Abstract: This publication describes a short-dwell coater for coating a web with coating mix against a rotating backing roll. The coater comprises a support structure, a feeder means adapted to the front lip for feeding the coating mix into an application zone formed between the backing roll and the support structure, and an actual doctor blade, adapted into the support structure to press against the web, with which blade the excess coating mix passing over form the application zone can be removed. According to the invention, a separate predoctoring blade is adapted at a short distance before the actual doctor blade in the machine direction of the web for smoothing out disturbances in the coating mix flow before the mix proceeds up to the actual doctor blade.

Abstract: A method of determining the properties of fiber pulp by separating a batch of a predetermined volume, by measuring its temperature, and by filtering water from it by means of a pressure difference. In accordance with the present invention, substantially all the water is filtered off from the pulp mixture, an air flow is produced through the filtered pulp cake by means of a pressure difference, the resisting effect of the pulp cake on the flow of air is measured, and the pulp cake is weighed, whereafter the properties of the pulp are calculated on the basis of the measurements, from mathematical models developed for this purpose.

Abstract: A method of controlling a grinding process in a pocket grinder in which a batch of wood in at least one pocket is pressed against a rotating grindstone by a pressure shoe displaceable in the pocket. At predetermined intervals an apparently produced amount of pulp is calculated at separate measuring points of the grinding stroke of the pressure shoe and the specific energy consumption calculated on the basis of this amount of pulp is compared to a target figure for the specific energy consumption. The batch grinding is adjusted depending on a deviation of the specific energy consumption from the target figure.