Abstract: A hollow cylindrical dryer drum having an outer surface with a working face for heat drying a traveling paper web with a plurality of axially extending bars on the inner surface of the drum and an annular ring dam positioned against the ends of the bars and spaced from one end of the drum to provide a condensate removal channel between the end of the drum and the ring.

Abstract: A fibrous web is continuously formed between inner and outer endless foraminous forming belts between which stock slurry is fed from a headbox, the belts being held in tension as they wrap a first convexly curved forming run surface from which the outer belt is separated immediately following the forming run, the inner belt carrying the wet web then running over a second convexly curved surface from the offrunning side of which the inner belt is then separated and a porous pickoff belt is pressed by a substantial convex area of an imperforate pickup roll against the wet web on the inner belt, the inner belt being guided to diverge from the pickoff belt commencing at the off-running end of the convex area of contact of the pickup roll and the wet web being forced to adhere to the pickoff belt by the vacuum action of the imperforate surface of the pickup roll. By multiplication of the apparatus a multiply web can be formed.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for making a paper web with a traveling fourdrinier wire and a looped mating wire pressed into the fourdrinier wire along a forming run and a headbox with a slice for delivering stock at the head end of the forming run, the mating wire being supported on rotatable rolls fixedly carried on a frame with the frame supported for pivotal shifting movement about an axis at right angles to the plane of the fourdrinier wire so that the entire carrying unit for the mating wire is shifted to cause it to track properly.

Abstract: A headbox for a paper making machine having a slice chamber with a vertical tube bank supplying the slice chamber and a distributor chamber behind the tube chamber tapering from a larger size to one side of the machine to a smaller size at the other side of the machine with the lower floor of the header chamber sloping upwardly and a pivotal cover extending over the tube bank and header chamber openable for access to the tube bank and header chamber.

Abstract: Multi-ply web forming stock jets directed through a slice from a single headbox into a forming zone between converging forming surfaces in a papermaking machine are maintained separated for a sufficient interval after leaving the slice opening to permit drainage and partial ply formation of the stock delivered by one of the stock jets to one of the forming surfaces before the stock in a second of the stock jets joins in fiber felting laminar relation with the contiguous surface of the partially formed ply. Flexible divider sheet members divide the slice chamber of a headbox into separate flow passages aligned respectively with different ones of headbox subchambers to receive streams of the stock from the respective subchambers and maintain the streams separated, and the flexible members extend a substantial distance out of the slice opening in the direction of flow of the stock jets to maintain stock jets separated for a sufficient interval after leaving the slice opening.

Abstract: A web spreading and guiding device to maintain a running paper sheet making foraminous web comprising a wire or pick-up felt transversely taut and straight running in a papermaking machine, has a pair of free running pneumatic tires having their treads in nipping relation to one another to engage a margin of the web in the nip, the tires being carried by an arm which is pivotally biased to effect transverse web stretching bias of the tires on the web margin running through the nip. Generally one of the devices will be mounted to act on one margin of the web and another of the devices on the opposite margin of the web and the devices being cooperatively biased to stretch the web in opposite directions. Means are provided to control the tire bias for correcting any deviations of the web from a straight running path.

Abstract: Thin plastic flexible trailing element sheets which divide the slice chamber of a papermaking machine headbox into substantially uniform turbulence channels between the slice opening and the flow divider plate between the slice chamber and the preslice chamber of the headbox, are anchored to the plate by means of rods having greater coefficient of thermal expansion and maintain the sheets substantially free from wrinkling in the presence of heated paper stock.

Abstract: A method and mechanism including a housing having a screening chamber therein with a cylindrical screen and foils rotating past the surface of the screen with the housing having circumferentially spaced outlets which are at nonuniform circumferential locations, are different in number than the foils, and lead to a common manifold which will lead to a paper machine headbox. An air dome is at one end of the chamber.

Abstract: At least one channel in a multi-channel paper machine distributor is maintained in flow velocity slave relation to another of the channels by monitoring the velocity with a pressure transducer of stock flow through the latter channel and by such monitoring controlling the stock velocity in the slave channel.

Abstract: A fiber classifying mechanism and method including a first chamber having an inlet for receiving fibers to be classified carried in a fluid suspension and having an outlet from the same chamber. A second chamber receives a controlled split of flow from the first chamber through a screen between the chambers having openings of a size to pass reject fibers. Means are provided for controlling the split of flow by a valve in the outlets from the respective chambers so as to control the flow through the screen. A foil moves past the screen to agitate fibers collected on the surface of the screen.

Abstract: A method and mechanism for compensating for pressure fluctuations in a paper machine stock flow system for conducting stock from a supply pump to a slice opening including providing a flexible diaphragm as one wall of the stock conduit with the diaphragm dampening pressure variations and being supported on its opposite side by air in an air chamber divided into compartments with a support compartment immediately opposite the diaphragm and a supply compartment behind the support compartment and the compartments divided by an attenuator wall. Air is supplied continuously at a reference pressure to the supply compartment, and a relief valve is positioned in the support compartment with the port opened or closed by movement of the diaphragm so that air is bled from the support compartment as the diaphragm moves toward the stock conduit with a drop of pressure therein.

Abstract: Cable means are provided for controlling internal tension in web rolls during winding thereof onto cores with the aid of winding drums. According to the method of utilizing cable means for this purpose, the web rolls are partially wound between the winding drums and a rider roll, the rider roll being backed off from the web rolls after they have attained partial diameter, and during continuation of the winding of the web rolls to full diameter the load-relieving lift is applied to the web rolls through their cores by the cable means.

Abstract: A double felted dryer arrangement wherein a web to be dried is held between the felts and guided onto the surface of a foraminous dryer roll whereupon the outermost felt is guided away from the dryer and directed over a hot air blower mounted over the now exposed web carried on the innermost felt on the dryer shell surface. The hot air blowing on the web is complimented by an opposed vacuum chamber within the roll shell to promote improved through air drying web and web stabilization.

Abstract: A method of and means for controlling internal tension in web rolls during winding thereof onto cores with the aid of winding drums, comprises partially winding the web rolls between the winding drums and a rider roll, backing off the rider roll from the web rolls after they have attained partial diameter, and during continuance of the winding of the web rolls to full diameter applying load-relieving lift to the web rolls through their cores. A lifting device is correlated with the operation of a winder.