Abstract: Process for cleaning a transport belt of a machine for manufacturing and/or processing a material web with at least one cleaning device. The process includes detecting the contamination of the transport belt with at least one sensor, generating a state matrix which contains the location coordinates of the detected contamination, and one of controlling and regulating the at least one cleaning device for cleaning over at least a width of the transport belt with a varying desired intensity of cleaning in accordance with the generated state matrix.

Abstract: A former with a sieve, preferably with a cylinder mold, is provided with an adjustable discharge aperture for a fibrous material suspension exiting from a chamber that is formed between the sieve and an upper lip formed by a flow guide plate. The upper lip has a first end facing away from the chamber and is guided in a floating manner by a pressure medium in a direction toward the sieve, as well as in the opposite direction. The upper lip is supported in a floating manner also by a pressure medium at its second end facing toward the chamber. In this way, deflections of the upper lip in the region of the inlet aperture can be largely avoided.

Abstract: A headbox for a paper machine and a process for controlling consistency of the slurry. The headbox includes a turbulence insert having an inlet end and a distributing pipe having a connecting area. The distributing pipe may extend across a width of the paper machine for feeding a slurry flow through the connecting area and into the turbulence insert. The headbox may also include a nozzle having an outlet gap and a plurality of feed lines supplying control flows. The plurality of feed lines may be coupled to the connecting area at an angle .alpha. between approximately 5.degree. and 170.degree. with respect to a directional component of the slurry flow directed toward the turbulence insert, the plurality of feed lines may be positioned in a vicinity of the inlet end.

Abstract: Device for cleaning the conveyor belt of a machine for producing a cellulosic web. The cleaning device includes a spray unit for discharging cleaning fluid in the opening nip of a roll around which the belt is guided, or at the point where the belt leaves the roll.

Abstract: Press section of a machine for manufacturing a fibrous pulp web. The press section may include a press roll, at least one flexible circulating press belt, at least one press shoe, and at least one extended press nip formed to extend in a web run direction by the press shoe pressing the flexible circulating press belt against the press roll. The press section further includes one of a felt or screen belt that may be guided through the at least one extended nip, and the press roll may be substantially centrally located within the press section and may have a diameter greater than a diameter of the at least one flexible circulating press belt. The center press roll has two press shoes positioned opposite it; the two press shoes are offset with respect to one another such that the direction of force exerted by each extends through the center press roll axis and defines an acute angle, with support elements within the center press roll positioned opposite the press shoes.

Abstract: Dryer section of a machine for producing a material web. The dryer section may include at least one dryer group including a plurality of heatable dryer cylinders so that the material web to be guided around at least a portion of the plurality of heatable dryer cylinders may be guided in a meandering path in a web travel direction. At least one pressing device may be located within the dryer section.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of directly or indirectly applying a liquid or pasty medium to a continuous material web by use of an application unit having at least one applicator, at least one doctor element, and at least one doctor element support at which the doctor element is held and can be pressed at a predetermined pressure against a counter-surface by at least one adjustment movement of the doctor element support. The following steps are usable to set a desired transverse and/or longitudinal profile of the medium to be applied or which has been applied: pressing the doctor element at a predetermined contact pressure against the counter-surface by adjusting the doctor element support into a predetermined adjustment position, and by altering the forces exerted on the doctor element by the medium to be applied or which has been applied, while the adjustment position of the doctor element support is kept constant for a predetermined production range.

Abstract: The invention relates to an application unit for directly or indirectly applying a liquid or pasty medium (4) to a continuous material web (6), particularly one made of paper or cardboard, having two gap limiting walls (13, 14) that are spaced apart from one another, are each formed on corresponding lip members (2, 3) and between them define a metering gap (12) for the liquid or pasty medium (4), and having a gap-width adjustment device (8, 9) mated at least with the one lip member (2). There is provided on at least one gap limiting wall (13) an elastic adjustable wall member (7) which can be expanded into the metering gap (12) relative to the gap limiting wall (13), extends across the length of the metering gap (12) and can be actuated by the gap-width adjustment device (8, 9).

Abstract: A shoe press, in particular for a paper machine, comprising a pair of rolls, with one roll having a flexible roll sleeve that rotates around a stationary carrier and support devices, the flexible roll sleeve having axial end areas and being mounted on a carrier in a radially rotatable manner at each of its axial end areas over the support devices, each roll having a shoe with a flat support surface, the support surface of the shoe of one roll supporting an interior side of the roll sleeve, the support surfaces being arranged essentially parallel to each other to create a press opening therebetween, and at least one of the support devices being radially flexible, and in particular elastic.

Abstract: A process for operating a press section for producing a fibrous material web, with a nip that is elongated in the direction of web travel that includes an inlet zone, a main pressing zone, and an outlet zone, and where a pressure gradient of pressure p exerted in the main pressing zone of the nip is selected as a function of whether the fibrous material web entering in the nip has an average or high dry matter content, on the one hand, or a low dry matter content, on the other hand.

Abstract: A machine is provided for producing a continuous material web. In particular, a paper web or a cardboard web can be produced by the machine. The machine has a number of rolls, around which the material web is guided by the use of at least one belt. The belt has at least two zones. The zones have different properties with at least one of the zones being designed to transmit a drive force to the rolls of the machine.

Abstract: A machine for producing a material web, including a paper or cardboard web, having a plurality of cylinders around which the material web is guided in a meandering path together with a conveyor (transport) belt. The machine further includes at least one air conveying device disposed in the transfer region between two cylinders. The air conveying device associates with the free circumference region of a cylinder and aspirates the material web as the material web travels in a path free from contact with the cylinders as the material web travels between two succeeding cylinders. The material web and the conveyor belt are partially wound around the circumference region of the cylinders. According to the invention, the air conveying device only covers certain areas of the free circumference region of the cylinder on which the material web (paper web) winds.

Abstract: Press jacket for a press device for the treatment of a web material. The press jacket may include a surface and a plurality of holes formed in the surface, such that each of the plurality of holes having a longitudinal axis and outlet. A portion of the plurality of holes may be oriented such that their respective longitudinal axes are tilted at respective outlets at an angle to perpendicular to the surface and a magnitude of the angle of tilt for longitudinal axes of at least some adjacent holes may be different. The press jacket may be utilized in combination with a press roll in a press device.

Abstract: A headbox of a paper or board machine having an inlet, a distributor for feeding stock suspension to be distributed over the machine width into the inlet. A turbulence generator downstream of the distributor has a hydraulic diameter of less than 17 mm in the downstream end region. The hydraulic diameter is the diameter of individual channels through the turbulence generator. The turbulence generator has channels or plates that define several channels, each in accordance with the desired hydraulic diameter. Dimensions of the hydraulic diameter are disclosed. The turbulence generator has lands at the downstream end. The land area ratio is disclosed. A nozzle or the like downstream of the turbulence generator introduces the stock suspension over the machine width to a wire or wires of the next section.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for the application of a liquid or pasty medium onto a traveling fiber material web. The medium is directly applied on at least one side of the traveling material web. The medium is pressed into the traveling material web after the medium is directly applied on the traveling material web.

Abstract: Dryer section of a machine for manufacturing a material sheet. The dryer section may include at least one dryer cylinder, a plurality of sheet guide rolls, a transport belt for guiding the material sheet in a meandering manner around the at least one dryer cylinder and the plurality of sheet guide rolls, and threads surrounding at least one of the at least one dryer cylinder and the plurality of sheet guide rolls. The threads may be positioned between the material sheet and a surface of the at least one of the at least one dryer cylinder and the plurality of sheet guide rolls.

Abstract: Press section of a machine for manufacturing a fibrous pulp web. The press section includes at least one press nip for draining the fibrous pulp web and at least one continuous press felt positioned on each side of the fibrous pulp web. The at least one continuous press felts may be guided through the press nip. The press section also includes a transfer roll that transfers the fibrous pulp web from a belt of a prepositioned unit to one of the at least one continuous press felts and a suctioned guide roll arranged within a loop of the one continuous press felt and between the transfer roll and the press nip. The suctioned guide roll is adjustably positionable so that the at least one continuous press felt positioned opposite the one continuous press felt is at least tangential to the suctioned guide roll, and adjustable positioning of the suctioned guide roll adjusts/an intake angle of the web into the press nip.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for direct or indirect one-sided or double-sided application of a liquid or pasty coating medium onto a spliced traveling material web, notably of paper or cardboard, includes at least one applicator applying the coating medium at a predetermined point of coating application onto the material web. At least one coating suspension system briefly suspends the application of the coating medium at the point of coating application or at a point of suspension located, based on the direction of travel of the material web, ahead of the point of coating application. The suspension of the application of coating medium occurs while or before the material web splice passes the point of coating application.

Abstract: A machine for manufacturing a fibrous pulp web, in particular a tissue or hygienic paper web with a main press, including a contact shoe press unit and a drying cylinder, and a shoe pre-press. The main press is so designed that the pressure profile which is built up in its press opening along the length of the opening exhibits increasing pressure, which starts at the beginning of the opening and extends along at least one third, preferably a minimum of one half the length of the opening. The length of the main press is shorter (1/3 to 2/3) than the length of of the pre-press, the linear force of the pre-press is greater than the linear force of the main press, and the maximum pressure of the main press is greater than the maximum pressure of the pre-press.

Abstract: A web drying apparatus, e.g., for a paper web, includes several heatable drying cylinders arranged in at least one row with at least one respective endless loop drying wire and preferably arranged in two rows of cylinders with two respective wires. A wire guide roll is between and offset from two of the adjacent cylinders in the one row. The one endless loop dryer wire carries the web thereon on a first part of the web loop path from the first cylinder to the wire guide roll. There the web separates from the wire and travels to a second cylinder in the second row. The wire wraps around the wire guide roll and returns on a second part of the web loop path to the next cylinder in the first row, without supporting a web. On the path between the first and third cylinders and around the wire guide roll, the wire defines a loop. An air guide box and a blower are arranged within the loop. The air guide box produces a vacuum at the first part of the wire loop path for drawing the web against the wire.