Patents Assigned to Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
  • Patent number: 5987777
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dry end for drying a material web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, having at least one drying group with a plurality of drying cylinders and web guiding rollers and at least one nozzle device for transporting the threading part of the material web along a winding path by means of at least one conveyor band. The dry end is characterised in that groups of at least two nozzle devices (17, 19, 21) located at the same side of the material web (11) follow each other in the direction of transport of the material web (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Goebel, Karlheinz Straub
  • Patent number: 5985098
    Abstract: Apparatus for influencing a cross-sectional profile of a headbox having an inner chamber and process for determining a width and position for the sections of the headbox. The apparatus includes a device for distributing fluid that extends across a machine width, at least one connection opening extending across the machine width between the fluid distribution device and the inner chamber of the headbox, and a plurality of elements being one of continuously and discretely adjustably positionable within the fluid distributing device to section the fluid distributing device across the machine width. The process includes measuring a profile of a selected characteristic of the pulp suspension in the headbox that is dependent on its position; forming intersecting points of the profile of the characteristic with a uniform sectioning of the size of the characteristic under consideration; and determining the position and width of the sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Lehleiter, Hans Loser, Wolfgang Ruf
  • Patent number: 5974684
    Abstract: A suction device for a machine to produce a fibrous pulp web is provided that includes a suction unit extending transverse to a web run direction over a width of the web, a vacuum source coupled to the end of the suction unit, and a plurality of suction openings distributed over the web width, where the plurality of suction openings form an entire suction zone extending over the width of the web, and where the entire suction zone includes a plurality of partial suction zones successively arranged transverse to the web run direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Steiner, Hans Prinzing, Karl Gaugenmaier
  • Patent number: 5972170
    Abstract: A suction box for use in a press arrangement in a machine for producing a paper or cardboard web. The suction box includes at least one suction side suctioning the fibrous pulp sheet onto a transport side of at least one felt belt. The suction box further includes at least one non-suction side and at least one slit. A vacuum is created by having air blown out of at least one slit. The vacuum occurs along the felt belt in a run direction of the felt belt. The slit is positioned at an edge of at least one non-suction side of the suction box. The suction box may be disposed on an exit side of a press slit of the press arrangement. The press slit is adapted to treat the fibrous pulp sheet. At least one felt belt is guided, simultaneously with the fibrous pulp sheet, through the press slit. Upon exiting the press slit, the fibrous pulp sheet is suctioned onto at least one felt belt by the suction box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Hund, Peter Kahl, Andreas Meschenmoser
  • Patent number: 5967449
    Abstract: A winder for continuous winding of a material web, like a paper or board web, on a winding spool to form a wound reel. A contact pressure drum is rotatably supported on a displaceable transport device and the drum itself is displaceable with respect to the transport device to form a widening nip with the wound reel. The transport device also supports a primary bearing for holding an empty spool during the start of the winding process. The bearing for the empty spool is between the contact pressure drum and a secondary bearing for supporting the wound reel in the final winding position. The primary bearing for the initially empty spool is fixed in location on a transport device. The transport device is in turn transportable toward and away from the secondary bearing for the wound reel. The contact pressure drum is supported to move along with the transport device as well as also being displaceable with respect to the transport device to maintain the line pressure during increase in the wound spool diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Thomas, Ralf Preising, Roland Moeller
  • Patent number: 5967035
    Abstract: An applicator system roll for direct or indirect application of a coating medium onto a traveling fiber material web includes a core substantially comprised of a fiber composite material and a cover substantially surrounding the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Kustermann
  • Patent number: 5966834
    Abstract: A machine and method for producing a material web, e.g., a paper or cardboard web. The machine includes a dryer group having a plurality of dryer cylinders and web guide rolls. A dryer (or guide) belt may guide the material web around the dryer cylinders and web guide rolls in a meandering or winding path. The dryer group may include a cooling device that cools the dryer belt by exerting an air current on the dryer belt after separation from the material web. The method may include drying the material web in a region of the dryer group in which the material web is held and guided between the dryer belt and each drying cylinder, and substantially preventing drying of the material web in a region of the dryer group in which the material web is transferred from one drying cylinder onto a subsequent one.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 19, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Steiner, Tri Chau-Huu
  • Patent number: 5964956
    Abstract: A process for cleaning a transport belt of a machine to manufacture a material web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, is provided so that the transport belt is cleaned with varying intensity across its width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Straub, Markus Oechsle, Gerhard Kotitschke
  • Patent number: 5964960
    Abstract: Cleaning device to clean a roll, e.g., a concrete or granite roll, in a paper machine. The cleaning device may include a spray unit that may include a high-pressure spray device having an operational pressure of at least approximately 10 bar to spray a surface of the roll with a cleaning agent and a device to remove the cleaning agent from the roll surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Josef Boeck
  • Patent number: 5961785
    Abstract: A machine for manufacturing a continuous material web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, with at least one perforated cylinder sleeve and a suction roll exhibiting a manhole around which the material web is guided preferably with the aid of a transport band, whereby the interior of the suction roll can be put under a vacuum and is subdivided into at least two sections by a partition wall that is arranged essentially perpendicular to the rotation axis of the suction roll, wherein the partition wall is subdivided into sections and/or is manufactured of a flexible material and can thereby be inserted through the manhole and into the roll interior.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kahl, Robert Wolf, Georg Kugler, Markus Oechsle
  • Patent number: 5958189
    Abstract: A wet part of a paper making machine includes a distributor to which a main stream of a stock suspension is fed and which has a number of connections. The connections are connected by means of split stream lines to a machine-wide flow box which has a machine-wide slice nozzle (headbox). The split stream lines are connected (directly or indirectly) to the flow box. The slice nozzle is connected to at least one continuous web-forming screen. At least one collection trough is connected to the screen, as well as, optionally, to a backwater tank to accept the backwater trapped by the collection trough. Dilution water lines are provided to introduce backwater into the split stream lines to adjust the stock density of the split streams. The dilution water lines are connected directly to the collection trough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Begemann, Dirk Thomas
  • Patent number: 5956864
    Abstract: A dryer section is proposed, which is part of a machine for producing a material web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, with at least one dryer group that has a number of heatable dryer cylinders around which the material web is guided in a meandering path. The dryer section is distinguished by virtue of the fact that at least one pressing device (31) is provided inside the dryer section (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Egelhof, Markus Oechele, Hans-Jurgen Wulz
  • Patent number: 5958513
    Abstract: An apparatus for direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty medium onto a traveling material web, notably of paper or cardboard, with a support beam which substantially extends in its length direction across the entire width of the material web, is supported in at least two bearing points and includes at least one finish-dosing apparatus. A backing roll opposes the support beam. A relevant bearing point includes two mutually spaced support bars each of which is at its one end jointedly fixed to pivot points of the support beam and at its other end pivotally connected to at least one foundation. At least one prop bar is attached at its one end jointedly to the support beam and is at its other end jointedly fixed to the foundation. A least one of the aforementioned bars is lengthwise adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Zygmunt Madrzak
  • Patent number: 5954291
    Abstract: The invention concerns a winding device for taking up a paper web immediately after manufacture. The device comprises a carrier drum onto which the paper web is guided from one side (feed side); a winding rod with bearing journals; articulated levers which support the bearing journals in brackets and cause the winding rod with the rolled paper web to pivot around the carrier drum from a feed position into a pay-out position; a longitudinal cutter in the region of the winding-on side and upstream of the carrier drum for cutting the web into strip; a pressure roller for exerting contact pressure on the paper strips; and a support roller on the run-offside of the carrier drum in the pay-out region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Albrecht Meinecke, Hans-Joachim Fissmann
  • Patent number: 5948477
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a coating apparatus for the direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty substance onto a moving layer of material, such as paper, carton or cardboard, with a dispenser implement and, at some distance further along the line, a spreading device for finely controlling the amount of applied medium. The dispenser implement and the spreading device share a common collector/drain surface and a common collector bin for gathering excess amounts of the liquid or pasty substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 7, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Manfred Ueberschar
  • Patent number: 5944898
    Abstract: An apparatus for successive application of two coats of at least one coating medium on one side of a traveling fiber material web includes a rotating backing roll and a first rotating applicator roll having a roll surface. The first applicator roll and the backing roll define a first press nip therebetween. A first applicator assembly is positioned in association with said roll surface for applying a first coating medium to the roll surface. The first applicator assembly and the first applicator roll conjunctively define a first indirect applicator for applying the first coating medium to a first side of the fiber material web. A first drying apparatus is positioned after the first press nip relative to a direction of travel of the fiber material web. The first drying apparatus is positioned in association with the first side of the material web. A second applicator is positioned after the first drying apparatus relative to the direction of travel of the fiber material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Benjamin Mendez
  • Patent number: 5943951
    Abstract: Flexible press sleeve for a press roll for treating a web includes an inside surface including a longitudinal press area adapted to be pressurized with a press shoe by directing pressure radially outward, and a flexible section on at least one end of the press area having a greater flexibility than a flexibility of the press sleeve outside the flexible section, without causing a significant weakening of the press sleeve within the flexible section. A press shoe includes the press roll and a mating roll forming a press opening with the press roll. A method of treating a web includes draining a fibrous pulp web by using the press shoe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Muellner, Uwe Matuschczyk
  • Patent number: 5940981
    Abstract: Machine for manufacturing a material sheet and method of guiding the material sheet through the machine. The machine may include a dryer section including at least one dryer group having a plurality of dryer cylinders. Centers of a first plurality of the plurality of dryer cylinders may be arranged on an upper level and centers of a second plurality of the plurality of dryer cylinders may be arranged on a lower level spaced a distance from the upper level. A top felt may be associated with at least one of the first plurality of dryer cylinders and a bottom felt associated with at least one of the second plurality of dryer cylinders. The machine may also include a meandering run path for the material sheet through the at least one dryer group, the material sheet being guided in the meandering run path by the top and bottom felts, and at least one transition area between the plurality of dryer cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Tri Chau-Huu, Albrecht Meinecke, Josef Mullner
  • Patent number: 5938144
    Abstract: A winding machine for a material web, particularly of paper or cardboard, the web being rolled onto a reel core for forming at least one round reel. At least two supporting devices support the wound reel. The first supporting device is formed by a first supporting roller. The second supporting device comprises at least a second supporting roller and comprises at least one lowering device that lowers to let the wound reel move off the first roller. The lowering device can be pivoted about an axis that runs essentially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the first roller. The second supporting device is moveable to a first position where it supports the winding on process or a second position where it provides support over a circumferential area of the reel during the remainder of the winding. The second supporting device is moveable, e.g., by a piston-cylinder unit, to provide support as the wound reel increases in diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Kaipf, Jorg Maurer
  • Patent number: 5935385
    Abstract: A press device, e.g., a shoe press device, for treating a sheet of material, e.g., paper or cardboard, in an elongated press gap elongated in a travel direction of the sheet of material. The press device may include a flexible roll jacket that runs around a stationary carrier, an opposing face that forms the elongated press gap with the flexible roll jacket, and at least one of a hydrodynamically and hydrostatically lubricated support element supported on the carrier. The support element may include a compression face adapted to a shape of the opposing face and at least one cloth belt guided through the elongated press gap. The support element may further include an entry face for the flexible roll jacket and for the cloth belt and positioned before the compression face in the travel direction of the sheet of material. A lubricant aspiration device is located before the support element in the travel direction, and is spaced from the roll jacket during normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Christian Schiel, Andreas Schuette