Abstract: The invention relates to a twin-wire web former for a paper machine wherein a covering wire and a carrying wire form a twin-wire forming zone between them. A method for dewatering a web is also disclosed. In the invention, water is drained out of a web running through the twin-wire zone through both of the wires. After the twin-wire zone, the web is separated from the covering wire and is transferred on the carrying wire to a pick-up point. In hybrid formers, after an initial single-wire forming zone preceding the twin-wire zone, and in gap formers, after a curved forming zone placed directly after a forming gap, there is a forming shoe provided with a ribbed deck and arranged inside one of the wire loops. This forming shoe is followed by dewatering and web forming units which include forming ribs and are placed inside both of the wire loops. At least one of the dewatering and web forming units is loaded by means of a pressure-hose arrangement.

Abstract: A stable solid controlled release formulation having a coating derived from an aqueous dispersion of a hydrophobic acrylic polymer includes a substrate including an active agent selected from the group consisting of a systemically active therapeutic agent, a locally active therapeutic agent, a disinfecting and sanitizing agent, a cleansing agent, a fragrance agent and a fertilizing agent, overcoated with an aqueous dispersion of the plasticized water-insoluble acrylic polymer. The formulation provides a stable dissolution of the active agent which is unchanged after exposure to accelerated storage conditions.

Abstract: A sealing construction for a suction box of a suction roll in a paper machine and a method for sealing a suction roll in which a seal is arranged in a holder and loading members, preferably at least one loading hose, are arranged between the holder and the seal. The seal is pressed against an inner face of the roll mantle of the suction roll by the pressure of a medium that has been supplied into the loading hose. Locking devices are situated between the seal and the holder to lock the seal in a desired position.

Abstract: A movement compensator apparatus and method for compensating for movements taking place during tilting of a headbox of a paper machine and preventing transfer of strains from a pulp supply pipe in the headbox to a stationary pulp supply pipe. The movement compensator has a first pipe connected to the supply pipe by a connecting flange that permits rotation of the first pipe and the supply pipe relative to one another, and a second pipe connected to the first pipe by another connecting flange that permits rotation of the first pipe and the second pipe relative to one another. The second pipe is further connected to the stationary supply pipe by a third connecting flange that also permits rotation of the second pipe and the stationary supply pipe relative to one another.

Abstract: A method and device for drying and/or cooling a paper web or equivalent in which the web is passed over the circumference of a revolving roll on support of a face of a support wire that faces the roll. The web is dried and/or cooled by means of a gas blown through openings in the mantle of the roll into a space between the outer face of the roll and the web supported by the support wire, whereby a support zone formed by pressurized gas is formed between the outer face of the roll and the web. Humidified gas is passed out of the support zone into the interior of the roll through other openings in the mantle of the roll into a system of exhaust ducts placed inside the roll.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for separating pieces of sawn timber from bundles coming out of a sawing machine. The bundles, when emerging longitudinally from the sawing machine, are transferred in their transverse direction individually and sequentially to at least one unloading station and the bundles are unloaded from beneath, i.e., from the lowermost one of the pieces, using gripping members sequentially passing through the unloading station(s) and engaging with the lowermost piece of timber. The separated pieces of sawn timber unloaded from the bundles are transported at regular intervals onwards.

Abstract: Apparatus for accessing the power of a battery or batteries situated in the battery compartment of a first electrical device including a flexible sheet or strip member which is situated in the battery compartment of the first electrical device before the battery or batteries are inserted, a first pair of electrically conductive contact zones on opposed sheet member surfaces in aligned and electrically coupled relationship with each other, a second pair of electrically conductive contact zones on opposed sheet member surfaces in aligned and electrically coupled relationship with each other and electrically insulated from the contact zones of the first pair, and conductors for electrically connecting the coupled and aligned contact zones of the first pair and the coupled and aligned contact zones of the second pair into an electrical circuit for operating a second electrical device.

Abstract: A tug boat for escort towing and/or harbor use having a towing winch positioned at least on the forecastle. While in escort towing, the tug is intended to improve the steering and arresting properties of a vessel to be assisted by means of a tow rope emitted from the towing winch and connected to the vessel being assisted. In harbor use, the tug boat is applied for ordinary towing and buffer tasks. In order to improve the stability of the tug boat and the towing, steering, arresting and equivalent properties provided with the tug boat in the vessel being assisted, a towing eyelet, through which the traction force of the tow rope connected from the towing winch of the forecastle to the vessel being assisted is transmitted to the tug boat, is positioned depending on the towing angle and in proximity of the deck plane or in the deck plane.

Abstract: A dryer section for a paper machine including dryer groups with single-wire draw, each of which includes drying cylinders, reversing cylinders or rolls arranged in gaps between the drying cylinders, and a drying wire for carrying the web under constant contact with the wire over the drying cylinders and reversing cylinders or rolls so that the web enters into direct contact with the drying cylinders and that the wire enters into direct contact with the reversing cylinders or rolls. In at least one of the groups with single-wire draw in the dryer section, four drying cylinders are placed in pairs side by side and one above the other so that the upper pair of cylinders is placed at a lower level than the other cylinders in the group.

Abstract: A twin-wire web former in a paper machine, having a single-wire initial portion, after which a twin-wire zone starts in the area of a ribbed deck of a first forming shoe placed inside one of the wire loops. After the first forming shoe, a pressure-loaded dewatering unit is arranged and which includes opposite sets of ribs and dewatering chambers. A first dewatering chamber in the dewatering unit is placed above the first forming shoe so as to remove water that drains from the area of the curved ribbed deck of the first forming shoe through its suction-deflector duct. The first dewatering chamber is followed by a second dewatering chamber, whose lower part is connected with a set of dewatering and guide ribs having gap spaces into which a drain duct of the second dewatering chamber opens. Against the set of dewatering and guide ribs, a set of loading ribs operates, which is placed inside the opposite wire loop and which operates by means of the medium pressure of loading hoses.

Abstract: A method for producing coated wood-based panels with rounded edge from a starting panel coated on at least one of its two sides, and which is subjected to a preforming or direct postforming process. The starting panel is coated using coatings based on unsaturated resins of the type curable by ionizing radiation.

Abstract: An apparatus for guiding a wire including a device for producing a washing jet and a device for removing washing mist generated from the washing jet which has a suction box. The suction box is located on an opposite side of the wire from the device for producing a washing jet. The suction box has a duct through which the mist produced in the washing of the wire is passed into an inlet chamber. The duct is arranged at an angle, preferably at an acute angle, relative to the running direction of the wire. In conjunction with, a mist suction device, there is provided a list which is in contact with the wire and deflects the wire so that the direction of arrival of the wire at the list differs from the direction of departure of the wire from the list.

Abstract: A method and device for contact-free treatment of a web in which the web is treated, for example supported, reversed, spread, carried, and/or dried, by blowings which provide a carrier-face zone. The carrier-face zone has a curved form regulatable in a direction transverse to the direction of progress of the web. The nozzle-carrier face unit of the device is bent to the curved form in the cross direction of the machine while a frame part of the device is kept in a stationary position. The device includes a regulation arrangement for bending the nozzle-carrier-face unit to a curve form in the direction transverse to the running direction of the web while the frame part of the device is supported in a stationary position.

Abstract: A multi-layer headbox including at least two inlet headers for stock through which separate stocks are passed into a system of distributor pipes and further through a turbulence generator into a slice cone narrowing in the stock flow direction. Flaps are placed in the slice cone and one end of the flaps is attached to the turbulence generator. The flaps have at least two flap faces between which a step is formed. The step is arranged on the flap in an area in which the flap, and the flow duct, is curved and its the function is to dissipate any secondary vortices that might form on the curved flap face.

Abstract: The center roll in the paper machine is made of a ceramic or metal-ceramic basic material. At least one portion of the center roll is coated or soaked with a polymer coating in order to obtain the desired adhesion properties of the face of the center roll.

Abstract: A golf putter comprising a putter head and an elongated shaft having an enlarged diameter gripping end. The shaft may also include a tapered major center length portion intermediate of the grip and hosel ends. A peripheral sighting edge is provided which is structured and arranged to appear when in use tangential to a peripheral edge of the golf ball when the ball is aligned with the sweet spot of the ball-striking surface. The primary longitudinal axis of the shaft passes through the center of the golf ball when the ball is situated contiguous with the ball-striking surface and aligned with the sweet spot.

Abstract: A method for monitoring and maintaining correct regulation of the tension of a yarn fed to a textile machine, such as a loom, a hosiery machine or a knitting machine, including the steps of continuously determining both the state of movement and the tension of the yarn at a point between a support bobbin from which the yarn is unwound and the textile machine which processes it, comparing the measured tension with a predetermined desired tension and adjusting the tension of the yarn at a point between the bobbin and the point in which the tension is measured. The tension adjustment is interrupted when the measured tension is equal to the desired value. The device of the present invention includes sensing elements for sensing movement and measuring tension of the yarn and a comparison element for comparing the measured tension value with a desired tension and which is connected to the sensing element.

Abstract: A method for providing a tubular roll mantle of a roll for a paper machine or equivalent with glide bearings and a roll including glide-bearings. The roll mantle is supported on a stationary roll axle by hydraulic glide-bearing members acting upon the roll mantle or upon the roll ends. The bearing members are loaded hydraulically by a pressure medium. The roll mantle is supported on the roll axle by at least one pair of glide-bearing members which acting radially and/or axially in opposite directions. When an outside force that shifts or attempts to shift the roll mantle in the direction transverse to the main loading direction and/or in the axial direction is applied to the roll mantle, the pressure in the glide-bearing member placed at the side of the higher loading is adjusted to a level higher than the pressure in the glide-bearing member acting in the opposite direction so that the outside forces are neutralized.

Abstract: A method and device for coating of the face of a roll in a film size press with a coating agent by a coating device including a coating doctor that extends across the machine width and is loaded against the face of a roll in the film size press. The coating doctor spreads and smooths the coating agent, which has been introduced into the coating device and applied as a film onto the roll face before the coating doctor in the direction of rotation of the roll. To prevent the formation of streaks in the coating-agent film, in particular of streaks resulting from cavitation, adhesion of coating agent from the coating-agent film to the trailing side of the coating doctor is prevented by keeping the trailing side of the coating doctor moist or wet. Adhering of coating agent to the trailing edge of the coating blade is prevented by feeding a moistening medium as a constant flow to the area of the trailing edge.

Abstract: A fluid coupling (1) with a sealed casing (2) including two mutually communicating chambers (21, 23) and traversed by a driven shaft (10) connected to a user, one of said chambers (21) containing a pair of rotors (15, 17) provided with radial blades (16, 18), a driving first rotor (17) being operationally connected to a driving shaft and the driven second rotor (15) being associated with the driven shaft (10), the other chamber (23) acting as a delay chamber, the casing (2) containing a fluid arranged to transfer motion from the driving rotor (17) to the driven rotor (15). Within the sealed casing (2) there is provided at least one further chamber or reservoir (22) connected to said two chambers (21, 23) such as to feed the fluid contained in it to the delay chamber (23) with a delay subsequent to the starting of the motor, said fluid being transferred with a further delay to the working chamber (21) containing the rotors (15, 17).