Abstract: A process of removing SO.sub.x from a gas stream using a fluidized bed having a mixing chamber at the lower end for mixing the gas with CaCO.sub.3, causing the gas-carbonate reaction product to rise while being cooled. Solids caught in the cyclone are separated and returned to the mixing chamber for re-use.

Abstract: The invention relates to a connector for a hydraulic pressure hose, said connector comprising a body (7) which includes a first sleeve member (8), to be fitted inside the end of a hydraulic pressure hose, as well as a connecting member (11). The connecting member (11) preferably includes a gripping means (12) for a tool and a fastening means (13), such as a threaded portion for coupling the connector with a hydraulic system. In addition, the connecting member (11) includes a second sleeve member (9) mounted outside the end of a house in line with said first sleeve member (8), said sleeve members (8,9) being adapted, upon mounting the connector on a hydraulic pressure hose, to squeeze towards each other and to clamp the end of hydraulic pressure hose therebetween. At least a part of at least one of the sleeve members (8,9) is electrically insulated from body (7).

Abstract: A method and apparatus for removing liquid from particles of compressible material includes feeding particles to two opposing press surfaces that are separated by a distance that decreases along a feeding direction wherein at least one of the press surfaces is formed of a number of parallel transfer elements and wherein each transfer element is connected to a corresponding pressing actuator. The sum of a surface area of each transfer element forms a total press surface area for one of the press surfaces. The transfer elements are reciprocated in a forward and backward motion along the conveying direction such that a total press surface area includes at any particular time a forward moving surface area that is larger than any backward moving surface area.

Abstract: A method for producing a blank of a slab-like product, in which method a fibrous material such as chips or the like is mixed with a binder material such glue, cement or the like, and the mixture is fed into a blank-forming apparatus. The method is implemented by feeding the mixture of fibrous and binder materials from the blank-forming apparatus to a conveyor or similar platform in order to form a blank, after which one or more layers of blank-separating material is dispersed layer by layer onto the blank, and finally a second blank is laid onto the layers of blank-separating material.

Abstract: Method and arrangement for the reduction of the resistance to rotation of the propeller (3) of a ship (1) going in ice when the ice increases the resistance to rotation of the propeller to a level higher than when sailing in open water. When the resistance to rotation increases, gas is passed to the propeller (3), and the supply of gas is adjusted when the resistance to rotation is changed. The supply of gas may be continual, but as a rule it is used only for short periods in order to correct the speed of rotation of the propeller to the appropriate level.

Abstract: Method and means of conveyance for solid material, f.ex. tree trunks (6) or bark, whereby the solid material is conveyed with parallel, oblong transfer elements (4) moving back and forth in transfer direction. A larger part of the surface of the transfer elements (4) is moving forward at a time than moving backward. The speed of the return motion of the transfer elements is higher than that of the feed motion of the transfer elements. Transfer elements (4) at sides of the conveyor have been inclined on their longitudinal axis so that they slope towards the center of the conveyor. In this way the friction force between the particles (6) of the material to be conveyed is increased and the friction force between the material (6) to be conveyed and the transfer elements (4) is decreased.

Abstract: The invention concerns a joint piece cast out of steel for tubes of trusswork constructions, said joint piece comprising a frame tube and at least one branch. The end of the branch (5) is shaped so that, when it is cut at different angles, it can constitute a connecting head for the joining of a tube at different angles.

Abstract: A method for forming a joint between a product formed of composite material including reinforcing fibers and a connecting piece includes forming the connecting piece with a shoulder within a joint region thereof and during the formation of the product, guiding the longitudinally extending reinforcing fibers of the composite material as continuous, unitary fibers through a first path within the joint region of the connecting piece toward the connecting piece shoulder, around the shoulder of the connecting piece, and then in a substantially opposite direction through a second path within the joint region of the connecting piece to return to the composite material of the product, whereby both the product of composite material and the joint between the product and the connecting piece are formed simultaneously.

Abstract: A screen system intended for the screening of wood chips, comprising one or several screening faces (2,3) placed one above the other as well as a bottom face (4) placed underneath said screening faces. The screening faces (2,3) are connected to members (10) that produce the screening movement. The bottom face (4) is made of a flexible material and is displaceable relative its support structure (6) so that the bottom face is deformed to prevent the adherence of materials thereto. Most appropriately, the width of the bottom face (5) is larger than the distance between the support structures (6) placed at its sides, whereby the middle portion of the bottom face (5) is hanging down lower than its sides.

Abstract: Method and device for collecting objects pointing out of the bottom level of seas or corresponding water areas so that the objects are carried from the bottom by using waterflow through an intake opening of the collecting device moving on the bottom of the sea. The objects are removed from the bottom by a removing device. The lowermost part of the removing device moves at the same level with the bottom of the water area or above it. The most suitable way of removing the objects from the bottom is by using water spray, the flow power of which is controlled separately from the flow power of the water in the conveying channel.

Abstract: A method for controlling an oxygen-bleaching process of lignocellulosic pulp to a desired degree of delignification.The pulp is passed at a substantially constant temperature into a bleaching reactor wherein the pulp has a substantially constant level at its outlet. The hydrostatic pressure is measured and the quantity of oxygen fed into the reactor is adjusted to reach a desired degree of delignification.

Abstract: A procedure and a means for correcting the transversal profile of a chip, fibre or equivalent mat being formed on a conveyor belt, said chip mat being formed with the aid of one or several rolls, most appropriately rake rolls, provided above the conveyor belt, in which procedure the free space for the chip mat between the last roll and the conveyor belt is adjusted transversally to the conveyor belt. In the procedure of the invention, substantially at the last roll the height level of the conveyor belt is raised and lowered stripwise transversally to the conveyor belt in order to regulate the transversal profile of the chip mat.

Abstract: The invention concerns a dewatering band press. The wires (2) in the press are wider than the rolls (1), and in view of sealing the edge of the pulp web (3), two rails (4) are placed outside the ends of the rolls, the wires running between the said rails, and a sealing beam (5) is placed between the rails and the wires. The solution is durable and reliable, because it has no readily worn abrading parts.

Abstract: A board press consisting of a plurality of press plates placed one above the other and which are pressed together with the aid of pressure cylinders when pressing boards, and said press plates being interconnected with a simultaneous apparatus which maintains equal distances between press plates during movement of the press plates. The simultaneous apparatus consists of lever units at a plurality of points on both longitudinal margins of the press plates, which have been interconnected to constitute one simultaneous unit, with the aid of a rod pivotally attached to each press plate and a lever arm on the other end of said rod and a transversal turning shaft common to each pair of lever units and control rods longitudinal to the apparatus.

Abstract: The invention concerns a method and an apparatus for the mixing of liquid or gas into pulp stock. In the method the pulp is fed into a centrifugal pump, into which, at the same time, the material to be mixed is fed into the zone between the center and the outer circumference of the rotor wheel. The apparatus is preferably provided with rotor blades consisting of two parts and with feed pins extending into the gap between the said parts.

Abstract: A bottom well of a vessel having at least one of a bottom and a broad side has a wall and cover-plate structure attached to the bottom or broad side for, together, defining the bottom wall. An inner space within the bottom well of the vessel has inside surfaces. A water inlet is in one of the bottom or broad side for communication of the inner space with outside water. A water outlet is in one of the wall and cover-plate structure for communication of the inner space with systems of the vessel. At least one resilient body is in the inner space for compensating for volume changes of water in the bottom well caused by the water freezing in the bottom well.

Abstract: A lifting mechanism (4) operating by means of cogwheels (6) climbing along a toothed rack (3) on the leg (2) of a jack-up platform (1). Lifting mechanisms (4) required for different applications of use, having different capacities of lifting are assembled by using a limited number of different frame modules (5'), climbing pinions (6) and gearings. The torque arms (14) of two gearboxes (7) placed one after the other may be interconnected so that the torques produced by the climbing pinions (6) on the gearboxes compensate for each other.

Abstract: A fluidized combustion device that can be positioned inside the soda boiler of a cellulose factory and rapidly taken out of the boiler when it is desired to use the boiler as a normal soda boiler and as necessary again installed in the boiler.

Abstract: Method for the washing of chemical pulp (1) by means of a fourdrinier wire machine in two or more stages (6,10; 6',10'; 6", 10"; 6'", 10'") while the pulp web runs on the wire (3). The liquid contained in the pulp web is displaced by a washing liquid. The pulp web and the wire (3) run, during the washing, as submerged in the washing liquid while the washing liquid flows through the pulp web and the wire. One embodiment comprises passing the washing liquid upwardly through the pulp and then downwardly through the pulp.

Abstract: Chip screen whose screen basket has been divided into two basket sections (13, 14) that counter-balance each other and that are interconnected and operated by a vertically positioned revolving machine member, e.g. a crankshaft (15). Part (9) of one (14) of the basket sections is located above, and part (12) of it underneath, the center of cavity of the other basket section (13). Both of the basket sections (13, 14) may be supported by means of two support ropes (18, 19), whereby one support rope (18) of one basket section is connected with one support rope (19) of the other basket section by the intermediate of a balance (20) supported by its articulation point (21).