Abstract: A screening body for a pulp digester includes two, spaced apart ring supporting a plurality of axially extending screening bars each of which has a foot portion frictionally received in and welded to a correspondingly formed recess formed on the inner side of each of the ring segments; an apparatus for manufacturing a screening body is also provided and which includes a first assembly member which mounts a form for receiving the ring member segments in parallel relation and into which are inserted the screening bars with the foot portions fractionally received in complementary recesses formed on the inner side of each of the ring segments; a retaining member in the form of a second assembly device includes a cylindrical drum surface which is pressed against the screening bars of a partially assembled screening body section while a second and subsequent sections of the screening body are assembled.

Abstract: A pneumatically operated mechanism for a glassware forming machine is located in an aperture in a top plate of the machine and comprises entry ports in a downwardly facing surface which mate with exit ports for air supplies located in an upwardly facing surface of the top plate.

Abstract: A process for treating industrial and/or urban waste includes the steps of drying the waste; effecting thermolysis of the dried waste by direct contact with warm gases, and washing solids resulting from the thermolysis with water to effect dechlorination thereof. Thermolysis is effected by direct contact of the waste with warm gases having a low oxygen content and water for washing the solids is obtained from condensation of vapors generated during drying of the waste A plant for treating industrial and/or urban waste includes a drier for drying the waste, a reactor for thermolyzing the waste, washing the solids from the reactor with water, such as from a condenser, to dechlorinate the solids, and a gas generator to generate warm gases, of which a part of the warm gases are used to heat the drier.

Abstract: A method and device for the regulation of a pulp suspension flow in a multi-layer headbox and a multi-layer headbox for a paper machine/board machine. For the formation of different layers in the web, at least two pulp suspensions having different pulp concepts flow through the multi-layer headbox. The flow of a pulp suspension that forms one of the layers in the web is regulated by regulating the component flows that constitute this flow and regulating the concentration of the component flows independently from one another. In this manner, i.e., by regulating only this the particular layer, the total flow of the pulp suspension leaving the headbox is regulated.

Abstract: A self-loading controlled deflection roll has movable shoes disposed inside the roll shell, at the opposite ends and at the center of a central shaft, for displacing the external surface of the roll shell toward and away from a mating roll forming a nip with the controlled deflection roll. In order to ensure that both ends of the controlled deflection roll shell move evenly in a radial direction into nipping engagement with the mating roll, and to also ensure that the ends retract evenly away from nip engagement, a control system and method are provided for automatically adjusting the flow of hydraulic fluid, such as oil, which is used to displace the shoes at the opposite end of the central shaft.

Abstract: A flow rate regulating apparatus of a paper-making machine headbox is compact, can regulate the flow directions of jets of the wet paper stock during operation, and prevents stagnation. Each of tubes at ends of a tube bank disposed upstream of a slice chamber of the headbox for receiving stock from a tapered header includes a first tubular portion consisting of an inlet section having a small inner diameter, a take-out section protruding to the outside of the tube bank, and an outlet section contiguous to the take-out section, and a second tubular portion having a large inner diameter. The inner diameter of each take-out section is larger than the inner diameter of tubes located in the central portion of the tube bank. The take-out sections are provided with a flow rate regulating valve and a flow meter. Alternatively, the end tubes each have a first tubular portion that is straight, and a second tubular portion having a larger inner diameter than and disposed coaxially with the first tubular portion.

Abstract: A paper machine headbox having divided sections for feeding pulp suspensions with different properties therethrough includes a single inlet line and a plurality of feed lines connected thereto. In at least one of the feed lines, there is a separation device which separates certain pulp suspension components from the pulp suspension flowing therethrough. A discharge line connected to the separation device conveys separated pulp suspension components therefrom. A continuing feed line connected to the separation device conveys the remaining pulp suspension to the headbox.

Abstract: Apparatus for controlling the flow of fibrous material is disclosed including a substantially horizontal feeder press, a rapidly rotatable spreader screw disposed in a vertical housing, with the outlet end of the feeder press connected to the vertical housing, at least two metering screws disposed below the outlet end of the vertical housing, and a spreader disk disposed at the outlet end of the vertical housing for disintegrating the fibrous material and distributing it to the metering housing containing the metering screws.

Abstract: A chamber having a slurry-admitting inlet at one end has a metering opening lengthwise thereof for feeding slurry to an associated slurry processing machine. A rotatable bar, having a plurality of spaced apart grooves formed therein, is disposed in immediate proximity to the metering opening to control slurry-flow through the opening. The grooves insure that access to the opening, by the slurry, will be greater than the largest floc diameter of the pulp at all operating conditions.

Abstract: A process for separating printing ink from recycled paper fiber includes the steps of repulping recycled paper furnish with water in a rotary mixer for about 5 minutes at a consistency of 6% to 18% with a mixing element having a top speed no greater than 2,000 ft/min. This first stage repulping and mixing is followed by a second mixing stage of 20 to 45 minutes with a mixing element tip speed of 2,500 to 4,000 ft/min. Agglomerated contamination particles in the resulting slurry are removed by centrifugal cleaning and slot screening.

Abstract: Interior surfaces of a papermachine headbox slice plenum are mechanically cleaned by a method using scouring tools secured to a sled structure which is manually reciprocated within the slice plenum by tow ropes. Sled runners bear against the headbox tube sheet while the tool scouring bristles or surfaces compressively load against the convergent slice walls. Cleaning solution discharge nozzles supplied by a flexible conduit apply cleaning solution to the slice wall surfaces as the scouring occurs.