Patents by Inventor Timo Pirinen

Timo Pirinen 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).

  • Patent number: 7678234
    Abstract: A dewatering arrangement in the press section of a web-forming machine having a press suction roll (10) and a press fabric (13) arranged to run via the press suction roll (10). The dewatering arrangement has a saveall (15), which is installed in conjunction with the press suction roll (10), and drainage facilities (18) for removing the collected water from the saveall (15). The saveall (15) has a concave guide surface (19) which in the cross direction is located on a partial distance of the circumference of the press suction roll (10) and at a distance from the surface of the press suction roll (10) in order to accomplish a vacuum effect and to hence remove water from the press suction roll (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Risto Haiko, Erkki Hietamäki, Mikko Kauppinen, Reijo Koivuranta, Kauno Kujala, Pekka Petrilä, Timo Pirinen, Esa Rajala, Markku Salo, Sampo Vörgren
  • Publication number: 20070089848
    Abstract: A dewatering arrangement in the press section of a web-forming machine having a press suction roll (10) and a press fabric (13) arranged to run via the press suction roll (10). The dewatering arrangement has a saveall (15), which is installed in conjunction with the press suction roll (10), and drainage facilities (18) for removing the collected water from the saveall (15). The saveall (15) has a concave guide surface (19) which in the cross direction is located on a partial distance of the circumference of the press suction roll (10) and at a distance from the surface of the press suction roll (10) in order to accomplish a vacuum effect and to hence remove water from the press suction roll (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2006
    Publication date: April 26, 2007
    Applicant: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Risto Haiko, Erkki Hietamaki, Mikko Kauppinen, Reijo Koivuranta, Kauno Kujala, Pekka Petrila, Timo Pirinen, Esa Rajala, Markku Salo, Sampo Vorgren
  • Patent number: 6749724
    Abstract: A method and arrangement in doctoring in a paper or board machine is disclosed in which the web travels through at least one press nip, in which the press nip is formed by at least a press roll and its backing roll and in which at least one roll is doctored using at least one doctor device. The press roll is doctored essentially over the width of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2004
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilkka Eskelinen, Timo Pirinen, Jukka Samppala
  • Publication number: 20030057629
    Abstract: A method and arrangement in doctoring in a paper or board machine is disclosed in which the web travels through at least one press nip, in which the press nip is formed by at least a press roll and its backing roll and in which at least one roll is doctored using at least one doctor device. The press roll is doctored essentially over the width of the web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Publication date: March 27, 2003
    Applicant: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilkka Eskelinen, Timo Pirinen, Jukka Samppala
  • Patent number: 5590593
    Abstract: A calender for a web including a calender frame and a stack of rolls mounted on the frame and consisting of four rolls arranged one above the other. In the stack, adjacent rolls placed one above the other are arrangeable in nip-defining relationship with one another so as to calender the web in the nips. The stack of rolls in the calender is composed of three variable-crown rolls, of which rolls the roll mantle of at least one roll is displaceable in relation to its roll axle in the direction of the nip plane by loading devices arranged inside the roll, and one heatable roll arranged between two variable-crown rolls. The rolls are preferably arranged vertically so that the two lowest rolls and the uppermost roll are variable-crown rolls and that the third roll from the bottom of the stack is a heatable roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventors: Ville Korhonen, Timo Pirinen, Jorma Ramstedt
  • Patent number: 5329844
    Abstract: A calender in a paper or board machine comprises a calender frame, at least two soft-faced rolls mounted on the calender frame and at least one hard roll mounted on the calender frame in a manner that allows the hard roll to be displaced between a first position in which it forms calendering nips with the two soft-faced rolls and a second position in which it is spaced from the soft-faced rolls. During threading of the web; while the calender is in operation, the hard roll is shifted to its second position, the web is passed over the soft-faced rolls, and the hard roll is shifted back to its first position and brings the web into the nips between the hard roll and the soft-faced rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1994
    Assignee: Valmet Paper Machinery Inc.
    Inventors: Pekka Koivukunnas, Juha Honkala, Risto Turunen, Juhani Niskanen, Ville Korhonen, Timo Pirinen