Abstract: The front wall and support arrangement is shaped as a stiff support structure extending across the entire machine width above a slice chamber. The support structure is deformed due to its inherent weight and because of the pressures and temperatures prevailing in the slice chamber. To counteract these deformation effects the support structure is supported by a support carrier of about the same length as the support structure. To attain a substantially lower structural height, the support carrier is arranged relative to the support structure such that an intermediate space prevails between the lower wall of the support structure and the support carrier. This intermediate space accommodates force-generating support elements. Each of the force-generating support elements is provided for only a portion of the surface or area to be supported in the intermediate space.

Abstract: A high-pressure liquid pump for small quantities of liquid such as water to be used in water cutting devices such as for continuously slitting a moving paper web with the pump having an outer annular shell driven in rotation and a pair of hydrodynamic shoes facing the shell with liquid delivery passages therethrough and the shell driven in rotation around the shoes and the shoes mounted on arms with hydraulic pressure members to force the shoes against the shell and control the output pressure of the pump.