Patents by Inventor Antti Heikkinen

Antti Heikkinen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6698342
    Abstract: A method for a multi-roll calender and a multi-roll calender for controlling the moisture gradient of a fibrous web and for enabling the manufacture of high quality paper grades, such as WFC, LWC-roto and SC-A by on- and off-line calendering. An on- or off-line multi-roll calender formed of separate sets of rolls is used for calendering, and the fibrous web (W) is subjected to intermediate moistening between the sets of rolls (A, B).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Antti Heikkinen, Pekka Linnonmaa
  • Publication number: 20040025720
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for controlling evaporation and moisture in a multinip calender (10) when a continuous fibrous web (W) is calendered in calendering nips (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) placed one after the other before the fibrous web is wound on a reel-up/winder (9). It is characteristic of the invention that. with a view to making the net evaporation from and the final moisture content of the web (W) constant when the running situations in the calender (10) change, the web is passed in the calender from the outlet of at least one nip into an air-float chamber (20) of the turning airborne type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Antti Heikkinen, Pekka Linnonmaa, Reijo Pietikainen
  • Publication number: 20040020620
    Abstract: In a paper/board or finishing/converting machine, a calender (1) comprises a number of rolls (2, 3) formed into a roll stack, and a number of lift-out rolls (4), which are arranged in such a way that the web (W) being treated travels from one calender (1) nip (N) to another via a lift-out roll (4). Between the calender (1) roll (2, 3) and the lift-out roll (4), the web (W) being treated is supported by means of at least one closing member (5, 5′, 6) not extending through the nip (N), which closing member is formed by a belt, wire or metal wire (7), which is arranged to travel via two or more guide rolls (4, 8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Pekka Linnonmaa, Antti Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 6569288
    Abstract: In the method for manufacturing surface-treated printing paper, a paper web is first dried down to a target moisture of the surface treatment, and it is wetted again to the target moisture before the surface treatment. The rewetting to the target moisture is conducted on the web running to the surface treatment before a device effecting the surface treatment of the web, as seen in the travel direction of the web. Before re-wetting, the moisture profile of the web is adjusted in the drying section by wetting the web at a point which is located before the area of the heavy shrinkage (cd shrinkage area) in the travel direction of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Pekka Linnonmaa, Antti Heikkinen
  • Publication number: 20030089248
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for calendering a paper or board web, in which method the web (W) is calendered in at least one calendering nip (N1-N8), and in which method the web (W) is moisturized before calendering. In the method, the web (W) is moisturized by means of moisturization (20; 21) very close before at least one calendering nip (N1, N5). The invention also relates to a calender for calendering a paper or board web comprising at least one calendering nip (N1-N8) and at least one device for moisturizing the web (W). The device for moisturizing the web (W) is a moisturizing device (20; 21) and that the moisturizing device (20; 21) is placed very close before or in at least one calendering nip (N1, N5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2002
    Publication date: May 15, 2003
    Inventors: Pekka Linnonmaa, Antti Heikkinen, Markku Kyytsonen, Ville Vuorijarvi, Pekka Moisio
  • Patent number: 6440271
    Abstract: In the method in moistening of a web, water is applied with a wetting device (2) in a predetermined point on the surface of a paper web (W) or the like passing by the point, and the web is thereafter passed to a calender (C). The liquid is applied at such an early stage that before the surface treatment, the fibres exposed to wetting in the paper web (W) or the like have the time to absorb it at least 80% of the amount of liquid they are capable of absorbing. The distance travelled by the web between the drying section and the calender is increased with rolls (1) which guide the web (W) along a winding path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Antti Heikkinen, Mikko Tani
  • Patent number: 6401355
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing calendered paper in which the paper is calendered after drying. The paper is dried (D) sown to a moisture lower that the target moisture of calendering. The paper is run via wetting (1) to calendering, wherein at least one of the surface layer of the paper is wetted in the wetting in such that the moistening water is absorbed in the surface layer of the paper while at lest the central part remains substantially dry. From the paper wetted at least on one of its sides, gradient paper is manufactured by means of gradient calendering by restricting the paper-molding effect of the calender to the wetted surface layer in such a way that at least the paper is elastically restored substantially in its original state, whereafter the obtained gradient paper is reeled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Pekka Linnonmaa, Antti Heikkinen
  • Patent number: 6264792
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing calendered paper by an on-line manufacturing system comprising at least a paper machine and a multi-nip calender. The method comprises following steps: removing water from a formed paper web by pressing, drying the pressed paper web by at least one dryer, calendering the dried web by the multi-nip calender, measuring a cross-machine moisture profile or a variable relative thereto, and altering the moisture of the web so that the moisture profile of the web in the cross-direction is even when the web enters the first nip of the calender.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventors: Harri Kuosa, Markku Kyytsönen, Juhani Partanen, Kari Sipi, Eero Suomi, Antti Heikkinen, Mikko Tani, Juha Lipponen, Mika Tammenoja, Kari Juppi