Abstract: A chuck assembly for insertion into the core of a paper windup roll to assure uniform winding and unwinding. The chuck assembly includes a shaft which has an axis coinciding with the desired axis of rotation of the core and bearing means which support the shaft for rotation therein. At the end of the shaft there is a stub shaft of reduced diameter which is received within a chuck having an axial bore therein. The bore is sufficiently larger in diameter than the diameter of the stub shaft to permit limited relative movement. The chuck further has a tapered wedge at its forward end which is arranged to fit tightly within the core and resilient spring means are provided to accommodate the relative movement between the stub shaft and the larger diameter bore in which it is located.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a headbox assembly wherein a headbox is subjected to extraneous vibrational energy from adjoining machinery or the like and provides at least one vibration absorber rigidly secured to the headbox in the plane of vibration of the extraneous vibration, the vibration absorber creating a node at the headbox to absorb vibrational energy transmitted thereto.

Abstract: A roll for handling a wet web in a paper making machine having a central supporting core with bearings at the ends and an outer annular layer surrounding the core formed by centrifugal casting and having a content of chrome in the range of 15% to 35% with a finished outer smooth surface so that the surface has a superior wetting characteristic and releases a wet low strength paper web from the surface.

Abstract: Noise-causing vibrations in the span of a tensioned web running over and away from an arcuate guide surface area of a circular perimeter fixed guide bar at a speed such that in the off-running angle between the web and the curved perimeter of the bar, air moving in the direction of the web in such angle would tend to follow the curvature of the bar (Coanda effect) and cause splitting of the air between the web and the bar, inhibited by locating spoiler means in a plane extending substantially tangentially from the off-running side of the arcuate guide surface area. The spoiler means is desirably in the form of one or more ribs providing surface in the tangential plane. Where the web span runs between spaced fixed circular perimeter bars, spoiler means may also be located in a plane extending substantially tangentially toward the on-running side of the arcuate guide surface of the bar located at the downstream end of the span.

Abstract: A method and mechanism for winding a roll from a continuous traveling web including first and second parallel winder drums supporting the wound roll and one or more rider rolls on top of the roll being wound with the rider roll circumferential location being changed during the winding of the roll to compensate for the changing spring constant of the roll being wound, and in one form applying a force with a second rider roll and in another form with a third rider roll with the rolls being changed in position relative to the roll being wound independent of each other.

Abstract: A method and mechanism including a housing having a screening chamber therein with a cylindrical screen and foils rotating past the surface of the screen with the housing having circumferentially spaced outlets which are at nonuniform circumferential locations, are different in number than the foils, and lead to a common manifold which will lead to a paper machine headbox. An air dome is at one end of the chamber.

Abstract: A winder or other rotary mechanism having a rotating member subjected to vibrations such as a rider roll for the winder including an energy absorbing vibration damper connected to the rider roll so that defects in a roll being wound due to vibrational engagement of the rider roll with the wound roll are avoided with the dampener including a stationary hollow tube secured along its length to a beam coextensive with the rider roll with a beam member within the stationary tubular member and a resilient hose coiled about the beam and inflated and a plurality of axially extending metal slats between the inflatable tube and the inside of the tubular member laminated with a viscoelastic material for absorbing vibration of the rider roll.