Abstract: An effective method is provided for local treatment against localized microbial infection, including abscesses, in skin and soft tissue and elsewhere in mammalian organs. The method employs mammalian IL-17 receptor agonists, which exert several antimicrobial actions, including the stimulation of neutrophil turnover as well as macrophage phagocytosis locally in an infected mammalian organ.

Abstract: A method for the production of a homogeneous, patterned flooring material. The method includes the deposition of thermoplastic particles in predetermined formations onto a sticky layer, so that the latter is covered in its entirety by a patterned first layer of particles in order to constitute a first layer of material. The method also includes the formation of an additional sticky layer, in conjunction with which an additional layer of particles with a pattern corresponding to that of the first layer is formed in order to constitute a further layer of material. These two layers are synchronized so that the patterns coincide in conjunction with the pressing operation and the layers of material form a homogeneously patterned flooring material.

Abstract: A device for protecting a spraying equipment (8) and its surroundings in a paper or board machine, for applying a treatment medium onto a moving surface (3), comprises a protecting cover (11) having a space (12), which forms a single chamber in which the spraying equipment is located and which is open towards the moving surface in connection with an application zone, and two wall elements (13, 14) which extend cross to the machine direction on either side of the application zone, and define machine-wide gaps (24; 40 and 25; 26; 41, respectively) between themselves and the moving surface.

Abstract: Paper machine for manufacturing a fibre web of paper without through air drying (TAD) or pressing, comprising: a wet end, having a wire section with at least one forming wire, a clothing, being air and water permeable, and a dewatering unit for dewatering the fibre web; and a drying section, comprising a drying surface for the fibre web; and also a transfer roll for transferring the fibre web to the drying section, wherein the fibre web is supported by said clothing from the wire section all the way to and over the transfer roll. The clothing has a three dimensional structure for structuring the fibre web.

Abstract: A paper machine for manufacturing soft paper comprises a press section with a shoe press nip, through which a substantially impermeable belt and a felt run with the fibrous web enclosed between them, a drying cylinder and a transfer roll forming a nip for transfer of the web to the drying cylinder. According to the invention the belt comprises a carrier with a compressible polymer coating having a hardness of 50 to 97 Shore A, which polymer coating has a web-contacting surface with a degree of roughness in unloaded state of Rz=2-80 microns, measured in accordance with ISO 4287, and a lower degree of roughness of Rz=0-20 microns when the polymer coating is compressed by linear load of 20-220 kN/m on the belt as measured in a non-extended press nip, the belt and the web-carrying felt being arranged to run together not until they enter the press section, the belt running directly to the press section.

Abstract: A headbox for discharging a jet consisting of one or more stock layers to a forming zone in a former comprising at least one separator vane separating two stock channels in order to keep the stocks on each side of the separator vane separated from each other and having engagement dowels arranged in a row for detachable mounting on a turbulence channel group via an engagement part with a through-running groove to receive the upstream end portion of the separator vane and its engagement dowels to secure the separator vane in machine direction, said groove having two longitudinally extending recesses with support and guide walls facing the free engagement end portions of the engagement dowels.