Abstract: To regulate the basis weight cross section of the fiber suspension dispensed by the outlet of a headbox of a paper making machine onto the screen or screens of the following forming section, the headbox is sectioned across the width of the machine with individual first sections of fiber suspension across the width. The fiber suspension on the screen(s) in the following forming section is drained and the drained filtrate is collected in second sections respectively generally corresponding to the first sections of the headbox. The removed sectioned filtrate is recycled to the respective sections of the headbox and is mixed with the suspension normally entering the headbox to regulate and make more uniform the basis weight cross section of the fiber suspension.

Abstract: A device for applying and dosing liquid or pasty materials onto moving surfaces, especially onto paper or cardboard webs, is provided. The invention is characterized by a roll, optionally with an outer shell, the diameter of which can be controlled by the application of energy and, under predetermined or desired controllable conditions provides local variations in diameter along the length of the roll or roll shell as a function of time and/or space.

Abstract: In order to independently influence the dewatering performance of a wet forming section of a paper machine as well as the quality of a web produced by the machine, a paper machine head box is mounted on a swiveling device adapted to move a nozzle of the head box around a periphery of a forming cylinder. Two continuous-loop forming wires wrap about the forming cylinder and pulp is discharged through the nozzle into a gap formed by the two wires. A method of operation of the wet forming section includes the step of swiveling both the head box nozzle and an inlet roll (upon which one of the wires is wrapped) around the forming cylinder in a circular arc.

Abstract: The dry end of a paper machine comprises a first dryer group with top drying cylinders, with a first drying wire and with bottom deflection suction rolls. Adjacent this, there is a second dryer group with bottom drying cylinders, with a second drying screen and with top deflection suction rolls. In this way, both sides of the web to be dried come, in succession, into direct contact with the drying cylinders. At the place where the web changes from the first drying wire to the second drying wire, there is a transfer suction roll which lies within the loop of the second support belt. The web travels there from the last cylinder of the first dryer group over an at least approximately straight travel path to the transfer suction roll and thus onto the second support belt.

Abstract: A throttle device for stock suspensions in a paper machine including a feed line, a drain line and a spatially variable cavity connecting the feed line and drain line with each other. The cavities provided with a plurality of nestable walls in which the nesting effects a lengthening of the flow path.

Abstract: A wire section of a machine for making a fiber web, with two continuous wires forming together a twin-wire zone. A dewatering element is pressable on the inside of the wire with at least one surface. The dewatering element features in the direction of travel of the fiber suspension, in interaction with the wires, two dewatering zones. The first dewatering zone is defined by an essentially flat surface, while a second dewatering zone is defined by a surface curving about an axis of curvature in the direction of travel of the fiber suspension. Coordinated with the dewatering element are at least two support axes on which support elements are arranged. Coordinated with the dewatering element is a pivot axis. The pivot axis is stationary as regards the tilting operation, and extends parallel to the separation plane between the first and second dewatering zones and parallel to the wire. The pivot axis is arranged in the area of the axis of curvature.

Abstract: A headbox for a paper machine is characterized by having: at least one machine-wide channel region which defines a main direction of flow; a region for the production of turbulence; a plurality of feed lines distributed over the machine width and discharging into the headbox channel region; an adjusting device in each feed line for controlling the quantity of flow; an angle .alpha. between the main direction of flow and the feed line; and the angle .alpha. being selected in such a manner that, regardless of the amount fed by the feed line, the total volumetric flow in the region directly downstream of the feed line remaining constant.

Abstract: A universal joint attached to a cardan shaft and adapted for transmitting high torques. The universal joint includes two yokes, with each yoke having two bearing bores. A spider has a plurality of journals which are respectively disposed in the bearing bores. Each journal defines a corresponding journal axis, and has a journal bore defining an inner edge. The spider defines a joint axis extending generally perpendicular to each journal axis. A plurality of radial bearings are disposed within a respective bearing bore for rotatably supporting the journal within the bearing bore. Each radial bearing includes an inner race having a collar extending toward a respective journal axis. The collar extends radially inward of the inner edge and includes a first running face which faces toward the joint axis and parallel to the respective journal axis. A plurality of bearing caps are respectively disposed at an axial end of each journal.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a sickleless internal gear pump with an internal ring gear and a pinion meshing with the ring gear. The ring gear has radial apertures for the medium being pumped, and sealing elements radially movably disposed in an appropriate profile groove, and inserted in respective tooth heads of the ring gear, or in the tooth heads of the pinion. The sealing elements are able to slide on the opposite tooth heads of the pinion, or of the ring gear. The head shape of the sealing element and the shape of the tooth space bottom of the ring gear, or of the pinion, are configured such that the sealing element establishes a seal between the pressure space and the suction space in the area of dead center.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for temporarily separating a web from one of the two wire belts in a twin wire zone in a paper making machine. In the twin wire zone, the negative pressure from a suction box is applied to the first wire belt for temporarily deflecting and separating the first wire belt and the web from the second wire belt and the wire belts then returning to contact the web following the suction box. The wire belts are then successively separated from the web by an appropriate guide and take up device. The take up device may comprise a press which includes a press nip defined by one of a suction roll over which the second wire in the web is passing or another type of roll or a flexible support device like a rotating press jacket. A smooth surface, such as that of a roll, forms a press nip with the support device for the second wire belt and after that press nip, the web adheres to the smooth surface to be transported further through the machine.

Abstract: The axes of a first press roll (1) and of a second press roll (3) lie in a press plane (E). Each of the press rolls has a journal pin (2) and (4), respectively. The first press roll is supported in a first bearing pedestal (5). The second press roll rests in a second bearing pedestal (6) which is coupled to the first bearing pedestal (5) by utilizing flexurally soft tension bars (7, 8). In the unloaded condition of the roll press, the second bearing pedestal (6) rests on the first bearing pedestal (5). In the loaded condition, play (p) is established between the bearing pedestals (5 and 6) so that the bearing pedestals (5 and 6) are displaceable axially relative to each other.

Abstract: A drying section for use in a papermaking machine has a two-felt drying group with an upper row of cylinders and an upper felt and with a lower row of cylinders and a lower felt. In each row of cylinders, two adjacent cylinders form a sub-group having a deflection suction roll disposed therebetween. A web to be dried passes alternately through the upper and lower sub-groups. Opposite each deflection suction roll of one row of cylinders lies a section of the felt path of the other row of cylinders, the space located therebetween being free from components to facilitate removal of paper broke.

Abstract: A cantileverable roll for use in a roll press, wherein the cantileverable roll cooperates with a backing roll. The cantileverable roll has a rotating surface and is either a solid rotatable roll body or a stationary roll body with a rotatable shell around it. A journal at each end of the cantileverable roll is supported in a respective bearing bracket. At one end of the roll, preferably the drive end, there is a non-rotating extension piece which extends out axially from the roll body and is fastened to the bearing bracket at that end. A tension bar or the like connects the extension piece to a stationary structural part and introduces force in the roll body which compensates for the weight of the roll when the other end of the roll is temporarily unsupported and the roll is cantilevered. The backing roll may also be cantilevered. The various techniques for supporting the one end of the roll by using the coupling element from the extension piece to the frame of the paper making machine are disclosed.

Abstract: An applicator system for applying color coating on a paper web is disclosed having a color coating applicator along with a backing roll around which is wrapped the paper web. A measuring system is incorporated for measuring a predetermined property of the color coating at several points along the width of the paper web. Predetermined qualities of the color coating include weight, thickness, or surface properties of the coated surface. A control means is included for controlling the color coating arriving at the application zone. The color coating is controlled by varying the temperature, or the consistency of the color coating in a zonewise fashion across the width of the paper web.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a dryer section of a machine for the production of fibrous web, such as a paper web. The dryer section comprises at least one dryer group having at least one drying cylinder and an endless porous support belt that guides the web around each cylinder. This is followed by a reversing roll being formed as a suction roll. With the web being supported by said porous support belt the web directly contacts said reversing roll. A distance of at least 150 mm is provided between the cylinder and the reversing roll. A sealing strip extends transversely over and close to the inner side of the endless porous belt in the region where web and belt are traveling off the cylinder. For deflecting the air boundary layer which arrives together with the belt, a sealing support beam also extends transversely over the inner side of the belt and supports the sealing strip.

Abstract: A throttle device for stock suspensions in a paper machine including a feed line, a drain line and a spatially variable cavity connecting the feed line and drain line with each other. The cavities provided with a plurality of nestable walls in which the nesting effects a lengthening of the flow path.

Abstract: A wet-press arrangement. The flexible press jacket of a shoe press roll removes the web to be dewatered in a first press nip directly from the wire on which the web has been formed. The web then passes, together with the press jacket, through a second press nip which is developed as a felted, lengthened press nip. The web then passes through a third press nip where it is transferred from the smooth outer surface of the press jacket onto the smooth outer surface of a press roll. The web then travels, together with the latter roll, through a fourth press nip, which again is developed as a felted, lengthened press nip. Following that, the web still follows the press roll up to a place of web removal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of processing printed waste paper, in particular waste paper containing at least 80% newsprint or magazine paper by digestion, various cleaning steps, flotation or washing and disintegrating, the latter with a high consistency of at least 20%, and possibly bleaching. The invention is characterized by the fact that a final second disintegrating step, arranged possibly before a bleaching step, with treatment of the waste paper under strong kneading action of individual bar-shaped or block-shaped kneading elements of both the stator and the rotor of the disintegrating machine which are arranged in a kneading chamber thereof which is delimited by two concentric cylindrical surfaces, at temperatures between 20.degree. and 110.degree. C., and preferably 38.degree. to 65.degree. C., and with a specific power consumption of between 30 and 100, and preferably 80, kilowatt hours/ton oven-dried pulp.

Abstract: The device comprises a blowing device (2) extending transversely to the screen travel direction, said device having two mutually parallel strips extending transversely to the travel direction of the screen, namely a leading strip (41) and a trailing strip (42), each of which contacts circulating screen (11) with a screen guide surface. Between the two strips is a blowing opening connected to a source of compressed air (62). Between leading strip (41) and screen (11) a wedge-shaped gap (45) is formed, tapering in the screen travel direction, in which gap a water-spraying device (3) terminates. Blowing device (2) is located inside the endless loop of screen (11), and water-spraying device (3) is located on the outside.

Abstract: In a papermaking machine, the drying section includes a vacuum based system which serves to guide the web and supporting felt (15) from a first drying cylinder (11) to a transfer vacuum roller (10), which has perforations (13) through which a vacuum is communicated into the interior of the roller 10 from of an external suction box (14). The suction box (14) includes lengthwise extending sealing strips (28, 29) located adjacent and bounding the free circumferential surface of the transfer roller (10), which is not overlapped by the felt of the drying section. The sealing strips extend from the suction box 14 to the roller mantel (10a) of the roller 10. These strips are further designed in the style of a doctor blade and are flexibly mounted on the suction box (14) so that they are flexible and biased against the roller 10 by spring action. They extend approximately tangentially to the surface of the roller mantel (10a), contacting it gently.