Although various attempts have been made to measure the temperature of running wire, principles employed in most of them are theoretically inconvenient for this purpose. Authors have developed a new wire temperature measuring apparatus which is reliable in principle and practically has brought about good results.
Wire whose temperature is to be determined runs through the inside of coaxial cylinder sensing element. So far as the wire is running and the end effect can be neglected, it is possible to keep the coaxial: ylinders to be at the same temperature as that of the wire. This is performed by controlling the temperaure of outer cylinder to be equal to that of inner cylinder. Under this condition, the wire temperature is letermined simply by measurement of inner cylinder temperature.
In this method, errors due to wire speed, emissivity of wire surface and ambient temperature never arise. Whether the wire surface is conductive or insulated proves no hindrance to the measurement. Wire temperature to be determined is not disturbed by the installation of the sensing element when the apparatus is working. The size of wire whose temperature can be measured by this apparatus is now limited up to 1.4mm, but sensing element suitable for larger size can be manufactured without difficulty.
Accuracy is estimated better than ±2deg. C (room temperature-200°C) through comparison of the value measured by the apparatus with the wire resistance measured simultaneously.
Dynamic characteristic is difficult to test, because wire temperature cannot be changed as is wanted. But it can be obtained from the limit to which response of the apparatus to the change of the wire-heating current approaches when wire speed becomes very high.
Wire temperature control and temperature measurement in case wire is drawn are also mentioned.
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