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: Kneading device for high-consistency fiber pulp that includes at least two substantially rotationally symmetrical and coaxial kneading machines, that are movable relative to each other. The kneading machines may include teeth in ring-shaped tooth rows forming ring shaped gaps between the tooth rows and positioned relative to one another such that at least one tooth row of one of the at least two kneading machines reaches into the ring-shaped gaps of an other of the at least two kneading machines. A face side of at least a portion of the teeth may include an angled surface for diverting the fiber pulp in a transport direction, provided by a throughput of a flow of the fiber pulp through the kneading device and by relative movement between the fiber pulp and the face side. At least a portion of the teeth may include angled surfaces on a rear side. An angle .alpha.1 of a slope on the face side may differs from an angle .alpha.2 of the rear side by at least 5.degree.

Abstract: A shoe press device for treating a web, particularly for dewatering a web. A shoe press roll has a beam and a flexible press jacket around the beam. A press shoe on the beam presses the press jacket against a backing roll to define a press nip. Support elements supported on the beam press on the shoe. The support elements are in a first plurality along the shoe and a respective second plurality toward each end of the shoe. The second support elements are smaller in size with reference to their pressure area on the shoe, and there is one or more rows of second pressure elements at each end of the shoe. Different respective pressures may be applied to the main and second pluralities of support elements. The backing roll may be a sag adjustment roll including a rotatable roll jacket and support elements in the sag adjustment roll pressing on the roll jacket.

Abstract: This invention pertains to an elongated gap or extended nip press comprised of two pressing elements whose pressing areas are pressed against each other, wherein each of the press areas is formed of a band-shaped jacket element, with the jacket element moving around carriers and being supported by at least one support element, wherein a change of the length of the press gap or nip and/or of the pressure distribution or pattern in the press gap is accomplished in that the portions of the press elements that form the support surfaces and/or that the support elements of at least one of the pressing elements are displaceable in or against the direction of rotation of the respective jacket element.

Abstract: Device for handling a fiber web. The invention pertains to a device for the treatment of a fiber web, the device having an elongated press gap, wherein at least one press area is formed of a band which is pressure-impacted by at least one piston-cylinder unit, via a hydraulic contact pressure apparatus consisting of at least one support element, with a ready supply of fluid under pressure being assured for the bearing pockets of the support element in that one of the elements of the piston-cylinder unit is fixedly connected with a support portion, with the support element, together with the other one of the elements of the piston-cylinder unit being movably retained in the press direction and in the web moving direction on the one of the elements and wherein the support element is braced via a stop attached to the support portion.

Abstract: A shoe press roll for a press device for a paper machine. The roll includes a stationary support. A press shoe supported on the support in a radially displaceable manner. A plurality of hydraulic elements in the support and arrayed along the length of the press shoe across the width of the web to urge the press shoe against the backing roll. A plurality of return springs connected between the support and the leading and trailing sides of the press shoe, the springs being located outside the hydraulic elements at the press shoe. The return springs are compression springs fastened by struts on the lateral sides of the press shoe which involves a simple mounting for enabling separable attachment of the tie rods of the spring and the lateral sides of the press shoe.