Abstract: A consumable management system comprising a consumable storage cluster with a plurality of storage compartments is presented. Each storage compartment is configured to receive one or more consumables. The consumable management system further comprises storage compartment indicators to provide guidance to a user and a detection unit for validating user action(s).

Abstract: A consumable management system comprising a consumable storage cluster with a plurality of storage compartments is presented. Each storage compartment is configured to receive one or more consumables. The consumable management system further comprises storage compartment indicators to provide guidance to a user and a detection unit for validating user action(s).

Abstract: The pressure diffuser incorporates a screen that has a considerable weight that is moved by a connecting rod in a reciprocating manner between an upper and lower position. The connecting rod is maneuvered by a hydraulic cylinder for vertically moving the screen in a first slow stroke concurrent with pulp-flow and moving the screen in a second fast stroke countercurrent to pulp-flow. The pressure diffuser has an inlet defined therein at the bottom of the vessel but the hydraulic cylinder is located at the top of the vessel. This design enables an increased active pressure area in the hydraulic cylinder for the fast stroke of the screen. This reduces the power-rating needed for the hydraulic system.

Abstract: The pressure diffuser incorporates a screen that has a considerable weight that is moved by a connecting rod in a reciprocating manner between an upper and lower position. The connecting rod is maneuvered by a hydraulic cylinder for vertically moving the screen in a first slow stroke concurrent with pulp-flow and moving the screen in a second fast stroke countercurrent to pulp-flow. The pressure diffuser has an inlet defined therein at the bottom of the vessel but the hydraulic cylinder is located at the top of the vessel. This design enables an increased active pressure area in the hydraulic cylinder for the fast stroke of the screen. This reduces the power-rating needed for the hydraulic system.

Abstract: An ironing installation possessing an ironing machine having two hollow rolls and four heating elements which can be heated by water vapor. During operation water vapor and hot air are sucked into the rolls through holes at the roll shells or jackets. This water vapor-air mixture is expelled to the surroundings through a heat exchanger. Ambient air is sucked into an air infeed line or conduit and infed through the heat exchanger into the internal compartment of a casing which at least partially encloses the rolls and heating elements. Between the aforementioned heat exchanger and an outlet opening or mouth of the air infeed line there is arranged a passage of a second heat exchanger in the air infeed line. A further passage of this second heat exchanger is connected with outlets of the four heating elements.

Abstract: An ironing machine having two rolls whose axes extend essentially horizontally and are disposed in a common, substantially vertical plane. The rolls can be rotated in opposite rotational directions by means of a drive device. For each roll there are provided two heating elements arranged at different sides of the aforementioned plane. The heating elements have heating surfaces of arcuate cross-sectional configuration. These heating surfaces heating the textile pieces during operation of the ironing machine and pressing such against the rolls. Transport bands or belts serve to guide and transport the textile pieces in such a manner that initially they travel about one and thereafter about the other roll and, thus, follow a predetermined transport path substantially in the form of a figure eight through the ironing machine.