Abstract: The present invention relates to a laminating and adhesive transfer apparatus for use with a pair of removable feed rolls. The removable feed rolls carrying a supply of stock material to be unwound. The apparatus comprises a frame constructed and arranged to removably mount the feed rolls. A pair of nip rollers are rotatably mounted to the frame. The nip rollers define a nip area therebetween with a feed side and a discharge side. An actuating mechanism is constructed and arranged to affect nip roller rotation. The frame is constructed and arranged such that, when the feed rolls are removably mounted thereto, a master can be inserted between the feed rolls, the stock materials can then be unwound from each of feed rolls so as to be disposed on opposing sides of the master, and the master and the stock materials can thereafter be fed together into the feed side of the nip rollers.

Abstract: A film applying apparatus 10 is provided with preparatory bonding rolls 20A, 20B and laminating rolls 21A, 21B, and a laminated film 12 wound out from a film roll 18 and a substrate 16 conveyed by a substrate conveying device 14 pass between these rolls and pressure bonding is performed. Diameter of the preparatory bonding rolls 20A, 20B is made smaller than diameter of the laminating rolls 21A, 21B and range of elastic deformable area S1 at the roll surface at grasping starting of the substrate and the laminated film 12 by the preparatory bonding rolls 20A, 20B is made small thereby range of generating, air holding or the like is limited to small.

Abstract: An apparatus for joining dough blocks to form a continuous dough sheet. The dough blocks are cut from a dough mass and drop into a space between first and second groups of rollers. The first and second groups of rollers include horizontally-paired rollers arranged in tiers and forming a substantially V-shaped space for receiving the dough blocks, with the uppermost pair of rollers being separated by a first horizontal gap which is wider than a second horizontal gap separating the lowermost pair of rollers. The first group of rollers are rotated in a direction (e.g., clockwise) which is opposite to that of the second group of rollers. In addition, the first group of rollers is alternately moved toward and away from the second group of rollers, thereby applying vibrations to the dough blocks.

Abstract: A mounting arrangement is provided for rollers in a pressure sealer wherein a folded business form is fed along a processing path between at least one pair of cooperating, rotating, first and second rollers. A support structure is provided for holding the rollers with the first roller in a fixed location while accommodating movement of a second roller along a plane in either of two opposite directions toward and away from the first roller. Each roller has a pressure-applying, cylindrical surface. Each roller has two spaced-apart bearing structures for engaging the support structure to accommodate rotation of a respective one of the rollers and for engaging one of the bearing structures of the other rollers to define a predetermined minimum spacing between the cylindrical surfaces of the first and second rollers. At least one spring is provided for urging the bearing structures of the second roller toward the bearing structures of the first roller.

Abstract: A film applying apparatus is provided with preparatory bonding rolls, laminating rolls, a laminated film wound out from a film roll and a substrate conveyed by a substrate conveying device. The laminated film passes between these rolls and pressure bonding is performed. The diameter of the preparatory bonding rolls is made smaller than the diameter of the laminating rolls. The range of the elastically deformed area at the roll surface where the grasping of the substrate and the laminated film by the preparatory bonding rolls is begun, is made small, thereby limiting the range and reducing the generated amount of air holding or the like.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of use is disclosed for a machine used for perforating and flattening or crushing containers of varying sizes and materials. The disclosed machine has a frame having an input opening and a discharge opening. A first plurality of shafts and second plurality of shafts are rotatably supported by the firame. The first plurality of shafts are disposed in a first plane and the second plurality of shafts are disposed in a second plane. The second plane is acutely angled with respect to the first plane. One or more motors rotate the first and second plurality of shafts, each shaft having perforating elements positioned along them. The perforating elements are offset between adjacent performing shafts such that adjacent perforating elements overlap but do not touch the adjacent shaft. The perforating elements have a plurality of spikes capable of perforating the container being perforated and crushed. In use, containers are introduced into the frame through the input opening.

Abstract: A laminating machine of the type which laminates documents between sheets of plastic or on a substrate comprising a housing, first and second sets of upper and lower rolls within said housing having end shafts, one of the sets of rolls arranged to receive material to be laminated and move the material to the other of the sets of rolls, spaced apart end supports are in housing rotatably supporting the end shafts, drive means are connected to the lower rolls of each pair, to drive the lower rolls, the upper rolls of each pair are mounted in the end supports to move upwardly to accommodate material of variable thickness, resilient power transmission means are connected between the upper rolls and the lower rolls and driven from the lower rolls to maintain synchronization of rotation of the upper rolls with the lower rolls and to bias the upper rolls downwardly while permitting the upper rolls to move upwardly to an extent dependent on the thickness of material passing between the pairs of rolls.

Abstract: Roll machine and process for forming a roll machine. The roll machine includes a roll having a roll body and an elastic layer located on a periphery of the roll body, and a mating roll. At least one roll nip is formed between the roll and the mating roll, and the elastic layer has a radial thickness less than approximately 8 mm. The process includes covering the roll body with an elastic layer having a radial thickness less than approximately 8 mm and pressing the roll and the mating roll together to form a press nip.

Abstract: Hot stamping apparatus and embossing apparatus for the production of holographic images on a substrate web, each apparatus comprising a heated roll and an anvil each having trunnions at its ends journalled for rotation in bearings in a frame with a cooling system for cooling the bearings for all the trunnions and for cooling the trunnions of the heated roll.

Abstract: An improved pull-roller system for a calender machine having at least a pair of main rollers and a pair of pull-rollers. The nip of the pull-rollers is located at an elevation below the nip of the main rollers. In addition, the axis of the top pull-roller is offset with respect to the axis of the bottom pull-roller.

Abstract: A multi-purpose laminating and adhesive transfer apparatus having a frame supporting rotatably engaging nip rollers. A replaceable cartridge is insertable into the frame and has upper and lower feed rolls which may be a laminate, film or paper, or an adhesively coated film or a film having an affinity for adhesive. The upper and lower feed rolls containing the webs of laminating or adhesive transfer material have tensioning caps which can be adjusted to provide the proper tensioning to prevent the rollers from overrunning as they rotate. Tensioning caps and the cartridges are pre-set and provided to the user. A cutter blade is positioned at the discharge side of the nip rollers and may be actuated to sever the master at any desired location. The apparatus may be operated to apply lamination to either top or bottom surfaces of a substrate or an adhesive to the top or bottom surface of the substrate or to both surfaces.

Abstract: An apparatus for reducing or preventing vibrations of a roll set of a paper making apparatus, wherein the roll set comprises at least two rolls of which at least one is a soft roll coated with a compressible coating and comprising a temperature control system. The natural vibrational frequency of the roll set is changed during the operation of the apparatus by changing the temperature of the coating of the at least one soft roll. The changing of the natural frequency prevents resonance on a natural frequency of the roll set.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for kneading used fluid filters having an initial kneader and a final kneader disposed subsequent to the inital kneader. The initial kneader includes a first roller and a second roller disposed on the frame adjacent to the first roller at a distance less than the diameter of the used fluid filter. The first and second rollers include a bar extending longitudinally along the perimeter of each of the first and second rollers for grabbing the used fluid filter. The second roller rotates faster than the first roller and includes a high bar extending longitudinally along the perimeter of the second roller for shearing away the filter plate from the filter canister. The final kneader includes a fifth roller and a sixth roller on the frame adjacent to the fifth roller at a distance less than the distance between the first roller and the second roller. The fifth and sixth rollers include a plurality of points.

Abstract: A soft nip calender employing a compliant roll constructed of circumferentially superpositioned layers of compliant material which are progressively less compliant as the layers approach an underlying steel roll.

Abstract: An extended nip press for dewatering a pulp web has two press rolls that form an extended nip. The first press roll is retained in the axial direction at least at one end, and is held with its bearing pins on first bearing blocks. The second press roll is also held with its bearing pins on second bearing blocks. The second bearing blocks can be tensioned, each in pairs, with respect to the first bearing blocks by flexurally elastic tension elements, the tension elements allowing a relative displacement of the press rolls in the axial direction. The second bearing blocks are fixed in position with respect to the first bearing blocks in order to prevent excessive bending stress on the tension elements. For this purpose, either the rotary bearings of the second press roll are configured in non-tilting fashion, or additional support bearings are provided.

Abstract: A laminating machine of the type which laminates documents between sheets of plastic or a document to a substrate comprising a housing together with a first set of rolls within the housing adapted to guide the material to be laminated between upper and lower heating platens and a second set of rolls within the housing arranged to receive the material from the platens. The first set of rolls, the platens and the second set of rolls define a passage through the housing. End supports for the rolls are provided in the housing defines. The rolls are rotatably supported between the end supports. A drive motor is connected to one of the rolls at one of the end supports, and gearing means are positioned on the rolls at the other of the end supports for transmitting rotation of the driven roll to the other rolls. The upper rolls of each pair are journaled in bearing arms which are pivoted to the end supports to permit acceptance of thick substrates.

Abstract: A meat flattening machine having two vertically stacked rows of non-sharpened edge stainless steel rollers adjacent to one another in an aluminum frame. Each row has at least two and preferably six rollers wherein the top row is spaced further apart from the bottom rows The plural stacked rows allow for the meat to be pulled and stretched between the rollers for flattening the meat. Four screws connect each corner of the stacked rollers to an adjacent corner of the other stacked rollers to allow for the spacing between the stacked rows to be adjustable. Each roller has parallel rows of rectangular ridges having non-sharpened edges. The bottom roller of each stack can have grooves approximately 1/16 inch deep, while the above rollers can have grooves approximately 1/8 inch deep between the rectangular ridges. The frame includes a removable electric motor, stainless steel sprockets and stainless steel chains for rotating the rollers.

Abstract: A wood chip conditioner that uses at least two closely spaced, counter-rotating rolls having a regular, wave shaped profile formed into their surfaces having a repeating pattern of peaks and valleys that radially circumscribes the roll and which are preferably the same dimension and offset from each other so that a peak on one roll is in registry with a valley on the other roll and form a nip through which oversized wood chips traverse. The chips passing through the nip are destructured by being bent and compressed by the surfaces on the rolls, which produces internal cracks along the grain of the wood without penetrating the chips. The rolls are also designed to avoid breaking or fracturing the chips, which would increase the occurrence of undesirable pins and fines. The surface of the peaks preferably also have shallow, equally-spaced grooves that extend axially. The grooves provide an edge that catches and pulls the chips into and through the nip.

Abstract: A fixing device comprises a thermal fixing roll and a pressing roll forming a nip portion together with the thermal fixing roll. The pressing roll included in the fixing device comprises a core, a sponge rubber layer covering the outer circumferential surface of the core and provided with a large number of through-holes extending in parallel with the axis of the core and arranged equidistantly from the outer circumferential surface of the core, a rubbery elastic layer formed in a thickness of 350 to 4500 .mu.m to cover the outer circumferential surface of the sponge layer, and a fluorocarbon resin layer formed to cover the outer circumferential surface of the rubbery elastic layer.

Abstract: An improved pull-roller system for a calender machine having at least a pair of main rollers and a pair of pull-rollers. The nip of the pull-rollers is located at an elevation below the nip of the main rollers. In addition, the axis of the top pull-roller is offset with respect to the axis of the bottom pull-roller.

Abstract: A sheeter head having a pair of counterrotating internally-driven sheeter rollers is disclosed. The sheeting rollers each include an independent internal drive motor and gear box affixed to a nonrotating shaft, along with a nonrotating idle shaft on an opposite end of the roller. The speeds of the drive motors are controlled by an external device such as an inverter speed control. The nonrotating shafts, in conjunction with the absence of any external drive mechanism, allow for sanitary operation, easy clean-up, and a simple and efficient adjustment mechanism for varying a pinch point between the rollers. The preferred adjustment mechanism includes a fixed front roller and horizontal slide plates connected to the axles of a back roller, the slide plate having pegs which slide in associated grooves. One of the grooves is preferably wider than the other to help prevent binding during an adjustment operation.

Abstract: A roller arrangement has a magnetic circuit that includes two rollers. The magnetic circuit consists of a cylindrical magnetic core, several poles axially distributed on the magnetic core, a cylindrical exciter and control windings arranged between these poles, a magnetic shell that encloses the whole circumference of one roller and is made of two parts separated by a ring-shaped secondary air gap, and a continuous magnetic shell in the axial direction arranged at the outer circumference of the other roller. When used to process webs of material in the textile, paper, plastic and metallurgical industries, this electromagnetic roller arrangement achieves high quality standards with a high productivity.

Abstract: A wringing device for a wet mop head of a mop head carrier, wherein the wringing device comprises an elastically prestressed, resilient base element and two wringing rollers that are mounted on the base element, the wringing rollers adapted to rotate parallel to one another and arranged to move away from each other in parallel fashion counter to the elastic prestress force in the base element.

Abstract: A paper disposal and compacting apparatus capable of causing sheets of paper and other substrates to be disposed, to fold in a compact accordion like manner. The apparatus includes a first roller and a second roller adjacent and parallel to one another to force the sheets to pass between the rollers and a first roller driving device for rotating the first roller. The apparatus further includes a paper waste container for receiving the sheets after passing between the rollers. The container dimensions sized to match the sheets to be disposed to cause the folding in the compact accordion like manner of the sheets.

Abstract: A paperboard carton piercing-crushing and recycle system and apparatus which includes a safety operated door which controls motor operated carton piercing and crushing rolls in order to crush paperboard cartons for disposal. The safety operated door is provided with a magnetic switch which controls two different timed electrical circuits. One circuit controls an electronic safety latch mechanism which prevents the carton disposal door from opening during operation of motor driven carton crushing rolls and one timed circuit operates the motor during the time that the electronic safety latch mechanism prevents the door from operating. When the motor circuit stops, the timer to the electronic safety latch mechanism releases the safety latch so that the door can be opened. Thus, the system is safe and will not operate if the carton disposal door is open.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for dewatering mixtures of fibrous and liquid materials wherein at least one pair of mutually opposite pressure elements forms a pressure gap through which a continuous web formed of the mixture of fibrous and liquid materials is passed jointly with at least one endless belt and wherein the pressure elements are set up in a press frame, at least one pressure element being movable in such frame, there being provided at least one distance adjustment means for adjusting at least one pressure element and thereby the magnitude of the pressure gap or the pressure intensity. The invention is characterized in that at least one distance adjustment means (17) is installed solely between the mountings (4,15; 5,16) of the pressure elements (2,3).

Abstract: A calender employs an open-stack like arrangement with a single vertical beam or support column on each end of the calender. In combination with the support beam, a special swing link is used to support tension loads on the open side of the calender. The nip is thus straddled by structural members between the support column and the link. This combination has the ability to support high linear nip loads, as high as 3,000 PLI or higher. The link has pin connections at both ends so that when one pin is removed, the link can be swung open for roll removal or accessibility. Thus, the strength of the closed-stack calender is combined with the visibility and ease of access of the open-stack calender by the employment of tension links which replace one of the support columns utilized in a closed-stack calender.

Abstract: A multi-purpose laminating and adhesive transfer apparatus having a frame supporting rotatably engaging nip rollers which define a nip area. A replaceable cartridge is insertable into the frame and has upper and lower feed rolls which may be a laminate, film, or paper, or an adhesively coated film, or a film having an affinity for adhesive. The frame includes an open front for receiving the cartridge and a rear wall, and the cartridge includes an open rear in substantial alignment with the open front of the frame. The cartridge also includes a top wall, a bottom wall, and a front wall, the open rear providing access to the upper and lower feed rolls and loading of material from the upper and lower feed rolls to the nip rollers. The front wall of the cartridge has an opening therein in alignment with the nip area.

Abstract: A laminating roll for laminating a layer of protective coating to an image-bearing layer, has a generally cylindrical metallic core and a generally cylindrical compliant and resilient covering surrounding the core. The core and covering both having positive crowns such that the diameter of the outer surfaces of the core and covering measured at central portions thereof are respectively greater than the diameters measured at end portions thereof. The differences between the diameters of the core at central and end portions of the core is greater than that of the covering. The thickness of the covering increases from the center to the ends of the roll.

Abstract: A roll press including at least two rolls forming a press nip for the treatment of a web of material. A press roll includes a very flexible roll shell which is rotatable around a stationary support. The roll shell is mounted by at least one support element on the support. The support element has a concave support surface which forms a wide press nip with the backing roll. This provides a roll press which, even in the case of a backing roll which is without sag control, defines a press nip which is very substantially uniform. This is achieved by having the outer circumference of the shell of the press roll change in dimension in the axial direction from the axial center of the roll towards the ends of the roll, i.e., the outer circumference may increase or decrease. The circumference of the backing roll may or may not correspondingly change in the axial direction.

Abstract: A roll system for use particularly in a papermaking press nip for dewatering a fibrous web, comprising a roll disposed so as to rotatingly cooperate with another roll in a press nip, the roll having a helical sensor for sensing pressure exhibited on the roll, and transmitting pressure signals to a processor as the roll rotates. Trigger signals are generated at certain times as the roll rotates, the time of the occurrence of the trigger signal representing a specific location on the helical sensor. The pressure signals are coordinated with the trigger signals, such that the pressure corresponds to the angular position of the roll where it is sensed. The operator may thus be given a visual or audible indication of the existence of non-uniformities in pressure sensed at various locations along the roll, thereby enabling corrective action to be initiated if necessary.

Abstract: A resilient pressure roller of the large type that is of unitary construction with a rigid core, a central body of rubber or synthetic rubber of one durometer and a thin outer shell of another durometer. The body is given a nonlinear longitudinal profile and the shell is given a profile different from that of the body. The differences in profiles of the body and shell, along with their different durometers sum to develop approximately uniform nip profiles along the nip so as to minimize hysteresis heating and degradation in the roller and thereby provide a roller of greatly extended life expectancy.

Abstract: A heat and pressure fuser apparatus including a heated fuser roller cooperating with a pressure or back-up roller to form a nip through which substrates carrying toner images pass with the images contacting the heated fuser roll. A non-rotating pressure roll shaft is fabricated from preplated sheet stock material to provide a low cost, light-weight shaft.

Abstract: An improved pull-roller system for a calender machine having at least a pair of main rollers and a pair of pull-rollers. The nip of the pull-rollers is located at an elevation below the nip of the main rollers. In addition, the axis of the top pull-roller is offset with respect to the axis of the bottom pull-roller.

Abstract: A cargo consisting of stacked compressible bales, such as bales of straw, positioned on a flat cargo bed of a cargo vehicle is compacted and compressed laterally of the cargo bed to eliminate excessive overhang of the cargo beyond the sides of the bed by pressing compacting members against opposite sides of the cargo to exert opposing compacting forces on the cargo laterally of the cargo bed. The disclosed compacting members are rollers between which the cargo vehicle is driven in a manner such that the rollers undergo relative rolling movement along the sides of the cargo to progressively compact the cargo from one end to the other.

Abstract: In a nip roller apparatus, a drive roller and an idler roller are arranged for conveying an object. The rollers include shafts having toothed wheels mounted thereon for transmitting rotation of the drive roller to the idler roller. A pressing device is provided for biasing the idler roller against the drive roller. The idler roller is mounted in a bearing support which includes guide slots for permitting sliding movement of the idler roller relative to the drive roller. The guide slots are positioned at an angle relative to a line which extends through the centers of the shafts and includes a point of contact between the toothed drive wheel and the toothed idler wheel.

Abstract: A calender for applying a dispersion of solid resins, wax dispersions and surface materials on sections or particularly sheets, with a heatable calender roller, a counterpressure roller disposed at the inlet of the section or sheet and a take-off roller, which is preferably constructed as a suction roller and offset in the direction of rotation of the calender roller with respect to the counterpressure roller, as well as, optionally, an air knife disposed in the outlet gap, one or several counterpressure rollers being provided and the diameters of the calender roller and/or of the counterpressure rollers, as well as their mutual contacting pressure, being selected so that the width of the pressure strip of the mutual contact, when a counterpressure roller is provided, is between 20 mm and 45 mm and preferably about 35 mm.

Abstract: A laminating apparatus is disclosed which has a loading slot for facilitating the loading of a web through a nip located between a supply and takeup spindle. An inboard support carries the inboard end of the supply and takeup spindles and the laminating rolls, and a spaced outboard support carries the other end of the laminating rolls. The outboard support is formed with a supply aperture aligned with the supply spindle, a takeup aperture aligned with the takeup spindle, and an interconnected threading slot corresponding to the path of the laminating web through the laminating nip between the supports.

Abstract: A roll system for use particularly in a papermaking press nip for dewatering a fibrous web, comprising a roll disposed so as to rotatingly cooperate with another roll in a press nip, the roll having a helical sensor for sensing pressure exhibited on the roll, and transmitting pressure signals to a processor as the roll rotates. Trigger signals are generated at certain times as the roll rotates, the time of the occurrence of the trigger signal representing a specific location on the helical sensor. The pressure signals are coordinated with the trigger signals, such that the pressure corresponds to the angular position of the roll where it is sensed. The operator may thus be given a visual or audible indication of the existence of non-uniformities in pressure sensed at various locations along the roll, thereby enabling corrective action to be initiated if necessary.

Abstract: A multi-purpose laminating and adhesive transfer apparatus having a frame supporting rotatably engaging nip rollers. The frame and has upper and lower feed rolls which may be a laminate, film or paper, or an adhesively coated film or a film having an affinity for adhesive. The upper and lower feed rolls containing the webs of laminating or adhesive transfer material have tensioning caps which can be adjusted to provide the proper tensioning to prevent the rollers from overrunning as they rotate. The tensioning caps are pre-set and provided to the user. A cutter blade is positioned at the discharge side of the nip rollers and may be actuated to sever the master at any desired location. The apparatus may be operated to apply lamination to either top or bottom surfaces of a substrate.

Abstract: A truss bend correction system having a pair of in-feed correction rollers, a pair of finish rollers, and an out-feed correction roller define a path for counterbending the joints of a truss to reform the nail plates and thereby flatten the overall truss. The in-feed correction rollers and the out-feed correction roller are oriented downwardly with respect to the finish rollers so that an undesired upward bow of a truss joint is counterbent downwardly, thereby straightening the joints of the truss.

Abstract: A multi-purpose laminating and adhesive transfer apparatus having a frame supporting rotatably engaging nip rollers. A replaceable cartridge is insertable into the frame and has upper and lower feed rolls which may be a laminate, film or paper, or an adhesively coated film or a film having an affinity for adhesive. The upper and lower feed rolls containing the webs of laminating or adhesive transfer material have tensioning caps which can be adjusted to provide the proper tensioning to prevent the rollers from overrunning as they rotate. Tensioning caps and the cartridges are pre-set and provided to the user. A cutter blade is positioned at the discharge side of the nip rollers and may be actuated to sever the master at any desired location. The apparatus may be operated to apply lamination to either top or bottom surfaces of a substrate or an adhesive to the top or bottom surface of the substrate or to both surfaces.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for bonding at least two continuously moving substrate webs together is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a rotatable bonding roll which is located adjacent the substrate webs and configured to rotate about a bonding axis. A rotatable anvil roll has an anvil surface and is configured to rotate about an anvil axis to press the substrate webs against an outer peripheral bonding surface of the bonding roll thereby bonding the substrate webs together. The anvil roll is pivotally connected to a pivotal support mechanism which is configured to maintain the anvil surface in a substantially parallel relationship with the bonding surface. The pivotal support mechanism is configured to allow the anvil roll to pivot such that the anvil roll maintains a substantially constant force on the bonding surface of the bonding roll across the width of the anvil roll.

Abstract: A system for measuring the dynamic pressure distribution between rolls in a nip roll press comprises a roll adapted to rotatingly contact at least one other roll in a press nip, having one or more sensors thereon, for measuring the nip pressure at several locations along the roll length, wherein the measurements obtained by the sensors are transmitted to a computer and a display, to provide tabular, numerical and graphical representations of the pressure at one or more locations on the roll. Optionally a control system may be incorporated in the system for determining the pressure distribution along the roll and initiating corrective measures. The system of the instant invention can further measure temperature variations, if desired, as thermal sensors can be used on the sensing roll, or a computerized correlation scheme can relate sensor readings to temperature as well as pressure.

Abstract: A system (10) for processing veneer is provided. The system (10) includes a compression apparatus (12) having a first set of rollers (20) turning at a first rate and has a first clearance (96) therebetween, and a second set of rollers (22) turning at a second rate and has a second clearance (98) therebetween. The first and second roller rates are substantially equal. The system also includes a feeder (16). The feeder (16) includes a hopper (62) for holding a plurality of veneer slats (82) and a feeder mechanism for feeding the slats one at a time into the compression apparatus. The system may have a first drive mechanism (14) for turning the first (20) and second (22) rollers and a second drive mechanism for driving the feeder mechanism.

Abstract: A press machine having a frame with a central channel projecting along a length thereof. The channel slidably guides a piece of lumber along a processing path. Press wheels are mounted to longitudinal supports extending along opposite sides of the central channel. One of the longitudinal supports is pivotally mounted at one end to the frame with a corresponding press wheel rotatably mounted at an intermediate point along the support. The press wheels are oriented to rotate about parallel axes and in opposite directions with adjacent sides thereof overlapping opposite sides of the processing path. The press wheels are spaced apart from one another such that adjacent arcuate portions of each press wheel are located immediately adjacent the processing path to frictionally engage a leading end of a piece of lumber conveyed along the processing path.

Abstract: A veneer dehydrating apparatus is disclosed which is intended to squeeze out part of water contained in green softwood veneer. The apparatus includes a pair of parallel rolls assemblies rotatable in opposite directions and disposed one above the other to be spaced apart from each other thereby to define an open nip between the circumferential peripheries thereof, and a conveyer for feeding successively sheets of green softwood veneer with the fiber orientation thereof directed along the feeding direction into said nip. One of the roll assemblies has formed on the peripheral surface thereof a number of individual projections pierceable into said veneer sheet at the nip. Each projection has a pyramidal shape with N faces, wherein N represents an integral number of four or more.

Abstract: A large cylindrical enclosure shaped to look like a huge beverage can has a recessed area in its outer wall containing an operator's panel and an opening into the interior for inserting empty recyclable beverage cans. Inside the enclosure is a conveyor for receiving the inserted cans, a discriminator for distinguishing between ferrous and non-ferrous cans and a pneumatic transporter for carrying the cans to a mechanical crusher which compacts the cans individually and discharges them into a temporary storage area from which they are removed from time to time for recycling. The operator'panel includes a photoelectric sensor for initiating operation of the mechanisms in the interior of the structure and may also include various visual readouts as well as a dispenser for feeding out coins, printed credit slips and receipts.

Abstract: A device for forcing fluid along a collapsible conduit is described which comprises a yoke including a web and first and second projecting leg members, a first roller supported between the first and second leg members for rotation about a first axis, a block member supporting an axle and a second roller for rotation about a second axis substantially parallel to the first axis, the second leg member and block member each having one or more holes therethrough for receiving bolts connecting the block and second leg member, a spring interconnecting each bolt and the second leg member for resiliently holding the block member and second roller in a substantially parallel juxtaposed position near the second leg member and the first roller, overcenter locking means interconnecting the second leg member and block member for selectively locking the block and second roller into resilient engagement with the second leg member and first roller with a collapsible conduit disposed between the first and second rollers, and a

Abstract: An improved pull-roller system for a calender machine having at least a pair of main rollers and a pair of pull-rollers. The nip of the pull-rollers is located at an elevation below the nip of the main rollers. In addition, the axis of the top pull-roller is offset with respect to the axis of the bottom pull-roller.