Apparatus and method for measuring roll sidewall quality

摘要

An apparatus for measuring a sidewall characteristic of a wound roll includes a housing, a platform mounted in the housing having a surface adapted to receive the wound roll, a distance measuring sensor supported in the housing for movement along a predetermined line of measurement extending across at least a portion of the sidewall of the wound roll for measuring the sidewall characteristic, and a processor for processing the sidewall characteristic and generating at least one quality metric representative of the quality of the roll.