Abstract: An applicator beam in a size press comprising a nip formed by a pair of press rolls between which a paper or board web is passed. The press rolls are provided with coating devices for spreading films of coating agent onto the faces of the rolls. The coating devices are mounted on applicator beams placed in the transverse direction of the machine. The applicator beams are linked pivotally on the frame of the size press or on the loading arms of a displaceable roll by a pivot shaft arranged transverse to the machine direction. The applicator beams are also provided with pivot cylinders by which the applicator beams can be pivoted between a closed position, i.e. the operating position, and an opened position, i.e. the service position.

Abstract: Dryer section of a paper machine having so-called normal drying groups with a single-wire draw, heated contact drying cylinders arranged in an upper row and leading cylinders or rolls arranged in a lower row. At least one drying module is arranged between and/or inside the normal drying groups and in which the opposite side of the web, in relation to the side of the web placed against the contact-drying cylinders, is placed against the heated cylinder face of a single large drying cylinder or cylinders in the drying module. The web is placed in direct contact against the heated cylinder face of the large drying cylinders. The drying module includes a separate loop of a drying wire which guides the web and presses its opposite side against the heated face of the large cylinders over a sector which is greater than about 180.degree.. The diameter of the large drying cylinder(s) is larger than the diameter of the contact drying cylinders in the normal drying groups.

Abstract: A shoe in an extended-nip press arranged to be placed in a nip between a back-up roll and a belt-mantle roll inside the belt mantle. The shoe is pressed by an actuator, e.g., a cylinder device, towards the back-up roll, while the web/felt or felts is/are placed between the back-up roll and the belt mantle. The shoe has at least one chamber provided for hydraulic fluid into which a fluid is passed from a duct. The shoe has a first curved face, whose curve radius is substantially equal to the curve form of the back-up roll. The shoe has a second face which forms the bottom of the chamber provided for hydraulic fluid. The second face joins the first face and has a larger curve radius than the first face. At a joint between the first face and the second face, the tangents of the faces are substantially the same.

Abstract: The invention is related to a method and a device in the drying section of a paper machine for reducing the tendency of the paper to curl. The paper web is dried on drying cylinders, against whose heated faces the paper web is pressed by means of a drying wire. In the drying section, groups of drying cylinders are used, in which twin-wire draw and/or single-wire draw is/are applied. In the drying section, hot water steam is fed substantially onto the entire width of the paper web, by means of which steam tensions that have been formed or that tend to be formed in the fiber mesh in the paper web are relaxed by means of heat and moisture in the area of their formation or substantially immediately thereafter. Moreover, the transverse curling profile and/or moisture profile of the paper web can be controlled by the steam treatment.

Abstract: A coated roll and a method for coating a roll used in a paper machine. Desired surface property values of the roll are fed into a central unit of the coating system and the roll is coated while following a function f.sub.1 (x),f.sub.3 (x) created in the central unit over the distance of the length of the roll. A surface hardness and/or surface profile corresponding to the formed function f.sub.1 (x),f.sub.2 (x) is derived which does not have any steps or other points of discontinuity. The roll is coated with a polymer, preferably polyurethane.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for heating a roll and a heatable roll for use in a paper machine, paper finishing machine, or equivalent. The roll is heated by a heating medium which is introduced into the roll interior through at least one of the ends of the roll. The heating medium acts upon the material of the roll mantle or the roll and is arranged to flow across the axial length of the roll. The heating medium is arranged to flow out of the roll through either one of the ends of the roll. The roll is provided with means by which the coefficient of heat transfer from the flowing heating medium to the material of the roll is increased in the flow direction of the heating medium.

Abstract: System in a press section of a paper machine for monitoring and control of the running of the press felts (10,20,30). The press felts (10,20,30) are guided by means of rolls (13,14,15; 23,24,25; 33,34, 35), whose axial directions are altered by means of an actuator (18a, 18b) so as to control the running of the press felts (10,20,30). The system includes detector devices (16,26,36), by whose means the alignment stripe (K) on the felt or felts (10,20,30) is detected, as well as oscillation detectors (17,27,37), by whose means oscillations of the press rolls (10, 20,30) are detected. Into the computer part (50) included in the system, the monitoring signals (a,b) are fed from said detectors (16,26,36, 17,27,37). The computer (50) analyzes the detector data in order to detect any felt-induced oscillations.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cylindrical mantle of rolls or cylinders of a paper machine out of a corrosion-proof metal or alloy material, particularly refined steel, in which oblong plate blanks are cut to a length equal to the total length of the roll mantle to be manufactured. The plate blanks are machined or bent to mantle portions of a cross-sectional shape equal to a part of a circular ring. Out of the mantle portions, the cylindrical mantle of a roll or cylinder is assembled by joining the mantle portions together by means of axial welding joints prepared by electron-beam welding performed in the vacuum chamber of an electron-beam apparatus by using a number of mantle portions per one roll mantle. A roll or cylinder manufactured by the method is also described.

Abstract: A device in a size press comprising a nip formed by press rolls through which a paper or board web is passed. The press rolls are provided with coating devices for spreading films of a coating agent onto faces of the press rolls. The coating devices are mounted on applicator beams arranged transverse to the machine direction. The applicator beams are supported pivotally on the frame of the size press or on the loading arms of a displaceable press roll and are provided with pivot cylinders by which the applicator beams can be opened and closed in relation to the rolls corresponding to them. The applicator beams are further provided with catches supported directly or indirectly on bearings of the corresponding press rolls when the applicator beams are being closed by the pivot cylinders. At least one of the applicator beams of the size press is provided with catches at each end of the applicator beam and positioned in accordance with the position of the applicator beam.

Abstract: A device for fixing a material used for balancing of a roll in which a support and fixing construction for a fluidized balancing material is placed into the roll interior in contact with an inner face of the roll. The fluidized balancing material is then placed inside the roll at the location required by the balancing, where it is fixed and hardens. The support and fixing construction includes openings, which permit the balancing material to be placed at both sides of the support and fixing construction before it hardens and is fixed at the location required by the balancing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and device in the draw of a paper web for reduction and equalization of transverse shrinkage of the paper web in the drying section of a paper machine. The lateral areas of the wire running in conjunction with the paper web are provided with a coating adhesion means, whereby, by means of the coating adhesion means, at the drying stage an adhesion force is produced between the lateral areas of the wire and of the paper to prevent transverse shrinkage of the paper web.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device in a size press in which a nip is formed by a pair of rolls. A paper or board web is passed through the nip. The rolls are provided with surface-sizing units for applying films of size or coating agent onto faces of the rolls. Each surface-sizing unit comprises an application zone defined by a coating member, a front edge of the application zone and a feed chamber. The coating agent, such as a size, is fed, through holes or corresponding nozzles that have been formed into a wall of a feed pipe, into the feed chamber under pressure out of the feed pipe which is arranged transverse to the machine direction. The coating agent is fed out of the feed chamber into the application zone through a throttle placed between the feed chamber and the application zone. The throttle comprises a perforated plate or equivalent which extends across the width of the machine and which is detachably fixed to the frame constructions of the surface-sizing unit by fastening members.

Abstract: The invention relates to a twin-wire web former for a paper machine wherein a covering wire and a carrying wire form a twin-wire forming zone between them. A method for dewatering a web is also disclosed. In the invention, water is drained out of a web running through the twin-wire zone through both of the wires. After the twin-wire zone, the web is separated from the covering wire and is transferred on the carrying wire to a pick-up point. In hybrid formers, after an initial single-wire forming zone preceding the twin-wire zone, and in gap formers, after a curved forming zone placed directly after a forming gap, there is a forming shoe provided with a ribbed deck and arranged inside one of the wire loops. This forming shoe is followed by dewatering and web forming units which include forming ribs and are placed inside both of the wire loops. At least one of the dewatering and web forming units is loaded by means of a pressure-hose arrangement.

Abstract: The invention relates to a closed press section in a paper machine and comprises a compact combination of press rolls. Several of the rolls define press nips with each other, between which nips the web has a closed draw supported by the face of a fabric. The press section has a center roll in connection with which a press nip or press nips are provided. A closed loop of a transfer band is passed around the center roll. The web is transferred on an outer face of the transfer band after the last press nip in the compact combination of rolls as a closed and constantly supported draw onto a drying wire in a drying section following after the press section. The transfer band loop is made of a transfer band fabric that substantially does not receive water and does not rewet the web.

Abstract: Method and device in the manufacture of paper or board for dewatering of a paper web that is being manufactured. The paper web is transferred from a forming wire onto a wire in the drying section while constantly on support of a fabric that receives water, a transfer fabric, or of any other, corresponding transfer surface as a closed draw, at a particularly high speed, which is higher than about 25-30 m/s. Dewatering of the paper web is carried out by means of at least two subsequent press nips, of which nips at least one press nip is a so-called extended-nip zone, whose length in a machine direction is larger than about 100 mm. The extended-nip zone is formed in connection with a mobile flexible press-band loop. The distribution of the compression pressure employed within said extended-nip press zone is regulated and/or selected both in the transverse direction of the web and in the machine direction so as to set or to control the different profiles of properties of the web.

Abstract: A dryer section in a paper machine for drying a paper web, having normal dryer groups with a single-wire draw in which drying cylinders are arranged in an upper row and reversing cylinders in a lower row. The dryer section has at least one inverted dryer groups in which drying cylinders are arranged in a lower row and reversing cylinders are arranged in an upper row. In view of making the dryer section more compact, intensifying the evaporation, reducing the transverse shrinkage of the web, and/or improving the runnability of the web, the drying cylinder and/or the reversing cylinder or roll placed in connection with the transfer over the gap between the groups is/are placed so that its/their height position is displaced as compared with the other cylinders in the same group. In an inverted group, an upper reversing cylinder is arranged in connection with blower devices for drying air for the web.

Abstract: The invention concerns a twin-wire web former in a paper machine, comprising a carrying wire and a covering wire which together form a twin-wire forming zone. In this forming zone, a forming unit is fitted, which comprises a forming board and a drainage box placed one opposite the other. In the forming board placed facing the drainage box there are a number of transverse loading ribs placed at a distance from each other. Subsequent transverse loading ribs are interconnected by intermediate parts which, together with the transverse loading ribs form ribbed shoes. These shoes can be loaded by means of loading hoses to produce a dewatering pressure in the web (W) placed between the wires. In the area of the forming unit the dewatering takes place both through the covering wire and through the carrying wire also toward the forming board through the open spaces placed between its transverse loading ribs.

Abstract: A method and device for intensifying the operation of a Yankee press in a soft-tissue machine in which a web is pressed in one or several nips formed between a Yankee cylinder and one or more press rolls. The web is dried on the Yankee cylinder by blowing hot air introduced through the Yankee hood against the web. In the method, a blow device is used to blow hot and humid air against the web. The blow air for the blow device is taken from the outlet/heat recovery of the air system of the Yankee hood, and the exhaust air from the blow device is returned to the outlet/heat recovery of the air system of the Yankee hood. Air is blown against the web at the proximity of the nip formed between the Yankee cylinder and the first press roll, before and near the first press nip, in the running direction of the web. The blow device includes a blow chamber, an exhaust chamber, and blow nozzles for blowing hot and humid air against the web and exhaust-air ducts for the removal of the air.

Abstract: A method and device in the drying of paper, especially of fine paper or newsprint is disclosed. A paper web to be dried is passed over a mantle face of a large-diameter flow-through cylinder. On the flow-through cylinder, a set of drying-gas jets is applied to the free outer face of the web through a nozzle arrangement. Water is evaporated outward from the outer part of the web by means of the set of drying-gas jets. The water vapor thus evaporated is removed through spaces in the blowing-on hood. By means of the set of drying-gas jets, the interior of the web to be dried is also heated. The mantle face of the flow-through cylinder is cooled by means of a medium flow. Water that has been vaporized out of the web and that has been condensed onto the cooled faces is sucked by means of negative pressure present in the interior of the flow-through cylinder.

Abstract: A method and device for keeping a coating rod and a rod cradle in a bar coater clean and for preventing leakage of the lubrication and/or cooling water used in the bar coater is disclosed. The invention is intended for a bar coater in which the coating rod is, supported revolvingly in a rod cradle substantially over its entire length. The rod cradle is attached to the frame constructions of the coater. The rod cradle is also provided with at least one groove substantially parallel to the coating rod and open towards said coating rod, in which grooves(s) water is circulated to lubricate, cleanse and/or cool the coating rod and the rod cradle. The coating rod is loaded towards the base to be coated by loading the rod cradle.