Patents by Inventor Jouni Matula

Jouni Matula has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20080230194
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for feeding a retention chemical together with an additive, which may be another chemical or for example a mineral, to paper suspension flow in a paper machine. The method and the apparatus are applicable to the simultaneous feeding of an additive of the paper manufacture, such as a filler, together with a retention chemical to paper pulp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2005
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Applicant: WETEND TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Publication number: 20070258315
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for feeding chemical into a liquid flow by means of a feeding device including a nozzle casing and apparatus disposed in connection therewith, having means for feeding chemical and means for feeding mixing liquid to an isolated space disposed in connection with the nozzle casing. The method and apparatus according to the invention are especially suitable for applications where very small volumes of chemical must be fed in precise amounts in large process liquid flows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2004
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Wetend Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Publication number: 20070258316
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for feeding a chemical into a liquid flow are especially suited for use with a headbox of a paper machine, particularly for feeding a retention aid into a fiber suspension flow going to the headbox so that in a mixing apparatus feed liquid is added into the retention chemical solution, prior to introducing the solution into the fiber suspension flow guided to the paper machine. The feed liquid is preferably a circulation water from the paper mill, or another non-clean liquid from a paper mill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Applicant: Wetend Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Publication number: 20070251888
    Abstract: A method of feeding chemical to a liquid flowing in an open space, the method including: feeding the chemical to the liquid by at least one special mixing device; introducing a feed liquid to the at least one special mixing device separately from the chemical; contacting the chemical and the feed liquid together essentially simultaneously with the discharge of the chemical and the feed liquid through a nozzle opening of the mixing device, wherein the nozzle opening is located under a surface of the liquid flowing into the open space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2005
    Publication date: November 1, 2007
    Applicant: WETEND TECHNOLOGIES OY
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Patent number: 7234857
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for feeding a chemical into a liquid flow are especially suited for use with a headbox of a paper machine, particularly for feeding a retention aid into a fiber suspension flow going to the headbox so that in a mixing apparatus feed liquid is added into the retention chemical solution, prior to introducing the solution into the fiber suspension flow guided to the paper machine. The feed liquid is preferably a circulation water from the paper mill, or another non-clean liquid from a paper mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Wetend Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Patent number: 6736937
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for controlling the operation of the short circulation of a paper, paper board or the like production machine. The method and apparatus according to the invention are especially preferably suitable for use in the approach system, i.e. so-called short circulation, of said production machines for regulating the headbox feed pressure. A characteristic feature of the method and apparatus according to the invention is that at a suitable location in the approach system of said production machine there is arranged a controllable parallel flow, by means of which at least one flow in the approach system is regulated so that the pressure in the headbox remains essentially constant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Assignee: Andritz Oy
    Inventors: Lasse Björkstedt, Jouni Matula
  • Patent number: 6733629
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for controlling the operation of an approach system of a paper machine or the like web formation apparatus. Especially preferably the method of controlling the operation of an approach system according to the invention is applicable to be used in connection with paper and paperboard machines as well as in connection with various apparatuses performing non-woven webformating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2004
    Assignee: Andritz Oy
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Patent number: 6730193
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a wire pit. A characteristic feature of the wire pit (50) according to the invention is that its wall/walls (52′, 52″, 54′, 62) converge downwards so that the average flow direction of the liquid along the most part of the wire pit's (50) height deviates from vertical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Andritz Oy
    Inventors: Jouni Matula, Riitta Rahkonen
  • Patent number: 6659636
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for feeding a chemical into a liquid flow are especially suited for use with a headbox of a paper machine, particularly for feeding a retention aid into a fiber suspension flow going to the headbox so that in a mixing apparatus feed liquid is added into the retention chemical solution, prior to introducing the solution into the fiber suspension flow guided to the paper machine. The feed liquid is preferably a circulation water from the paper mill, or another non-clean liquid from a paper mill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Wetend Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Publication number: 20030106660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for controlling the operation of the short circulation of a paper, paper board or the like production machine. The method and apparatus according to the invention are especially preferably suitable for use in the approach system, i.e. so-called short circulation, of said production machines for regulating the headbox feed pressure. A characteristic feature of the method and apparatus according to the invention is that at a suitable location in the approach system of said production machine there is arranged a controllable parallel flow, by means of which at least one flow in the approach system is regulated so that the pressure in the headbox remains essentially constant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Lasse Bjorkstedt, Jouni Matula
  • Publication number: 20020131325
    Abstract: A method of and apparatus for feeding a chemical into a liquid flow are especially suited for use with a headbox of a paper machine, particularly for feeding a retention aid into a fiber suspension flow going to the headbox so that in a mixing apparatus feed liquid is added into the retention chemical solution, prior to introducing the solution into the fiber suspension flow guided to the paper machine. The feed liquid is preferably a circulation water from the paper mill, or another non-clean liquid from a paper mill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2002
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Patent number: 6125688
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a method of determining the amount of gas in a liquid. The method is particularly well suited for determining the amount of both the gas in the form of bubbles and the gas dissolved in pulp, i.e. in various fiber suspensions of paper and pulp industry. The invention is advantageously applied to the control and regulation applications of removal of air in the short circulation of a paper machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Andritz-Ahlstrom Oy
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Patent number: 4419109
    Abstract: A means for degassing paper pulp stock, comprising an elongated horizontal cylindrical tank, a distribution pipe parallel to the tank and wherefrom departs a plurality of consecutive jet tubes for introducing pulp stock into the tank close to one end of the tank, an exit tube located close to the opposite end of the tank and towards which the pulp stock flows on the bottom of the tank, members to maintain the pulp stock level constant in the tank, an additional exit tube for returning to circulation the excess pulp stock that has entered the tank, and members for producing a vacuum in the tank. The distribution pipe and the flow therewithin are directed in opposition to the flow within the tank. The cross section area of the flow diminishes towards that end of the tank where the jet tubes are located, the diminishing flow cross section area extending at least over the region of one jet tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1983
    Assignee: Enso-Gutzeit OY
    Inventor: Jouni Matula
  • Patent number: 4358369
    Abstract: Hydrocyclone for dividing a substance mix into an acceptable fraction and a reject fraction containing dirt substances, the hydrocyclone including a separating chamber, which in part consists of a cylinder part, provided with at least one tangential feed connector for the substance mix and with a coaxial exit tube for the acceptable fraction, and which in part consists of a sorter cone on the extension of the cylinder part, having at its apex an exit aperture for the reject fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1981
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1982
    Assignee: Enso-Gutzeit Osakeyhtio
    Inventors: Jouni Matula, Pentti Vikio
  • Patent number: 4219166
    Abstract: Disk defibrator presenting a feed device for supplying the material which one desires to defibrate, such as wood chips, into the throat of the disk defibrator with the aid of a screw conveyor, the steam generated during the defibration process escaping through the feed device in countercurrent to the material flow and further passing to the atmosphere through an exit aperture on the feed device. The feed device includes two feed screws side by side with an intervening space into which the steam freely discharges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1980
    Assignee: Enso-Gutzeit Osakeyhtio
    Inventors: Jorma Surakka, Martti Pokkinen, Jorma Makkonen, Erkki Valkama, Viljo Karkkainen, Pekka Rabina, Jouni Matula
  • Patent number: 4134562
    Abstract: For a disk refiner which includes a frame with a refiner housing, a driving shaft, and a driving motor, a mounting base in the form of an integrated block made of a material absorbent to vibrations of the disk refiner, said block having at one end, symmetrically in relation to the longitudinal central line of the base, support surfaces for the driving motor and, at its other end, two front supports for the refiner frame and, at a distance from said front supports, two rear supports for the refiner frame, said front and rear supports being situated pairwise symmetrically in relation to the shaft of the refiner, essentially in a plane extending along the longitudinal central line of the shaft, and at the ends of column-like projections extending upwards from a plane defined by said support surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: Enso-Gutzeit Osakeyhtio
    Inventors: Ilmari Paakkinen, Seppo Hakkinen, Jouni Matula
  • Patent number: 4114818
    Abstract: A disk refiner construction to be supported on a base and including first and second frame parts, said first frame part having inside a pressure proof housing attached at its periphery to said first frame part, a shaft extending into said housing and provided with a gasketing sleeve serving as a gasket for said housing, a disk attached to the end of said shaft and provided with refiner plates within the housing, and an end plate of the refiner being attached to the first frame part and provided with stationary counter plates for said refiner plates, the second frame part having inside a bearing unit for the shaft of the refiner and said first and second frame parts constituting together an uninterrupted frame having the shape of a hollow rotational body and serving as a guide and support for the shaft and its bearings, said body being further provided with fixation points positioned symmetrically in relation to the shaft for supporting the disk refiner on its base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: September 19, 1978
    Assignee: Enso-Gutzeit Osakeyhtio
    Inventors: Ilmari Paakkinen, Seppo Hakkinen, Jouni Matula