Running Or Indefinite Length Work Forming And/or Treating Processes (e.g., Web) Patents (Class 162/202)
  • Patent number: 11885070
    Abstract: A papermaking belt in which changes in surface properties of the resin layer upon use is suppressed, and a method for making the papermaking belt. Provided is a papermaking belt for use in a papermaking machine, including at least one resin layer including a resin, wherein the surface roughness after contacting the surface of the resin layer with a metal plate having a surface roughness equal to or less than 0.10 ?m at a pressure of 100±3 kg/cm2 for 20 hours in warm water bathing at 70±5° C. is equal to or higher than 40% relative to the surface roughness of the surface of the resin layer in a wet state before the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: ICHIKAWA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yuya Takamori, Taichi Sakai
  • Patent number: 11313078
    Abstract: An accumulating unit that discharges fibers by rotating a drum unit in which a plurality of openings are formed, a second web forming unit that forms a second web by operating a mesh belt, a sheet forming unit that forms a sheet from the second web, and a control unit that performs a start control for operating the accumulating unit and the second web forming unit from the stop state are included. In a case where the start control is performed from a state where the fibers are present in the drum unit, the control unit adjusts a thickness of the second web by controlling at least one of a timing at which rotation of the drum unit is initiated, a rotational speed of the drum unit, a timing at which movement of the mesh belt is initiated, and a movement speed of the mesh belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yuki Oguchi, Takao Mikoshiba
  • Patent number: 9683330
    Abstract: There is provided a wet paper web transfer belt for transferring a wet paper web, comprising: a wet paper web carrying side resin layer having a wet paper web carrying surface for carrying the wet paper web; and a roll side resin layer having a roll contacting surface. A water swelling rate of a resin material constituting the wet paper web carrying side resin layer and a water swelling rate of a resin material constituting the roll side resin layer are different, and the water swelling rate of the resin material constituting the wet paper web carrying side resin layer is 2.0% or more and the water swelling rate of the resin material constituting the roll side resin layer is 10.0% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Ichikawa Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kenji Inoue, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura, Yuta Sugawara, Tomoyo Ogishima
  • Patent number: 9315940
    Abstract: A seamed press felt formed from a base fabric material including MD yarns arranged in two superimposed layers joined by the MD yarns at CD folds at opposing ends thereof to form a continuous unbroken tube-like structure. The MD yarns form loops at the folds to define a pintle channel. A generally planar yarn assembly including an array of polymeric yarns bonded to an elastic carrier material that is extensible by at least 1% is located inside the base fabric with the yarns of the array oriented in the CD. A high surface contact area material is bonded to the elastic carrier material at both exterior MD ends adjacent to the MD loops at the folds. Each of the MD ends is anchored in a fixed position adjacent to the loops at the folds. A pintle extends through the channel defined by intermeshing the loops from the opposing ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: AstenJohnson, Inc.
    Inventor: Henry Lee
  • Publication number: 20150122442
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for removal of solid non-fibrous material from an aqueous pulp suspension comprising providing an aqueous pulp suspension comprising solid non-fibrous material, removing at least part of the solid non-fibrous material from the aqueous pulp suspension thereby forming an aqueous pulp suspension depleted in solid non-fibrous material, dewatering the aqueous pulp suspension depleted in solid non-fibrous material thereby forming a web comprising cellulose-containing fibres and a filtrate comprising residual solid non-fibrous material removing at least part of the residual solid non-fibrous material from the filtrate thereby forming a filtrate depleted in residual solid non-fibrous material and an aqueous stream comprising at least part of the removed residual solid non-fibrous material and diluting the aqueous pulp suspension and/or the aqueous pulp suspension depleted in solid non-fibrous material with at least part of the filtrate depleted in residual solid non-fibrous
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Inventors: Sven Caldeman, Kennet Nilsson
  • Patent number: 8790492
    Abstract: The fiber webs described herein may be incorporated into filter media and filter elements. The fiber webs may exhibit a high dust holding capacity. The fiber webs may also exhibit a low thickness. The fiber webs may be sufficiently flexible and/or deformable so that they may be processed to include a series of waves (also known as flutes) that extend along the cross-machine direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Hollingsworth & Vose Company
    Inventors: James M. Witsch, Douglas M. Guimond
  • Publication number: 20140174686
    Abstract: The present invention provides a modified cellulosic fiber having reduced hydrogen bonding capabilities. The modified fiber formed in accordance with the present invention may be useful in the production of tissue products having improved bulk and softness. More importantly, the modified fiber is adaptable to current tissue making processes and may be incorporated into a tissue product to improve bulk and softness without an unsatisfactory reduction in tensile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: SeungRim Yang, JeongKyung Kim, Jian Qin
  • Patent number: 8758571
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing pulp is disclosed including opposed endless wires conveyed in the same direction and defining a web-forming space therebetween for dewatering the web, a pair of perforated dewatering tables supporting the endless wires for pressing the wires towards the web, the first perforated dewatering table ending upstream of the second perforated dewatering table, and a press roll downstream of the back end of the first perforated dewatering table and opposed to the back end of the second perforated dewatering table to form a nip between the press roll and the back end of the second perforated dewatering table, which has a profiled surface that interacts with the press roll to prolong the nip between the press roll and the back end of the second perforated dewatering table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: Valmet AB
    Inventors: Hans Lövgren, Leif Öd-mark
  • Patent number: 8747618
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus used in the formation of paper. More specifically the present invention is directed to an apparatus, system, and method for lowering the consistency or degree of density of fiber suspension on the forming table, and improving the quality and physical properties of the paper formed thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: FC Papel LLC
    Inventor: Luis Fernando Cabrera y Lopez Caram
  • Publication number: 20140141203
    Abstract: Nonwoven sanitary tissue products having a woven surface pattern that provides the nonwoven sanitary tissue product with a woven appearance and a method for making such sanitary tissue products are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Emma Lynn SARTINI, Andre MELLIN
  • Publication number: 20140076510
    Abstract: A wet paper web transfer belt for transferring a wet paper web includes a wet paper web contacting surface for carrying the wet paper web. The wet paper web contacting surface is constituted by a resin layer, and the wet paper web contacting surface includes a wet paper web carrying region for carrying the wet paper web. A prescribed relation of the swelling rate in water of the resin layer and the surface roughness of the wet paper web contacting surface is fulfilled in accordance with the basis weight of the base paper of the wet paper web.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji INOUE, Masatoshi KONO, Ryo UMEHARA, Ai TAMURA, Toshihiro TSUJI
  • Publication number: 20140076511
    Abstract: A wet paper web transfer belt for transferring a wet paper web includes a wet paper web contacting surface for carrying the wet paper web. The wet paper web contacting surface is constituted by a resin layer. The wet paper web contacting surface includes, in the width direction, sheet edge regions for carrying the edge parts of the wet paper web and a center region for carrying the center vicinity of the wet paper web. The arithmetic average roughness Ra1 (?m) of the wet paper web contacting surface in the sheet edge regions is smaller than the arithmetic average roughness Ra2 (?m) of the wet paper web contacting surface in the center region, and prescribed roughness related equations are fulfilled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2013
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: Ichikawa Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kenji INOUE, Masatoshi Kono, Ryo Umehara, Ai Tamura, Toshihiro Tsuji
  • Publication number: 20140027080
    Abstract: A pulp dewatering fabric includes a pulp-side first woven fabric layer for receiving the cellulose pulp material to be dewatered and a running-side second woven fabric layer. The first woven fabric layer is formed with first longitudinal threads which run in a belt longitudinal direction and first transverse threads which run in a belt transverse direction. The second woven fabric layer is formed with second longitudinal threads which run in the belt longitudinal direction and second transverse threads which run in the belt transverse direction. The first woven fabric layer and the second woven fabric layer are joined to one another by connecting threads. Second floats are formed by the second longitudinal threads or the second transverse threads on a running-side outer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Höhsl, Johann Böck
  • Publication number: 20140027077
    Abstract: The present invention provides tissue products having increased CD stretch, which may be manufactured using a process in which the nascent web is subjected to two distinct rush transfers. The first rush transfer occurs when the web is transferred from the forming fabric to the transfer fabric, i.e., the “first position,” and the second occurs when the web is transferred from the transfer fabric to the through-air drying fabric (TAD) fabric, i.e., the “second position.” The overall speed differential between the forming fabric and the TAD fabric may be, for example, from about 10 to about 50 percent, with the amount of rush transfer being divided between the first and second position in a manner sufficient to achieve the desired CD stretch and other sheet properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Alan Hermans, Samuel August Nelson, Mark William Sachs
  • Patent number: 8585866
    Abstract: A wire for papermaking of a microfibrous cellulose-containing sheet includes a base that has water permeability and a porous coating layer that is provided on at least one surface of the base, wherein the porous coating layer contains a porous pigment, an adhesive and a hydrophobizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Oji Holdings Corporation
    Inventors: Eiichi Mikami, Yusuke Kohara, Takashi Kawamukai, Yasutomo Noishiki
  • Publication number: 20130299111
    Abstract: A method for individualizing a trichome from an epidermis of a non-seed portion of a trichome-bearing plant in the Stachys genus to form a fibrous structure is provided. The method comprises contacting the plant with a device to separate the trichome from the epidermis and incorporating the separated trichome into fibrous structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Inventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Teresa Jean Franklin
  • Publication number: 20130277003
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for processing pulp is disclosed including opposed endless wires conveyed in the same direction and defining a web-forming space therebetween for dewatering the web, a pair of perforated dewatering tables supporting the endless wires for pressing the wires towards the web, the first perforated dewatering table ending upstream of the second perforated dewatering table, and a press roll downstream of the back end of the first perforated dewatering table and opposed to the back end of the second perforated dewatering table to form a nip between the press roll and the back end of the second perforated dewatering table, which has a profiled surface that interacts with the press roll to prolong the nip between the press roll and the back end of the second perforated dewatering table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: METSO PAPER SWEDEN AB
    Inventors: Hans Lövgren, Leif Öd-mark
  • Publication number: 20130269895
    Abstract: A shoe press belt, and a method for manufacturing and using it. The press belt comprises a base formed of heat-resistant elastomer, inside which base there is a support structure comprising a plurality of support yarns. At least some of the support yarns are heat-resistant polymer yarns, the polymer structure of the material of which comprises a naphthalene group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: METSO FABRICS INC.
    Inventor: Vesa-Matti Riihioja
  • Patent number: 8460756
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a topographical pattern from polymer material on an endless strip with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction extending perpendicularly thereto, in which method a cylindrical rotary screen is used to apply the polymer material by the screen printing process to a circumferential side of the endless strip to be printed, wherein, when producing the pattern, the rotary screen, rotating repeatedly about its longitudinal axis, rolls on the circumferential side of the endless strip, whereby the pattern is applied to the circumferential side in at least one path running at least once uninterruptedly around the circumferential side in such a way that the beginning and the end of each revolution of the path are arranged along a common straight line, wherein, when rolling, the rotary screen performs N revolutions about its longitudinal axis during each revolution of the path on the circumferential side of the endless strip and N is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: John Jeffery, David Stuart Ponton, Douglas Stephen, Andrew Allum, Antony Morton
  • Patent number: 8454799
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel pulp composition for paper or solid board production comprising an oxidized recovered paper pulp and/or an oxidized mechanical pulp into which from 1 to 500 mmol of carboxyl groups per kg and from 1 to 200 mmol of aldehyde groups per kg have been introduced by oxidation. The invention also relates to paper and solid board based on such a pulp composition and also to a process for producing such paper or solid board. The invention also relates to the use of oxidized recovered paper pulp and/or oxidized mechanical pulp for improving the retention and drainage properties of a pulp suitable for producing paper or solid board. The invention further relates to the use of oxidized recovered paper pulp and/or oxidized mechanical pulp for improving, i.e., increasing, the dry strength of paper and solid board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2013
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian Jehn-Rendu, Hans-Georg Lemaire, Oliver Koch, Tilo Habicher, Sylke Haremza, Markus Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20130112361
    Abstract: A wire for papermaking of a microfibrous cellulose-containing sheet includes a base that has water permeability and a porous coating layer that is provided on at least one surface of the base, wherein the porous coating layer contains a porous pigment, an adhesive and a hydrophobizing agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2011
    Publication date: May 9, 2013
    Applicant: OJI HOLDINGS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Eiichi Mikami, Yusuke Kohara, Takashi Kawamukai, Yasutomo Noishiki
  • Patent number: 8435383
    Abstract: Described herein is a new concept in air dried tissue (ADT). The wet tissue web is received from the wet end of a papermaking machine and dried by an air floatation dryer that uses an endless loop to transport and support the wet tissue web as it is dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Inventor: Edwin X Graf
  • Publication number: 20130025808
    Abstract: A method for individualizing a trichome from an epidermis of a non-seed portion of a trichome-bearing plant in the Stachys genus to form a fibrous structure is provided. The method comprises contacting the plant with a device to separate the trichome from the epidermis and incorporating the separated trichome into a fibrous structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: The Procter & Gambel Company
    Inventor: The Procter & Gambel Company
  • Publication number: 20120291974
    Abstract: A method and system for producing fibrous material. Fibrous suspension is supplied onto a wire such that a web is formed and the formed web is dried. After the web formation, the web is kept at least partly in contact with the long wire continuously until the dry matter content of the web exceeds a predetermined limit value, at least to the press section. A system for producing fibrous material in a web forming machine includes fastening members for placing a wire in the machine such that the wire runs continuously from at least the web forming section substantially to the press section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: UPM-KYMMENE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Isko Kajanto
  • Publication number: 20120291973
    Abstract: A clothing for supporting a wet paper web for dewatering is provided, comprising a dewatering fabric extending in a machine direction and formed only from a woven material to have a single, substantially consistent, permeability. A pair of laterally-spaced strip portions extend along the dewatering fabric in the machine direction, with each being substantially and consistently impermeable to air and forming a substantially and consistently smooth non-water-retaining surface. The strip portions define a permeable web-carrying portion of the dewatering fabric therebetween, wherein the paper web carried thereby extends over the entire width thereof. The permeable web-carrying portion allows air to flow therethrough, exclusively of the impermeable strip portions, such that the wet paper web carried only by the permeable web-carrying portion is dewatered. The width of the permeable web-carrying portion thereby defines the width of the wet paper web dried thereon. Associated systems and methods are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Albany International Corp.
    Inventors: Joseph R. PILSBURY, Stacie R. Dede
  • Patent number: 8303773
    Abstract: A method of producing a tissue paper web in a papermaking machine including the steps of forming the web on a skin, selecting a quality of the web, bypassing a dewatering apparatus, passing the skin and web through a nip and conveying the web to a drying cylinder from the skin. The web is formed in a forming section of the machine from a pulp suspension on the skin. In the selecting step a quality of the web is selected thereby defining a quality selection of absorbency or tear resistance. The bypassing step includes bypassing the dewatering apparatus with the web and selecting a type of the skin dependent upon the quality selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva, Rogerio Berardi, Danilo Oyakawa
  • Publication number: 20120267063
    Abstract: A structuring layer of a structuring belt for structuring a wet fibrous web in a press section of a tissue papermaking machine for manufacturing high bulk tissue paper, the structuring layer having a web-carrying side with a surface for cooperating with the fibrous web, the surface having depressions distributed over the web-carrying side and forming a three-dimensional structure of the surface. The depressions altogether constitute 20-80% of the surface. Each depression has a dimension l of 0.25-2.5 mm in a first direction in the plane of the top surface area, a dimension b of 0.25-2.0 mm in a second direction in the plane of the top surface area, such directions being at right angles to each other, a mean depth d of 0.05-0.6 mm, and an area a as measured in the plane of the top surface area of 0.063-5.0 mm2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Albany International Corp.
    Inventors: Ingvar Berndt Erik KLERELID, Ola Thomasson, Bo-Christer Aberg, Cary P. Johnson, John J. LaFond
  • Patent number: 8282779
    Abstract: A method for producing webs of transversely extensible fibrous material, in particular paper, characterised by causing a web (12) of pliable fibrous material having a water content between 20% and 80% to adhere to at least one continuous elastic band elastic (6, 26, 31, 46, 66) adhering to the lateral surface of a first rotating roller, provided on its lateral surface with at least one circumferential cavity and to temporarily and locally pre-stretched said band by making it to enter into said at least one cavity for interference from at least one second rotating roller having its axis parallel to the axis of the first roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Inventors: Giorgio Trani, Marion Sterner
  • Patent number: 8241460
    Abstract: Web to be formed into wrapping paper is applied with combustion inhibitor and then dried. Water is applied onto the entire surface of the opposite side to the combustion-inhibitor applied side of the web. The web applied with water is dried while pinched between drying and pressing rollers and stretched in a width direction. In this way, unwrinkled high-quality cigarette wrapping paper having a low ignition propensity can be stably and inexpensively manufactured. As the pressing roller, a heat-resistant rubber roller provided in its surface with a soft portion in a helical way is utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Japan Tobacco Inc.
    Inventors: Shinzo Kida, Takafumi Izumiya, Yuzuru Sakuma
  • Publication number: 20120193054
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for forming a nonwoven web are described herein. The apparatus includes a mixing partition defining one or more openings therein that permit fluid communication between two fluid flow streams, at least one of which includes a fiber. The apparatus also includes an enclosed region surrounding at least a portion of the mixing partition. The enclosed region is adapted to provide an applied pressure to a fluid flow stream to urge the stream through one or more of the openings in the mixing partition. The apparatus also includes a receiving region designed to receive at least a combined flow stream and form a nonwoven web by collecting fiber from the combined flow stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2012
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicant: DONALDSON COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Hemant Gupta, Ajay Singh
  • Publication number: 20120160439
    Abstract: A fabric belt for a machine for producing a web of fibrous material includes: a first fabric layer including a web contact side and formed by interweaving a plurality of warps with a plurality of wefts; and a second fabric layer positioned below said first fabric layer and formed by interweaving a plurality of warps with a plurality of wefts, a first ratio of a number of said plurality of warps of said first fabric layer to a number of said plurality of warps of said second fabric layer being greater than 1, a second ratio of a number of said plurality of wefts of said first fabric layer to a number of said plurality of wefts of said second fabric layer being greater than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventors: Johann Boeck, Matthias Hoehsl, Petra Hack-Ueberall
  • Publication number: 20120160440
    Abstract: Described herein is a new concept in air dried tissue (ADT). The wet tissue web is received from the wet end of a papermaking machine and dried by an air floatation dryer that uses an endless loop to transport and support the wet tissue web as it is dried.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2012
    Publication date: June 28, 2012
    Inventor: Edwin X. Graf
  • Patent number: 8192582
    Abstract: Devices and methods related to a web stabilizer for stabilizing a moving web with a surface adjacent the moving web and with a supply of moving fluid in a direction parallel to the moving web and a supply of moving fluid in a direction perpendicular to the moving web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Andritz Paper Machinery Ltd.
    Inventors: Alain Chamberland, Rudy Chang, Joseph Guadagno
  • Patent number: 8192581
    Abstract: Devices and methods related to a web stabilizer for stabilizing a moving web with a surface adjacent the moving web and with a supply of moving fluid in a direction parallel to the moving web and a supply of moving fluid in a direction perpendicular to the moving web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Andritz Paper Machinery Ltd.
    Inventors: Alain Chamberland, Rudy Chang, Joseph Guadagno
  • Publication number: 20120132380
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing nanostructured paper or board and a novel paper or board. The method comprises providing a liquid suspension of nanocellulose-containing material, forming a web from the suspension, and drying the web in order to form paper or board. According to the invention the water content of the suspension from which the web is formed is 50% or less by weight of liquids. By means of the invention, energy consumption of paper manufacturing can be significantly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2010
    Publication date: May 31, 2012
    Applicants: STORA ENSO OYJ, UPM-KYMMENE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Hentze, Jenni Sievanen, John Kettle, Artem Kulachenko, Antti Korpela, Jukka Ketoja, Erkki Hellen, Tuomo Hjelt, Jaakko Hiltunen, Eila Turunen, Asko Sneck
  • Patent number: 8177940
    Abstract: A web stabilizer adapted to stabilize a web moving across a span between two components of a web machine or machines, the stabilizer including: a surface facing and adjacent the moving web, and at least one transition in the surface of the stabilizer, wherein the transition is a protrusion or recess in the surface between a leading edge of the stabilizer facing a direction of web travel and a trailing edge of the stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Andritz Inc.
    Inventors: Gerald Kramer, Alain Chamberland, Rudy Chang, Paul Richards, Kurt Mitterboeck, Edward Brossard, Joseph Guadagno, Dave Gamble
  • Patent number: 8152964
    Abstract: The invention relates to a press fabric, especially a press felt, for a machine for the production of a fibrous web, especially paper or cardboard, which is fluid permeable and which includes an elastomer polymeric material. The invention is characterized in that the total weight component of the elastomer polymeric material contained in the press fabric is more than 50%, preferably more than 60% of the total weight of the press fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Arved Westerkamp, Robert Eberhardt
  • Patent number: 8152967
    Abstract: Described herein is a new concept in air dried tissue (ADT). The wet tissue web is received from the wet end of a papermaking machine and dried by an air floatation dryer that uses an endless loop to transport and support the wet tissue web as it is dried.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Edwin X. Graf
  • Patent number: 8137505
    Abstract: A system and process for producing tissue webs is disclosed. The tissue webs are formed from an aqueous suspension of fibers and dried using a through-air dryer. During formation of the web, the web is transferred from a transfer fabric to a throughdrying fabric and then conveyed around a drying cylinder of a through-air dryer. In accordance with the present invention, a pressurized roll emits a gaseous stream through a pressurized zone that pushes and transfers a wet web from a transfer fabric to the throughdrying fabric. The amount of pressure used during the transfer can vary depending upon the particular application and may be used to control the bulk of the web. By using a pressurized transfer roll, the amount the throughdrying fabric is wrapped around the drying cylinder of the through-air dryer can be maximized for increasing the efficiency of the system and the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Frank S. Hada, Michael Alan Hermans, Ronald F. Gropp
  • Patent number: 8133357
    Abstract: A panel includes about 0.1% to about 95% by weight of a ground renewable component. In an embodiment, the panel has at least one core comprising: from about 0.1% to about 95% by weight of the ground renewable component; from about 0.1% to about 95% by weight of one or more fibers; and from about 1% to about 30% by weight of one or more binders, all based on dry panel weight. In an embodiment, the ground renewable component has a particle size distribution whereby less than 5% of the particles are retained by a mesh screen with openings of about 0.312 inches and less than 5% of the particles pass through a mesh screen with openings of about 0.059 inches. A method for manufacturing such panels is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: USG Interiors, Inc.
    Inventors: Bangji Cao, Te Hua Lau, W. David Song, Martin W. Brown
  • Patent number: 8133355
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method in the wet end of a web forming process. In the method, at least one electrode pair (102, 103) is placed in the wet end. The electrode pair (102, 103) is supplied with a current/voltage from a power source (100), so that an electric field is set up between the electrode pair (102, 103), causing the material particles in the pulp suspension in the wet end to be electrically charged in a desired manner and to move in a desired manner in the pulp suspension in the wet end. The current/voltage of the power source (100) is controlled by means of a measuring and control unit (101) so as to cause the material particles in the pulp suspension to be electrically charged and to move in a desired manner, thus allowing the retention, formation and orientation of the material particles in the pulp suspension to be substantially improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Assignee: Savcor Process Oy
    Inventors: Martti Pulliainen, Mikko Vepsalainen, Jukka Rautiainen, Matti Hakkinen, Pekka Kylliainen, Seppo Karine, Jari Rasanen, Kirsi Partti-Pellinen, Ari Johansson, Isto Heiskanen, Jyri Jarvi
  • Patent number: 8118978
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement and a method of a paper machine or the like for saving energy in the drying section. According to the invention, in the drying section of a paper machine or the like in connection with a pocket space (9) between two drying cylinders (1, 2) and one turn roll (3), there are the following delimiting said pocket space (9): a first drying cylinder (1), a second drying cylinder (2), a turning suction roll (3) and a wire (5, 5a, 5b), which is arranged to travel from the first drying cylinder (1) to the turning suction roll (3) and from there on to the second drying cylinder (2). The arrangement further comprises a box-like runnability component (10) and a sealing element (19) arranged in the lower part of the runnability component (10), in the gap between the runnability component and the turning suction roll (3) in order to seal said gap and thereby to promote the operation of the turning suction roll (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Rami Aaltonen, Nenad Milosavljevic
  • Patent number: 8105464
    Abstract: A device is provided for distribution of 2-13% cellulose pulp to a movable processing surface in a pulp processing device to form a pulp web thereon. An inlet box has an inlet and an outlet defined therein. A rotatable distribution means is arranged for distributing pulp along an entire length of the outlet. The distribution means is placed so that a first distance (a1) between the distribution means and a first outlet wall is greater than a second distance (a2) between the distribution means and a movable processing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Metso Paper Inc.
    Inventors: Magnus Danielsson, Jorgen Lundberg, Olof Melander
  • Patent number: 8080133
    Abstract: A panel includes about 0.1% to about 95% by weight of a renewable component. The panel has at least one of a CAC value of at least about 25, an NRC value of at least about 0.25 and an STC of at least about 25. A method for manufacturing such panels is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: USG Interiors, Inc.
    Inventors: Bangii Cao, Te Hua Lau, Curt Malone, W. David Song, Martin W. Brown
  • Publication number: 20110290434
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a novel pulp composition for paper or solid board production comprising an oxidized recovered paper pulp and/or an oxidized mechanical pulp into which from 1 to 500 mmol of carboxyl groups per kg and from 1 to 200 mmol of aldehyde groups per kg have been introduced by oxidation. The invention also relates to paper and solid board based on such a pulp composition and also to a process for producing such paper or solid board. The invention also relates to the use of oxidized recovered paper pulp and/or oxidized mechanical pulp for improving the retention and drainage properties of a pulp suitable for producing paper or solid board. The invention further relates to the use of oxidized recovered paper pulp and/or oxidized mechanical pulp for improving, i.e., increasing, the dry strength of paper and solid board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Christian JEHN-RENDU, Hans-Georg Lemaire, Oliver Koch, Tilo Habicher, Sylke Haremza, Markus Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20110263004
    Abstract: Method of treating a biomass containing a fibrous structure and polysaccharides. According to the method the biomass is subjected to extractive treatment at which it is heated in aqueous phase at an absolute pressure of over 0.6 MPa and a temperature of at least 160° C. for separating polysaccharides from the mass. According to the invention, the pH of the biomass which is subjected to the extractive treatment is not actively lowered during the extraction and after the treatment the pressure is controllably reduced so as not to decompose the fibrous structure of the biomass. The polysaccharides separated from the mass are recovered as a first fraction, the fibrous structure of the biomass as a second fraction and at least one of the fractions is subjected to further processing. By means of the invention it is possible to isolate from the starting materials valuable compounds and groups of compounds by a method suitable for use on an industrial scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Hannu Ilvesniemi, Bjarne Holmborn, Veikko Kitunen, Kaisu Leppänen, Andrey Pranovich, Peter Spetz, Lari Vähäsalo
  • Publication number: 20110253334
    Abstract: A triple papermaking fabric includes a set of warp machine direction top yarns; a set of weft cross machine direction top yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns to form a top fabric layer; a set of bottom MD yarns; a set of bottom CMD yarns interwoven with the bottom MD yarns to form a bottom fabric layer; and a set of binding yarns arranged in the cross machine direction and interwoven with the top MD yarns and binding the top layer to the bottom layer. The binding yarns are arranged in pairs between two adjacent top CMD yarns, and in a fabric repeat unit at least one binding yarn of each pair is interwoven with at least one bottom MD yarn. The ratio between weft yarns and warp yarns is 4:2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2009
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: FELTRI MARONE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Clara Rossetti
  • Publication number: 20110226435
    Abstract: A quadruple papermaking fabric comprises: a set of longitudinal machine direction top yarns; a set of cross machine direction top yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns to form a top fabric layer; a set of central MD yarns; a set of central CMD yarns interwoven with the central MD yarns to form a central fabric layer; a set of bottom MD yarns; a set of bottom CMD yarns interwoven with the bottom MD yarns to form a bottom fabric layer; a set of pairs of binder yarns arranged in the cross machine direction and interwoven with the top MD yarns. At least one of the binder yarns of each pair is interwoven with the central MD yarns to form a first binding pattern between the top layer and the central layer; at least some of the central CMD yarns define respective stitching yarns that are interwoven with the bottom MD yarns to form a second binding pattern between the central layer and the bottom layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2009
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: FELTRI MALONE S.P.A.
    Inventor: Clara Rossetti
  • Publication number: 20110214829
    Abstract: Method for compensating for uneven shrinkage in a paper web in the press and drying sections of a paper machine, in which there is at least one open draw. In the method, a flow guide/guides are used in the head box, by means of which the machine direction orientation tendency of the fibres is reduced in the edge areas of the web and the angle of detaching of the web from the centre roll is adjusted, by directing onto the web an air jet that is located in the cross direction and the pressure of which can be adjusted in the said direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2008
    Publication date: September 8, 2011
    Applicant: Runtech Systems Oy
    Inventors: Kimmo Loippo, Michael Odell
  • Publication number: 20110186254
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus used in the formation of paper. More specifically the present invention is directed to an apparatus, system, and method for lowering the consistency or degree of density of fiber suspension on the forming table, and improving the quality and physical properties of the paper formed thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventor: Luis Fernando CABRERA Y LOPEZ CARAM