Patents by Inventor Pertti Heikkila

Pertti Heikkila has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5299364
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement of nozzles with negative pressure intended for the treatment of webs. A nozzle directs a drying and supporting gas flow at the web and which has a box construction, and a nozzle space formed at one side of the nozzle. The nozzle space is provided with a nozzle slot defined by nozzle walls. One of the walls operates as a curved guide face which is fitted to turn the gas flow passed out of the nozzle slot, based on the Coanda effect, so as to make it parallel to the carrier face formed on the top face of the nozzle. At least one second nozzle slot is provided at a distance before said first nozzle slot, in the running direction of the web. A flow guiding fitted in connection with the second nozzle slot is arranged so that the flow has a substantially large velocity component perpendicular to the direction of running of the web. The velocity component parallel to the plane of running of the web of the flow passed out of the second nozzle slot is larger than zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Valmet Paper Machinery Inc.
    Inventors: Pertti Heikkila, Jaakko Rintanen
  • Patent number: 5199623
    Abstract: A device for contact-free supporting, turning, and spreading of a paper web, comprises a face (K) curved in accordance with the turning of the web (W), in connection with which face (K) the web (W) runs supported by air blown in between the face (K) and the web (W). The nozzle members in the device comprise guide faces (28a, 28b) and carrier faces (27, 37) placed in connection with the guide faces, air being blown through nozzle slots (26a,26b,36) in the nozzle members, transverse to the direction of running of the web (W), onto the carrier faces (27,37). The nozzle slots (26a,26b,36) are, from one side, defined by the guide faces (28,28b,38). The air-supported face (K) in the device is defined by carrier faces (27,37) substantially parallel to the run of the web (W) to be supported, provided at float-nozzle boxes (20) and at foil-nozzle boxes (30). In the direction of running of the web (W), the first nozzle box and the last nozzle box are float-nozzle boxes (20), in which the nozzles (26a,26b) that flow (F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1991
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1993
    Assignee: Valmet Paper Machinery Inc.
    Inventors: Raimo Rajala, Jukka Parvinen, Bertel Karlstedt, Pertti Heikkila, Ilkka Jokioinen
  • Patent number: 5163236
    Abstract: A method for use in web drying apparatus, such as a drying section of a coating or paper machine which includes drying cylinders against the outer mantles of which a web to be dried is pressed in direct contact, and wherein the web is carried from one drying cylinder to the next supported on a wire which passes from a drying cylinder over an intermediate leading cyclinder where the web is carried on the outer side of the wire out of direct contact with an outer mantle of the leading cylinder, and then to the next drying cylinder, comprises the steps of maintaining a negative pressure in a pocket space defined between a pair of successive drying cylinders and the web-supporting wire for suctioning the web into contact with the wire as it runs from one drying cylinder to the intermediate leading cylinder and from the intermediate leading cylinder to the next drying cylinder, and providing the leading cylinder with a perforated outer mantle and maintaining a negative pressure within the interior of the outer man
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1992
    Assignee: Valmet Paper Machinery Inc.
    Inventor: Pertti Heikkila
  • Patent number: 4936025
    Abstract: Method and device in a drying of a moving web, in which the web is passed while being supported free of contact through various drying gaps in which the web is dried by infrared radiation and air blowing. The web is passed into an infrared treatment gap in which infrared radiation is applied to the same, preferably from gas-operated infrared-radiation elements. Cooling air of the infrared unit is blown into the treatment gap and towards the web. After the infrared treatment gap, the web is immediately passed into an air drying gap within which the web is dried by way of air blowings which, at the same time, support the web free of contact. The cooling air and possibly combustion gases from the infrared unit are passed through a web inlet opening of the airborne web dryer unit into an interior of the box of the airborne unit to constitute part of its circulating air. The cooling air required by the infrared unit is passed into the infrared unit out of a pressure compartment of the airborne unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1990
    Assignee: Valmet Paper Machinery Inc.
    Inventor: Pertti Heikkila
  • Patent number: 4899463
    Abstract: Method and device in a cylinder dryer of a paper machine, in which a paper web is guided in connection with upper cylinders by using an upper wire and in connection with lower cylinders by using a lower wire. The wires are guided by faces of the respective drying cylinders and by guide rolls situated in spaces between the cylinders so that on an upper line of cylinders the web is pressed by the upper wire into direct drying contact with the faces of the upper cylinders, and the web is pressed by the lower wire into the faces of the lower cylinders in a lower line of the cylinders. In the method and in the device, the web is passed from one line of cylinders to the other over a certain distance as an open draw. A drying-air blowing is directed at the drying wires within an area of a line at which the respective drying wires are detached from the respective drying cylinders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Valmet Paper Machinery Inc.
    Inventors: Pertti Heikkila, Markku Karlsson, Hannu Kokkala
  • Patent number: 4576525
    Abstract: A method for performing rock bolting, according to which a cementing agent is fed into a hole drilled into the rock, whereupon a bolt is fitted into the drill hole for supporting the rock. In order to permit use of a rapidly hardening cementing agent and mechanization of the bolting, a number of capsules (16) are fed to the bottom of the drill hole, which capsules contain a preferably two-component cementing agent which hardens rapidly when the components are mixed together, and a conventional cementing agent (12) hardening slowly and/or protecting the bolt against corrosion is fed into the remaining portion of the drill hole by means of a feeding pipe (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Oy Tampella AB
    Inventors: Onni Issakainen, Pertti Heikkila