Forming Single Web Between Opposed Forming Surfaces Patents (Class 162/203)
  • Patent number: 11396727
    Abstract: A deodorant-paper manufacturing method includes: a first step in which belt-like paper stock placed on a wire cloth in a wire part is dehydrated; a second step in which the dehydrated belt-like paper stock is transferred to conveyance means in a press part to be further dehydrated; and a third step in which the dehydrated belt-like paper stock is dried by drying means in a dryer part. Any one of the first to third steps includes a fourth step in which particle-containing liquid having deodorant effect is ejected from ejecting parts. In the fourth step, the ejecting parts are arranged in a line such that the particle-containing liquid is deposited in the width direction of the belt-like paper stock, and the particle-containing liquid is sequentially ejected from the ejecting parts with a predetermined time difference so that unevenness in or damage to fibers in the paper stock does not occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: CORELEX SHIN-EI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Satoshi Kurosaki
  • Patent number: 10900172
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of producing a structured fibrous web of paper suitable for tissue products. The method comprises forming a fibrous web and conveying the formed fibrous web on a water receiving felt (5) to a dewatering nip. An endless steel belt (11) with a smooth steel surface is passed through the nip together with the fibrous web and the water receiving felt (5) wherein the endless steel belt is heated by heaters (HEU, HEL). After the dewatering nip, the fibrous web is conveyed by the endless steel belt (11) to an endless textured fabric (12) which is permeable to air and to which the web is transferred from the endless steel belt (11) in a transfer nip. The textured fabric (12) runs at a lower speed than the endless belt (11). After the transfer to the textured fabric (12), the fibrous web is carried by the textured fabric (12) to a drying cylinder (17). The transfer nip is formed by two rolls of which one is a suction roll within the loop of the textured fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: VALMET AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Hans Ivarsson, Anders Ottosson
  • Patent number: 10633794
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of making a structured fibrous web (W). The method comprises forming a fibrous web (W) and conveying the formed fibrous web on a water receiving felt (5) to a dewatering nip (PN) formed by a first press unit (8) and a second press unit (9) and where an endless belt (11) is passed through the nip together with the fibrous web 5 (W) and the water receiving felt (5), The endless belt has a side which is covered by a polymer and which contacts the fibrous web (W) in the dewatering nip (PN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Valmet Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Karl-Johan Tolfsson, Ingvar Klerelid, Allan Grimm, Hans Ivarsson
  • Patent number: 10632780
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a watermark formation element for forming watermarks in paper, a cylinder mould cover comprising such a watermark formation element, a method of making such a cylinder mould cover, a method of making paper using such a cylinder mould cover and paper made thereby. The watermark formation element has an integrated body comprising a watermark forming surface, which has one or more watermark forming regions, and a drainage surface. A plurality of drainage channels extend from front surface apertures in the watermark forming surface to the drainage surface. At least some of the front surface apertures are shaped to define at least one of an alphanumeric, a symbol or a pictorial image. A filter layer located between the watermark forming surface and the drainage surface having filter layer apertures which have a maximum width which is less than a smallest width of the front surface apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: PORTALS DE LA RUE LIMITED
    Inventors: Malcolm Paul Baker, Christian David Paul Clark
  • Patent number: 9963825
    Abstract: A vacuum draw apparatus for preparing a fiber and/or particle web comprising a means for drawing a vacuum on a mass of fibers and/or particles, said vacuum draw means having an opening for applying a vacuum to said mass of fibers and/or particles, an access gate having a patterned opening located between the mass of fibers and/or particles and opening of said vacuum means, and means for moving said access gate, whereby the vacuum draw system will provide an oscillating pull on a mass of fibers and/or particles to work said mass to redistribute and/or further consolidate the fibers and/or particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Inventors: Jack Fabbricante, Thomas Fabbricante
  • Patent number: 9945077
    Abstract: Clupak paper is manufactured using a gap-former paper-making machine equipped with a Clupak system, in such a way that its longitudinal tensile energy absorption index and lateral tensile energy absorption index as specified in JIS P8113 become 2.5 J/g or more and 1.0 J/g or more, respectively. The paper has excellent strength characteristics in both the longitudinal and lateral directions, especially in the longitudinal direction so that when the Clupak paper can be processed into a sack, the sack rarely breaks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: NIPPON PAPER INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Keiko Hashiguchi, Hirofumi Kondo, Hiroaki Noguchi, Yuji Abe, Satoshi Ishikawa, Yukio Shini
  • Patent number: 9481777
    Abstract: A method for continuous High Internal Phase Emulsion (HIPE) foam production. A HIPE is produced then extruded onto a belt. After polymerization, a portion of the saturated aqueous phase is removed using a vacuum box. A nip insert is inserted under the vacuum box to raise the vacuum box leading to improved uniformity of the HIPE in the cross direction along the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Wei-ling Siew, Jiajie Zhang, Aditya Garg
  • Patent number: 9051685
    Abstract: A method for reducing the water and energy consumption of a paper machine with the help of a vacuum system and optimization of web solids content. On the paper machine wire section, water is removed with the help of a hybrid vacuum system serving first the vacuum locations needing a lower vacuum level and then those requiring a higher vacuum level in such fashion that the hybrid vacuum system removes water on different sections of the paper machine at the vacuum levels rendering the individually maximized energy efficiency. Additionally the solids content on the wire section is optimized with the help of an unfelted and smooth press roll adapted above the wire suction roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: RUNTECH SYSTEMS OY
    Inventors: Juha Karvinen, Kimmo Loippo
  • Patent number: 8871059
    Abstract: Processes for making fluff pulp sheets mechanically eliminate many unwanted fiber-to-fiber bonding (fiber bundles) in the sheet. Pulp slurry is deposited on a moving bottom forming wire to form a stock web. Pulp slurry is brought into contact with a moving top forming wire. The stock web is subjected to up and down dewatering creating separately formed layers to reduce fiber-to-fiber bonding. The stock web can be subjected to strong pulsating shear forces as it is being advanced along the bottom forming wire to break fiber bundles. The pulp slurry can be deposited on the bottom forming wire utilizing a headbox with dilution control to selectively adjust the concentration of the pulp slurry. Shoe presses can be used to dewater the web after it is subjected to the pulsating shear forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Jyrki T. Jaakkola, James E. Sealey
  • Publication number: 20130213594
    Abstract: Processes for making fluff pulp sheets mechanically eliminate many unwanted fiber-to-fiber bonding (fiber bundles) in the sheet. Pulp slurry is deposited on a moving bottom forming wire to form a stock web. Pulp slurry is brought into contact with a moving top forming wire. The stock web is subjected to up and down dewatering creating separately formed layers to reduce fiber-to-fiber bonding. The stock web can be subjected to strong pulsating shear forces as it is being advanced along the bottom forming wire to break fiber bundles. The pulp slurry can be deposited on the bottom forming wire utilizing a headbox with dilution control to selectively adjust the concentration of the pulp slurry. Shoe presses can be used to dewater the web after it is subjected to the pulsating shear forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
    Inventors: JYRKI T. JAAKKOLA, JAMES E. SEALEY
  • Patent number: 8448789
    Abstract: Apparatus for washing and dewatering pump comprising a pair of rotatable press rolls with permeable outer surfaces, a casing comprising a vat in which the rolls are installed, and a feed for feeding the pulp to the gap formed between the vat and the press roll is disclosed. The vat includes a first side vat segment partially enclosing the first press roll and a second side vat segment partially enclosing the second press roll and casing members for each of the vat segments, the first casing member being pivotable about an axis of rotation and between closed and open positions, pulp distribution devices for distributing pulp onto the press rolls, at least one of the pulp distribution devices being mounted on the casing member whereby it is moved away from the press roll together with the casing member when it is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Johan Bylander, Fredrik Pontén, Jörgen Lundberg
  • Patent number: 8246782
    Abstract: An apparatus for transferring a wet paper web from a press nip to a drying cylinder of a papermaking machine, and for structuring the web, includes an impermeable transfer belt that passes through the press nip along with the paper web, and a permeable structuring fabric for transfer of the web onto the drying cylinder, the structuring fabric being arranged in a loop within which a suction transfer device is disposed. A web-contacting surface of the belt has a non-uniform distribution of microscopic-scale depressions, and a suction zone of the transfer device includes a transfer point spaced a distance D from the press nip. The belt is arranged to bring the web into contact with the structuring fabric in the suction zone for a length L, such that suction is exerted on the paper web to transfer the paper web from the belt onto the structuring fabric at the transfer point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Metso Paper Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Paul Douglas Beuther, Frank Stephen Hada, Jeffrey Dean Holz, Hans Ivarsson, Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Johan Ulf Ragard
  • Patent number: 8206555
    Abstract: A papermaking machine for making paper includes a forming section, a press section, and a drying section. The paper web is pressed between two press members while enclosed between a press felt and a transfer belt having non-uniformly distributed microscopic depressions in its surface, the web following the transfer belt from the press to a transfer point at which the web is transferred via a suction transfer device onto a structuring fabric, the web then being dried on a drying cylinder. The transfer point is spaced a distance D from the press nip selected based on machine speed, a basis weight of the web, and the surface characteristics of the transfer belt, such that within the distance D a thin water film between the web and the transfer belt at least partially dissipates to allow the web to be separated from the transfer belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Metso Paper Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Hans Ivarsson, Johan Ulf Ragard, Frank Stephen Hada, Paul Douglas Beuther, Jeffrey Dean Holz
  • Patent number: 8092651
    Abstract: A papermaking machine for making paper includes a forming section, a press section, and a drying section. The paper web is pressed between two press members while enclosed between a press felt and a transfer belt having non-uniformly distributed microscopic depressions in its surface, the web following the transfer belt from the press to a transfer point at which the web is transferred via a suction transfer device onto a structuring fabric, the web then being dried on a drying cylinder. The transfer point is spaced a distance D from the press nip selected based on machine speed, a basis weight of the web, and the surface characteristics of the transfer belt, such that within the distance D a thin water film between the web and the transfer belt at least partially dissipates to allow the web to be separated from the transfer belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2012
    Assignee: Metso Paper Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Hans Ivarsson, Johan Ulf Ragard, Frank Stephen Hada, Paul Douglas Beuther, Jeffrey Dean Holz
  • Publication number: 20110290439
    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: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Scherb, Luiz Carlos Silva, Rogerio Berardi, Danilo Oyakawa
  • Patent number: 8048269
    Abstract: A forming section has a lower wire loop (11), which constitutes a single-wire section (T) following a breast roll (12). A first dewatering zone (Z1) has at least one stationary, first forming shoe (40) followed by a pulsating strip cover (50). The first forming shoe has leading and trailing edges and underpressure affecting through holes of the cover. The holes are openings or slots substantially in the longitudinal direction of the machine, whereby non-pulsating dewatering is applied on the stock travelling on top of the lower wire. A pulp suspension jet is fed from a headbox (30) at an impact point after the shoe leading edge. The cover is straight at least in the area between the impact point of the pulp suspension jet and the trailing edge. The impact of the pulp suspension jet on the forming wire is thus better controlled in a better way, increasing production speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2011
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Antti Poikolainen, Janne Laakso, Janne Lappi
  • Publication number: 20110174456
    Abstract: A method of forming a structured fibrous web including the steps of supplying a fiber slurry to a nip, the nip being formed by a structured fabric and a forming fabric; dewatering the fiber slurry through the forming fabric to create a web; retaining the web with the structured fabric through at least one dewatering process, the forming fabric including a woven fabric having a paper side and a roll side, the paper side having a paper side surface and said roll side having a roll side surface; and providing a polymer material deposit extending above the paper side surface, the polymer material deposit having at least one of a random pattern, a random motif, a pseudo-random pattern, a pseudo-random motif, a predetermined pattern and a predetermined motif.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Lippi A. Fernandes, Martin Ringer, Antony Morton, John Jeffery, Justin Payne
  • Patent number: 7918966
    Abstract: The paper web is passed on the production line between at least one pair of rollers, of which one is of soft material driven at greater speed, the hard material roller presenting a base roughness RA of less than 5 and along its entire lateral surface having incisions that are precisely spaced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Cartiere Cariolaro S.p.A.
    Inventors: Giorgio Trani, Marion Sterner, Federico Cariolaro
  • Patent number: 7887673
    Abstract: Paper machine for manufacturing a fiber web of paper without through air drying (TAD) or pressing, comprising: a wet end, having a wire section with at least one forming wire, a clothing, being air and water permeable, and a dewatering unit for dewatering the fiber web; and a drying section, comprising a drying surface for the fiber web; and also a transfer roll for transferring the fiber web to the drying section, wherein the fiber web is supported by said clothing from the wire section all the way to and over the transfer roll. The clothing has a three dimensional structure for structuring the fiber web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2011
    Assignee: Metso Paper Karlstad
    Inventors: Ingmar Andersson, Sören Sven Eriksson, Dennis Edward Jewitt, Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Anders Lindén, Lars B. Nilsson
  • Patent number: 7871493
    Abstract: A method of making an environmentally-friendly tissue sheet for conversion into a single-ply roll product, such as bath tissue or paper towels, is disclosed. The method utilizes numerous process aspects that are determined to minimize energy consumption, which is about 100 grams CO2 equivalent emissions or less per 38 square feet of tissue, while at the same time producing a tissue roll product having desirable roll bulk, firmness and absorbency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2011
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Alan Hermans, David Vincent Spitzley, Daniel Scott Westbrook
  • Patent number: 7811418
    Abstract: A papermaking machine for making paper includes a forming section, a press section, and a drying section. The paper web is pressed between two press members while enclosed between a press felt and a transfer belt having non-uniformly distributed microscopic depressions in its surface, the web following the transfer belt from the press to a transfer point at which the web is transferred via a suction transfer device onto a structuring fabric, the web then being dried on a drying cylinder. The transfer point is spaced a distance D from the press nip selected based on machine speed, a basis weight of the web, and the surface characteristics of the transfer belt, such that within the distance D a thin water film between the web and the transfer belt at least partially dissipates to allow the web to be separated from the transfer belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2010
    Assignee: Metso Paper Karlstad AB
    Inventors: Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Hans Ivarsson, Johan Ulf Ragard, Frank Stephen Hada, Paul Douglas Beuther, Jeffrey Dean Holz
  • Patent number: 7794568
    Abstract: Methods for dewatering a fiber suspension in a twin-wire press, having a lower wire and an upper wire, and a first and a second dewatering table, which supports the wires such that a dewatering space is defined by the wires, are disclosed. The wires transport the fiber suspension under compression of the wires by the dewatering tables, such that the fiber suspension is dewatered and forms a fiber web between the wires. A separate pressing force is applied against one of the wires, such that this wire presses the formed fiber web via the second wire against one of the dewatering tables and further dewaters the fiber web. The separate pressing force is adjusted such that a desired dryness of the fiber web leaving the dewatering tables is achieved. A twin-wire press is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventor: Leif Odmark
  • Patent number: 7682489
    Abstract: A frame for a twin-wire press is disclosed including pairs of side members including upper and lower side members arranged on opposite sides of the press, between which upper and lower rolls are attached, a plurality of transverse beams arranged between the pairs of side members which themselves are sections of flat sheet metal and spacers for mutually releasably connecting the side members with the sheet metal being formed so that it permits a degree of curing in the vertical plane to facilitate access to the space between the upper and lower rolls. A method for exchanging wire in a twin-wire press of this type is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Leif Odmark, Peter Svedberg, Anders Löfstrand, Hans Lövgren
  • Publication number: 20090308558
    Abstract: Fabric for making a bulky web. The fabric includes a machine facing side and a web facing side comprising pockets formed by more MD yarns than CD yarns. Adjacent pockets are offset from each other and are defined by MD and CD knuckles. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2008
    Publication date: December 17, 2009
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GmbH
    Inventor: Scott Quigley
  • Patent number: 7585395
    Abstract: A fabric for use by a papermaking machine, the fabric including a plurality of weft yarns, a plurality of warp yarns, and a woven fabric resulting from a repeating pattern of the weft yarns and warp yarns. Each of the weft yarn in the repeating pattern having a sequence of starting at a starting point then sequentially going over three adjacent warp yarns, under one warp yarn, over one warp yarn, under three warp yarns, over one warp yarn and under one warp yarn, the sequence then repeating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Scott D. Quigley, Thomas Thoröe Scherb
  • Publication number: 20090205797
    Abstract: A fabric for an advanced dewatering system having a woven fabric, the woven fabric having a paper side and a roll side, the paper side having a paper side surface and the roll side having a roll side surface and a polymer material. The polymer material is deposited onto the fabric and extends above the paper side surface. The polymer material has at least one of a random pattern, a random motif, a pseudo-random pattern, a pseudo-random motif, a predetermined pattern, and a predetermined motif.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventors: Lippi A. Fernandes, Martin Ringer, Antony Morton, John Jeffery, Justin Payne
  • Patent number: 7491295
    Abstract: A forming section of a paper or board machine 10 in the forming section of a paper or board machine has a cover 36 having an outlet groove 20 between a suction zone 18 of circular holes and an outlet edge 40. A wire comes to the cover area from an inlet edge 38 and leaves from an outlet edge 40. The outlet groove 20 is essentially in the cross-machine direction of the cover 36. The suction zone accomplishes non-pulsating dewatering, and the outlet groove accomplishes pulsating dewatering. The non-pulsating suction zone first accomplishes good retention, and after this formation is improved on the outlet groove. When pulsating dewatering takes place in the same direction as non-pulsating dewatering and immediately after non-pulsating dewatering, the web formed has a particularly good formation potential. Potential marking caused by non-pulsating dewatering can also be removed efficiently by means of pulsating dewatering taking place on the same side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Antti Poikolainen, Marko J. Moilanen, Kari Lamminmäki
  • Patent number: 7491297
    Abstract: Papermaching clothing for conveying a fibrous web in a machine for producing the fibrous web, whereby a fabric made of fibers which run in the machine direction and in the transverse direction, is disclosed having circular fibers, flat fibers or, as compared with the plane of the clothing formed by them, flattened fibers, such as fibers having an elliptical cross section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2009
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Serr, Lena Johannson, Scott Quigley, Volker Schmidt-Rohr
  • Patent number: 7476292
    Abstract: A method for dewatering a fiber suspension in a twin-wire press is disclosed including feeding the fiber suspension to an inlet end of an elongated dewatering space, dewatering the fiber suspension during displacement of the endless lower and upper wires which form the elongated dewatering space by flowing filtrate through the endless lower and upper wires, collecting the filtrate in outlet boxes, and adjusting the pressure differential between the elongated dewatering space and each of the upper and lower outlet boxes by controlling the counter-pressure applied to the filtrate flow on both sides of the endless upper and lower wires directly adjacent the inlet end of the dewatering space. A twin-wire press is also disclosed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventor: Leif Ödmark
  • Patent number: 7445693
    Abstract: Two axially parallel rolls are pressed against each other in a device for producing and/or treating a moving material web. Sensor elements are arranged in the force transmission path running from the force-producing elements via the rolls, outside roll bodies of the two rolls. As a result of displacing the sensor elements out of the roll bodies of the rolls, the production of the rolls is less complicated and less expensive. No sensors have to be embedded in the roll bodies, which opens up the possibility of using standard rolls. In addition, the occasional grinding of the rolls can in this way be performed without any regard to the sensor elements. Nevertheless, the pressure prevailing between the rolls can continue to be measured directly, since the sensor elements are arranged in the transmission path of the pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Ueberschär, Christoph Henninger, Eckard Wozny, Horst Kaipf
  • Publication number: 20080156450
    Abstract: A papermaking machine for making paper includes a forming section, a press section, and a drying section. The paper web is pressed between two press members while enclosed between a press felt and a transfer belt having non-uniformly distributed microscopic depressions in its surface, the web following the transfer belt from the press to a transfer point at which the web is transferred via a suction transfer device onto a structuring fabric, the web then being dried on a drying cylinder. The transfer point is spaced a distance D from the press nip selected based on machine speed, a basis weight of the web, and the surface characteristics of the transfer belt, such that within the distance D a thin water film between the web and the transfer belt at least partially dissipates to allow the web to be separated from the transfer belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Publication date: July 3, 2008
    Inventors: Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Hans Ivarsson, Johan Ulf Ragard, Frank Stephen Hada, Paul Douglas Beuther, Jeffrey Dean Holz
  • Patent number: 7387706
    Abstract: A method of forming a structured web including the steps of providing a fiber slurry through a headbox to a nip formed by a structured fabric and a forming fabric and collecting fibers from the fiber slurry in at least one valley of the structured fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jeffrey Herman, Thomas Thoroe Scherb
  • Publication number: 20080135197
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method for producing a fibrous web from at least one fibrous suspension in a twin mesh former with a twin mesh zone which has a wedge-shaped intake nip and is formed at least in some sections by two rotating endless meshes, of which the first mesh, which is passed over a preferably positionable inlet roller, is passed in the double mesh zone over several rails rigidly arranged a distance from each other on a preferably movable dewatering box, and of which the second mesh is passed in the twin mesh zone over several rails which are arranged opposite the rails of the preferably movable dewatering box, are supported by way of compliant elements and are pressed with a selectable force against the second mesh.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Publication date: June 12, 2008
    Inventor: Johann Moser
  • Patent number: 7364643
    Abstract: Fibrous stock is supplied by a paper or board machine headbox (1) between looped forming wires (11, 12). Water is removed in a first dewatering zone (Z1) formed with a fixed forming shoe (3) having a curved surface against which a wire (12) is supported while the opposite wire (11) is unsupported in the area of the shoe (3). Water is removed in a second dewatering zone (Z2) formed by fixed dewatering blades (21) on the other side of the wires (11, 12) and supported against the stock therebetween (21) and on the opposite side of the wires (11, 12) by dewatering blades (24), loaded in a controlled manner against the fixed dewatering blades (21) at gaps (22) between these so that pulsating dewatering is caused in the second zone (Z2). The wires (11, 12) are guided so the shoe (3) causes essentially non-pulsating dewatering in the stock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Antti Poikolainen, Jeffrey C. Irwin, Michael Odell, Hannu Korhonen, Ari Puurtinen, Sami Anttilainen
  • Patent number: 7332060
    Abstract: Twin-wire former for producing a fibrous web. The former includes two endless wire belts arranged to form a twin-wire zone, a dewatering element, and a headbox positioned at an angle relative to an imaginary first horizontal plane. The twin-wire zone includes a first section in which the two wire belts are arranged to run over the dewatering element. The two wire belts are further positioned to form a wedge-like inlet gap that is structured and arranged to receive a fibrous stock suspension directly from the headbox. Additional dewatering elements are utilized. The twin-wire zone includes a second section in which the two wire belts along with the fibrous web formed between the two wire belts are arranged to run downward over the additional dewatering elements. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Bubik, Joachim Henssler, Jürgen Prössl, Franz Stelzhammer
  • Patent number: 7300553
    Abstract: A web is formed between two wire loops (13, 14), in a wire section of a paper or board machine, in connection with which dewatering elements (12, 17, 15, 28) are placed and in which water is drained from a stock suspension from between the two wires (13, 14). In the region of a twin-wire zone, a suction roll (15) is placed within one wire loop and a suction box (16) having a curved surface is situated in opposed relationship with the suction roll (15) on the wire loop. After the suction box (16), the web is guided, due to the effect of a vacuum of the suction roll (15), forwards on the surface of the wire loop of the suction roll (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Antti Poikolainen, Aimo Närväinen
  • Publication number: 20070240842
    Abstract: Dewatering system for dewatering a web. The system comprises a former, a belt press, and a structured fabric comprising a paper web facing side and being guided over a support surface and through the belt press. The structured fabric runs at a speed differential relative to a wire of the former. This Abstract is not intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas T. SCHERB, Luiz Carlos DA SILVA, Rogerio BERARDI, Danilo OYAKAWA
  • Patent number: 7192507
    Abstract: Machine for producing a fibrous material web and process for guiding the web through the machine. The machine includes a wire section, a drying section, arranged downstream of the wire section with regard to a web travel direction, having at least one free web draw, a first and second shoe press separated in the web travel direction, and an upper felt and a lower transfer belt arranged to guide the fibrous material web through the second shoe press. The lower transfer belt is structured and arranged to transfer the fibrous material web to the drying section, and the material web is guided in a closed draw from the wire section to a first free web draw, with regard to the web travel direction, in the drying section. At least one high-performance drying device is positioned before the first free web draw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Begemann
  • Patent number: 7147755
    Abstract: The method is for treating a liquid or slurry with an ultrasonic energy. A movable endless member is provided that is permeable to a liquid. A transverse foil is disposed below the member and extends across the member and a transducer is in operative engagement with the foil. The member is moved about rollers. The transducer generates pressure pulses into the foil to form implosion bubbles in the liquid disposed above the member. The implosion bubbles have a first diameter (d1). A gap is formed between the member and the foil. The gap represents a distance (d2) that is less than the diameter (d1) of the bubbles to prevent any bubbles of critical size to be captured in the gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Ultra Technology Europe AB
    Inventors: Asa Kristin Schroder Annersten, legal representative, Anja Kristin Hardin, legal representative, Ylva Kristin Lubeck, legal representative, Hakan Dahlberg, Bo Nilsson, deceased
  • Patent number: 7135092
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for controlling the edge of pulp mass in a web former, the web former comprising a space formed by two wires or the like, into which space the pulp mass is fed. The wires or the like are supported on a chamber units, which each time include at least one chamber for receiving the water removed from the pulp mass. In conjunction with the side edge of the said web former are arranged pulp mass edge control means, which include an edge sealing part. The edge sealing part extends, in the lateral direction of the web former, by a distance between the chamber units in such a way that it will prevent the pulp mass edge from passing and/or spreading in the lateral direction of the web former into the area of the said edge of the web former. The invention also relates to a method for controlling the pulp mass edge in a web former.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Lassi Minkkinen, Harri Tähti
  • Patent number: 7090746
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for removing water from a mechanical pulp, chemical pulp or paper sheet, carried between top and bottom wires running through a dewatering machine having a first dewatering zone. The apparatus includes at least one suction box positioned downstream of the first dewatering zone. The process includes generating an air current in at least one of the wires downstream of the first dewatering zone with the suction box. The air current removes water from the wire and directs it into an inner chamber of the suction box. The invention also refers to a device for implementing the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Andritz AG
    Inventors: Franz Petschauer, Karl Hornhofer, Thomas Kefer, Dietmar Hausjell, Edgar Brogyanyi, Reinhard Diemat
  • Patent number: 7067042
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a twin wire former in a machine for the production of a fiber web, especially a paper or cardboard web from at least one fiber stock suspension, including a vertical twin wire segment having two wires running over a peripheral area of a turning element, especially a guide roll whose surface is preferably not equipped with suction and is smooth or substantially smooth; and in that at least one separation element, such as a transfer suction box is provided indirectly or immediately following the guide roll that separates the top wire from the bottom wire on which the fibrous web is supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Moser, Volker Schmidt-Rohr
  • Patent number: 6986830
    Abstract: A method and machine for the manufacture of a fiber web, in particular of a tissue web or of a hygienic web, in which the fiber web is formed on a soft clothing with fine pores and the clothing is guided over a surface subject to suction and in which the fiber web is transferred from a soft clothing with fine pores directly onto a TAD wire of a TAD drying apparatus. An optimum quality of the respective final product is achieved with an energy effort which is as low as possible, in particular, the energy effort required with vacuum generation in the dewatering of the fiber web is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Harald Schmidt-Hebbel, Jeffrey Herman
  • Patent number: 6972074
    Abstract: Equipment for fabric guiding in a paper machine has a fabric (10) and rolls (12–18) adapted to support it. In connection with the roll (17) end there is arranged equipment comprising a stand (19) and a nip guard (26). The stand (19) includes a transfer base (20) as well as transfer equipment (22) for moving the transfer base (20). The equipment further comprises an edge detector (23) for the roll (17) arranged on the opposite side of the fabric (10), for which edge detector there is a vertical bracket (25) arranged in the stand (19). The vertical bracket (25) and the nip guard (26) form an integrated sheet-metal construction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc
    Inventors: Ville Nenonen, Samppa J. Salminen, Risto Väätänen
  • Patent number: 6942760
    Abstract: At the end of the twin wire zone of a paper machine former, a suction box (17) inside the upper wire loop (11) has a curved lid (17?) opposite a roll (18) within the lower wire loop (10). The lid is curved in a run situation so the tension of the upper wire (11) reduces the normal force between the wire (11) and the lid (17?) caused by the underpressure of the suction box. The underpressure keeps the web mainly off from the roll (18) and the lower wire (10) while being adhered to the underside of the upper wire (11) and conforming to the curved shape of the lids. Members (17a, 18?) are provided for making the web follow the lower wire (10) in a break situation for conducting it to the broke handling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Pertti Heikkilä, Antti Poikolainen, Ari Puurtinen
  • Patent number: 6880583
    Abstract: A papermaking or other industrial fabric formed from a base fabric and having a seam where a first end of the base fabric is attached to a second end of the base fabric. At least one preformed coil is used to attach the first end of the base fabric to the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Albany International Corp.
    Inventor: Alan L. Billings
  • Patent number: 6875309
    Abstract: The invention relates to a twin wire former (1) for producing a fibrous web (4), in particular a paper, cardboard or tissue web, from a fibrous suspension according to the generic terms of claim 1. The twin wire former (1) is characterized in that, the two wire belts (2, 3) run upwards after a passing a first deviation device (10), forming an angle (?) relative to an imaginary second horizontal plane (H2), in such a way that the upper vertex (15.SO) of the second deviation device (15) lies above the lower vertex (10.SU) of the first deviation device (10), and that the angle (?) relative to the imaginary first plane (H1) runs downwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2005
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Bubik, Joachim Hennssler, Jürgen Prössl, Franz Stelzhammer
  • Patent number: 6855230
    Abstract: In a paper or board machine, the cross-direction profile of a flow channel defined between a first dewatering element (52, 53) situated inside a first forming wire loop (50) and a second dewatering element (64, 65) situated inside a second forming wire loop (60) is measured, and the location and/or the position of the blade element (64, 65) is adjusted based on the measurement result in order to regulate the thickness profile of a stock flow. The measurement can be by passing an alternating current of low frequency to a current rail situated in the second dewatering element (64, 65) and by measuring the strength of the magnetic field created by it by at least two measuring devices which have been placed either in the first dewatering element (53) or, when the first dewatering element is a forming roll (52), in the same dewatering element (64) as the current rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Kari I. Salminen, Pasi Virtanen, Jukka Sorsa
  • Patent number: 6841037
    Abstract: A machine for producing a tissue web is provided, including a former having a forming region which includes at least one circulating, continuous dewatering wire having zonally variable wire permeability. Furthermore, a process for producing the tissue web in a tissue machine is provided. The process includes forming the tissue web in a forming region of a former, wherein the forming region includes at least one circulating, continuous dewatering wire having zonally variable wire permeability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2005
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Thoröe Scherb, Harald Schmidt-Hebbel
  • Patent number: 6838401
    Abstract: A heat-resistant fiber paper sheet which is formed from staple fibers made from a heat-resistant organic polymer, undrawn or low ratio drawn para-aromatic polyamide staple fibers, and an organic resin binder and/or fibrids comprising a heat-resistant organic polymer as main components, wherein the amount of said staple fibers is 45 to 97 percent by weight based on the total amount of said heat-resistant fiber paper sheet; the total amount of said organic resin binder and/or said fibrids is 3 to 55 percent by weight based on the total amount of said heat-resistant fiber paper sheet; and said organic resin binder is cured, and/or said undrawn or low ratio drawn para-aromatic polyamide staple fibers and said fibrids are partially softened, deformed and/or melted to exhibit the actions of binders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2005
    Assignee: Teijin Limited
    Inventors: Sadamitsu Murayama, Michikage Matsui, Masanori Wada, Shigeru Ishihara