Patents Examined by Matthew M Eslami
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Patent number: 11293140Abstract: A forming section, commonly called wet part, of a fourdrinier machine includes a rotatable breast roll, a rotatable couch roll, a forming mesh disposed between said breast roll and said couch roll, wherein said forming mesh is tangent to a lower portion of said couch roll, a fabric mesh which is tangent to said couch roll, wherein the tangent point of said fabric mesh and said couch roll coincides with or is located front of the tangent point of said forming net and said couch roll, wherein said fabric mesh and said forming net are attached to part of the outer surface of said couch roll in an inner and outer manner, a dewatering unit disposed on the rear surface of said forming mesh, a headbox disposed above said breast roll for flowing pulp slurry to said forming mesh and a press roll disposed against on said couch roll to form a pressing zone between said press roll and said couch roll so as to press and dewater said wet fiber web formed on said forming mesh on the surface of said fabric mesh.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: Shenzhen De Wei Fiber Environment Protection Technology Co., Ltd.Inventor: Shan Feng
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Patent number: 11286618Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making tissue paper in a machine for making tissue paper and in which method a fibrous web is passed through at least one press nip together with a texturing belt. The texturing belt has a side that faces the fibrous web in the press nip and the surface of that side is a web contacting surface that is textured. The texturing belt can be selected such that the tissue paper that is manufactured obtains desired values for one or several parameters. The invention also relates to a machine for making tissue paper. The machine comprises a forming section, a drying cylinder, a press having a first press unit and a second press unit between which press units a nip is formed. The second press unit is preferably a shoe roll. The machine also comprises a drying cylinder which is arranged to be heated from the inside by hot steam and on which a fibrous web can be dried by heat.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Albany International Corp.Inventors: Karl-Johan Tolfsson, Joergen Israelsson, Viktor Bergstroem, Kimberly Downing, Johan Ragard
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Patent number: 11286623Abstract: Provided are tissue webs, and products produced therefrom, that are generally durable, flexible and have improved cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as CD tensile energy absorption (CD TEA), CD stretch and CD modulus. The inventive tissue products generally comprise a single tissue ply that has been prepared by through-air drying and more preferably by through-air drying without creping. Moreover, the products may be produced using a transfer fabric positioned between the forming fabric and the through-air drying fabric where the transfer fabric imparts the nascent web with a high degree of CD strain.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Mark W. Sachs, Richard A. Zanon, Lynda E. Collins, Kevin J. Vogt, Christopher L. Satori
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Patent number: 11261566Abstract: A clothing, in particular a seam felt for a machine producing a fibrous material web, in particular a paper, paperboard, tissue or pulp web, includes a base structure including or formed of a two-layer laminate structure formed of one or more flat-woven fabrics. The laminate structure has MD threads forming seam loops at two end sides of the base structure, and the two layers of the laminate structure are connected to one another by the seam loops. The clothing is made endless by connecting the end sides by a seam. The seam is made by interengaging the seam loops of both end sides and introducing an insertion element. The diameter of the seam loops LD and the diameter of the associated MD threads MDYD have a ratio LD/MDYD of between 2.5 and 4, in particular between 2.7 and 3.6.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Robert Eberhardt, Susanne Klaschka
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Patent number: 11208764Abstract: A clothing for a machine for producing a fibrous web, especially a paper, cardboard, tissue or cellulose pulp web. The clothing has a basic structure with a top side and a running side as well as a nonwoven support at least on one side. The nonwoven support has a functional zone, which extends over more than 50 ?m in the thickness direction of the clothing and which includes a first portion and a second portion of nonwoven fibers. The nonwoven fibers of the first portion are formed of, or include, a polyurethane, especially a thermoplastic polyurethane, while the nonwoven fibers of the second portion are a polymer material not including a polyurethane. The first portion makes up between 10 wt. % and 60 wt. %, of the functional zone. There is also described a method for production and a suitable nonwoven fabric.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Robert Eberhardt, Susanne Klaschka, Hubert Walkenhaus
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Patent number: 11186951Abstract: When the efficiency of heating with steam is enhanced by adding a condensed water film formation-suppressing amine in a heating step of heating a material to be heated with the steam via a metallic material, the amount of the condensed water film formation-suppressing amine to be added is controlled based on any of the concentration of the condensed water film formation-suppressing amine in a drain, the pH of the drain, the electroconductivity of the drain, the amount of the drain, the amount of the steam, the temperature of the drain, the temperature of the metallic material, and the amount of the metallic material eluted in the drain.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: KURITA WATER INDUSTRIES LTD.Inventors: Shintaro Mori, Hideki Nishida, Shogo Ujiie, Qian Lin
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Patent number: 11174593Abstract: The invention relates to a base fabric of a press felt. The base fabric comprises end regions which are provided with seam loops (4). The seam loops are slanted. Further, the invention relates to a press felt and a method of forming the same.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: VALMET TECHNOLOGIES OYInventors: Kati Mikkonen, Jorma Naamanka
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Patent number: 11168443Abstract: A paper machine clothing draw-in device for drawing a paper machine clothing, in particular a drying screen, into a machine designed to produce and/or finish a material web, in particular a fibrous web, such as a paper, board or tissue web. The draw-in device includes a force-distributing element, which is designed to distribute a tensile force, which acts substantially at a point, substantially uniformly along a line. Here, the paper machine clothing draw-in device includes a plurality of such force-distributing elements, which are designed to become or to be connected to each other in normal use.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventor: Jens Kallenberg
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Patent number: 11162221Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing paper, board or the like. The method comprises obtaining a fibre stock comprising lignocellulosic fibres and adding a retention agent system comprising a cationic synthetic polymer to the fibre stock and forming a fibrous web from the fibre stock and drying the web. Microfibrillated non-wood cellulose is added to the fibre stock as a component of the retention agent system and sequentially with the cationic synthetic polymer.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Kemira OyjInventors: Tom Lundin, Kaisa Karisalmi, Heikki Sojakka
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Patent number: 11155964Abstract: Provided is a paper roll production apparatus that saves installation space and enables production of paper rolls of different qualities and a shortening of production time. The paper roll production apparatus includes: a sheet-forming and dewatering part 5 forming paper stock into a sheet and for dewatering the paper stock; a drying machine 6 drying the paper stock dewatered by the sheet-forming and dewatering part 5 to form a dry paper material; a switching mechanism part switching to feed, into the drying machine 6, the paper stock dewatered by a first sheet-forming machine included in the sheet-forming and dewatering part 5 or the paper stock dewatered by a second sheet-forming machine included in the sheet-forming and dewatering part 5; and a winder 8 winding up the dry paper material provided by the drying machine 6 to form a paper roll. The first sheet-forming machine operates at a sheet-forming speed at which a fiber orientation of the paper stock is maintained.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: CORELEX SHIN-EI CO., LTD.Inventor: Satoshi Kurosaki
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Patent number: 11124920Abstract: A method of making a tissue basesheet includes: (a) forming a nascent web from an aqueous furnish of papermaking fiber; (b) applying an aqueous composition of nanofibrillar cellulose to a surface of the nascent web; and (c) drying the nascent web to provide the tissue basesheet. Typically the basesheet is constructed with a tissue substrate of cellulosic papermaking fiber having applied to a surface thereof a layer of nanofibrillar cellulose, the tissue substrate having a basis weight of from 15 g/m2 to 30 g/m2 and the layer of nanofibrillar cellulose having a coatweight of from 0.25 g/m2 to 3 g/m2. The product may be incorporated into 2-ply or 3-ply bath tissue.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLCInventor: Carlos L. Salas Araujo
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Patent number: 11118306Abstract: A web forming device includes: a defibrator having a variable speed rotor, and configured to defibrate defibration feedstock by rotation of the rotor; an accumulator on which defibrated material defibrated by the defibrator accumulates; a thickness detector configured to detect a thickness of the defibrated material accumulated on the accumulator; and a controller configured to control a rotational velocity of the rotor based on a detection result from the thickness detector. The controller applies either or both a first control and a second control, the first control decreasing the rotational velocity of the rotor when variation in the thickness of the deposited defibrated material detected by the thickness detector exceeds a first tolerance, and the second control increasing the rotational velocity of the rotor when a slope of change over time in a thickness of the deposited defibrated material detected by the thickness detector is less than a second tolerance.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Inventor: Sadaharu Komori