Abstract: An oil feed system for a variable-crown roll which includes a stationary roll axle, a roll mantle arranged revolvingly on the roll axle and hydraulic loading elements acting upon an inner face of the roll mantle in a radial direction and supporting the roll mantle on the roll axle. The loading elements function to regulate the axial profile of the roll mantle. In the roll axle, an axial through hole is formed which communicates with cylinder bores in which the hydraulic loading elements are arranged through substantially radial bores or equivalent ducts. In the axial through hole, at least through one of the roll ends, oil feed pipes are installed and through which pipes, a pressure fluid is fed to the hydraulic loading elements. Into the axial through hole in the roll axle, at the location of the loading elements, an intermediate flange is installed, which operates as a distributor piece and is connected with the loading element.

Abstract: The invention is related to a twin-wire web former in a paper machine having a covering wire and a carrying wire which form a twin-wire forming zone with one another. A discharge opening of a headbox feeds a pulp suspension jet into the forming gap defined between said wires. The forming gap is immediately followed immediately by a forming shoe provided with a curved guide deck. A draining unit or units is/are provided after the forming shoe, before the first forming roll. The draining unit/units comprise(s) a press/support unit which guides the wire placed in contact with it as a straight run. The draining unit or units further comprise(s) a draining equipment provided with suction and foil equipment and placed opposite to the press/support unit, which draining equipment removes a substantial amount of water out of the web.

Abstract: A drive gear for a group of cylinders and a method in the drive of cylinders in which the drive gear has a box frame including a front plate, a rear plate, and side plates, and to which box frame, rotational drive is introduced from outside the gearbox through a shaft. Rotation of the shaft causes rotation of a cogwheel and further, two other cogwheels are rotated which are in contact with this cogwheel, and the drive is transferred to both sides of the gearbox and further to the cylinders. The box frame of the gearbox is stationarily supported on a foundation which receives the weight of the gearbox shafts and cogwheels and the weight of the box frame. The load arising from the weight of the gearbox is transferred to the foundation through the box frame of the gearbox. Two cylinders and their shafts can be operated so that, between the shafts and the gearbox, there is a floating coupling which permits certain angular changes for the shafts of the driven cylinders.

Abstract: A method and device for conditioning a ceramic or metal-ceramic coating of a paper machine roll at its operating site. The roll is ground periodically by a grinding member mounted on a doctor of the roll. The grain size of the grinding particles in the grinding member, i.e., the average diameter of the particles, is in the range of from about 15 to about 200 .mu.m. In the grinding situation, the roll is rotated in its site of operation, and the grinding member is pressed with a force into contact with the face to be ground, whereby, if the face to be ground is excessively rough, it is smoothed to the desired value of surface roughness and, in a corresponding manner, an excessively smooth face is roughened to the desired surface roughness value determined by the grinding member.

Abstract: A coating bar for a bar coater, wherein the coating bar is supported substantially over its entire length revolving in a cradle fixed to the frame of the coater. The coating bar is profiled and surface-treated by boronizing so that a layer of iron boride is applied to the profiled surface of the coating bar.

Abstract: A hybrid former in a paper machine including a lower-wire loop in which there is an initial single-wire portion of a forming zone. In this initial portion, there are draining elements inside the lower-wire loop and thereafter wire-guide and draining elements. The former includes an upper-wire unit in which an upper wire is guided by guide rolls and by a breast roll onto a pulp layer formed on the single-wire portion of the lower wire. In a subsequent twin-wire portion following the single-wire portion, there is a draining and forming unit which includes at least one pressure-loaded press unit and at least one draining-chamber and support unit, which units are arranged inside opposite wire loops. In the units, there are sets of ribs which are pressure-loaded against each other.

Abstract: A suction connector for a pump capable of forming a pipe and plate integrally with each other without soldering or welding, to thereby eliminating disadvantages due to soldering or welding. A pipe is compressed at a predetermined portion thereof, so that the portion is radially outwardly projected, resulting in providing a flange. The flange thus formed is pressedly fixed to a plate.

Abstract: Rolipram-based PDE IV inhibitors containing phenyl- or benzyl-substituted moieties of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X.sub.1 and X.sub.2 may be the same or different and each is O or S;R.sub.1 is selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, saturated or unsaturated straight-chain or branched C.sub.2-12 alkyl groups, cycloalkyl and cycloalkyl-alkyl groups containing from 3 to 10 carbon atoms in the cycloalkyl moiety;R.sub.2 =R.sub.1 or --CH.sub.3 ;R.sub.3 is hydrogen, halogen, or a saturated or unsaturated straight-chain or branched C.sub.1-12 alkyl group, a cycloalkyl or cycloalkyl-alkyl groups containing from 3 to 7 carbon atoms in the cycloalkyl moiety;Z is a linkage selected from --CH.sub.2 CONH-- or --CH.sub.2 NHCO--, andR.sub.

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.

Abstract: A controlled release preparation for oral administration contains tramadol, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as active ingredient.

Abstract: A dryer section in a paper machine which comprises a number of dryer groups, each having drying cylinders, reversing cylinders arranged between adjacent pairs of drying cylinders and a wire which presses the web against heated cylinder faces of the drying cylinders whereas the web remains at the side of the outside curve on the reversing cylinders. The dryer groups are arranged in two or more stories. Some of the dryer groups in the dryer section are placed in the basement spaces underneath the machine hall level, and some of them are placed on the machine hall level.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for preventing the formation of dioxin and/or furan during combustion of composite combustible materials in a combustion chamber. The process includes passing the generated combustion gas in a flow from the combustion chamber to a dedusting device, cooled and purified while maintaining the SO.sub.3 content in the combustion gas flow from about 7 to about 500 mg/m.sup.3 and at a temperature of from about 300 .degree. to about 800.degree. C., The process allows at least surface regions of particles of meal dusts contained in the combustion gas to be converted to sulfates and thereby prevent formation of dioxins and furan. The invention also includes a steam generator for carrying out the process whose steel structures coming into contact with the combustion gases are either alloyed or coated with tungsten and/or vanadium on the combustion-gas side.

Abstract: A method and device for drying a paper web in a dryer section having a number of successive dryer groups with a single-wire draw, and being situated after a press section of the paper machine. Each dryer group includes contact-drying cylinders arranged in a first row and reversing suction cylinders or equivalent suction rolls arranged in a second row, the rows being horizontal, diagonal or vertical rows. The paper web is dried by contact-drying cylinders from the side of its lower face across the entire length of the dryer section. The paper web is passed as a closed draw from one dryer group to the next group, and the paper web is guided, while it runs on the drying wire at the side of the outside curve, by the reversing suction cylinders having a curve radius selected in a range from about 250 mm to about 1000 mm.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for tensioning a fabric in a paper machine, such as a press felt, a drying wire, or an equivalent fabric, including a tensioning roll arranged inside a loop of the fabric. Bearing supports of the roll are fixed, at the driving side and at the operating side of the machine, to sledges. These sledges are displaced by a motor, synchronously in relation to one another, so as to tighten the fabric that runs over the tensioning roll to a certain tension. The sledges are arranged in connection with the frame part of the machine on linear guides, which can be loaded in different directions transverse to the direction of movement of the sledges. In view of displacing the sledges, shafts operated by a motor are journalled on the sledges. The shafts are interconnected by a synchronization shaft between the driving side and the operating side.

Abstract: Cellular telephone apparatus having at least two pieces that are separated or separable such that the cellular antenna may be situated at a distance from the user during use. The cellular telephone apparatus has a cellular antenna which communicates with the user microphone and speaker via either a cordless phone type radio link or a cord. High frequency, electromagnetic radiation emitted from the cellular antenna is thereby substantially diminished by the time it reaches the phone user.

Abstract: A medicine injection device capable of continuously administrating a medicine to the body of a patient over a long period of time while keeping the patient from being restrained during administration. The medicine injection device includes a medicine container and at least one medicine passage each arranged in at least one of a root and a crown, so that a medicine stored in the medicine container is administrated through the medicine passage to the body of a patient.

Abstract: A microcrystalline cellulose-based excipient having improved compressibility, whether utilized in direct compression, dry granulation or wet granulation formulations, is disclosed. The excipient is an agglomerate of microcrystalline cellulose particles and from about 0.1% to about 20% silicon dioxide particles, by weight of the microcrystalline cellulose, wherein the microcrystalline cellulose and silicon dioxide are in intimate association with each other. The silicon dioxide utilized in the novel excipient has a particle size from about 1 nanometer to about 100 microns. Most preferably, the silicon dioxide is a grade of colloidal silicon dioxide.

Abstract: A procatalyst composition which is suitable for the homo- and copolymerization of alpha olefins together with an organometallic cocatalyst compound and which is prepared by treating an inorganic carrier with a component system containing a complex of a magnesium halide and a tetraalkyl titanate, and a chlorinating compound which does not contain a transition metal compound. In order to raise the Mg:Ti ratio, the component system additionally contains an organomagnesium compound.

Abstract: A product display device having an enclosure member and an insert member situated there within. The enclosure member has opposing front and rear walls with at least the front wall being formed of transparent or translucent material. The insert member has a transparent or translucent display wall situated intermediate the front wall and the rear wall and includes a device for associating the product to be displayed therewith. Graphics are provided on the front, rear and display walls such that the product, when associated with the intermediate display wall, appears to be situated in a three-dimensional display.

Abstract: A coated roll and a method for coating a roll used in a paper machine. Desired surface property values of the roll are fed into a central unit of the coating system and the roll is coated while following a function f.sub.1 (x),f.sub.3 (x) created in the central unit over the distance of the length of the roll. A surface hardness and/or surface profile corresponding to the formed function f.sub.1 (x),f.sub.2 (x) is derived which does not have any steps or other points of discontinuity. The roll is coated with a polymer, preferably polyurethane.