Patents Assigned to Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
  • Patent number: 6364240
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for winding a material web. The process includes guiding the material web over a carrying roll and through a nip formed between the carrying roll and a new reel spool, at least partially cutting the material web with at least one contactless cutter during a reel spool change to form a new web leader, and additionally cutting the material web with at least one separation element. The apparatus includes a reel spool, and a carrying roll. The reel spool and the carrying roll may be positioned to form a winding nip. The material web may be guided over the carrying roll and through the winding nip, at least one contactless cutter can be adapted to cut a web leader during a reel spool change, and at least one separation element can be positioned for additionally cutting the material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Matthias Wohlfahrt
  • Patent number: 6364959
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for cleaning a transport belt of a machine for the production or processing a web. The apparatus includes at least one nozzle device composed of a rotatable nozzle head having at least one cleaning nozzle, a transport device including a crosspiece extending substantially crosswise to a transport belt travel direction, in which the at least one nozzle device is coupled to the transport device and adapted for displacement along the crosspiece. A traversing speed of the nozzle device is very low and falls within a range of between approximately 1 mm/min and 10 mm/min. Alternatively, the at least one nozzle is positionable in a plurality of cleaning positions that are successively arranged crosswise to the transport belt, and the at least one nozzle is held stationary in each respective cleaning position for a predefined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Straub, Dieter Haberzettl, Birgit Bertram, Johann Eisler, Lutz-Thomas Herrmann
  • Patent number: 6364243
    Abstract: A reel winding arrangement includes a contact roller, first and second winding position groups located on a first and second sides of the contact roller, and a core feeding device which includes a longitudinal transport device and a core moving device. The core moving device also includes at least one carrier arrangement positioned to extend over an axial length of said contact roller and at least one pivotable holding arm. A method of winding reel cores includes forming first and second winding positions on first and second sides of a contact roller, loading a plurality of reel cores on a longitudinal transport device, and pivotably feeding the plurality of reel cores from the longitudinal transport device to one of said first winding position and said second winding positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Baumeister, Dirk Cramer
  • Patent number: 6365003
    Abstract: Apparatus and process for processing material web. Apparatus includes a rotatable cylinder, in which material web is guided over rotatable cylinder, first fixed carrier, and at least three belt guide rolls, in which one of the at least three guide belts is pivotably coupled to fixed carrier. Endless belt is mounted on and guided by at least three belt guide rolls, where endless belt is guided over rotatable cylinder in a same direction as material web, and pivotably coupled belt guide roll is pivotably positionable between a tensioning position and a retracted position relative to endless belt. Second fixed carrier is provided and tensioning roll is positioned outside of endless belt and pivotably coupled to second fixed carrier, so that tensioning roll is pivotably positionable between a retracted position and a loading position of endless belt. Tensioning roll is further positioned between pivotably coupled belt guide roll and adjacent belt guide roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Reisinger
  • Patent number: 6363601
    Abstract: Fittings and machine and process for production of the fittings and machine for a mechanical processing of suspended fibrous material that include at least one base and at least one processing element adapted to be exposed to flow of a fibrous suspension during operation. The process for producing the fittings may include separately producing the at least one base and the at least one processing element, placing an elastic bonding material between contact surfaces of the at least one base and the at least one processing element, and elastically bonding the at least one base and the at least one processing element without melting the processing elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Josef Schneid
  • Publication number: 20020036071
    Abstract: Process for transferring at least a portion of a running web from a first section of a web making machine includes rotating an endless conveyor belt by driving at least one driven pulley, creating a negative pressure at an inner surface of endless conveyor belt as endless conveyor belt is guided over suction box, and guiding the at least a portion of running web onto endless conveyor belt. Process also includes transferring the at least a portion of the running web from endless conveyor to rope section located outside of a web width, pivoting endless conveyor belt around the pivot axis to move downstream end into an area of rope section one of at and before transferring, and pivoting endless conveyor belt around pivot axis to move downstream end into an area of the at least a portion of running web and inside web width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2001
    Publication date: March 28, 2002
    Applicant: VOITH SULZER PAPIERTECHNIK PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Leif Mohrsen, Allan Broom, George Kutak-Petrik, Wolfgang Drefs
  • Patent number: 6361658
    Abstract: Press section for drainage of a fibrous material web that includes a shoe press roll, a cylindrical counter roll, at least one nip, a first nip of the at least one nip formed by the shoe press roll and the cylindrical counter roll, and at least one press felt. The at least one press felt is disposed on each side of the fibrous material web. The at least one press felt travels through a last nip of the at least one nip where the at least one press felt is separated from the fibrous material web and conveyed away after leaving the last nip. The drainage capacity and the reliable guidance of the fibrous material web are improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Steiner, Albrecht Meinecke
  • Patent number: 6352616
    Abstract: Headbox that includes a turbulence generator including a plurality of essentially parallel rows of pipes and a jet including of an upper lip and a lower lip arranged to form a jet space and a jet outlet slit. A plurality of lamellae are arranged to subdivide the jet space, and the plurality of lamellae include end sections and lamella sections. The end sections are mounted between the plurality of essentially parallel rows of pipes, and at least some of the lamella sections are arranged to converge over a bend point in a direction of the jet outlet slit and, thereby, are angled toward a longitudinal axis of the turbulence generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Dietz, Konstantin Fenkl
  • Patent number: 6342126
    Abstract: Wire section, guidance device, and process of forming a web in a machine for producing a fibrous material web. The device include two revolving endless wire belts, a twin wire zone formed between the two revolving endless wire belts, and a revolving flexible support belt located in a vicinity of the twin wire zone and positioned to support at least one of the two wire belts in a support region. The flexible support belt is generally guided along an at least essentially circular cylindrical path, and the support region includes a support path having an average curvature radius that is greater than a curvature radius of the essentially circular path. The process includes supporting at least one of the two endless wire belts with the flexible support belt in a support region, rotating the flexible support belt along a generally circular path, and deflecting the support belt from the generally circular path in the support region, whereby the support belt in the support regions travels along a support path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Dieter Egelhof, Johann Moser, Hans Dahl, Roger Wiedenmann
  • Patent number: 6338706
    Abstract: A process for producing a resilient roll having a hard roll core (e.g., of metal) and a resilient covering layer. In forming the covering layer, a radially inner connecting layer is applied to the roll core and a radially outer functional layer is applied to the connecting layer. In addition, in forming the connecting layer, a fiber bundle comprising a large number of fibers is wound onto the roll core, the winding direction of the fibers running essentially parallel to one another and at an angle to the circumferential direction of the roll core. A number of layers are wound one above another, with the angular position (i.e., orientation), as defined by the winding direction with respect to the longitudinal axis of the roll, of fiber bundles in respectively successive fiber layers being different. A roll according to the present invention comprises fiber layers each including a plurality of fibers wound at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the roll core and running essentially parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Carsten Sohl
  • Patent number: 6336996
    Abstract: Process and device for transferring at least one of a fibrous material web and a strip of the fibrous material web from a moist releasing belt to an accepting belt in a web producing machine that includes a transfer region and a separating region arranged in this order in a web travel direction. The process includes guiding the accepting and releasing belts together at least in the transfer region, separating the accepting belt from the releasing belt in the separating region, and suctioning a surface of the accepting belt opposite a fibrous web and strip carrying surface so that the strip and the fibrous material web are carried by the carrying surface. When the strip is being transferred, the suctioning occurs at least the transfer region, and when an entire width of the fibrous material web is being transferred, the suctioning occurs at least primarily in die separating region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Karl Steiner
  • Patent number: 6336398
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a calendar for treating a material web. In an exemplary embodiment, first and second roll stacks have first and second deflection adjustment rolls on an end thereof, respectively. Each of the first and second deflection adjustment rolls has a sleeve lift, and a sleeve supported by a deflection adjustment device on a fixed bracket. The first and second deflection adjustment rolls are adjacent to each other to define an additional nip therebetween that can be at least partially closed by the sleeve lift. An effective direction of the deflection adjustment device of the first deflection adjustment roll alternatively points toward the first roll stack and the second deflection adjustment roll, and an effective direction of the deflection adjustment device of the second deflection adjustment roll alternatively points toward the second roll stack and the first deflection adjustment roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Kayser, Joachim Hinz, Mathias Helmus, Gerhard Stock
  • Patent number: 6334932
    Abstract: A press arrangement and process for treatment of a fibrous material web. The press arrangement includes a press shoe unit, a press suction roll, at least one first press nip elongated in a web travel direction, the first press nip being formed between the shoe press unit and the press suction roll, the press suction roll being arranged as a web pick-up roll, at least one second press nip elongated in the web travel direction and positioned downstream of the first press nip relative to the web travel direction, at least first and second felts being arranged to be guided through the at least one first press nip, the first felt being arranged to loop around the press suction roll to pick-up the web from a screen belt whereby the web is transferred from the screen belt to the first felt, wherein the web is guided to the first press nip by the first felt and the web is guided through the first press nip between the first and second felts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Meschenmoser
  • Patent number: 6334930
    Abstract: Measurement device for quantitatively detecting constituents of a pulp/fluid mixture for paper and/or cardboard production. The device includes at least one radiation source for irradiating the mixture in a number of definite, different wavelength ranges. The device also includes at least one sensor for measuring the intensity of radiation that has been influenced by the mixture, and at least one set of measurement electronics. Each sensor detects only one of the definite, different wavelength ranges of the radiation at a particular time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Griech, Rudolf Münch, Franz Winter
  • Patent number: 6334712
    Abstract: Deflection adjustment roll and process for supporting a roll jacket on a crosspiece of the deflection compensation roll. The deflection compensation roll includes a crosspiece, roller bearings composed of radial bearings and at least one hydrostatic bearing arrangement, and a roll jacket, which is rotatably supported on the crosspiece by the roller bearings. The at least one hydrostatic bearing arrangement acts in the axial direction. The process includes positioning radial roller bearings each bearing end of the deflection compensation roll and between the crosspiece and the roll jacket, wherein the radial roller bearings absorb radial forces, and positioning at least one hydrostatic bearing arrangement between the crosspiece and the roll jacket, wherein the at least one hydrostatic bearing arrangement absorbs axial forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Van Haag, Reinhard Wenzel
  • Patent number: 6334934
    Abstract: Sealing device and process for laterally sealing at least one excess pressure or vacuum zone adjoining a moving surface in a paper-making machine. The sealing device has at least one sealing element arranged in a receptacle area of a holder and is movable relative to the holder for placement against the moving surface. The receptacle area serves as a clamping receptacle and the sealing element is acted upon with a clamping force through clamping surfaces of the clamping receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Helmut Heinzmann
  • Patent number: 6332589
    Abstract: Winding machine and process for producing at least one wound roll from a supplied material web. The winding machine includes a core formed by a tube, on which the material web is rolled into a wound roll, and at least one winding gap, which regulates the winding tightness formed between the core and the wound roll originating thereon. The winding machine also includes at least one winding roller, and at least one pre-tensioned continuous loop encircling at least one winding roller. The process includes passing the material web over at least one pre-tensioned continuous loop encircling at least one winding roller, the material web being one of paper or cardboard, and regulating the winding tightness of the at least one wound roll with a winding gap between a winding roll and the material web or a core, comprising a tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Roland M{overscore (o)}ller, Werner Leitenberger, Jörg Maurer
  • Patent number: 6332587
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for threading a material web onto a reel. The process includes guiding a beginning of the material web to be wound around the drum, directing blower air to keep the material web away from the reel, supplying the material web to a preparation station, and threading the reel with the material web. The apparatus includes a drum positioned to precede the reel, a blower bar arranged cross-wise to a web travel direction and including at least one exit opening adapted to provide blower air, a blower supply device adapted to supply blower air to the blower bar, and a control unit adapted to control activation of the blower air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Möller, Werner Leitenberger, Jörg Maurer
  • Patent number: 6332955
    Abstract: A press arrangement and method for the treatment of a fibrous material web (10) which includes a lower shoe press roll (20), with which two upper press rolls (22, 24) are associated, with which the shoe press roll (20) forms in each case a press nip (S1 or S2) elongated in the direction of travel of the web (L). The first elongated press nip (S1) viewed in the direction of travel of the web (L) is double felted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Meschenmoser
  • Patent number: 6328194
    Abstract: Device for handling a material web that includes a suction roll having a perforated jacket, and a porous support belt guided over the suction roll between a take-on region and a lift-off region. A surface of the porous support belt is adapted to guide the material web and the surface adapted to guide the material web is arranged away from a surface of the suction roll. The suction roll includes suction zones adjacent to an inner side of the perforated jacket, such that a first suction zone, arranged in the take-on region, is coupled to a vacuum source, and a second suction zone, arranged in the take-off region, is coupled to the vacuum source through the first suction zone. One of an outer web holding box and a suction tube is positioned subsequent to the take-off region, relative to a web travel direction, and is arranged to be suctioned by the second suction zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Meschenmoser