Abstract: A calendering method and calender in which a web material is passed through a calender, the calender being defined by two rolls having resilient roll coatings and being loaded towards each other so that due to the resilient nature of the roll coatings an extended nip is defined. Each of the calendering rolls being covered by a flexible calendering belt that is non-compressible in comparison to the roll coatings and each of the calendering belts being formed into a endless loop by passing over a respective alignment or reversing roll.

Abstract: A wheel device and a chair equipped with the same which do not require replacement of a conventional retractable wheel, but instead enable the wheel to be placed in the operating state at all times, as required. The wheel device comprises a wheel and a holder member for holding the wheel. An urging member is arranged between the wheel and the holder member to constantly urge the wheel to be projected in an operable position. A retraction permitting member is adapted to permit the wheel to be retracted while overcoming the urging force of the urging member when a load is exerted in the direction of gravity on a member on which the wheel is mounted. The retraction permitting member includes a setting mechanism for setting the wheel to be in an un-retractable state. The chair is equipped with the wheel devices mounted to a leg portion thereof.

Abstract: A motion sickness expression apparatus capable of causing expression of motion sickness on a person riding in any posture on the apparatus without setting the apparatus in a vehicle. The apparatus includes a base, a vertical vibrator to which the vibration application unit is connected so as to be vertically movable with respect to the base through link members and which is constructed so as to support the body carrying section thereon, and a magnetic spring mechanism including permanent magnets arranged on the base and vertical vibrator so as to repel each other, respectively. The magnetic spring mechanism also includes an actuator for moving the permanent magnet arranged on the base to vary areas of the permanent magnets opposite to each other, leading to vibration of the vertical vibrator.

Abstract: A mold cassette and method for continuously casting thin slabs. The cassette comprises a trough including a pair of vertically disposed, opposed broad walls and a pair of opposed narrow walls. The trough has an entry end for receiving molten material and an exit end for dispensing the material. The narrow walls are generally wider at the entry end than the exit end and are adapted for sealing engagement with the broad walls so as to prevent leakage of the material therebetween. At least one of the narrow walls is oriented at a selected tilt and adjustable at the tilt for changing the width of the slab during casting. Back edges of at least one of the adjustable narrow walls are relieved a region corresponding generally to the transition zone of the trough. This allows positioning of the narrow wall in a generally less than vertical plane during casting while maintaining the broad and narrow walls in sealing engagement with one another.

Abstract: A multi-port modular jack including an outer housing part, inner housing parts arranged in the outer housing part to define plug-receiving receptacles receivable of mating plugs, and an optional shield surrounding the jack. The outer housing part having a top wall, a bottom wall and a front face having a mid-portion arranged substantially parallel to and between the top and bottom walls. The front face defines a first row of apertures between the mid-portion and the top wall and a second row of apertures between the mid-portion and the bottom wall. Each aperture in the first row has a plane of symmetry offset in relation to a plane of symmetry of each aperture in the second row such that only a portion of each aperture in the first row is directly opposite the opposed apertures in the second row. Vents are formed in the outer housing part to allow for the passage of air through the jack.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and a device in the dryer section of a paper/board machine. In the dryer section a normal single-wire draw is applied at least partly, in which method the web (W) is passed through the dryer group on support of a drying wire (H). The drying wire (H) presses the web (W) on the drying cylinders (Kn, Kn+1 . . . ) against the heated cylinder faces, and on the reversing cylinders or rolls (Sn, Sn+1 . . . ) between the drying cylinders (10) the web (W) remains at the side of the outside curve. There is one integrated device, through which a support suction and/or blowing is produced in order to improve the runability of the web (W) and to keep the web (W) in contact with the face of the wire, and through which same device, additionally, impingement blowing is produced in order to dry the web (W) and/or to control its tendency of curling.

Abstract: The invention concerns a steam dryer, in particular a steam dryer intended for drying of concentrate materials, which dryer comprises a cylindrical, rotatable drum (11), in whose interior a set of steam pipes (12) consisting of a number of pipes has been fitted to revolve along with the drum. The steam intended for drying of the material has been arranged to be supplied into the set of steam pipes (12) by means of steam supply devices fitted at a first end (10A) of the dryer, and at the opposite end (10B) of the steam dryer (10), conveyor (16) has been installed to supply the material to be dried into the drum (11) interior. The dried material (25) has been arranged to be discharged through the first end (10A) of the dryer.

Abstract: The invention concerns a caring doctor blade for a paper/board machine, which blade comprises layers of fiberglass and carbon fiber and a caring layer as a rigid laminated structure, which caring layer comprises carbon fiber and grinding particles in direct vicinity of the carbon fibers. The orientation of the fiberglass layers is parallel to the longitudinal axis of the blade, and at least in some of the layers that contain carbon fiber the orientation of the carbon fibers is substantially diverging from the direction of the longitudinal axis of the blade. The invention also concerns a method for manufacture of a doctor blade for a paper/board machine by means of a pultrusion method.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a “poly” bag machine and, more particularly, to mechanisms for operating the seal bar component of such machines. The machine according to the invention includes a mechanism for reciprocatingly raising and lowering the sealing bar in which the movement and position of the sealing bar are controlled by the drive shaft and are selectively adjustable by one or two separate servo-drives. A main link is coupled to a seal bar drive shaft for movement in direct response to its rotation. A second link is movably coupled to the main link. A servo-drive system including a servo motor or servo valve is coupled to the second link for adjusting the position of the second link with respect to the main link while the main link is moving in response to the rotation of the drive shaft.

Abstract: Together with other accessory products, includes a mixture of ion-exchange resins, cationic and anionic, charged with Ca2+, F− and PO43− ions, in an approximate molar ratio of 2:1:1, respectively. Particularly preferred is a material in which the resins also have a charge of Zn2+ ions representing a proportion of less than 1%, preferably close to 0.2% of the dry weight of the resin. The preferred resins are those whose base is cross-linked polystyrene with 2-14% divinylbenzene. The material is useful as first filler in the treatment of caries, especially deep caries, leading to remineralization of the dentin with a composition very close to the original composition, together with high microhardness. It is also useful as a component of dentifrice products such as pastes, elixirs and dental floss.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method for manufacture of paper, most appropriately for porous paper for color powder printing. In the method paper is manufactured by means of a paper machine. In the method the paper stock is fed out of the headbox (100) into the wire part (200), in which wire part (200) water is drained out of the paper web in both directions. In the method the paper web (W) is passed from the wire part (200) into the press section (300) in order to press water out of the paper web (W), and after the press section (300), the paper web (W) is dried in the dryer section (400) and coated/pigmented in the coating section (500), dried in an after-dryer section (600) and calendered in a calender (600), and reeled in a reel-up (800).

Abstract: A threading device and a method for threading a tail of a web, wherein, for guiding the path of a tail separated from a full-width web in a paper machine or a paper finishing device, the threading device comprises a suction channel, placed at least partly in a paper machine portion and provided with a reduced pressure for gripping the tail, and transfer means for transferring the suction channel in the portion of the paper machine and simultaneously for releasing the tail to the portion.

Abstract: A take-out leading roll, spreader roll or equivalent for a web-like material including a non-revolving roll axle having end parts and a middle part situated between the end parts, and a continuous and tubular roll mantle revolvingly journalled by bearings on the roll axle and extending over the end parts and the middle part. The middle part is pivotally linked to the end parts to enable the roll to be bent to a desired arcuate shape. The roll mantle is preferably journalled on the roll axle only in the areas of the roll ends by bearings supported on the end parts of the roll axle. The material of the roll mantle is preferably a composite material.

Abstract: Modular plug offering improved near-end crosstalk (NEXT) performance including a housing defining a plurality of terminal-receiving slots, wire-receiving channels each situated in communication with a slot and a longitudinal cavity extending from a rear surface of housing to the channels and which is in communication with the channels. The plug includes contact terminals situated in the slots and a load bar arranged in the cavity. The load bar defines wire-receiving channels for receiving the wires of the cable. At least first and second wire-receiving channels are arranged in a first plane parallel to the upper and lower faces of the load bar and at least third and fourth channels are arranged in a second plane parallel to the first plane. The first and second channels are adapted to receive two of the wires of the cable which operatively form part of a first circuit during use. A cable-plug assembly including a cable terminated at one or both ends by such plugs is also disclosed.

Abstract: The gluing apparatus (220) for plants for producing wood fibre panels by a dry method comprises a tubular body (250) and sprayer means (262) to inject a suitable liquid glue into the interior of the tubular body (250). The cross-section through the tubular body (250) encloses an area which increases in progressing from its open upstream end (253), into which the wood fibres are fed conveyed by an air stream, to its open downstream end 257). The tubular body (250) comprises a sealed outer wall (252) and an air-permeable inner wall (254) spaced from the former (242). In the outer wall (252) of the tubular body (250) there are provided a plurality of apertures distributed along this latter to enable additional air streams to be fed (through 258) into it.

Abstract: It comprises reducing the hydroxy ester of formula (X) by reacting it in DMF and then with an iminium salt of formula (XIII) formed in situ with thionyl chloride and dimethylformamide, and subsequent reduction with an appropriate reducing agent to form the ester of formula (XII), which is then reacted with dimethylamine in a polyhydroxylated solvent medium at an appropriate

Abstract: In the method for stopping a machine reel (R) in the final stage of reeling a web (W), the web (W) is cut when the machine reel (R) has become full, the web (W) is possibly guided on a new reeling shaft (2), and the rotation of the machine reel (R) detached from the nip contact with a reeling cylinder (1) is stopped by means of braking forces which are exerted both on the reeling shaft (2) of the full machine reel (R) and on the surface of the machine reel (R). The braking powers which are exerted on the reeling shaft (2) of the machine reel (R) and on the surface of the machine reel (R) and which stop the machine reel (R) are distributed in the ratio (S) of 1:1 . . . 100:1. The ratio can be changed during the deceleration of the machine reel.

Abstract: In a method at the end of the drying section of a paper machine, drying cylinders (1, 2) are arranged in two substantially horizontal cylinder rows, wherein the first drying cylinders (1) are placed substantially higher than the second drying cylinders (2). In the method, the web (W) to be dried is conveyed alternately between the cylinder rows of the drying cylinders (1, 2). Further in the method, the transfer of the web (W) between the drying cylinders (1, 2) is supported by a wire run arrangement, and the web is guided after the last drying cylinder (1, 2) of the drying section (A) by a transfer arrangement in between the rolls of a pair of rolls in the calender section (B) of the paper machine.