Patents Assigned to Valmet Technologies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 9808824
    Abstract: An arrangement in a curtain coater for starting and stopping coating of a web, having a reservoir and a connected surface extending over the web toward the curtain to collect the coating as the coater moves over the web to start coating the web. A cover plate that swing around a cross-direction shaft connected to the cover plate. In one embodiment the shaft also moves in the machine direction. The cover plate is used to protect an leading edge of the collecting surface from being covered with coating and pivots to be cleaned with fluid which may be supply from the shaft. The cover plate is arranged so the fluid drain off the cover plate onto the collecting surface or reservoir. When clean, the cover plate is repositioned to protect an leading edge of the collecting surface during the next start or stop operation of coating the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Heikki Vatanen, Timo Nurmiainen
  • Patent number: 9765479
    Abstract: A blade segment of a disc refiner for refining fibrous material has an inner circumference and an outer circumference as well as a first side edge and a second side edge which connect the inner circumference and the outer circumference. The side edges are curved, with one convex and the other concave. The segment has a refining surface with blade bars and grooves which define a pumping direction. The side edges of the blade segment curve in the vicinity of the inner circumference in the pumping direction, and in the vicinity of the outer circumference in a non-pumping direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Håkan Sjöström, Matti Kaarineva, Tomi Iisakkila
  • Publication number: 20170225187
    Abstract: A sealing blade includes opposite elongated edges (30, 31) and between them a flat (32) and which is adaptable to a blade holder (17) arranged in a coating applicator (25) of a coating device (21) and into contact with a moving surface (11?). The sealing blade has a contact surface (33), which may be arranged against the moving surface and which is 5-15% of the width (W) of the sealing blade (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: Valmet Technologies, Inc
    Inventors: Arto Karusalmi, Vesa Lamberg
  • Patent number: 9675991
    Abstract: A curtain coating device for paper and board machines has a nozzle beam (10) with a nozzle lip (12) with an edge strip (11) for feeding the coating color curtain and edge guides (20) located along each edge of the nozzle lips (12) controlling the width of the coating color curtain. The edge guide (20) has upper and lower ends. Flow surfaces (22) extend in a substantially vertical direction parallel and next to each other. The edge guide has a lubrication feed (24), additional lubrication feeds (26) and a suction opening (27). The flow surfaces (22) are inclined toward each other forming a flow guide recess (25) which extends in a vertical direction such that the form of the flow surfaces (22) with the flow guide recess (25) is concave. A protrusion (21) extends within the recess in the direction of the flow guide recess (25).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Heikki Vatanen
  • Patent number: 9649658
    Abstract: A coating device and method for coating a fiber web for applying coating color onto a fiber web has a nozzle unit with at least one nozzle part (10), a feeding chamber (11) and at least one equalizing chamber (13; 13?), a feed hole (12) between the feeding chamber (11) and the first equalizing chamber (13), and a nozzle slot (14?) from which the coating color is discharged through the nozzle slot (14?) outlet opening (15). A mixing chamber (20) between the outlet area of the feed hole (12) and the equalizing chamber (13) functions as a means for distributing uniformly the inhomogeneous coating color flow entering the equalizing chamber (13) from the feed hole (12). The coating from the feed hole is directed to a wall (22) of mixing chambers (20) which distribute uniformly the coating entering the equalizing chamber (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tapio Pitkäniemi, Heikki Vatanen
  • Publication number: 20160355362
    Abstract: A perforated roll (10) of a fiber web machine includes a roll shell (19), holes (13) extending through the roll shell, and a sensing system (14) arranged in the roll shell. The sensing system (14) includes at least one pair of leads (16), to which one or more sensors (15) have been connected. At least one pair of leads is composed of flat leads (17.2, 17.2), which are arranged in the roll shell side by side. A prefabricated sensor sheet (26) may be prepared for a perforated roll of a fiber web machine, such that holes may be drilled therethrough to communicate with the roll shell holes (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kari Röyskö, Heikki Kettunen, Tatu Pitkänen
  • Patent number: 9493895
    Abstract: A device for treating a fiber web, especially a device for applying treatment substance for treating a moving fiber web, has at least one nozzle (10) comprising a channel (11) for the treatment substance, a frame part (12), a tip or end (13) of the nozzle (10) and a treatment substance opening (14) providing a treatment substance spray, which nozzle (10) has a tip groove area (20) adjacent to the treatment substance opening (14). The nozzle (10) has at least one opening next to or at the tip groove area (20) for providing a cleaning fluid flow comprising gas and/or liquid to the tip groove area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Topi Tynkkynen, Tapio Pitkäniemi
  • Patent number: 9433964
    Abstract: A rod-bed assembly has a holder (30) and an insert (20) removably and insertably supported in a groove (31) of the holder (30), the rod-bed assembly being for a rod (10) rotatably supported in a recess (21) on a front side of the insert (20). Longitudinal bending of the holder (30) in a cross-direction is under 0.5%, advantageously under 0.35%, of the longitudinal distance between two profiling loading points of the holder (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ari-Pekka Kautto, Timo Lintula
  • Patent number: 9393593
    Abstract: A method and apparatus are described for controlling a coating head, which exerts a nip pressure to a fibrous web to be coated while the fibrous web is supported by a backing roll. An output signal of a sensor integrated within the backing roll is read, thus producing a measured indication of the nip pressure. A number of actuator control values are derived at least partly from said measured indication of the nip pressure. Said actuator control values are delivered as commands to a number of respective actuators that contribute to creating the nip pressure, to control an amount of a coating substance on the fibrous web in the coating head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Olli Niemi, Tatu Pitkänen
  • Publication number: 20160145798
    Abstract: A blade segment of a disc refiner for refining fibrous material has an inner circumference and an outer circumference as well as a first side edge and a second side edge which connect the inner circumference and the outer circumference. The side edges are curved, with one convex and the other concave. The segment has a refining surface with blade bars and grooves which define a pumping direction. The side edges of the blade segment curve in the vicinity of the inner circumference in the pumping direction, and in the vicinity of the outer circumference in a non-pumping direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Håkan Sjöström, Matti Kaarineva, Tomi Iisakkila
  • Publication number: 20160138223
    Abstract: A doctor device includes blade devices (19) supported on holder devices (23). The holder devices (23) are for arranging the blade devices (19) in a fiber web machine to be placed in connection with a doctor blade (18) equipped with a blade holder (38). The blade devices (19) are supported aligned in a circumferential direction with edge areas (20) of the doctor blade (18). The holder devices (23) are arranged to be fastened in connection with the blade holder (38) so that the blade devices (19) extend further out than the doctor blade (18) to reduce the wear of the doctor blade (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Hannu Eerikäinen
  • Publication number: 20160130105
    Abstract: A slitter-winder for winding of pulp webs or corresponding webs with a thickness of at least 0.5 mm, in which the winder is a two-drum winder having two winding drums on support of which at least two pulp web rolls are wound. At least one of the winding drums is a nip acceptance winding drum (NAWD), that is a winding drum with a cover having a hardness of 40-80 Shore A and a thickness of 3-50 mm. The winding drums and a steel core or a shaft of the at least two pulp web rolls have parallel rotation axes and are in a rolling contact where the at least one winding drum is driven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Jaakko Haapanen, Marko Jorkama, Arto Leskinen, Jari Pelkonen
  • Patent number: 9322135
    Abstract: A method for producing a fiber web (W) in which method the fiber web (W) is calendered in at least one nip (NA) of a calender (20A). The fiber web (W) is cooled at least partially by moisturizing evaporating cooling by a moisturizing evaporating cooling unit (10) before the fiber web is calendered and moisture is absorbed during 10-500 ms. A production line for producing fiber webs (W) has a calender (20A) with a calendering nip (NA). The production line for fiber webs, in particular board webs, has a fiber web machine (50), in particular a board machine, with a head box, a wire section, a press section and a drying section, and at least one moisturizing evaporating cooling module (10), and a hard nip calender (20A) with a thermo roll, which has a surface temperature at least 120° C., and a reel-up (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Reijo Pietikäinen, Mika Viljanmaa, Jari Ilomäki, Seppo Luomi
  • Publication number: 20160107859
    Abstract: A trailing end (14?) of a web in a web roll (14, 14.1) is secured to a surface of the web roll in a slitter-winder (10) by attachment articles (30) which extend over a trailing end of the web on the roll surface. Each attachment article has an adhesive surface positioned on a path of movement of the web roll, facing toward the roll, and, while the roll is moved, it is attached on the surface of the web roll. An arrangement (11) for securing a trailing end of a web to the roll in a slitter-winder (10) has a roll handling system (24) to move the rolls (14) via a path, and an adhesive article distribution system (28) positioned to attachment the article, in which the two systems co-operate so that, as the rolls are moved, the attachment article is attached on the surface of the web roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Harri Lindberg, Kenneth Åkerlund, Marko Korpinen
  • Publication number: 20160074898
    Abstract: An arrangement in a curtain coater for starting and stopping coating of a web, having a reservoir and a connected surface extending over the web toward the curtain to collect the coating as the coater moves over the web to start coating the web. A cover plate that swing around a cross-direction shaft connected to the cover plate. In one embodiment the shaft also moves in the machine direction. The cover plate is used to protect an leading edge of the collecting surface from being covered with coating and pivots to be cleaned with fluid which may be supply from the shaft. The cover plate is arranged so the fluid drain off the cover plate onto the collecting surface or reservoir. When clean, the cover plate is repositioned to protect an leading edge of the collecting surface during the next start or stop operation of coating the web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Applicant: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Heikki Vatanen, Timo Nurmiainen
  • Publication number: 20160070226
    Abstract: A doctor apparatus for a web forming machine to doctor a moving surface, and the doctor apparatus (10) includes a doctor blade (16) and blade holder (11), which blade holder (11) has a holder component (14) preferably made of aluminum, to which the doctor blade (16) is mounted by a front plate (15), and a frame component (12) preferably made of fiber-reinforced polymer material, to which the holder component (14) is mounted. The doctor apparatus (10) having a loading element (22) arranged between the frame component (12) and holder component (14) to load the blade holder (11) and further the doctor blade (16). The invention also relates to a corresponding blade holder and holder component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Hannu Eerikäinen, Tommi Luosma
  • Patent number: 9267234
    Abstract: A refiner (1, 2, 3) for refining fibrous material. And a blade element (18) for a refiner (1, 2, 3) intended for refining fibrous material. The blade element (18) having a refining surface (18?), which has blade bars (21, 23) and blade grooves (22, 24) between them. The top surface of at least one blade bar (21, 23) is provided with refining grits (25). The blade element (18) has portions (29, 30) forming a protruding part extending away above the refining surface (26a, 26b) and above the blade bars (21, 23) or the refining grits (25) on the refining surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Juha-Pekka Huhtanen, Vesa Harju, Markku Partanen, Olli Tuovinen, Petteri Vuorio
  • Patent number: 9260266
    Abstract: Partial webs are separated in a slitter-winder. The partial webs (WP) are separated by spreading in a spreading device having at least a first, bowed spreader roll (14) fitted at one side of the partial webs (WP) and a second, bowed spreader roll (15) fitted at the opposite side of the partial webs. The partial webs (WP) are guided over the bowed spreader rolls (14, 15) so that the wrap angles (B 14, B15) over the spreader rolls (14, 15) are substantially unequal. The partial webs (WP) are guided to the first spreader roll (14) in a lead-in direction (Dinxy) in the XY-direction and the partial webs are guided from the second spreader roll (15) in a lead-out direction (Doutxy) in the XY-direction such that the lead-in direction (Dinxy) and the lead-out direction are substantially divergent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Heikki Föhr, Tommi Vuoristo
  • Publication number: 20150375231
    Abstract: A single-disc refiner (1) has a stationary refining element (2) and an opposed rotatable refining element (12), each of which has a radially inner blade element (4, 14) providing an inner refining surface area and a radially outer blade element providing an outer refining surface area. The inner and outer refining surface areas of each refining element together provide a refining surface of the refining element, the refining surfaces defining a feed zone (29) followed by a treatment zone (30) with a transition point therebetween located at a radial distance of 70-90% from the center of the refiner or at a radial distance of 50-80% from the innermost edge (25, 27) of the refining element or at a radial distance of 20-50% from the inner edge (34) of the outer blade element (8, 18, 33) towards the outermost edge (26, 28, 35) of the refining element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicants: UPM-Kymmene Corporation, Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Petteri Vuorio, Jari Saarinen, Jari Heikkinen, Lauri Talikka
  • Publication number: 20150375232
    Abstract: A blade element (11) for a refiner (10) for refining fibrous material has a blade element body (12) and blade bars (13, 13a, 13b) and blade grooves (14, 14a, 14b) therebetween. Bottoms of the blade grooves (14, 14a, 14b) have, in the longitudinal direction (LD) of the blade grooves, a variable depth profile comprising alternating high points (14a?, 14b?) and low points (14a?, 14b?) so that there is a phase shift (X2) between the high points (14a?, 14b?) and the low points (14a?, 14b?) of the variable depth profiles of the bottoms of the adjacent blade grooves (14a, 14b). Also, a refiner (10) for refining fibrous material and a method for manufacturing the blade element (11) for the refiner (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Marko Loijas, Timo Könönen, Matti Kaarineva