Abstract: A method of and arrangement for resisting formation of undulations in a fiber/water mixture supplied onto a forming wire at an open planar wire section of a paper-making machine include establishing over the wire an air curtain extending over the full breadth thereof, in the region of which the air mass upon the wire is set in motion. The direction of movement of the air mass is the same as the traveling direction of the wire, and the velocity of the air substantially equals the speed of the wire. The air curtain commences on the planar wire section, in the machine direction, only at a given distance from a lip slice of a headbox of the machine, and the air curtain extends along the traveling direction of the web over the planar wire section over a given distance.

Abstract: In the drying section of a paper machine, apparatus for preventing conditions tending to deteriorate the contact between a web and a supporting fabric which carries the web from a drying cylinder in one line to a drying cylinder in another line and, in particular, for preventing a positive pressure from being generated in the narrowing gaps defined by the surfaces of the drying cylinders and the web supporting fabric as it approaches and/or moves away from the drying cylinder. The apparatus includes a blow box extending transversely substantially over the width of the web, the blow box including at least two transversely extending gas discharge slots between which a substantially planar carrying surface is provided in opposed, parallel relationship to the web carrying fabric and spaced a distance therefrom which is at least twice, and preferably ten to thirty times, as large as the width of a gas discharge slot.