Abstract: A process is provided for producing high yield bleached cellulose pulp, such as groundwood pulp, thermomechanical pulp, chemimechanical pulp and waste paper pulp, having a broad field of use, which comprises bleaching cellulose pulp, thinning the pulp to a low pulp consistency; mechanically working the pulp; and fractionating the cellulose pulp into a long-fiber fraction and a fine-fiber fraction, the freeness of the long-fiber fraction exceeding the freeness of the fine-fiber fraction by from about 150 to about 600 ml C.S.F. and the fine-fiber fraction constituting from about 35 to about 70% by weight of the bleached pulp.

Abstract: When practicing a method and using an arrangement for producing a fibre layer or fibre mat from a liquid-absorbent material, e.g. in the manufacture of diapers, a fibre-air suspension is blown in between two endless, mutually parallel air-permeable conveyor belts (12,13) at a pressure which exceeds the pressure of the ambient surroundings. The conveyor belts form therebetween a forming space which is defined laterally by stationary or movable side-walls (18), the inner surfaces of which may be profiled so as to provide a fibre layer or a fibre mat with profiled side-edges.

Abstract: A process is provided for preparing cellulose pulp by delignification of lignocellulosic material, which comprises subjecting particulate lignocellulosic material in a pulping zone to the pulping action of a pulping liquor at a temperature at which pulping reactions leading to formation of cellulose pulp proceed, and substances having a molecular weight above about 3500, preferably above about 2000, and preferably above about 1500, are physically separated and removed from the lignocellulosic material and become dispersed in the pulping liquor; in the course of the pulping, withdrawing pulping liquor containing such dispersed substances, and removing such dispersed substances therefrom; and then returning the pulping liquor to the pulping zone.

Abstract: In the continuous manufacture of cellulose pulp it has been found that air often remains in the lignocellulosic material subsequent to steaming the same. These air inclusions cause the lignocellulosic material to float in the cooking liquid, which results in interruptions in the digestion process. This problem is solved by means of the present invention, which relates to a method in which prior to being steamed, the lignocellulosic material is brought into contact with a heating medium. The method is characterized by supplying the heating medium to the advancing lignocellulosic material at several occasions; by distributing the heating medium in a manner such as to increase the temperature of the material in the direction in which it is advanced; and by separating condensed liquid from the lignocellulosic material.The invention also relates to apparatus for carrying out the above method.

Abstract: Apparatus is provided for separating cellulose fluff fibers from waste fibrous material resulting from the manufacture of absorbent products from cellulose fluff fibers, comprising:an apertured cylindrical separator disposed in a housing and having a central passage in flow connection with the inlet;the cylindrical separator having apertures therethrough large enough to permit cellulose fluff fibers to pass therethrough but small enough to screen out larger non-fluff material from the waste fibrous material;means in connection with the first outlet for controlling flow therethrough of air and entrained waste fibrous material, for providing a balance between flow rate and differential pressure across the apertured separator sufficient to prevent blockage of the apertrues in the separator by waste fibrous material too large to pass through while permitting cellulose fluff fibers to pass through.

Abstract: A method is provided for shredding and dry-defibrating compressed cellulose pulp, and depositing the resulting fibrous material on a foraminous support to form a batt of relatively uniform density while controlling the feed of cellulose pulp material through the shredding and dry-defibrating operations to the foraminous support according to the output rate of the batt-forming operation, to ensure a relatively uniform density in the batt withdrawn from the foraminous support.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for shredding and dry-defibrating compressed cellulose pulp, and depositing the resulting fibrous material on a foraminous support to form a batt of relatively uniform density while controlling the feed of cellulose pulp material through the shredding and dry-defibrating operations to the foraminous support according to the output rate of the batt-forming operation, to ensure a relatively uniform density in the batt withdrawn from the foraminous support.

Abstract: Process and apparatus are provided for the preparation of improved high-yield cellulose pulps, such as semichemical, chemimechanical, thermomechanical, and mechanical pulps, which comprises mechanically defibrating a mixture of particulate lignocellulosic materials which have been partially pulped and softened to different extents. Part of the raw lignocellulosic material is particulate form is washed, moistened with steam, impregnated with pulping chemicals and pulped to a yield of from about 65 to about 92%. Another part is treated in similar manner but either not pulped at all or, if pulped, pulped to a lesser extent. The two parts are mixed without intermediate washing, after which the mixture is subjected to a vapor phase pulping by heating to a temperature within the range from about 90 to about 200.degree. C. under pressure to obtain softening of the lignin, and delignification, after which the resulting product is mechanically defibrated to form cellulose pulp.

Abstract: A digging and planting machine is provided, having a tubular digging and planting tool movable being ground-contacting and ground-elevated positions, and having an open digging and planting tip end; closure means movable between a first position closing off the open end for digging a hole and a second position exposing the open end for delivery of a plant from the planting tool into the hole; and means for compacting earth around the plant after planting.

Abstract: A method is provided for controlling the amount of oxidizing bleaching agents in liquors used within the cellulose industry, as in the bleaching of sulphite, sulphate, mechanical, chemimechanical, semichemical or similar cellulose pulps, and in related industries, and particularly for controlling the addition of oxidizing bleaching agents to the system during the bleaching of cellulose pulp by mixing such liquor with at least one chemiluminescent reagent which reacts with the oxidizing bleaching agents in a manner to emit light. The amount of oxidizing bleaching agents in the liquor is then determined by comparison of the light intensity thus obtained with the light intensity for previously measured calibration values corresponding to known quantities of such oxidizing bleaching agents, and then from such determination controlling the addition of such oxidizing bleaching agents to the liquor.

Abstract: Process and apparatus are provided for turning logs arranged in a row so that the root ends of all the logs are pointed in the same direction. A log whose root end is to be re-oriented is gripped while being conveyed along a first conveying path, and while proceeding in the conveying direction, and turned about an axis equidistant from both ends of the log, after which the turned log is placed on a second conveying path.

Abstract: A process for the manufacture of paper pulp from waste paper in which the waste paper is comminuted in water in a pulper, pre-cleaned for removal of coarse foreign contaminants, dewatered, kneaded at high concentration, diluted, after-cleaned for removal of finer or coherent soft foreign contaminants and adjusted to a concentration suitable for paper-making, the water respectively used for dilution and obtained during dewatering being circulated in two separate circuits upstream and downstream respectively of the kneading apparatus.