Abstract: Apparatus which winds a running web onto a driven takeup reel employs a distancing roller which is spaced apart from the outermost convolution of growing roll on the reel and is moved away from the reel at a rate which is proportional to the rate of growth of the roll so that its spacing from the outermost convolution of the roll remains unchanged. A suction generating device is provided to evacuate air from a substantially gusset-shaped space which is defined by the outermost convolution of the growing roll and the web portion which advances from the distancing roller to the roll. This reduces the likelihood of entrapment of air between neighboring convolutions of the roll on the takeup reel.

Abstract: A roll for use in calenders or like machines has a hollow cylindrical shell which spacedly surrounds a carrier and whose internal surface engages the external surfaces of several bearing elements each of which is biased against the shell by at least one hydraulic pressure generating device having a cylinder on the carrier or on the bearing element, a piston on the bearing element or on the carrier, and an annular seal recessed into the cylinder and engaging the periphery of the piston. The bearing elements can reciprocate in the radial direction of the shell as well as pivot about axes which are parallel with or normal to the axis of the shell due to the provision of swivelling joints having sockets machined into the bottom faces of cylinders in the respective cylinder chambers and spherical heads extending into the associated sockets and having shanks secured to the end faces of the respective pistons, or vice versa.

Abstract: A calender wherein the bearings for the end portions of the uppermost roll carry pressure transducers in the form of inflatable plenum chambers or hydraulic cylinder and piston units operable to bear against the lower end faces of vertical feed screws which are axially movably mounted in the support to move the bearings through distances of up to 800 mm. The pressure transducers can shift the bearings for the uppermost roll through distances of up to 25 mm, and they are movable transversely of the respective feed screws or vice versa to compensate for manufacturing tolerances, wear and/or unequal stresses. The lowermost roll is normally held at a predetermined level by a pair of fluid-operated motors which urge the respective bearings against the undersides of stops provided therefor on the support.

Abstract: A calender roll whose shell consists of ferromagnetic material is heated by several groups of electromagnets which are mounted within the shell on a stationary carrier and whose pole shoes are adjacent to the internal surface of the shell. The temperature of the external surface of the shell is monitored at several locations as considered in the axial direction of the roll, and the resulting signals are compared with reference signals denoting the optimum or desired temperatures at such locations. Signals denoting the differences between the actual temperature signals and desired temperature signals are used to regulate the characteristics of electric current which is supplied to the windings of the electromagnets. Each electromagnet of each group can be regulated independently of all other electromagnets. Alternatively, two or more electromagnets of each group or entire groups of electromagnets may be regulated simultaneously. Additional electromagnets are provided to heat the end portions of the shell.

Abstract: A calender roll wherein a stationary shaft is spacedly surrounded by a cylindrical shell and carries a row of bearing elements which are movable by pairs of cylinder and piston units and have convex surfaces formed with pairs of fluid-filled pockets adjacent to the internal surface of the shell. Each pocket receives pressurized hydraulic fluid from the cylinder chamber of a different unit, and the cylinder and piston units for each bearing element are adjacent to each other, as considered in the circumferential direction of the shell. Those portions of the pockets which are remotest from a symmetry plane including the axis of the shell and extending between the pockets of each pair are bounded by arcuate lands. The lands which extend circumferentially of the shell are parallel to each other, and the pockets of each pair are separated from each other by a land which is halved by the symmetry plane.

Abstract: A calender wherein the uppermost and lowermost rolls of the roll train have hollow cylindrical members with inserts which cooperate with corresponding shaft-like carriers to confine the cylindrical members to vertical movements relative to their carriers. The end portions of the carriers are mounted in bearings which are movable along vertical guides in the stand of the calender. The cylindrical members contain rows of hydraulic cylinder and piston units which urge the cylindrical members against the neighboring rolls of the roll train, and the inserts in one of the cylindrical members cooperate with the corresponding carrier to hold the respective cylindrical member against movement from a fixed end position which the cylindrical member assumes when the calender is in use.

Abstract: A calender wherein the lowermost roll of the roll train has a hollow cylindrical member spacedly surrounding a shaft-like carrier whose end portions are mounted in bearings movable up and down along guide rails on the stand. The end portions of the cylindrical member contain inserts serving to confine the cylindrical member to vertical reciprocatory movements relative to the carrier. The cylindrical member further contains a battery of cylinder and piston units which maintain the cylindrical member in an upper end position relative to the carrier. Additional cylinder and piston units maintain the carrier in an upper end position relative to the stand by urging shoulders which are provided on the bearings against stationary stops on the stand.

Abstract: A calender roll has a hollow cylinder which surrounds or is surrounded by a stationary support. That surface of the support which faces the cylinder has circumferential and axially parallel grooves for the coils of electromagnets which are energizable independently of each other or simultaneously and serve to prevent flexing and/or other deformation of the cylinder when the latter rotates and contacts a running web of paper, textile material or metallic or plastic foil. Those sections of the aforementioned surface of the stationary support which are surrounded by the coils constitute portions of circumferentially extending arcuate or annular pole faces and the polarity of each circumferentially extending pole face is constant. However, the polarities of neighboring pole faces the different, i.e., pole faces which constitute south and north poles alternate with each other, as considered in the axial direction of the calender roll.

Abstract: A calender wherein the end portions of the lowermost roll of the roll train was mounted for movement along vertical guide rails on the stand. The lowermost roll is movable upwardly by two upright hydrostatic cylinder and piston units with plungers whose axes are coplanar with the axis of the lowermost roll. When the cylinder and piston units lift the lowermost roll to operative position, shoulders on the bearings abut against stationary stops on the stand and the stops are disposed only at one side of the common plane of the aforementioned axes so that the bearings tend to jam against the adjacent portions of the guide rails as soon as the shoulders engage the respective stops. The jamming action is enhanced if the stops are remote from the aforementioned plane and if the guide rails have T-shaped heads which are slidable in complementary T-shaped grooves of the bearings. The stops are installed at the level of the axis of the lowermost roll.

Abstract: A rotary pressure applying roll which defines with a parallel complementary roll a nip for a running web of paper, textile or other flexible sheet material in a calender or the like has a cylindrical shell surrounding a stationary carrier in the form of a rigid shaft. A bearing element is installed between the shell and the carrier and several hydraulic pressure generating devices are mounted between the carrier and the bearing element to urge the latter against the internal surface of the shell. The pressure generating devices are spaced apart from each other, as considered in the circumferential direction of the shell, and the cylinder chamber of each such device can receive pressurized hydraulic fluid at a different pressure. The axis of a main pressure generating device is normally located in the common plane of the axes of the shell and of the complementary roll.

Abstract: The lowermost roll of a row of superimposed rolls in the stand of a calender is movable downwardly at a continuously increasing speed through a first distance which suffices to increase the width of clearances between neighboring rolls in the event of breakage of the running web so that the rolls cannot damage each other, and thereupon through a second distance which is at least 50 percent of the first distance. The lowermost roll is braked only during movement through the second distance so that the first distance can be covered, under the action of gravity alone or under the action of gravity plus the action of several double-acting hydraulic cylinders, within a fraction of the time which is required for adequate separation of rolls in a calendar wherein the lowermost roll must be braked during travel through the first distance.

Abstract: A roll which can be used in a calender to bear upon a web of textile material, paper or the like while the web travels between the peripheral surface of a floating shell of the roll and a counterroll. The shell surrounds a non-rotatable shaft which carries several rows of discrete electromagnets extending in parallelism with the axis of the shaft and along an arc of at least 200 degrees, as considered in the circumferential direction of the shaft. The electromagnets can be energized to a different extent so as to subject the magnetizable material of the shell to forces of different magnitude and to thus counteract the tendency of the shell to undergo deformation in response to the action of forces which act radially of the shell or which tend to impart to the shell vibratory movements. Additional electromagnets can be provided to cooperate with a radially inwardly extending flange at one end of the shell to hold the latter against excessive movements from an optimum axial position.

Abstract: A rotary cylinder for use in a calender has a roller with a hollow cylindrical sleeve and two trunnions secured to the end portions of the sleeve. The roller contains a coaxial displacing component which defines with the sleeve an annular clearance for the flow of a cooling or heating fluid, such fluid being admitted through one of the trunnions and being evacuated through the one or the other trunnion. One or more prestressed elastic cushions are interposed between the displacing component and the roller to compensate for and to counteract eventual radial and or axial movements of a portion of or the entire displacing component as a result or unequal heating or cooling of the roller and displacing component. A single cushion may constitute a hollow conical frustum or a hollow cylinder. If the roller contains several cushions, such cushions may constitute discrete disks or ribs which are integral with the displacing component and contact the internal surface of the sleeve.