respect to
D and (
L-H); where
D is the horizontal distance between the tip of the needles and the front surface of the running film,
L is the vertical distance measured from the die lips to the freezing line on the chill roll, and
H is the vertical distance between the die lips and the electrode needles. The adoption of the electrodes with
d≥1cm resulted in the formation of channels on the film surface, implying the existence of the fluctuation of the electric charge distribution on the film surfaces. When
d was smaller than 0.5cm, however, no fluctuation in film thickness was found at any level of
E. W varied inversely with
d. The ultimate voltage applicable to the electrodes seemed to be limited by the dielectric strength of the atmospheric layer rather than the breakdown of the running film itself because the thickness of the latter was much smaller than that of the former in the present systems. Then the increase in
D and/or (
L-H) caused the increase in
W the width of films.
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