Abstract: Process and device for drying a moving web. The process includes vaporizing moisture in the web, creating a blanket of compressed air along a first surface of the web, and the blanket of compressed air directing the vaporized moisture in a direction from the first surface toward a second surface of the web that faces away from said blanket of compressed air.

Abstract: Dryer section of a machine for at least one of producing and processing a web of material. The dryer section includes at least one heatable drying cylinder having a circumference, at least a part the circumference adapted to be surrounded by the material web, at least one support band arranged to surround the at least a part of the circumference, and a sealing band arranged to surround the at least a part of the circumference. An overpressure cap is arranged to receive one of a liquid and gaseous medium and is adapted to apply a pressurized one of the liquid and gaseous medium on the at least one drying cylinder. A temperature of the medium is lower than a temperature on an outside of the part of the circumference. At least one second support band is arranged around the at least one drying cylinder and is positioned between the at least one support band and the sealing band, wherein the at least one second support band has a coarser structure than the at least one support band.

Abstract: A machining system has a frame forming a working station and a mounting plate movable relative to the frame in and adjacent the station in a first main direction, in a second direction transverse to the main direction, and in a third direction transverse to the first and second directions. A machine tool head is mounted on the mounting plate and a plurality of struts have outer ends swiveled on the mounting plate and extending inward away from the plate. A mechanism acting on the struts moves the plate and tool head in the three directions. A main panel is movable only in the first and second directions and the head is mounted in the panel for movement relative thereto only in the third direction. In addition a pair of side panels of changeable length each have an inner edge connected along a respective inner axis parallel to the third direction to a respective outer edge of the main panel and a respective outer edge connected at a respective outer axis parallel to the third direction on the frame.

Abstract: Condensation device and suction element including a condensation device for machines for manufacturing and refining a fibrous material web. The condensation device includes at least one condensation element positioned in a region of at least one of steam formation and accumulation and a condensate receptacle. The suction element includes a hollow body coupled to a vacuum source. The hollow body is adapted to guide a transport belt carrying a moist and heated web. The suction element also includes at least one opening positioned to face the transport belt, at least one condensation element, and at least one condensate receptacle. The at least one condensation element and the at least one condensate receptacle are positioned within the hollow body.

Abstract: A process for operating a press section for producing a fibrous material web, with a nip that is elongated in the direction of web travel that includes an inlet zone, a main pressing zone, and an outlet zone, and where a pressure gradient of pressure p exerted in the main pressing zone of the nip is selected as a function of whether the fibrous material web entering in the nip has an average or high dry matter content, on the one hand, or a low dry matter content, on the other hand.

Abstract: Dryer section of a machine for manufacturing a material sheet. The dryer section may include at least one dryer cylinder, a plurality of sheet guide rolls, a transport belt for guiding the material sheet in a meandering manner around the at least one dryer cylinder and the plurality of sheet guide rolls, and threads surrounding at least one of the at least one dryer cylinder and the plurality of sheet guide rolls. The threads may be positioned between the material sheet and a surface of the at least one of the at least one dryer cylinder and the plurality of sheet guide rolls.

Abstract: Suction device for use in a machine for producing a sheet and a method to vacuum a web section of a paper machine. The suction device includes a contact surface to place on the web section and a suction box. The suction box is designed to have a vacuum pressure applied to drain the web section. The suction device further includes a control device and a release mechanism or an adjustment mechanism for releasing the suction box from the web section while the vacuum pressure is applied or thereafter so that the web section is guided along the contact surface with less friction and without the web section detaching from the contact device. A method to suction a web section in a paper machine including arranging a contact surface a suction device on the web section and applying a vacuum pressure to the suction device to vacuum the web section.

Abstract: Device for guiding a paper sheet on a belt that includes first air guidance surfaces located on a paper sheet guiding side of the belt. The first air guidance surfaces may be positioned to create a dynamic pressure between the first air guidance surfaces and the paper sheet and to press the paper sheet into the belt.

Abstract: A suction device for a machine to produce a fibrous pulp web is provided that includes a suction unit extending transverse to a web run direction over a width of the web, a vacuum source coupled to the end of the suction unit, and a plurality of suction openings distributed over the web width, where the plurality of suction openings form an entire suction zone extending over the width of the web, and where the entire suction zone includes a plurality of partial suction zones successively arranged transverse to the web run direction.

Abstract: A machine and method for producing a material web, e.g., a paper or cardboard web. The machine includes a dryer group having a plurality of dryer cylinders and web guide rolls. A dryer (or guide) belt may guide the material web around the dryer cylinders and web guide rolls in a meandering or winding path. The dryer group may include a cooling device that cools the dryer belt by exerting an air current on the dryer belt after separation from the material web. The method may include drying the material web in a region of the dryer group in which the material web is held and guided between the dryer belt and each drying cylinder, and substantially preventing drying of the material web in a region of the dryer group in which the material web is transferred from one drying cylinder onto a subsequent one.

Abstract: A load panel for the luggage area of a motor vehicle, in particular a passenger car, runs on three or more rollers and may be pulled out from the trunk at least partially, approximately parallel to the vehicle bottom. In order to increase crash safety while offering a high load-bearing capacity of the load panel, the proposal is put forward that the panel have at least one predefined folding line running transversely to the direction of vehicle motion and that at least one securing device be provided to prevent the retracted panel from moving forwardly relative to the bottom of the vehicle.

Abstract: Press device for treating a material web that may includes an impermeable press element having a press face, an opposing element, and a nip formed between the press element and the opposing element. The press device may also include a felt belt that guides the material web through the nip and that is positioned between the material web and the opposing element. The material web may be separated from the press element after leaving the nip because the press element may further include at least one of grooves and holes formed in the press face that close in the nip due to pressing forces to form a smooth surface, and that open after leaving the nip.

Abstract: The invention relates to a lining element for vehicles, which is designed to protect the passengers and has an essentially rigid support on which is provided an inflatable cushion, and a trim layer on the side of the support facing the interior. A simple solution is achieved by providing that the support be gas-tight and that the trim layer have a gas-tight finish and be releasably attached to a gas-tight coating over a given area.

Abstract: A press roller having a stationary carrier and a roll jacket which rotates past the support surface of the stationary carrier. A support element on the carrier, like a shoe, is pressed against the inside circumferential surface of the roll jacket by a pressure space that is beneath and acts upon the support element to press it toward the roller jacket. The support surface is at least partially hydrodynamically lubricated at the support surface of the support element. The support surface has at least one row and perhaps a plurality of rows that extend in the direction of the press roller axis comprised of a plurality of oil feed points which are separated from one another along the roller axis. The oil feed points are supplied at least partially independently of the pressure space. Each oil feed point comprises a throttling bore. One or more distribution channels in the support element deliver oil to the bores or to groups of the bores.

Abstract: The dryer section of a machine for manufacturing a paper web includes at least one and more usually a plurality of heatable drying cylinders, each of which is wrapped over a part of its circumferential surface by the web of material to be dried. A support belt is guided by guide rolls to wrap over a part of the circumference of each of the drying cylinders and over the web. A pressing device presses against the support belt to press the web of material against the drying cylinder. That pressing device may comprise a pressure box outside the support belt to which air or steam pressure is applied. The pressure box may include several zones either along the web path or transverse to the web path permitting different pressures to be applied. The pressing device may alternately comprise a plurality of pressing rolls extending transversely to the web axis and parallel to the drying cylinder axis and being biased against the support belt, e.g.

Abstract: The invention concerns a press section for a paper machine with at least two presses which are successively passed by a web to be dewatered, the web alternately making contact with a press felt and a closed shell surface of a press roll. The first press is fashioned as a single-felted shoe press and configured such that the one web side will make contact with a first smooth press element. The second press is fashioned single-felted as well and configured such that the other web side makes contact with a second, smooth press element. A web transport system is provided between each two adjacent presses. The invention is characterized in that the web transport system features a guide roll with smooth shell surface serving to pick up the web, at least during normal operation, directly from the smooth press element of the first press.

Abstract: The press section of a paper machine for thin papers has the following characteristics: a pressing gap is formed by a rotary, smooth surface (1) in contact with the paper and by a felted pressing roll (3); the smooth surface (1) transfers the paper web downstream of the pressing gap to a heatable roll (4) without free pulling of the paper web. The invention is characterized in that the smooth surface (1) is the outer surface of a tubular roll with dimensionally stiff roll sleeve.

Abstract: The invention provides a roll for a papermaking machine, comprising at least one strip element which extends substantially in the axial direction of the roll and which is supported, substantially against radial forces, by a plurality of supporting elements. The supporting elements comprise adjusting means by means of which a predetermined profile of the bending curve of the strip element can be adjusted in response to a given outer load. When the roll is configured as a shoe press roll, then the strip element may also be directly coupled with the press shoe. It is possible in this way, in the case of shoe press rolls, to ensure safe development of a hydrodynamic lubricating wedge and, in the case of other rolls, to adjust a desired profile of the bending curve of the strip element, under a given outer load.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a paper machine press section for dewatering a web. The press section includes at least one water and air impermeable belt for transfer or transport of the web, and a cutoff device for cutting off at least one edge strip from the transferred or transported web. At least one pickup device is provided for removing the cutoff strip from the belt. The pickup device is configured to effect a pivoting of the cutoff edge strip about two separate axes, whereby the cutoff edge strip is carried away generally sideways relative to and from the belt. In another embodiment, the water and air impermeable belt is replaced with a water and air impermeable roll.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a paper machine for the production of a fiber web, including a headbox for forming the fiber web. Disposed adjacent the headbox is either a dewatering unit, e.g., a dewatering cylinder, a double wire former or a four-drinier wire section. Also provided are at least one press unit for dewatering the fiber web, a tissue drying cylinder for finish drying the fiber web, a device for fiber web pickup from the tissue drying cylinder (Yankee cylinder), e.g., a creping doctor or a Clupak device, and a carrier belt for carrying the fiber web. At least one of the press units is configured as a shoe press for drying the fiber web, and includes a device for immediately separating the fiber web from a press felt after at least one press pass. The belt is preferably water impermeable, and an adhesion force between the water impermeable belt and the fiber web is greater than an adhesion force between the press felt and the fiber web.