Patents Assigned to J. M. Voith GmbH
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Patent number: 5271807Abstract: A headbox includes a nozzle type stock channel with an outlet gap. The nozzle type stock channel is defined by two flow guide walls. Arranged on the discharge end of the upper flow guide wall is a movable aperture to which attach numerous adjustment spindles which are arranged distributed across the machine width. Each adjustment spindle has on its end away from the aperture a spindle drive. Provided on the upper end of each spindle is a measuring device serving the determination of the local position of the aperture. The measuring device has a measuring housing and a measuring element movable in it. The measuring element is connected positively with the aperture, independently of the spindle, by way of a measuring rod. The measuring housing is positively connected with the area of the flow guide wall on the near side of the aperture, by way of an oblong tubular measuring reference.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 1992Date of Patent: December 21, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventor: Gernot Kinzler
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Patent number: 5264035Abstract: A doctor holder for a surface coating device or a web coating device has a guide body with a guide path channel through it. A leaf spring like doctor strip is advanced along the length of the channel and across the width of the web being coated. The doctor strip has a row of cutouts in it for enabling it to be advanced through the guide body. One of various forms of guide elements advance the doctor strip. The guide elements may be projections from an endless chain, or may be teeth of a sprocket wheel, or may be individual separate guide elements like balls and the guide elements extend into the cutouts and then into a guide groove in the guide body. The doctor strip is wound onto a reel after leaving the guide body. The guide element balls, or the like, are installed at the beginning of the guide path and are removed e.g. by an air blast, at the end of that path.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1991Date of Patent: November 23, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventors: Rudolf Beisswanger, Zygmunt Madrzak
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Patent number: 5262009Abstract: A stationary support device for a paper making machine wire has a movable cover strip, which is formed of a movable support strip and a head strip formed of a hard material on the support strip. The head strip has a leading upstream edge over which the wire slides and has a dewatering surface after the leading edge and which forms a variable angle of inclination with the wire. In the region of its front edge the moveable support strip is connected by a web-groove joint to a rigid support. A bar which is displaceable cross machine is inserted in the rigid support on the rear of the support device. A plurality of obliquely extending grooves are provided in the bar. In each groove there is a slide block which receives the spherical head of a pin. The pin is engaged by its external thread in the internal thread of a square bushing which is fastened in the support strip of the cover strip. The position of the pin can be adjusted parallel to the direction of travel of the wire in the bushing.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 1992Date of Patent: November 16, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventors: Christian Schiel, Helmut Grimm
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Patent number: 5261513Abstract: A hydrodynamic retarder for a vehicle has a primary part and a secondary part. The primary part has an input end connectable to the transmission output shaft of the vehicle and an output end connectable to the axle drive shaft. The fixed secondary part is, relative to the primary part, sealed against fluid discharge. A temperature sensor is provided for sensing the temperature of a working medium contained in the working circuit. A control system coordinated with a control valve is provided for adjusting by the cooling volume flow passed to the heat exchanger a specific temperature value of the working medium which has remained in the working circuit (set value). The set value of the temperature is so selected that it corresponds to a specific, desired braking moment.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1992Date of Patent: November 16, 1993Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbHInventor: Klaus Vogelsang
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Patent number: 5261620Abstract: A winder for winding a running web of paper, foil or similar. A support drum of web width is provided, and a winding drum on which the web is wound to a roll. A pair of primary swivel levers each feature on one end a fork for receiving a winding drum bearing and is mounted with its other end in the region of the support roll axis in such a way that the winding drum, in swiveling from a first position above the support roll, will in the running direction of the web approach the support roll while moving around it, passing in the process a primary section until reaching a second position. The winding drum with the still unfinished paper roll is taken over by a pair of secondary swivel levers with an essentially horizontal guideway extending from the second position across a secondary section up to a third position. A contact device forces the winding drum onto the support roll, and a drive is coordinated with the winding drum.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 1992Date of Patent: November 16, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventors: Dieter Holzinger, Roland Moller, Karl Ruck
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Patent number: 5256257Abstract: In the press section of a paper making machine, there is a central roll, a first press roll beneath and a second press roll above the central roll defining respective first and second press nips. The first press nip or both nips may be extended nip presses. A water impervious press belt travels through the first press nip around the central roll and through the second press nip, meeting the central roll before the first nip and leaving the central roll after the second nip. A felt belt conducts the web to be dewatered into the first nip along with the press belt. The felt belt separates from the web after the first nip. Following the second press nip, the press belt carries the web to a place of removal where a dryer wire picks up the web. The distance from the second press nip to the place of removal is at least equal to the circumference of and is preferably greater than the circumference of the central roll.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 1992Date of Patent: October 26, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventor: Christian Schiel
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Patent number: 5255788Abstract: A pressure sorter for a suspension flow includes a cylindrical housing having at least one inlet opening and at least one outlet opening with a defined pressure drop therebetween. A rotationally symmetric screen basket defining an axis is disposed within the housing. The screen basket has a plurality of openings defining a total screen perforation passage area. The axis of the screen basket is positioned offset a distance of 6 to 12% of the diameter of the screen basket. The axis of the screen basket is disposed in a plane which extends through the housing axis and is perpendicular to the housing outlet opening. A rotor and suspension sorting space are disposed centrically within the screen basket. An accepts space is disposed radially outward of the screen basket between the screen basket and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 1992Date of Patent: October 26, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventors: Reimund Rienecker, Peter Schweiss, Theodor Bahr
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Patent number: 5252186Abstract: A wire or felt forming section of a paper-making machine has breast rollers for guiding a respective one of two forming wires. The two rollers are disposed with a pulp gap formed between the two rollers and the wires are disposed just downstream of a pulp suspension ejecting nozzle of a headbox. Each roller is supported against the respective taut forming wire by a hydrostatic bearing. The hydrostatic bearing has two circumferentially separated resiliency chambers provided in a combined region of resiliency disposed over an arc of the circumference of the roller. A sealing strip after the region of resiliency prevents fluid from contacting the wire.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 1992Date of Patent: October 12, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventors: Hans-Peter Sollinger, Christian Schiel
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Patent number: 5248390Abstract: The dry end of a paper making machine includes a first dryer group of heatable web dryer cylinders followed by a second dryer group of heatable dryer cylinders. Each dryer cylinder has a neighboring suction guide roll. Respective first and second web support belts are provided for the first and second dryer groups. The paper web to be dried alternately passes between a dryer cylinder and the neighboring suction guide roll, such that the web comes into direct contact with the dryer cylinders. A transfer region is located between the two dryer groups at which the web is transferred from the first to the second web support belt. A displaceable guide roll in the transfer region is associated with at least one of the first and the second web support belts.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 1991Date of Patent: September 28, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventors: Hans-Joachim Fissmann, Johann Preisetanz, Karl Steiner
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Patent number: 5245264Abstract: A real time straightness deviation measuring and compensation device for a machine tool that automatically and continuously compensates for bed way deviation from a truly straight line relative to a workpiece. A wire, parallel to the workpiece or axis of workpiece rotation and perpendicular to the direction of machine tool compensation is utilized as a straightness reference, with the wire being stretched in the direction of machine tool carriage travel and supported on either end by weights for gravity induced straightness. A position indication device, such as a laser micrometer, is attached to the machine tool carriage and positioned around the reference wire in order to read the position of the wire relative to the machine tool carriage during real time operation. An electronically controlled servo motor attached to a machine tool supported on the carriage automatically adjusts the machine tool to compensate for carriage deviation caused by bed way deviation relative to the straight reference wire.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 1992Date of Patent: September 14, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith, GmbHInventors: Dale E. Helgren, Thomas J. Doyle
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Patent number: 5242286Abstract: An internal gear pump is disclosed having at least two essentially identical internal gears and a pinion meshing with the internal gears, all being rotatably disposed in a housing, the axial dimension of which is substantially equal to the width of the gear and pinion teeth. The housing includes a suction connection and a pressure connection. The internal gears have radial through-bores for the medium to be pumped. A support is provided at the contacting surfaces of the internal gears near the pressure connection.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 1992Date of Patent: September 7, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventors: Franz Arbogast, Peter Piez
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Patent number: 5241761Abstract: A dryer section for a machine for drying a fibrous web and particularly a paper web. The dryer section comprises a row of dryer cylinders which alternate with reversal suction rolls along the path of the web. The dryer cylinders are separated into at least an upstream first dryer part and a downstream second dryer part in the path of the web through the dryer section. A continuous supporting belt travels along with the web alternately over each dryer cylinder and its associated suction roll in respective dryer groups in each of the upstream and downstream dryer parts. Every suction roll in the upstream first part has a stationary suction box in it. Every suction roll in the downstream second part does not have a suction box. All of the suction rolls have a perforated roll shell. The density of the perforations in the roll shell of the suction rolls in the first upstream part is at least twice as great as the density of the perforations in the roll shell of the suction rolls in the second downstream part.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 1992Date of Patent: September 7, 1993Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbHInventor: Ludwig Hauser
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Patent number: 5238535Abstract: In a web pick-up device and a method of using the pick-up device in the press section of a paper machine, the running web makes contact, in a press gap, with a smooth rotating surface from which the web runs off at a point of pickup (A). The rotating surface and a suction box form together, in the area of the pickup point (A), a gap through which runs a porous conveyer belt which receives the fibrous web. The suction box is pivotably mounted and has in the area of the point of pickup (A) a sliding surface across which slides the conveyer belt, and which during operation is arranged at an adjustable spacing from the smooth surface. The spacing is determined by a stop on which bears the suction box during operation, under the effect of a flexible lift device.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1992Date of Patent: August 24, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventor: Wilfried Kraft
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Patent number: 5238495Abstract: A doctor blade includes at least one row of openings extending across at least 10% of the blade width in an area representing the actual working width of the blade. The openings begin at a distance between 3 and 35 mm from the working edge of the blade. The openings may be formed as perforations, slots, or notches.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1992Date of Patent: August 24, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventor: Zygmunt Madrzak
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Patent number: 5232554Abstract: The dry end of a paper making machine includes a twin wire dryer group following a single wire dryer group. The paper web is continuously guided by a support belt which moves alternately between dryer cylinders and intermediate deflecting rolls in the single wire dryer group. In the twin wire dryer group, the web travels over open lengths between dryer cylinders in the two rows of the second group. A rope guide threads the web into the twin wire dryer group. The start of the rope guide, called the rope shears, is in the vicinity of the periphery of the last or next to last deflecting roll called the selected deflecting roll in the single wire dryer group. Between the selected deflecting roll at the start of the rope shears and the preceding selected dryer cylinder, there is a relatively long straight path of travel for the support belt. Parallel to that path, there is a scraper and a guide plate which deflects the edge strip of the web laterally into the rope shears which is laterally to the side of the web.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 1991Date of Patent: August 3, 1993Assignee: J.M. Voith GmbHInventor: Gerhard Kotitschke
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Patent number: 5230168Abstract: In a single wire dryer group, a paper web travels on one side of a support belt over a first dryer cylinder, then over a guide roll, then over a second dryer cylinder moving through the dryer group. A pocket is defined between the two adjacent dryer cylinders and the guide roll between them. To develop a vacuum within the pocket in the vicinity of the outer surface of the first dryer cylinder, there is a sealing ledge at the support belt at the first dryer cylinder. The sealing ledge is fastened to a sealing ledge support. An air guide surface on the side of the sealing ledge support away from the pocket is curved first in a direction toward the bottom of the pocket and then away from the pocket around axes above the air guide surface. Toward the second cylinder, the sealing ledge support defines an air ejector nozzle. A first air flow induced on the first dryer cylinder is deflected upward around and past the ejector nozzle by the curvature of the air guide surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 1991Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventors: Helmut Heinzmann, Bernhard Kohl
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Patent number: 5230165Abstract: A web guiding structure in a drying section downstream from a coating device, and having suspension and infrared dryers and with a directly preceding coating device for paper or board. A rigid beam-like chest-like web bend device with blowing elements is adapted to produce a pressurized gas cushion for the web for contact-free bending of the web in its direction through an angle between 50.degree. and 120.degree., so that with an increase in its distance from the bending device, the web also moves away from the coating device. Following the bend device a heating device or a suspension device having beam-like, chest-like blowing air guide devices in each case produces a course of the web undulating in the direction of movement of the web (web valleys and crests extending in the transverse direction) on the upper and lower sides of the web.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 1992Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventor: Rudolf Beisswanger
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Patent number: 5226357Abstract: A multi-roll calender for treating a web material, of the type which develops a linear force, has at least two rolls stacked one above the other in a press plane. A lower roll is constituted as a sag-compensation roll. The other rolls in the calender stack are all equidistant relative to the sag-compensation roll, i.e., they are supported the same distance away from the two supports of the rolls. One of the outermost rolls (either the top or the bottom roll) is fixed in a stand while all the other rolls are movably mounted. The moveable rolls can be acted upon by support forces acting in the plane of the stack. The support forces and the internal pressure of the sag-compensation roll are adjustable via a control device, e.g., a computer, so that even when the rolls sag, the linear force distribution of the rolls is identical over their width.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 1991Date of Patent: July 13, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventor: Christian Schiel
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Patent number: 5224789Abstract: The invention concerns a coupling for the detachable connection of two components, preferably a shaft with a hub, which for transmission of a torque are rotatably connected with each other by form-fit. When using such plug or form fit connections such as between a roll journal and a coupling box in a rolling mill, large tolerances must be expected that express themselves in peripheral directions and have adverse effects on the surface integrity of the rolled material. The invention provides for a clamping element which preferably can be inserted in the hub, acted upon by hydraulic fluid to keep the shaft in place relative to the hub. The clamping element is of a two-part design and can be filled with hydraulic fluid through appropriate devices, so that the hub is tightly fastened on the shaft upon assembly. For removal of the hub from the shaft, the pressure in the clamping element is simply relieved.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 1992Date of Patent: July 6, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventor: Ernst Elsner
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Patent number: 5223100Abstract: An extended nip press for the dewatering of a fiber web has an endless flexible press element, like a press jacket or press belt. A press shoe has a concave slide surface for the flexible press element, and the slide surface is adapted to the curve of a backing roll. The shoe is displaceable toward the backing roll in order to press the pressing element against it. A stationary shoe bed, which is detachably connected to a stationary support, has a depression which is provided with a packing and receives the press shoe to form a pressure chamber so that the shoe bed and the press shoe form a cylinder-piston unit. The press shoe is coupled to the shoe bed by means of at least one connecting element. The connecting element is spring biased with respect to the shoe bed and may itself be flexible or be flexibly moved to permit the radial displacement as well as the tilting of the press shoe relative to the shoe bed.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 1992Date of Patent: June 29, 1993Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbHInventors: Christian Schiel, Andreas Schutte, Thomas Zufle