Patents Assigned to ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
  • Publication number: 20240044059
    Abstract: A device for producing a composite nonwoven web which includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer has a spunbonded nonwoven and/or long fibers. The first layer has an upper face and a first width. The second layer has short fibers and a second width. The device includes at least one conveyor device which transports at least the first layer in a conveying direction, a headbox system which dispenses the short fibers onto the upper face of the first layer between two edges which extend transversely to the conveying direction, and a collecting device which is arranged so that some of the short fibers dispensed from the headbox system can be collected in a region of at least one of the two edges before the short fibers which are dispensed in the region come into contact with the upper face of the first layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: HENNING VOMHOF, ANDREAS REITER, DENNIS LATENDORF
  • Patent number: 11879193
    Abstract: An apparatus for bonding a first layer having short fibers with a second layer having long fibers into a non-woven web. The apparatus includes a first circulating belt on which the second layer is depositable and displacable, a second circulating belt via which the first layer is transferable at a transition point to the second layer, a pre-bonding unit arranged directly behind the transition point, and a bonding device. The pre-bonding unit has compactors which are spaced apart from one another. The compactors act in one region on the first or second circulating belt. The bonding device is arranged between the compactors and bonds together the first and second layers. The compactors and the bonding device are integrated into the apparatus to together be in an operating state when the first layer is transferred using the second circulating belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: Jean-Michel Ugnon-Coussioz, Dennis Latendorf
  • Publication number: 20230340709
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite nonwoven fabric having at least two layers, wherein a first layer is made of long fibers, and a second layer is made of short fibers. The method includes attaching, in a production line, the short fibers of the second layer to the long fibers of the first layer in a wet laid process via a headbox. The headbox has a round flow or cross flow distributor with a rotating or static turbulence generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Applicant: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: HENNING VOMHOF, ANDREAS REITER, DENNIS LATENDORF
  • Patent number: 11761130
    Abstract: A system for bonding at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer to form a nonwoven web. The system includes a conveyor having a circulating belt which has an upper strand arranged so that the at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer is deposited and displaced on the upper strand in a production direction, a first bonding device which bonds the at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer when on the upper strand, a second bonding device arranged so that the at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer is bonded after leaving the upper strand, and a transfer device which feeds the at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer to the second bonding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: Frederic Noelle, Dennis Latendorf
  • Patent number: 11718961
    Abstract: Device for applying a treatment substance (2.1, 2.2), in particular starch, on at least one side of a running product web (13), in particular a paper or board web, by means of a least one curtain coater (1.1, 1.2) having a discharge nozzle (14.1, 14.2) and at least one press nip (N) following the curtain coater (1.1, 1.2) for forming a hydraulic pressure when the product web (13) passes through a press nip (N) which is formed by one of two rotating press rolls and which causes the treatment substance (2.1, 2.2) to penetrate into the product web (13), wherein the at least one press nip (N) is equipped with at least one heated applicator roll (7, 8) as a press roll to increase the penetration of the treatment substance (2.1, 2.2) into the product web (13), and at least one of the two press rolls (8) is designed with a fixed or adjustable crown (16) for the adjustment of a line load in a range of 20 to 200 kN/m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Andritz Küsters GmbH
    Inventors: Eduard Davydenko, Andreas Pesch
  • Patent number: 11655574
    Abstract: A method for an assembly of a device includes providing a nonwoven production device having a supporting structure in a first transport container, the nonwoven production device being pre-assembled, providing an auxiliary unit in a second transport container, removing the nonwoven production device having the supporting structure from the first transport container, removing the auxiliary unit from the second transport container, releasing the nonwoven production device from at least one part of the supporting structure and positioning the nonwoven production device at a top side of the supporting structure, and establishing a fluidic connection between the nonwoven production device and the auxiliary unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: Dennis Latendorf, Robin Stephane, Tomas Noelle
  • Patent number: 11549215
    Abstract: A method for a treatment of a product web which is transported in an advance direction includes guiding the product web through a treatment gap which is formed by a first treatment roll being arranged in a first working position and a contour tool, providing a second roll, moving the second roll into a second working position in which the second roll forms a second treatment gap with the counter tool, and moving the first treatment roll into a first parked position in which the first treatment roll does not form a treatment gap with the counter tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: Manfred Scharfenberg, Franz-Josef Kohnen, Andreas Lukas, Andre Huennekens
  • Publication number: 20220349099
    Abstract: A method for an assembly of a device includes providing a nonwoven production device having a supporting structure in a first transport container, the nonwoven production device being pre-assembled, providing an auxiliary unit in a second transport container, removing the nonwoven production device having the supporting structure from the first transport container, removing the auxiliary unit from the second transport container, releasing the nonwoven production device from at least one part of the supporting structure and positioning the nonwoven production device at a top side of the supporting structure, and establishing a fluidic connection between the nonwoven production device and the auxiliary unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: Dennis Latendorf, Robin Stephane, Tomas Noelle
  • Publication number: 20220307177
    Abstract: An apparatus for bonding a first layer having short fibers with a second layer having long fibers into a non-woven web. The apparatus includes a first circulating belt on which the second layer is depositable and displacable, a second circulating belt via which the first layer is transferable at a transition point to the second layer, a pre-bonding unit arranged directly behind the transition point, and a bonding device. The pre-bonding unit has compactors which are spaced apart from one another. The compactors act in one region on the first or second circulating belt. The bonding device is arranged between the compactors and bonds together the first and second layers. The compactors and the bonding device are integrated into the apparatus to together be in an operating state when the first layer is transferred using the second circulating belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: JEAN-MICHEL UGNON-COUSSIOZ, DENNIS LATENDORF
  • Publication number: 20220307176
    Abstract: A system for bonding a first layer having short fibers with a second layer having long fibers into a nonwoven web. The system includes a belt, a headbox, a depositing belt with a delivery strand, a transfer belt with a receiving strand, a device, a pre-bonding unit, and a bonding device. The short fibers are deposited on the depositing belt to form the first layer with the headbox. The transfer belt transfers the first layer to the second layer. The pre-bonding unit has spaced-apart compacting devices which act on the transfer belt to form a lower strand of the transfer belt there between. The bonding device is arranged between the compacting devices. The bonding device bonds the first and second layers. The compacting devices and the bonding device are operatively connected to one another so that they are each always either in an operating state or in a resting state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: JEAN-MICHEL UGNON-COUSSIOZ, Dennis Latendorf
  • Publication number: 20220307173
    Abstract: A system for bonding at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer to form a nonwoven web. The system includes a conveyor having a circulating belt which has an upper strand arranged so that the at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer is deposited and displaced on the upper strand in a production direction, a first bonding device which bonds the at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer when on the upper strand, a second bonding device arranged so that the at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer is bonded after leaving the upper strand, and a transfer device which feeds the at least one wet-laid or dry-laid fiber layer to the second bonding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: Frederic NOELLE, Dennis LATENDORF
  • Patent number: 11421361
    Abstract: A device for the production of nonwoven fabric webs. The device includes a nonwoven production device comprising a supporting structure, and an auxiliary unit comprising at least one liquid tank and a platform arranged on a top side of the auxiliary unit. The nonwoven production device is arranged on the supporting structure in an assembled state. The nonwoven production device and the auxiliary unit are arranged in relation to each other so that, for at least one of assembling, operating, and repairing the nonwoven production device, access to the nonwoven production device is provided from the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: Dennis Latendorf, Robin Stephane, Tomas Noelle
  • Publication number: 20210254249
    Abstract: A method for treating a textile material web for reducing a gas-permeability of the textile material web. The method includes providing the textile material web with a first side having a planar configuration and a second side having a planar configuration, the first side being opposite to the second side, transporting the textile material web in an advancing direction, and reducing the gas permeability of the textile material web. The gas permeability of the textile material web is reduced by applying water to the first side and/or the second side of the textile material web, guiding the textile web material through a first treatment gap which is formed by a first treatment roller and a first counter tool, and in the first treatment gap, pressure treating the textile material web and thermally treating the first side and/or the second side of the textile material web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: CHRISTIAN JUNG, PASCAL LOEST
  • Publication number: 20200109514
    Abstract: A method for a treatment of a product web which is transported in an advance direction includes guiding the product web through a treatment gap which is formed by a first treatment roll being arranged in a first working position and a contour tool, providing a second roll, moving the second roll into a second working position in which the second roll forms a second treatment gap with the counter tool, and moving the first treatment roll into a first parked position in which the first treatment roll does not form a treatment gap with the counter tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: MANFRED SCHARFENBERG, FRANZ-JOSEF KOHNEN, ANDREAS LUKAS, ANDRE HUENNEKENS
  • Publication number: 20200032436
    Abstract: A device for the production of nonwoven fabric webs. The device includes a nonwoven production device comprising a supporting structure, and an auxiliary unit comprising at least one liquid tank and a platform arranged on a top side of the auxiliary unit. The nonwoven production device is arranged on the supporting structure in an assembled state. The nonwoven production device and the auxiliary unit are arranged in relation to each other so that, for at least one of assembling, operating, and repairing the nonwoven production device, access to the nonwoven production device is provided from the platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Applicant: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: Dennis Latendorf, Robin Stephane, Tomas Noelle
  • Patent number: 10513826
    Abstract: Method for producing wet-laid non-woven fabrics, with which an aqueous suspension comprising fibres is laid down on a screen and is dewatered using suction boxes under the screen to form a sheet of non-woven web which is removed from the screen and guided to at least one subsequent treatment unit before the non-woven web can be wound, and transferring of the non-woven web from the screen to the at least one subsequent treatment unit and/or transferring of the non-woven web to interfaces between treatment units on the start of production and/or after an interruption in production, using a web feed, wherein web is fed via a temporarily closed draw of a free draw between the screen and the at least one subsequent treatment unit and/or of a free draw at an interface between treatment units, and the respective temporarily closed draw is produced via air flows, which lift off an end feeding strip as part of the running non-woven web by blowing, adhere same to a transport path device by generating negative pressure
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Andritz Küsters GmbH
    Inventors: Dennis Latendorf, Andreas Pesch, Florian Diederich
  • Patent number: 10052647
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly with a self-cleaning face is provided, having a nozzle body with a liquid flow path defined therethrough with an inlet and a spray outlet. The nozzle body is mounted in a carrier body, and an annular gas flow channel is located about the nozzle body with a gas discharge outlet defined around the spray outlet. A porous surface is located about the annular gas flow channel at the gas discharge outlet. A radiused surface is formed in the carrier body at the air discharge outlet. A pathway is in communication with the porous surface and adapted to provide a low velocity fluid discharge from the porous surface. A spray device and method are also provided using the nozzle assembly with the self-cleaning face. An adaptor for retrofitting an existing nozzle is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignees: ANDRITZ INC., ANDRITZ KÜSTERS GMBH
    Inventor: Manifred Diebel
  • Patent number: 9885153
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for forming an extended nip between a counter roll and a shoe roll for machining a material web, wherein the shoe roll has a support and a flexible roll shell, which can rotate around the support (4) and which rests in the region of the extended nip upon a head surface of a press shoe guided on the support, and the press shoe displaceably rests on the support in order to generate a press pressure via a pressure chamber to which fluid can be applied, the pressure chamber is disposed as a pressure pad, on which the press shoe rests surficially on the rear side, wherein the pressure pad is inserted into a groove-like chamber, wherein the press shoe has a stamp-like section on the rear side, which stamp-like section descends into an invaginable pressure pad in order to perform reciprocating movements, and the pressure pad is guidedly supported on the groove-like chamber along a pressure pad lateral wall that forms a roll wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Andritz Küsters GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Meitner, David Lange, Andreas Anzel, Wilhelm Mausser
  • Patent number: 9581191
    Abstract: A method for processing a roll includes providing a roll comprising an axis of rotation, providing at least one pulling device, and bending the roll in a direction opposite to a curvature of the roll via the at least one pulling device. The at least one pulling device is disposed at a radial distance from the axis of rotation of the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: ANDRITZ KUESTERS GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Kubik, Andre Huennekens
  • Publication number: 20160108579
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for forming an extended nip between a counter roll and a shoe roll for machining a material web, wherein the shoe roll has a support and a flexible roll shell, which can rotate around the support and which rests in the region of the extended nip upon a head surface of a press shoe guided on the support, and the press shoe displaceably rests on the support in order to generate a press pressure via a pressure chamber to which fluid can be applied, the pressure chamber is disposed as a pressure pad, on which the press shoe rests surficially on the rear side, wherein the pressure pad is inserted into a groove-like chamber, wherein the press shoe has a stamp-like section on the rear side, which stamp-like section descends into an invaginable pressure pad in order to perform reciprocating movements, and the pressure pad is guidedly supported on the groove-like chamber along a pressure pad lateral wall that forms a roll wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Applicant: Andritz Küsters GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Meitner, David Lange, Andreas Anzel, Wilhelm Mausser