Drum In Thermal Contact With Endless Conveyor Patents (Class 100/313)
  • Patent number: 6890407
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for manufacturing calendered paper or board particularly in the on-line manufacturing method. In the method, a base web is formed from a mixture of water and pulp supplied from the headbox and the web is dried by removing water over the press section and over the dryer section by heating. The formed web is calendered at least once to modify the surface on at least one of its sides. Before calendering the cross-direction thickness profile of the web is standardized and calendering is carried out by means of a long-nip calender, whereby good surface quality is obtained without losing the bulk or stiffness of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Pekka Koivukunnas, Matti Lares, Mika Leino
  • Patent number: 6875311
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for manufacturing calendered paper or board particularly in the on-line manufacturing method. In the method, a base web is formed from a mixture of water and pulp supplied from the headbox and the web is dried by removing water over the press section and over the dryer section by heating. The formed web is calendered at least once to modify the surface on at least one of its sides. Before calendering the cross-direction thickness profile of the web is standardized and calendering is carried out by means of a long-nip calender, whereby good surface quality is obtained without losing the bulk or stiffness of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Pekka Koivukunnas, Matti Lares, Mika Leino
  • Patent number: 6829987
    Abstract: A continuous belt press has upper and lower platens defining a horizontal gap. Upper and lower upstream drums and downstream are rotatable on the frame about respective horizontal drum axes at the upstream and downstream ends of the gap. Upper and lower endless steel belts spanned over the respective upper and lower drums each have a working stretch supported by respective upper and lower sets of rollers on the respective platens. Each belt has a pair of edges projecting transversely past the respective rollers and at least one of the drums of each of the belts has a substantially cylindrical central region of a predetermined central diameter bearing through the respective rollers on the working stretch of the respective belt and a pair of edge formations of smaller diameter than the central-region diameter lying outside the central region and in engagement with the edges of the respective belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Siempelkamp Maschinen- und Anlagenbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Gawlitta, Lothar Sebastian, Klaus Schürmann, Horst Weiss
  • Patent number: 6758136
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a calender, comprising a cylindrical heated roll and a flexible belt surrounding a stationary support beam which supports at least one actuator which may urge a concave load shoe against the heated roll by the flexible belt to form an extended and heated nip through which a fiber web passes to be calendered and a separating mechanism for having at least one of the rolls movable into and away from the nip characterized in that the flexible belt is a flexible tubular jacket which forms a part of an enclosed shoe roll such that the ends of the jacket have end walls mounted thereto, which end walls are rotatably mounted in relation to the support beam, and in that at least one of the end walls is driven by a drive arrangement which drive arrangement may be activated to drive the end walls and thereby also the jacket independently of its position in relation to the fiber web or the heated roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Petter Honkalampi, Nils-Erik Säfman, Timo Torvi, Thomas Berglind
  • Patent number: 6418840
    Abstract: A calendering method and calender in which a web material is passed through a calender, the calender being defined by two rolls having resilient roll coatings and being loaded towards each other so that due to the resilient nature of the roll coatings an extended nip is defined. Each of the calendering rolls being covered by a flexible calendering belt that is non-compressible in comparison to the roll coatings and each of the calendering belts being formed into a endless loop by passing over a respective alignment or reversing roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2002
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventor: Mika Viljanmaa
  • Patent number: 6289797
    Abstract: Method in calendering of a paper web in which the paper web is conveyed through a calendering nip formed by two calender rolls, at least one of which is a soft-faced roll having a coating of a resilient or polymeric material, or over which a belt of resilient or polymeric material is directed and passed through the nip. The profile of the calendering nip is controlled to compensate for defects in the web entering the calender. The profile control is accomplished by changing the diameter of the soft-faced roll zonewise by a profile control device arranged inside the body and performing temperature profiling. The profile control device include temperature control elements such as heating elements located in zones for heating a heat transfer medium such as air supplied into the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventor: Vesa Ijäs
  • Patent number: 6164198
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a calender, comprising a cylindrical heated roll and a flexible belt surrounding a stationary support beam which supports at least one actuator which may urge a concave load shoe against the heated roll by means of said flexible belt to form an extended and heated nip through which a fiber web passes to be calendered and a separating mechanism for having at least one of the rolls movable into and away from the nip characterized in that said flexible belt is a flexible tubular jacket which forms a part of an enclosed shoe roll such that the ends of said jacket have end walls mounted thereto, which end walls are rotatably mounted in relation to said support beam, and in that at least one of said end walls is driven by means of a drive arrangement which drive arrangement may be activated to drive the end walls and thereby also the jacket independently of its position in relation to the fiber web or the heated roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2000
    Assignee: Valmet Corporation
    Inventors: Petter Honkalampi, Nils-Erik Safman, Timo Torvi, Thomas Berglind