Rolling Doctor Patents (Class 118/414)
  • Patent number: 11643780
    Abstract: Blowing equipment (10) for doctor equipment of a fiber web machine (10) includes a distribution channel (11), the length of which corresponds essentially to the length of the doctor equipment (40). The blowing equipment (10) also includes nozzle devices (12) for directing blowing in the doctor equipment (40). The nozzle devices (12) are arranged to be adapted to a blade holder (13) that belongs to the doctor equipment (40) for establishing doctor blowing. The distribution channel (11) is adapted to be fastened to the blade holder (13). The invention also relates to doctor equipment of a fiber web machine, where the doctor equipment is equipped with blowing equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: Hannu Eerikäinen
  • Patent number: 8844464
    Abstract: Systems, method and devices for applying a fluid composite to a carrier sheet are presented herein. An aspect of this disclosure is directed to a fluid-administering apparatus for applying a fluid composite, such as resins, epoxies, and adhesives, to a carrier sheet, such as a cloth tape. The apparatus includes a support frame with a container buttress, and a container removably received within the container buttress of the support frame. The container has a basin for holding the fluid composite, a lid covering the basin, and first and second scraping surfaces for scraping the carrier sheet. The container also has first and second slots, each of which is defined through a respective opposing side of the container. The carrier sheet passes through the first slot, traverses down into the basin through the fluid composite, slides over the first scraping surface then under the second scraping surface, and passes out through the second slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Neptune Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Lazzara, Richard J. Lazzara
  • Patent number: 8807069
    Abstract: A roll blade coating method including transferring an excessive amount of a coating liquid onto a continuously running web, and adjusting the excessive amount of the coating liquid to a desired adhesion amount with a roll blade, wherein the roll blade is held by a holding member for holding the roll blade, wherein the holding member is pressed by a plurality of air cylinders each configured to press the holding member, wherein the air cylinders are arranged in a side of the holding member, which side is opposite to a side where the holding member holds the roll blade, and wherein the air cylinders can separately be adjusted in air pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Shuji Hanai, Satoshi Nakazawa, Nobuyuki Nagasawa, Tetsuya Hara
  • Patent number: 8671881
    Abstract: A thickness adjustment device for thin-film coating is revealed. The thickness adjustment device for thin-film coating includes a coating device, a support set, and a thickness adjustment unit. The coating device consists of a work piece conveyor that delivers a work piece, and a material supply unit that carries a coating material onto a surface of the work piece to form a film. The support set is connected to the coating device while the thickness adjustment unit is inserted through and mounted on the support set. The thickness adjustment unit includes a scrape part disposed correspondingly to the work piece and used for applying coating material to form the film. The thickness of the film is adjusted according to a controlling force or torque of the thickness adjustment unit that presses downward. Thus the film is coated on the work piece evenly and the film coating quality is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignees: Metal Industries Research & Development Centre, National Chung Cheng University
    Inventors: Jung-Wei Cheng, Chang-Pen Chen, Jeng-Rong Ho, Bo-Ying Li, Yeh-Min Lin
  • Patent number: 8424481
    Abstract: A gluing mechanism incorporating a notched glue scraper and a method thereof are disclosed. A glue dispensing roller is provided adjacent to a web material traveling path where a web material is conveyed to get past, and operated to touch glue contained in a glue tank, and accordingly, a glue carrying roller surface of the glue dispensing roller is coated with the glue. A notched scraper blade, which faces the glue carrying roller surface of the glue dispensing roller, scrapes the glue stayed on the portion of the glue carrying roller surface, which corresponds with the non-notched area of the scraper edge. Comparatively, the glue stayed on the rest of the glue carrying roller surface is formed a glue layer for subsequently applying to a gluing side of the web material, wherein the rest of the glue carrying roller surface corresponds with notched area of the scraper edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Chan Li Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tung-I Tsai
  • Patent number: 8424482
    Abstract: An apparatus for coating web-shaped materials with a coating medium includes a rotating transfer roll that has depressions on its circumferential surface for transferring the coating medium, a coating chamber, and a nozzle carrier with several bored holes before the coating chamber in a motion direction of the transfer roll. Coating medium streams out of these bored holes in a free stream. The apparatus aims to achieve a uniform and reproducible coating of the web for various different application weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Herbert Olbrich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Joehren, Frank Redetzky
  • Patent number: 8375888
    Abstract: A doctor blade assembly for use in combination with apparatus for forming a film on a substrate. The doctor blade assembly includes a doctor blade to be mounted on a programmable robot. The doctor blade has a bottom face and spacers at opposite ends of the body of the doctor blade extending a predetermined distance down below the bottom face of the body for contacting a substrate and spacing the bottom face from the substrate. The spacers are adjustable relative to the doctor blade for adjusting the predetermined distance according to the thickness of film to be formed on the substrate. Other aspects and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Intermolecular, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Mark Lambert, Dennis Mullins, Cuong Manh Ta, Peter Wing Leung
  • Patent number: 8286577
    Abstract: A dosing device for the application of a coating mix (6) onto a running web, in particular a paper or paperboard web (1), which device comprises a rod (8) that is supported revolvingly over its entire length in a rod cradle (12), and a pressing device (13) acting on the rod cradle and producing a pressure of the rod onto the web (1) and onto the holding-on device (2, 17, 15) of the web, the rod (8) being provided with a wear resistant surface coating (15) with a hardness of about 10 to about 100 according to Shore A. The invention also relates to methods of using said rod, and to said revolving rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Mattssonforetagen I Uddevalla Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Tore Eriksson, Hakan Karlsson
  • Patent number: 8252380
    Abstract: A method in connection with coating, comprising a running web (8) arranged to be coated with a coating mix (11), coating means (1) arranged in connection with said web (8), a coating surface (6, 7) at the coating means (1) and arranged in contact with said web (8) to dose said coating mix (11), and said coating means (1) being provided with at least a first coating surface (6) and a second coating surface (7), in such a way that it is possible at said running web (8) to switch between the one (6) and the other (7) surfaces while at least one of said surfaces (6, 7) is in an active contact position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: Mattssonforetagen I Uddevalla Akttiebolag
    Inventor: Håkan Karlsson
  • Patent number: 8028648
    Abstract: A rod cradle for a film, coating, or dam rod includes a frame profile (12) equipped with an insert groove (14), an insert (16) fitted into the insert groove, and the insert having a rod groove (18) and a rod (28) therein. The device has locking elements (24) for locking the insert (16) into the frame profile (12). There are, on the sides of the insert groove, edges (20) through which the insert passes into the insert groove when the rod is not present. On the sides of the rod groove (16) there are opposing lips (22). The lips (22) have vertices (74) through which the rod (28) can pass without damage to the rod or the insert so that the rod can be inserted in to the rod groove (18) and lock the insert (16) in the insert groove (14) of the frame profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2011
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Arto Karusalmi, Ari-Pekka Kautto, Sami Kuparinen, Vesa Lamberg, Pekka Ylönen
  • Publication number: 20110017131
    Abstract: A doctor apparatus is disclosed and includes a doctor roll (12) supported in a coater (1) suitable for applying coating to a paper web surface or a roll surface (4) for subsequent transfer to the paper web. The doctor includes a doctor roll (12), a support (11) for the doctor roll (12), a front support (3) for holding the roll support (11) and a rear support or retainer (18) cooperates with and helps stabilize the support (11) and doctor roll (12). The present invention minimizes the variation moving of the doctor roll (12) has on the coating on the moving surface (4), be it web or roll, and thus can improve coating quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Inventor: Wayne A. Damrau
  • Patent number: 7669550
    Abstract: A device for applying a medium in the form of a liquid or a paste to a moving substrate, the substrate being a surface of a web of paper, a paper board, fibrous material and/or a transfer element including an application chamber, a first element, a second element and at least one limiting element. The first element is associated with the application chamber on an output side of the application chamber in a direction of movement of the moving substrate. The second element is associated with an input side of the application chamber. The at least one limiting element is associated with a lateral end of the application chamber. The at least one limiting element adjusting a width of application of the medium on the moving substrate. The at least one limiting element having a flexible sealing plate that substantially seals a space between the moving substrate, the first element and the second element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Henninger, Horst Kaipf, Martin Schaubmaier, Michael Heitzinger, Ruediger Keinberger
  • Patent number: 7527691
    Abstract: Provided is a coating apparatus for coating with coating liquid a surface of a strip-shaped body carried in a fixed direction includes, a primary bar extending along a width direction of a carrying plane, which is a carrying path of the strip-shaped body, a secondary bar extending in parallel with and on the downstream side of the primary bar, and a between-bars liquid reservoir disposed between the primary and secondary bars for storing the coating liquid therein at the time of coating. Conditions are set so that relationship W2<W1 is formed between a coating amount W1 of the coating liquid at the primary bar and a coating amount W2 of the coating liquid after the strip-shaped body has passed through the secondary bar. A coating apparatus is also provided, in which the secondary bar contacts the strip-shaped body before the primary bar at the time of starting coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2009
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromu Ando, Shin Kanke
  • Patent number: 7470327
    Abstract: A peripheral surface of a coating rod has an area where grooves (convex portions) are formed. This area is ground by a grinding apparatus by which a maximum height Ry of the rod surface is adjusted to 15 ?m or less. Further, a ratio of D/W is adjusted to 0.01 or more, wherein D is a total distance of the convex portions of the rod actually abutting on a web in an axial direction of the rod, and W is a coating width of the web. Furthermore, straightness of the rod is adjusted to 30 ?m or less per 1 m, and roundness of the rod is adjusted to 10 ?m or less. Micro-projections are removed by grinding so that scratches of a coating surface are prevented from occurring. Coating unevenness is prevented by improving the straightness and the roundness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2008
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventors: Atsushi Ooshima, Satoru Matsumoto, Yasuhito Naruse
  • Patent number: 7354479
    Abstract: A coating device is provided which has a bar which coats a coating liquid on a strip-shaped body conveyed in a given direction, and a dam-shaped member disposed at an upstream side of the bar so as to face the bar. Also provided is a coating method which, in the coating device, supplies the coating liquid from between the dam-shaped member and the bar so as to carry out coating. A flow rate of the coating liquid passing through a gap between the strip-shaped body and the dam-shaped member is set to be 3 m/min or more. A flow rate of the coating liquid passing through a gap between the bar and the dam-shaped member is set to be 5 mm/sec or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2008
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 7332033
    Abstract: A doctor bed is provided for holding a circularly cylindrical metering rod, including a housing of a homogenous material, which is designed with a cross section at right angles to the cylinder longitudinal axis of the metering rod and has a circularly cylindrical recess which surrounds the metering rod with a form fit over at least 180°. The doctor bed is arranged on a machine processing a moving material web, there being arranged on the housing, in the region of the recess, at least one groove running parallel to the cylinder longitudinal axis of the metering rod. A wiping strip is arranged detachably between the metering rod and the doctor bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Henninger, Horst Kaipf, Martin Schaubmaier, Michael Heitzinger, Ruediger Keinberger
  • Patent number: 7329437
    Abstract: A coating apparatus comprising a forward bar, a liquid feed passage and a metering device for a coating liquid. The forward bar rotates about its axis in the same direction as the traveling direction of a continuously traveling band-shaped web while touching the web. When coating the web with the coating liquid, the liquid feed passage feeds the coating liquid to an area between the upstream side of the forward bar and the web with respect to the traveling direction of the web. The metering device is arranged on the downstream side of the forward bar for metering the coating liquid to a predetermined coating thickness as applied to the web by the forward bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2008
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Shin Kanke, Hiromu Ando, Hideaki Kominami
  • Patent number: 7311804
    Abstract: Doctor blades are provided for multiple positions within a paper or board making machine. A single doctor blade of a standard length or a reel of doctor blade material has markings which permit a variety of doctor blade sizes to be readily cut. If a standard length doctor blade is used, the length of the blade is chosen to be at least as long as the longest doctor blade required for a particular papermaking machine. If the material is in a reel, the markings may be at regular numbered intervals. If a pattern of rivets is connected to the blade, and the rivets must have a given relationship with a blade holder, blade length may be marked out in such a way that some blade material is discarded in order to position the rivets when shorter blades are cut from the blade reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2007
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: John David Breiten, Markku Lemetyinen
  • Patent number: 7235134
    Abstract: A coating device is provided which has a bar which coats a coating liquid on a strip-shaped body conveyed in a given direction, and a dam-shaped member disposed at an upstream side of the bar so as to face the bar. Also provided is a coating method which, in the coating device, supplies the coating liquid from between the dam-shaped member and the bar so as to carry out coating. A flow rate of the coating liquid passing through a gap between the strip-shaped body and the dam-shaped member is set to be 3 m/min or more. A flow rate of the coating liquid passing through a gap between the bar and the dam-shaped member is set to be 5 mm/sec or more.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Fujifilm Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuki Ichikawa
  • Patent number: 7192485
    Abstract: A device (510) for the direct or indirect application of liquid or pasty application medium (516) by means of an applicator unit (512) to a material web (520), in particular of paper or board, comprises a device (570) upstream of the applicator unit (512) in the running direction (L) of the substrate (U) in order to attenuate the air boundary layer (G) carried along by the substrate (U). The attenuation device can in this case comprise a sealing element (570) which is pressed in a sealing manner against the substrate (U) and rolls on the latter substantially without slippage, and/or can comprise an electrode arrangement and/or can comprise an ultrasound source and/or can comprise a resilient diaphragm element acting without contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Bernert Richard, Méndez-Gallon Benjamin, Ueberschär Manfred
  • Patent number: 7101438
    Abstract: A coater for dispersed slurry capable of coating coated dispersed slurry on a nonwoven cloth-like base material while bringing the slurry into contact with the material, comprising a net conveyor for transferring the nonwoven cloth-like base material, a supply means for supplying the dispersed slurry onto the net conveyor, and a coating roll for forming a coating layer of a specified thickness by pressing, from the upper side thereof, the dispersed slurry supplied onto the nonwoven cloth-like base material, wherein this coating roll is allowed to come into direct contact with the dispersed slurry on the peripheral surface of the nonwoven cloth-like base material or allowed to come into contact with the dispersed slurry through a film provided therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Japan Absorbent Technology Institute
    Inventors: Migaku Suzuki, Shingo Mori
  • Patent number: 7048969
    Abstract: A coating device and a coating method are provided. The coating device comprises a coating station for coating a coating liquid on a band-shaped substrate running continuously, and a coat-adjusting station disposed downstream of the coating station for adjusting the coating liquid on the substrate so that the coating liquid layer is coated on the substrate at a predetermined thickness. The coating station and the coat-adjusting station comprise first and second bars for respectively coating and measuring the liquid agent. The coating liquid can be coated on evenly and in a stable manner even if the coating operation is performed with the substrate running at a high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kazuki Ichikawa, Nobuyoshi Kaneko, Go Nishino
  • Patent number: 7041339
    Abstract: A coating device is disclosed which is provided with a first side bar, which extends along a transverse direction of a conveyance plane, which is a conveyance path of a belt body, and a second side bar, which is located at a downstream side of the first side bar. Also provided are a channel, which supplies a liquid at an upstream side of the first side bar, and a liquid-pooling section, which accumulates the liquid during coating of the liquid and is located between the first side bar and the second side bar. Also disclosed is a method which uses this coating device to coat a liquid on a belt body which is conveyed at high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2006
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shin Kanke, Hiromu Ando
  • Patent number: 6911085
    Abstract: Doctor blade dosing systems for devices used for coating material webs, particularly paper or paperboard webs, exist that have a doctor blade rod, which serves as a dosing element while being held inside a slot of a doctor blade bed that, in turn, is mounted in a support that can be fastened inside the frame of the system. According to the disclosure, the doctor blade rod has a diameter of less than 25 mm. The doctor blade bed is inserted in removable manner into a slot of the support situated on the face thereof. The ratio of the cross-sectional area (measured in mm2) of the doctor blade to the diameter (measured in mm) of the doctor blade rod is less than 60 mm, preferably less than 30 mm. The support is made of a plastic material and is shaped like a clamp having at least one rearward extending clamp limb and one joint location, whereby the holding slot that accommodates the doctor blade bed forms the clamp mouth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2005
    Assignee: Horst Sprenger GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhard Knop
  • Patent number: 6833157
    Abstract: The coating apparatus and method enable the coating liquid having been scraped-off to be reused without doing any one of the fluid adjusting treatment and the filtering treatment, while maintaining the features of the scraping-off type of extrusion coater, which is suitable for obtaining a uniform and extremely thin coating film. The coating head is provided with two slits: a coating slit and a recovering slit, and the excessive coating liquid having been discharged through the coating slit and applied to the web is scraped-off and recovered through the recovering slit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Toshihiro Mandai, Mikio Tomaru, Norio Shibata
  • Patent number: 6827778
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for feeding a treatment substance to an application device used to treat a moving paper or board web, which arrangement includes at least one application chamber (1) extending over the width of the web, to which the treatment substance can be fed. The treatment substance feed devices include at least one elongated feed chamber (3) extending over the width of the application device, to which treatment substance can be fed from the inlet side (8) of the chamber (3), and at least one connection (20) for leading the treatment substance from the feed chamber to the application chamber (1). For feeding the treatment substance between the feed chambers, there is at least one flow route to connect the end (19) of the feed chamber (3) opposite the inlet side (8) and the end of the application device on the side of the inlet side of the first feed chamber (3), through the flow route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Markku Lummila, Erikki Autio, Markku Salo
  • Patent number: 6790280
    Abstract: A cradle for a spreading device, such as a rotatable rod, to which a spreading organ to be pressed against a movable surface has been attached. The cradle is fastened to a holder, and a gasket is provided between the cradle and the holder (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Metso Paper Inc.
    Inventor: Markku Lummila
  • Patent number: 6752871
    Abstract: A coating system for coating print carriers includes at least one pump, at least one selection valve, a first metering device and a second metering device. The first metering device and the second metering device are constructed differently from one another with respect to metering principles thereof. The pump and the selection valve are assembled into a modular supply unit constructed so as to be compatible both with the first and with the second metering device. A coating machine, such as a printing or varnishing machine which includes the coating system, is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bitterich, Bernd Heller
  • Patent number: 6696098
    Abstract: Thickness unevenness of a coating liquid layer in a width direction of a web is adjusted by moving a guide roller at the proximity of a coating rod so as to deliberately provide tension variation in the width direction of the web in purpose of forming the coating liquid layer with a desired thickness on the web by the coating rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takekuma, Mikio Tomaru, Toshihiro Mandai
  • Publication number: 20030192473
    Abstract: The invention is a contact die for dispensing of flowable material on a substrate. The contact die includes at least one die block including a first internal passage. A die lip portion is disposed on the die block having a lateral dimension. A first plurality of orifices is disposed through the die lip portion proximate to each other and in communication with the internal passage to dispense flowable material as a single strip on the substrate. A first edge is disposed on one lateral side of the first plurality of orifices to direct the flowable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Pentti K. Loukusa, Kurt W. Oster, Todd L. Peterson, Robert B. Secor, Rebecca A. Shipman, Merlin J. Steffen
  • Patent number: 6630026
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying a treating mix onto the surface of a moving device in the coating of paper or board. The apparatus comprises a blade carrier (3), doctor means (4) attached to the blade carrier (3), a front wall (9) positioned a distance from the doctor means (4), a device (1) constituting the moving device, said device being arranged in conjunction with the front wall (9) and the doctor means such that it forms a chamber (6, 7) with the front wall (9) and the doctor means, and means (8) for supplying treating agent into an area of the application chamber (6, 7) which is at least essentially opposite to the moving surface. To prevent streaks, a screen plate (10) is fitted in the application chamber, at least partly dividing the application chamber (6, 7) such that with regard to the screen plate (10), the doctor means (4) is arranged on the opposite side thereof to the feed means for the treating agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2003
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Kiiha, Petri Parni, Petri Joutjärvi
  • Patent number: 6589340
    Abstract: A coating machine serves to directly or indirectly apply a liquid or viscous coating medium onto a moving surface. A coater imbedded in a coater bed, defines in part the metering slot. A limiting surface at the moving surface inlet of the coater bed forms, together with the moving surface, an accumulator chamber, with the opening facing in the opposite direction with respect to the feed direction. The accumulator chamber gradually reduces its volume, and the coating medium, delivered to the accumulator chamber by the moving surface, accumulates in the area ahead of the metering slot. It further includes pneumatic pressure device to alter the relative position of the limiting surface with respect to the moving surface and thus alter the geometry of the accumulator chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Bernert, Benjamin Méndez-Gallon
  • Patent number: 6589596
    Abstract: Thickness unevenness of a coating liquid layer in a width direction of a web is adjusted by moving a guide roller at the proximity of a coating rod so as to deliberately provide tension variation in the width direction of the web in purpose of forming the coating liquid layer with a desired thickness on the web by the coating rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takekuma, Mikio Tomaru, Toshihiro Mandai
  • Patent number: 6579368
    Abstract: An application apparatus is for applying a liquid or pasty medium to a moving base. The moving base is a surface of a material web in a case of direct application and a surface of a transfer element for transferring the medium to the material web in a case of indirect application, the material web being one of paper and cardboard. The application apparatus has an inlet side and an outlet side with respect to a direction of movement of the moving base. The application apparatus includes a carrying beam; an essentially rigid supporting unit provided on the carrying beam; a sealing doctor device positioned at the inlet side of the application apparatus, the sealing doctor device being fixedly attached to the supporting unit; and a metering doctor device positioned at the outlet side of the application apparatus, the metering doctor device being fixedly attached to the supporting unit. The sealing doctor device and the metering doctor device define an application chamber therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Kohl, Stefan Reich, Benjamin Méndez-Gallon, Martin Kustermann, Manfred Ueberschär, Christioph Henninger, Rüdiger Kurtz, Martin Tietz
  • Patent number: 6554900
    Abstract: An apparatus for the application of a flowable medium (2, 2′) from a stock chamber (7, 8) to a surface (6) being moved along the apparatus, and to the use of an apparatus of this type. The stock chamber (7, 8) partly covers the surface (6), with formation of a sealing gap (14) and an exit gap (18). In order to prevent the formation of air bubbles in the medium (2, 2′), it is proposed to divide the stock chamber (7, 8) into a pre-chamber (7) and a main chamber (8). A dividing element (10) which, together with the surface (6), limits a dividing gap (15), is arranged between the chambers. Various shapes of the dividing element are proposed. The apparatus is particularly suitable for the application of a polymer dispersion to the surface (6). A process for operating an apparatus of this type is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Pagendarm Technologie GmbH
    Inventors: Oral Aydin, Andree Dragon, Frank Reinhard
  • Publication number: 20030035897
    Abstract: Thickness unevenness of a coating liquid layer in a width direction of a web is adjusted by moving a guide roller at the proximity of a coating rod so as to deliberately provide tension variation in the width direction of the web in purpose of forming the coating liquid layer with a desired thickness on the web by the coating rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Applicant: FUJI PHOTO FILM CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hideaki Takekuma, Mikio Tomaru, Toshihiro Mandai
  • Publication number: 20020174966
    Abstract: A multilayer composite doctor blade has a side edge configured for application to the surface of a rotating roll in a paper making machine. The doctor blade has an inner core and intermediate layers. The doctor blade may also include outer layers. The inner core is predominantly polymeric material. The intermediate layers on opposite sides of the core include reinforcing fibers. The side edge of the doctor blade has an abrasiveness as measured by ASTM test method D5181-91 of between about 4.0 to 5.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Allen J. Brauns, Stacey L. Jackson
  • Patent number: 6485570
    Abstract: An apparatus installed in a molten metal plating line includes a blade pressed against a roll dipped in a molten metal plating bath, in which a metal strip travels. The apparatus removes substances deposited on a surface of the roll. The apparatus also includes an arm for supporting the blade, and a screw member disposed above the plating bath so as to traverse it and moving along an axis of the roll in the bath for removing substances deposited on the roll in the molten metal plating bath. Floats and/or weights are mounted on the arm so as to adjust a press force of the blade applied to the roll in the molten metal plating bath. A method for preventing the occurrence of dents on a molten-metal-plated steel strip using the apparatus is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Kawasaki Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Sachihiro Iida, Yukihiko Uchiyama
  • Patent number: 6453809
    Abstract: Squeegee device for applying printing medium to a substrate, interacting with a squeegee element which is made at least partially from a magnetizable material and can be moved between an operating position and an at-rest position, which squeegee device comprises a support frame for delimiting an operating space, inside which the operating position of the squeegee element is located, and magnetic means which are provided on the support frame for generating a magnetic field at the location of a designated bearing-wall part of the support frame in order to pull the squeegee element onto the bearing-wall part in the at-rest position, in which device switching means are provided, which interact with the magnetic means in order to apply the magnetic field at the location of the bearing-wall part in a switched-on position and to substantially eliminate the magnetic field at the location of the bearing-wall part in a switched-off position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Stork Brabant B.V.
    Inventor: Henricus Gerardus M. Kempen
  • Patent number: 6444270
    Abstract: In a coating method using a coating rod, the coating rod is rotated in the reverse direction with respect to the running direction of the web, and the absolute value of V1/V2 is set between 0.0001 and 0.06, where V1 (cm/sec) is a rotating speed of the rod and V2 (cm/sec) is a running speed of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yasuhito Naruse
  • Patent number: 6428853
    Abstract: Application apparatus for the coating of a travelling web (5), comprising a support roll (3) and a predosage roll (7′), said rolls forming a nip between themselves through which the web is brought to travel, further comprising an application device (21) by which sizing agent or coating agent (13) can be transferred onto the web, and means (19) for final evening of material applied onto the web, characterized in that the application device (21) is designed in such a manner that it transfers directly onto the travelling web (5) said material (13) in a certain excess before entering the nip where predosage is provided before the subsequent and final evening of applied material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: BTG Källe Inventing AB
    Inventor: Tore Eriksson
  • Patent number: 6413314
    Abstract: Known doctor rods (1) used as dosing elements in coating devices have a cylindrical steel base body on whose cover surface a chromium or ceramic layer of hard material is applied. According to the invention, the cracks and craters in the layer of hard material are closed by a joint which is produced by means of an ion implantation process, by the hard material reacting with the ions applied in a plasma. The improved doctor rods have a longer service life than known doctor rods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Jagenberg Papiertechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Rückert, Ulrich Schoof
  • Publication number: 20020023587
    Abstract: A chambered doctor blade apparatus provides an automatic system for cleanup and replacement of coating substance, as well as operating a hydraulic head loading system that includes hydrostatic compensation, and integrates the head loading mechanism into the automated cleaning, flushing and replacement cycle. A programmable logic controller (PLC) is connected to a touch screen display that presents an interactive graphical user interface for control purposes. The PLC is programmed to carry out sequentially the required steps for cleaning, refilling, and running the chambered doctor blade assembly, and to alternate water-based and non-water-based coatings without necessitating removal of the doctor blade head from the transfer roller. Each coating run begins with a purge step in which a new coating material is pumped through the system to waste to remove any residual material from the previous coating run.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2001
    Publication date: February 28, 2002
    Inventor: Robert L. Burgard
  • Patent number: 6346148
    Abstract: An apparatus for coating a paper or paperboard web with at least two coat layers. The present invention achieves two-layer coating and is capable of providing a smooth coat with high opacifying power. A first coat layer is initially applied to the web. The surface of this first coat layer is smoothed by a smoothing element. After smoothing, this first coat layer is partially or entirely dried, and a second coat layer is applied onto the first coat layer using a transfer coater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventor: Rauno Verner Rantanen
  • Patent number: 6319320
    Abstract: A coating machine for the application of a coating medium onto a moving surface includes a counter-force generating device which generates a counter force that opposes the force generated by a load device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Benjamin Méndez-Gallon
  • Patent number: 6306461
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for coating a paper or a paper board web, comprising spreading coating mix having a solids content of 55-75% on the surface of the web with a nozzle applicator, levelling and metering the spread coating mix on the surface of the web by a doctor element capable of producing a high hydrodynamic force on the coating layer between the doctor element and the web, the doctor element being located downstream of the applicator so that the dwell time between the spreading of the coating mix to the metering is 72-2400 ms. The web speed is preferably 100-1000 m/s. A good smoothness and coverage is achieved by this method due to long dwell time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventors: Mika Leino, Stig Renvall, Stefan Kuni, Petri Paloviita
  • Patent number: 6277197
    Abstract: An apparatus for direct or indirect application of at least one liquid or pasty medium onto a traveling material web, notably of paper or cardboard, includes at least one applicator for the medium. Coordinated with the applicator is a backing roll for receiving the medium in the indirect application or for carrying the material web in the direct application. The applicator includes a coating doctor and, arranged a distance from the coating doctor in a direction opposite to the direction of rotation of the backing roll, a second doctor element. The second doctor element bounds, with the coating doctor, a coating chamber for the medium. The coating doctor and the second doctor element are retained on a common, substantially rigid doctor bed and bound together with the backing roll surface and the doctor bed surface the coating chamber. At least one feed line for feeding the medium to the coating chamber is provided in the common doctor bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Ingo Gottwald
  • Patent number: 6149726
    Abstract: A device for doctoring and/or metering a liquid or viscous medium on a moving operating surface includes a doctoring assembly having a doctoring surface extending transversely across the entire operating surface and pressing thereagainst. A doctoring support beam movably supports the doctoring assembly in a direction transverse to the operating surface. A pressure unit produces a force which is exerted on the doctoring assembly in order to produce a contact pressure between the doctoring surface and the operating surface. Undesired temperature-based movements of the doctoring support beam relative to the operating surface can be compensated for by a compensation device located in the pressure flow path between the doctoring support beam and the doctoring assembly. This ensures that the contact pressure between the doctoring surface and the operating surface is substantially unaffected by such movements or deformations of the doctoring support beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Ueberschar
  • Patent number: 6106619
    Abstract: A coater for applying a coating medium to a moving surface includes a mounting; a coater rod bed connected to the mounting; and a coater rod carried by the coater rod bed. The coater rod is configured for applying the coating medium to the moving surface, and includes a hollow rod with a longitudinal bore interconnecting opposite ends thereof. A pair of fluid couplings are respectively attached to each end of the coater rod. Each fluid coupling has an internal fluid passage which is disposed in fluid communication with the longitudinal bore of the coater rod, whereby a thermal transfer fluid may be transported through the longitudinal bore of the coater rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Paper Technology North America, Inc.
    Inventor: James A. Eng
  • Patent number: 6099909
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coating method and device for coating a size-press roll, paper or board or a corresponding moving base. The coating device comprises a revolving coating bar which rests against the moving base and extends across the machine width. The coating bar is supported in a cradle substantially over its entire length and is a large-diameter grooved bar fitted against the moving base. The coating bar spreads and smoothes a coating agent onto the moving base. The coating agent is introduced into the coating device in advance of the coating bar in the running direction of the moving base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2000
    Assignee: Valmet Paper Machinery, Inc.
    Inventors: Rauno Rantanen, Hannu Korhonen, Markku Lummila, Timo Lintula