Abstract: A method of using a support band in a drying arrangement for a fibrous web. The method including the steps of wrapping the support band around a drying cylinder and cooling a water-impermeable sealing layer located on an outside of the support band. The fibrous web is located between the drying cylinder and the support band. The support band includes a water-impermeable sealing layer and at least one water-absorbing storage layer adjacent the water-impermeable sealing layer. The water-impermeable sealing layer and/or the water-absorbing storage layer being made at least partially of a highly thermally conductive material. The highly thermally conductive material is a metal fabric. The metal fabric being both a part of the water-impermeable sealing layer and a part of the water-absorbing storage layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drying cylinder which is used to dry a paper, cardboard, tissue or other web of fibrous material in a machine for the production and/or for the transformation thereof. The drying cylinder includes a support body and an external cover layer which is heated by a hot fluid. The thermal flow passing through the external cover layer is increased such that at least one cavity is provided between the support body and the external cover layer through which the fluid flows. The external cover layer is predominately so thin that the ratio formed by the thermal conductivity of the material and the thickness of the external cover layer is greater than a threshold value of 3.2 kW/m2K for steel, 30 kW/m2K for aluminum, 18 kW/m2K for bronze alloys, 3.4 kW/m2K for copper and 6.1 kW/m2K for magnesium.

Abstract: A support band for a drying arrangement for drying one of a paper, a board, a tissue and a fibrous web in a papermaking machine for at least one of producing and finishing the same, the support band including a water-impermeable sealing layer and at least one water-absorbing storage layer. The at least one water-absorbing storage layer being adjacent to the water-impermeable sealing layer. At least one of the water-impermeable sealing layer or the water-absorbing storage layer being made, at least partially, of a highly thermally conductive material.

Abstract: A drying and smoothing apparatus for a machine which produces or processes a layer of material, specifically for machines that produce or process paper, cardboard or tissue, the drying and smoothing apparatus including a heated drying and smoothing cylinder having a curved external surface, the drying and smoothing cylinder configured to rotate, a pressurizing jacket encasing a portion of a curved external surface of the drying cylinder to form a pressure zone, a plurality of stacked sealing assemblies configured to seal the pressure zone from an ambient, the plurality of stacked sealing assemblies being supported on a first end and a second end of the curved surface of the drying and smoothing cylinder, wherein each of the plurality of stacked sealing assemblies include at least three seals, the seals pressed inward against the curved external surface of the drying and smoothing cylinder and stacked in sequence axially outward from the pressure zone to the ambient.

Abstract: A dryer arrangement for drying a paper-, cardboard-, tissue- or other fibrous web in a machine for the production and/or conversion of same includes: at least one heated dryer cylinder which is wrapped at least partially by the fibrous web and at least one outer support belt; a pressure hood which impinges the dryer cylinder in the wrap area with a pressurized liquid or gaseous medium, whereby the temperature of the medium is lower than the temperature on the outside of the dryer cylinder in the wrap area; and at least one support belt which is routed over a guide roller immediately prior to and/or after the wrap of the dryer cylinder, the diameter of the dryer cylinder being greater than 1.5 m, the diameter of the guide roller being greater than 400 mm, and the angle of wrap of the support belt being greater than 150°.

Abstract: This invention relates to an arrangement for sealing off a fluid-filled, stationary pressurized compartment from an endlessly circulating, impermeable belt of a machine for producing and/or refining a paper, paperboard, tissue or other fibrous web with the help of at least one seal of the pressurized compartment, whose contact pressure toward the belt is variable, wherein the belt is pressed by the pressurized compartment against a co-driven support element and the fibrous web runs alone or jointly with one or more function belts between the belt and the support element. The sealing is improved in this case, while producing as little leakage and wear as possible, in that the contact pressure of the seal is controlled as a factor of the drive power and/or the drive torque channeled into the belt and/or as a factor of the leakage of fluid through the gap between the seal and the belt and/or as a factor of the pressure of the fluid in the pressurized compartment.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drying roll for drying a fibrous material web, in particular a paper, cardboard or tissue web in a machine for producing and/or finishing said fibrous material web. The roll can be heated on the interior by a gaseous heat transfer medium and the internal surface of its jacket is provided with elevated sections that extend at least radially inwards, the height of said elevations being greater than the average radial thickness of the condensate layer that forms on the internal surface of the cylinder jacket during operation. The roll is equipped with elements that drain condensate from the condensate chamber that incorporates the areas lying between the elevations. The condensate chamber or at least one condensate sub-section is in hydraulic contact with at least one front-end region of the cylinder.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for producing and/or transforming a web of fibrous material, in particular a paper or cardboard web. Said device includes a heatable and rotatable cylinder, in particular a drying cylinder of a drying section, and a cylinder sleeve which can be impinged from the inside by a heating fluid. In order to improve the heating power below the external surface of the cylinder sleeve, at least one channel is provided in order to guide the heating fluid.

Abstract: The invention relates to a drying cylinder which is used to dry a paper, cardboard, tissue or other web of fibrous material in a machine for the production and/or for the transformation thereof. The drying cylinder includes a support body and an external cover layer which is heated by a hot fluid. The thermal flow passing through the external cover layer is increased such that at least one cavity is provided between the support body and the external cover layer through which the fluid flows. The external cover layer is predominately so thin that the ratio formed by the thermal conductivity of the material and the thickness of the external cover layer is greater than a threshold value of 3.2 kW/m2K for steel, 30 kW/m2K for aluminum, 18 kW/m2K for bronze alloys, 3.4 kW/m2K for copper and 6.1 kW/m2K for magnesium.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for producing and/or transforming a web of fibrous material, in particular a paper cardboard web. Said device includes a heatable and rotatable cylinder, in particular a dry cylinder of a dry part, including a cylinder sleeve which can be impinged upon from the inside by a heating fluid. At least one channel is provided in order to guide the heating fluid such that the heating capacity can be improved and the production below the external surface of the cylinder cover can be simplified. The dry cylinder is at least partially modular.

Abstract: A support band for a drying arrangement for drying one of a paper, a board, a tissue and a fibrous web in a papermaking machine for at least one of producing and finishing the same, the support band including a water-impermeable sealing layer and at least one water-absorbing storage layer. The at least one water-absorbing storage layer being adjacent to the water-impermeable sealing layer. At least one of the water-impermeable sealing layer or the water-absorbing storage layer being made, at least partially, of a highly thermally conductive material.

Abstract: This invention relates to an arrangement for sealing off a fluid-filled, stationary pressurized compartment from an endlessly circulating, impermeable belt of a machine for producing and/or refining a paper, paperboard, tissue or other fibrous web with the help of at least one seal of the pressurized compartment, whose contact pressure toward the belt is variable, wherein the belt is pressed by the pressurized compartment against a co-driven support element and the fibrous web runs alone or jointly with one or more function belts between the belt and the support element. The sealing is improved in this case, while producing as little leakage and wear as possible, in that the contact pressure of the seal is controlled as a factor of the drive power and/or the drive torque channeled into the belt and/or as a factor of the leakage of fluid through the gap between the seal and the belt and/or as a factor of the pressure of the fluid in the pressurized compartment.

Abstract: The present invention is a machine for manufacturing a fibrous web from a fibrous suspension, with a sheet forming area that exhibits at least one suction box, which includes a main box with at least one suction box cover that is formed from at least two drainage elements that run laterally to the machine's running direction, border a suction slit, and each has one main body and at least one ceramic. The present invention is identified by the fact that at least; one drainage element and/or one format slide exhibit at least one removable edge piece in which is integrated at least one temperature sensor in order to measure the temperature in the ceramic and/or the temperature at an adhesive point between the ceramic and the associated main body and/or the temperature in the main body. The present invention is furthermore a process and a system for monitoring a drainage element.

Abstract: The present invention is a machine for manufacturing a fibrous web from a fibrous suspension, with a sheet forming area that exhibits at least one suction box, which includes a main box with at least one suction box cover that is formed from at least two drainage elements that run laterally to the machine's running direction, border a suction slit, and each has one main body and at least one ceramic. The present invention is identified by the fact that at least one drainage element and/or one format slide exhibit at least one removable edge piece in which is integrated at least one temperature sensor in order to measure the temperature in the ceramic and/or the temperature at an adhesive point between the ceramic and the associated main body and/or the temperature in the main body. The present invention is furthermore a process and a system for monitoring a drainage element.

Abstract: The present invention is a machine for manufacturing a fibrous web from a fibrous suspension, with a sheet forming area that exhibits at least one suction box, which includes a main box with at least one suction box cover that is formed from at least two drainage elements that run laterally to the machine's running direction, border a suction slit, and each has one main body and at least one ceramic. The present invention is identified by the fact that at least one drainage element and/or one format slide exhibit at least one removable edge piece in which is integrated at least one temperature sensor in order to measure the temperature in the ceramic and/or the temperature at an adhesive point between the ceramic and the associated main body and/or the temperature in the main body. The present invention is furthermore a process and a system for monitoring a drainage element.

Abstract: The present invention is a machine for manufacturing a fibrous web from a fibrous suspension, with a sheet forming area that exhibits at least one suction box, which includes a main box with at least one suction box cover that is formed from at least two drainage elements that run laterally to the machine's running direction, border a suction slit, and each has one main body and at least one ceramic. The present invention is identified by the fact that at least one drainage element and/or one format slide exhibit at least one removable edge piece in which is integrated at least one temperature sensor in order to measure the temperature in the ceramic and/or the temperature at an adhesive point between the ceramic and the associated main body and/or the temperature in the main body. The present invention is furthermore a process and a system for monitoring a drainage element.