Subsequent Treatment Of Formed Web Patents (Class 162/204)
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Publication number: 20040118536Abstract: A process for manufacturing a cellulosic paper product (e.g., paper hand towels) exhibiting reduced malodor upon wetting. The process includes introducing an organic aliphatic carboxylic acid (e.g., acetic acid) into the aqueous suspension of papermaking fibers from which the paper product is made, depositing the aqueous suspension of papermaking fibers onto a sheet-forming fabric to form a wet web and drying the wet web at high temperature in an oxidative environment to form a dried base sheet. The process of the present invention is particularly suited for reducing malodor released from cellulosic paper products made from through-air dried base sheet material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2002Publication date: June 24, 2004Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Tameka Spence, Ralph Anderson
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Patent number: 6752905Abstract: A method for forming a tissue product that is soft and produces relatively low levels of slough is provided. The method includes providing a liquid furnish of cellulosic fibers and forming a multi-layered wet web therefrom. The web is dried (e.g., through-dried) to a solids consistency of 90% or greater. A latex having a glass transition temperature less than about 30° C. is applied to the dried web (e.g., foamed, printed, sprayed, etc.) such that the latex comprises less than about 3% by weight of the dry weight of the web. The latex remains substantially uncured after being applied to the dried web.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Sheng-Hsin Hu, Strong C. Chuang, Amber Marie Fortune, Jason D. Rottier, Daniel John Vander Heiden
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Patent number: 6752907Abstract: An improved process for making sheet from a fibrous furnish includes: depositing the furnish on a foraminous support; compactively dewatering the furnish to form a nascent web; drying the web on a heated cylinder; creping the web therefrom and throughdrying the web to a finished product. The microstructure of the web is controlled so as to facilitate throughdrying. The product exhibits a characteristic throughdrying coefficient of from 4 to 10 when the airflow through the sheet is characterized by a Reynolds Number of less than about 1. The novel products of the invention are characterized by wet springback ratio, hydraulic diameter and an internal bond strength parameter.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2002Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: Georgia-Pacific CorporationInventors: Steven L. Edwards, Greg A. Wendt, Robert J. Marinack, Michael J. Vander Wielen, Stephen J. McCullough, Jeffrey C. McDowell, Guy H. Super, Gary L. Worry
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Patent number: 6749719Abstract: The present invention is a method of making a tissue product. An aqueous suspension of papermaking fibers is deposited onto a forming fabric thereby forming a wet tissue web. The wet tissue web is transferred to a woven sculpted fabric having a tissue contacting surface. The tissue contacting surface includes at least a first group of strands and a second group of strands wherein the first group of strands extend in a first direction and the second group of strands extend in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2001Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Mark Alan Burazin, Kai F. Chiu, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay
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Patent number: 6743333Abstract: The invention relates to a paper machine clothing in the form of a fabric with a web pattern which recurs regularly over the surface and has indentations (20) that are formed by the thread overlays (21), the latter having been surface ground. Said thread overlays cover three consecutive warp or weft threads crosswise thereto. A paper machine clothing of this type can be used especially in “through air drying” techniques to produce an especially voluminous tissue paper.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2003Date of Patent: June 1, 2004Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products GbmHInventor: Hans-Jürgen Lamb
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Publication number: 20040099393Abstract: An apparatus for decreasing heat emission and enhancing a vacuum system in a papermaking machine is provided. Such an apparatus includes a drying device having an inlet for receiving heated air for removing moisture from a paper web and an outlet for exhausting the moisture-containing air from the drying device. A vacuum system is configured to produce a suction and receive the moisture-containing air. A web handling device is disposed upstream of the drying device and is configured to interact with the web before the web is directed to the drying device. The web handling device is further configured to receive a portion of the moisture-containing air from the drying device, wherein the portion of the moisture-containing air is directed through the web by the web handling device to facilitate dewatering of the web before the moisture-containing air is received by the vacuum system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2002Publication date: May 27, 2004Applicant: Metso Paper Karlstad Aktiebolg (AB)Inventor: Dennis Edward Jewitt
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Patent number: 6740200Abstract: A method for directly forming and finishing a web product is provided. The method includes forming a web on a forming apparatus, continuously transferring the formed web to a conveyor, performing a converting step on the web as the web is continuously supported and advanced on the conveyor, and finishing the web into a product substantially ready for packaging. A system for performing the method is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2001Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Robert J. Seymour, John R. Hanson, E. Kent Isom, James L. Baggot, Steven J. Wojcik, Kenneth A. Pigsley, Robert L. Clarke, Randall J. LeValley, Charles H. Goerg
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Patent number: 6733630Abstract: Method and assembly for supporting a web (1) during the postprocessing of a web of paper or board, in which method the web is passed from a preceding device to at least one next downstream located web treatment device (4) wherein to at least one side of the web (1) is applied a treatment agent causing wetting of said side of said web, and the web (1) exiting said web treatment device is passed to at least one dryer means (8). The web (1) is contactingly supported in a continuous and unbroken manner at least from said web treatment device (4) to said dryer means (8). Advantageously, the web (1) is dried by means of at least one dryer (3) before taking the web to the web treatment device (4), and the web is contactingly supported in a continuous and unbroken manner at least from said dryer means (3) preceding said web treatment device (4) to said dryer means (8) located downstream next to said web treatment device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2001Date of Patent: May 11, 2004Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.Inventors: Rauno Rantanen, Juha Lipponen
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Patent number: 6712938Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for calendering a moving web (1) of paper or board. The web (1) is passed to a calender (2) and calendered therein. At least one quality of the calendered web (1) is measured at a first measurement point (3) adapted at a location downstream from the calender (2). Additionally, at least one quality of the web (1) entering the calender (2) is measured at a second measurement point (4) adapted at a location between the calender (2) and the preceding section of the line. A control variable (6) affecting the calendering effect on the calender (2) is controlled by a feedback control scheme based on the measurement result obtained from said first measurement point (3) and a control variable (9) affecting the processability of the web (1) to be calendered is controlled by a feedback control scheme based on the measurement result obtained from said second measurement point (4).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.Inventors: Helena Leppäkoski, Pekka Koivukunnas, Kari Hasanen, Timo Torvi, Petteri Venetjoki
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Publication number: 20040050518Abstract: The invention relates to a method for minimizing tension variation in a paper web induced by drying of the web in a paper machine. Tension variations in the paper web are caused by successive draws and moisture fluctuations. Good strength properties require optimization of the draws. In addition, the tension variation induced by moisture must be minimized. The analysis of local modulus and the strain components can be used for determining optimal locations for profiling actuators in order to achieve good tension profile. In the method according to the invention, longitudinal strain components of the web, i.e. reversible elastic strain, permanent plastic strain and frozen-in strain relievable with water are continuously measured and determined and the variation of said longitudinal components is minimized by correcting the moisture content of the paper web in a dryer section of the paper machine and/or by optimizing the draws between dryer groups in the dryer section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 6, 2003Publication date: March 18, 2004Inventors: Hannu Latti, Antti Heikkinen, Heikki Kettunen
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Publication number: 20040026054Abstract: A surface-sized paper web is made by supplying pulp from a headbox (100) where additives and/or fillers and/or fines are admixed into the pulp, to the wire section (200), where water is removed. The web is guided from the wire section (200), to the press section (300), the front drying section (400), is surface-coated in the coating section (500) dried in the post-drying section (600), and reeled by a reeler (800). In the headbox (100) starch and optionally hydrofobic size are admixed or layered into the pulp, so that on at least one side of the web an essentially dense surface is formed, on which in surface-coating a coating paste is spread out, which has a high dry matter content, whereby a bond is achieved in direction z inside the web in between the base paper and the surface-coating layer spread out on the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2003Publication date: February 12, 2004Inventors: Erkki Ilmoniemi, Juha S Kinnunen, Juha Lipponen
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Patent number: 6676807Abstract: A process for increasing the tactile properties of a base web without adversely affecting the strength of the web is disclosed. In general, the process includes the steps of placing a base web in between a first moving conveyor and a second moving conveyor. The conveyors are then wrapped around a shear inducing roll which creates shear forces that act upon the base web. The shear inducing roll typically has a relatively small diameter. In some applications, more than one shear inducing roll may be incorporated into the system. In other applications, the shear inducing roll can also be a nip roll for decreasing the caliper of the base web. The shear inducing roll may be stationary, as in the form of a stationary shoe with a convex edge, or may rotate. In one embodiment, the shear inducing roll can rotate on an air bearing.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2001Date of Patent: January 13, 2004Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Frank S. Hada, Keith D. Glass, Ronald F. Gropp, Patricia Riedl, Douglas C. Thomas
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Publication number: 20040003906Abstract: The energy efficiency of a primary drying papermaking process is improved by the use of auxiliary dryers to dry the wet tissue webs to a final moisture of about 5% or less and adjust the CD moisture profiles of the wet and partially-dried tissue webs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2002Publication date: January 8, 2004Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Wordwide, Inc.Inventors: Michael Alan Hermans, Charlcie Christie Kay Leitner, Michael Joseph Garvey
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Publication number: 20030228444Abstract: Uncreped throughdried tissue sheets are mechanically treated by calendering and embossing to provide a unique combination of desirable properties to the resulting sheet, which exhibits more surface uniformity, improved softness, high bulk and absorbency.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2002Publication date: December 11, 2003Inventors: Angela Ann Johnston, Thomas Allan Eby, Anne Catherine Paschke, Michael John Smith
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Publication number: 20030226279Abstract: A dry end section for a paper-making machine for producing a high-bulk tissue is provided. Such a machine comprises a through-air dryer adapted to finally dry a paper web and a through-air drying fabric configured to transport the web through the through-air dryer. A separating device is included for facilitating separation of the web from the through-air drying fabric. A reel is also provided and is configured to receive the web thereon. The web is received directly on the separating device or on a fabric wrapped about the separating device. In some instances, the web may be compressed between the separating device and an adjacent roll or by a web-compressing device disposed along the fabric transporting the web. The web is then transported to the reel directly from the fabric or other support mechanism extending between the separating device and the reel, without free draw of the web. Associated methods are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2002Publication date: December 11, 2003Applicant: Metso Paper Karlstad ABInventors: Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Lars-Erik Roland Onnerlov, Leif Soren Videgren
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Publication number: 20030201085Abstract: Disclosed is a soft tissue paper product, said soft tissue product comprising one or more plies of a tissue paper; and a chemical softening composition deposited on at least one outer surface of a dried or overdried tissue web, said chemical softening composition comprising a dispersion of a softening active ingredient in a vehicle, wherein said dispersion has a liposomal liquid crystalline structure; an electrolyte, and a bilayer dirupter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2003Publication date: October 30, 2003Applicant: The Procter and Gamble CompanyInventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Amy Jo Karl, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
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Publication number: 20030173046Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a security paper or board product carrying micro or nano structures such as diffractive optical elements in which method the diffractive structures are integrated into the security paper or board product at the manufacturing process of said product. The invention also relates to a method for producing a security package carrying diffractive structures in which method the diffractive structures are integrated into the security package at a manufacturing stage of the security package material. The invention further relates to a security package containing authentication information in a form of diffractive structures in which package the diffractive structures are included in the security package at least in one of the following forms: as embossed in the package material, as part of the size or paste or resin used in the manufacturing process of the security package, or as part of the ink used in printing the security package or the security package material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2003Publication date: September 18, 2003Inventors: Timo Jaaskelainen, Raimo Korhonen
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Patent number: 6607637Abstract: Disclosed is a composition for softening an absorbent tissue and tissue structures softened using the composition. The composition includes an effective amount of a softening active ingredient; a vehicle in which the softening active ingredient is dispersed; an electrolyte dissolved in the vehicle; and a bilayer disrupter. The electrolyte and the bilayer disrupter cooperate to cause the viscosity of the composition to be less than the viscosity of a dispersion of the softening active ingredient in the vehicle alone. Preferably, the softening active ingredient is a quaternary ammonium compound with the formula: (R1)4−m—N+—[(CH2)n—Y—R3]mX− the vehicle is water, the electrolyte is calcium chloride, and the bilayer disrupter is a nonionic surfactant.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 1999Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Amy Jo Karl, Errol Hoffman Wahl, Gayle Marie Frankenbach
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Patent number: 6607635Abstract: A process for increasing the tactile properties of a base web without adversely affecting the strength of the web is disclosed. In general, the process includes the steps of placing a base web in between a first moving conveyor and a second moving conveyor. The conveyors are then wrapped around a shear inducing roll which creates shear forces that act upon the base web. The shear forces disrupt the web increasing the softness and decreasing the stiffness of the web. The shear inducing roll typically has a relatively small diameter. In some applications, more than one shear inducing roll may be incorporated into the system.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Andrew P. Bakken, Troy M. Runge, Kenneth J. Zwick
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Patent number: 6607638Abstract: A process for increasing the tactile properties of a base web without adversely effecting the strength of the web is disclosed. In one embodiment, the process includes the steps of placing a base web between a first moving conveyor and a second moving conveyor. The conveyors are then wrapped around a shear-inducing roll which creates shear forces that act upon the base web. The shear forces disrupt the web, increasing the softness and decreasing the stiffness of the web. The shear-inducing roll typically has a relatively small diameter. In some applications, more than one shear-inducing roll may be incorporated into the system. Base webs made according to the present invention have been found to have improved void-volume and fuzz-on-edge properties.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: August 19, 2003Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Drew, Patricia Riedl, Peter J. Allen, Brian Klaubert, Paul Arnold, Susan E. Smith, Michael A. Hermans, Phil S. Lin
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Publication number: 20030150579Abstract: A method and an apparatus for the production and processing of a material web, specifically a paper or cardboard web are described, whereby the material web is first wound and subsequently unwound for a subsequent finishing process and whereby the material web after being wound and prior to the finishing process is remoistened so that its moisture immediately prior to the finishing process is higher than that immediately prior to winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2003Publication date: August 14, 2003Inventor: Joerg Maurer
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Publication number: 20030136536Abstract: A paper or board web is manufactured in an on-line manufacturing process, in which the web is passed from a paper or board machine (15) directly to a finishing device/finishing devices (60, 50, 10). The state of the finishing device/finishing devices (60, 50, 10) is monitored and, during a shutdown of a finishing device (60; 50; 10), said finishing device is bypassed, the web coming from the paper or board machine (15) is wound into machine reels and/or treated by means of some finishing device/finishing devices and wound into machine reels. A paper or board machine forms an on-line manufacturing process together with a finishing device/finishing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Inventor: Mika Viljanmaa
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Publication number: 20030136531Abstract: The present invention is a method of making a near-premium quality paper product having good strength and absorbency characteristics and a product made by that method. The invention is also a method for retaining a high ash content within a paper web formed by conventional wet pressing. The present invention is also a method for retaining a high percentage of softening agent within a paper web that includes such an agent. Further, the present invention is a soft absorbent paper product having a high void volume. Finally, the invention is also a method for producing a soft, absorbent, and near premium paper product having a high void volume using an undulatory crepe blade having a multiplicity of serrulations in its rake surface which presents differentiated creping angles and/or rake angles as to the paper being creped.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2002Publication date: July 24, 2003Applicant: Fort James CorporationInventors: Steven L. Edwards, David W. White, Frank D. Harper, John H. Dwiggins
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Publication number: 20030131959Abstract: A creping blade for creping a cellulosic web from a rotatable cylinder in a creping process includes first and second side faces. The first side face is at least substantially opposite to the second side file. The blade also includes an upper surface adjacent to the first and second side faces. A plurality of notches is provided along the upper surface. Each of the notches has a bottom portion and an open end defined by at least a portion of the upper surface. The notches are configured to increase the caliper of the cellulosic web when the creping blade crepes the cellulosic web from an outer surface of the rotatable cylinder. Creped paper and improved methods of manufacturing paper are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2002Publication date: July 17, 2003Applicant: Fort James CorporationInventors: Robert J. Marinack, Anthony O. Awofeso, Frank D. Harper, Thomas N. Kershaw
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Patent number: 6589390Abstract: Press section of a machine for producing a fiber material, web and process for guiding a fiber material web through the press section. The press section includes at least two double-felted presses arranged in series in a travel direction of the fiber material web. An upstream one of the at least two double-felted presses may include a deflection-controlled shoe press roll and a suction roll, and the deflection-controlled shoe press roll and the suction roll may be arranged to form an upstream press nip. The process may include guiding the fiber material web through a press nip of an upstream one of the at least two double-felted presses formed by a deflection-controlled shoe press roll and a suction roll.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 1999Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Voith Sulser Papiertechnik Patent GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Mayer
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Patent number: 6589388Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing paper, in which method base paper manufactured in a paper machine is calendered and coated to improve its printing properties. Before calendering, the moisture content of the manufactured base paper is brought to 4-14% of the total weight of the paper, after which the base paper web (2) is taken to a multi-nip calender (3), the base paper being calendered by the multi-nip calender (3) and the calendered base paper (2) coated on at least one side with a layer of coating.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2001Date of Patent: July 8, 2003Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.Inventor: Vilho Nissinen
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Publication number: 20030121634Abstract: The invention teaches a method of manufacturing a high bulk, high gloss paperweb using a supercalender operation. A paperweb surface is coated with a plastic pigment. The paperweb is run through a multi-nip calender device wherein the nip load of the paperweb is maintained at a load of about 1,000 pounds per linear inch at each nip. The temperature of the hard rolls are about 450 degrees Farenheit or less.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2003Publication date: July 3, 2003Inventors: David B. Cason, S. Craig Petro, Stig V. Renvall, Bhima Sastri
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Publication number: 20030113457Abstract: A method for directly forming and finishing a web product is provided. The method includes forming a web on a forming apparatus, continuously transferring the formed web to a conveyor, performing a converting step on the web as the web is continuously supported and advanced on the conveyor, and finishing the web into a product substantially ready for packaging. A system for performing the method is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2001Publication date: June 19, 2003Inventors: Robert J. Seymour, John R. Hanson, E. Kent Isom, James L. Baggot, Steven J. Wojcik, Kenneth A. Pigsley, Robert L. Clarke, Randall J. LeValley, Charles H. Goerg
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Publication number: 20030106658Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing a coated paper web. According to the process, a paper web is formed from a fibrous raw material in a paper machine, the paper web is coated with a pigment-containing coating mix, and the coated paper web is calendered. According to the invention, the paper web is coated with a coating composition that contains as the mineral pigment mainly a mixture of gypsum and calcium carbonate, the amount of gypsum being at minimum 10% by weight of the total amount of gypsum and calcium carbonate. With mixtures of calcium carbonate and gypsum, such as mixtures of PCC and gypsum and mixtures of PCC, ground carbonate and gypsum, there are obtained simultaneously a sufficient gloss and smoothness as well as a brightness and opacity better than with PCC-kaolin pastes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2002Publication date: June 12, 2003Inventors: Teuvo Ilmonen, Soili Hietanen, Markku Leskela
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Publication number: 20030102096Abstract: An ultra soft, bulky, multi-ply tissue having low overall sidedness and a geometric mean tensile strength of less than about 800 g/3″ wherein an embossed ply has a TMI sidedness of at least about 0.45 and an embossed area of at least about 2%, which is capable of being made from non-premium furnish, and method for making such products are disclosed. An ultra soft, bulky, multi-ply tissue having low overall sidedness and a geometric mean tensile strength of less than about 35 g/3″ per lb. of basis weight wherein an embossed ply has a TMI sidedness of at least about 0.45 and an embossed area of at least about 2%, which is capable of being made from non-premium furnish, and method for making such products are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2002Publication date: June 5, 2003Applicant: Georgia-Pacific CorporationInventors: John H. Dwiggins, Frank D. Harper, Galyn A. Schulz, Pamela J. Wiese, Joseph C. Leege, T. Philips Oriaran, Brian J. Schuh, Michael S. Heath, Greg A. Wendt
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Publication number: 20030094256Abstract: Shoe roll for dewatering or calendering a moving fibrous web. The shoe roll includes a flexible, replaceable press cover having two end regions and at least one end supporting disc. At least one of the two end regions have reinforcing inlays and are releasably coupled to the at least one end supporting disc. A quick-acting closure, located between an inner wall of the at least one end region and the at least one end supporting disc, includes a radially pressing element structured to exert a pressing force and to simultaneously seal an interior of the shoe roll from an external environment. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2002Publication date: May 22, 2003Applicant: Voith Paper Patent GmbHInventor: Helmut Heinzmann
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Publication number: 20030094254Abstract: This invention relates to a three-stream atomizing nozzle for use with a rewet shower. The nozzle has an air stream divider that separates the atomizing air from the source into three streams. The first stream is a straight air stream staying closest to and around the atomized water jet. The second stream is a swirl running around the first straight stream. The third stream is also a straight stream that wraps around the first straight stream and the second swirl. The nozzle also has a mixing chamber in which the three air streams are mixed together for the atomizing purpose. The nozzle can from the combination of the three air streams produce fine water droplets that are suitable for a paper rewet shower and more importantly creates a tailorable water mass profile. The mass profile can be tailored into a shape that is close to a square shape which is ideal for rewet showers as a square profile creates minimal coupling between adjacent zones.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2001Publication date: May 22, 2003Applicant: ABB Inc.Inventor: Shizhong Duan
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Patent number: 6553689Abstract: A vapor collection method and apparatus capable of capturing vapor compositions without substantial dilution. The method and apparatus utilize a material that has a surface with an adjacent gas phase. A chamber is positioned in close proximity to a surface of the material. The position of the chamber creates a relatively small gap between the surface of the material and the chamber. The adjacent gas phase between the chamber and the surface define a region possessing an amount of mass. At least a portion of the mass is drawn through the region by induced flow. The utilization of a small gap limits the flow of mass that is external to the chamber from being swept through the chamber by induced flow.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2001Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties CompanyInventors: Nirmal K. Jain, Peter T. Benson, James L. Capps, William Blake Kolb, Eldon E. Lightner, Norman L. Rogers, Jr., Robert A. Yapel
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Publication number: 20030056920Abstract: A process and an apparatus for the manufacture of SC-A paper having a high gloss and high smoothness, wherein the paper arriving from the paper machine is supplied on-line to a supercalender (multinip soft calendar), and wherein the paper travels through a plurality of nips for achieving the desired gloss and smoothness properties. The paper web arriving from the paper machine and supplied on-line to a supercalender (multinip soft calendar) is moistened with steam immediately prior to the first nip of the supercalender and is guided through the first nip before the increased moisture of the surface resulting from the application of steam has dropped below a predetermined value in the range of 12% to 25%.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2002Publication date: March 27, 2003Inventors: Stefan Winheim, Rudolf Mann, Manfred Diebel
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Recyclable thermoplastic moldable nonwoven liner for office partition and method for its manufacture
Patent number: 6517676Abstract: A rigid thermoformable recyclable nonwoven liner material is formed by a wet process on a papermaking machine. The rigid thermoformable nonwoven liner material is intended to be laminated to a woven fabric and then thermomolded around a wooden panel to form an office partition. The wet-laying process may consist entirely of conventional steps. The fiber furnish includes polyester matrix fibers and co-polyester/polyester bicomponent binder fibers. The web of fibers coming off the papermaking machine is passed through a foam press, which applies a water-based medium having polyvinyl chloride binder dispersed therein. The web is dried, treated again with a water-based medium having polyvinyl chloride binder dispersed therein and then dried again. The final product can be molded in a wide range of temperatures ranging from 225° to 300° F.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2000Date of Patent: February 11, 2003Assignee: Ahlstrom Mount Holly Springs, LLCInventor: Ashish Mathur -
Publication number: 20030024668Abstract: A manufacturing process for a two-layered facing 1 includes: a front material preparation step 11; a backing material preparation step 21; and a molding step 31. The backing material preparation step 21 includes the following steps: a papermaking step 22 in which short fibers and pulp material are blended and made into a paper, the paper is then coated with a binding agent and dried to obtain a paper sheet 4; and a winding step 23 in which the paper sheet 4 is cut into a tape-like form and rolled into a ring shape to obtain a backing molding material 5. In the molding step 31, the two-layered facing 1 is manufactured by laminating together a front material 2 manufactured in front material preparation step 11 and the backing molding material 5 manufactured in backing material preparation step 21 and thermally molding the two materials together while applying pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: EXEDY CORPORATIONInventors: Kunihiro Nomura, Yutaka Takahara
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Publication number: 20030000673Abstract: The specification discloses embodiments of a process and related apparatus for conditioning a fibrous web in order to improve the efficiency of drying and calendering thereof. In the process, a moving fibrous web is conditioned after the drier unit of a papermaking machine by applying a flow of moistened gas through one or more arrays of radial jet reattachment nozzles placed in close proximity to the web surface prior to a calendering unit or prior to a steaming unit placed between the nozzles and the calender unit to cool the web and/or increase its moisture content. Webs treated according to the invention exhibit improved properties including less moisture streaking, enhanced smoothness and avoidance of optical property loss.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2002Publication date: January 2, 2003Inventor: Dennis W. Anderson
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Patent number: 6497793Abstract: Apparatus and method for grinding levelling of paper, cardboard or a similar continuous web manufactured from vegetative based fibrous raw-material, said apparatus comprising a plurality of grinding means such as rolls or belts preferably arranged on both sides of the web, said means being deviated from the moving direction of the web or the web being deviated from these by means of squeeze rolls and which rolls are characterised by being trioelectrically charged with a similar electrical charge as the ground surface. The web tension can be regulated by moving the grinding means or the web from its direction of movement and the dust generated at the grinding is removed by a vacuum system.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2001Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Assignee: IDI Head OyInventors: Heikki Ahonen, Bernhard Dettling
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Patent number: 6479414Abstract: A textile machine felt, which can be used, for example, as a compacting felt on machines for rendering textiles shrinkproof, consists of a ground textile (1) and a felt layer (2) which is stitched thereon and comprises at least in its surface region an elastic knit fabric (3), for example, a continuous warp knitted sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2000Date of Patent: November 12, 2002Assignee: Huyck Austria GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Hauer
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Publication number: 20020148584Abstract: An improved process for making sheet from a fibrous furnish includes: depositing the furnish on a foraminous support; compactively dewatering the furnish to form a nascent web; drying the web on a heated cylinder; creping the web therefrom and throughdrying the web to a finished product. The microstructure of the web is controlled so as to facilitate throughdrying. The product exhibits a characteristic throughdrying coefficient of from 4 to 10 when the airflow through the sheet is characterized by a Reynolds Number of less than about 1. The novel products of the invention are characterized by wet springback ratio, hydraulic diameter and an internal bond strength parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Steven L. Edwards, Greg A. Wendt, Robert J. Marinack, Michael J. Vander Wielen, Stephen J. McCullough, Jeffrey C. McDowell, Guy H. Super, Gary L. Worry
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Publication number: 20020124981Abstract: A method and machine for the manufacturing a fibrous pulp web including forming a first draining zone and a second draining zone which are successively arranging in a web run direction, applying pressure in the first drainage zone which increases in the web run direction from an initial pressure to a final pressure to drain one side of the web, and applying pressure in the second drainage zone which increases in the web run direction from an initial pressure to a final pressure to drain the other side of the web. The initial pressure in the second draining zone is less than the final pressure in the first draining zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2001Publication date: September 12, 2002Applicant: VOITH SULZER PAPIERMASCHINEN GmbHInventors: Joachim Henssler, Hans Loser, Karl Steiner, Albrecht Bauder
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Patent number: 6444093Abstract: In the treatment process of a paper web, the paper web travels via a surface journalled rotatable, such as a peripheral surface of a cylinder or a roll, and the treatment process is controlled with an adjustment and control unit. The bearing arrangement used for the moving surface is a bearing whose operation is maintained by supplying control energy therein, wherein the information obtained from the control energy of the bearing is used in the adjustment and control unit to control the process. The bearing which is used can be a magnetic bearing and the process which is controlled can be reeling or winding or calendaring.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Mepso Paper, Inc.Inventors: Seppo Luomi, Petteri Lannes
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Patent number: 6444090Abstract: Process and apparatus for spraying a moving fibrous web with at least one jet. The process includes feeding a controlled volume flow of a spray agent to the at least one jet through at least one pulsing valve, and damping and reducing pulses occurring in the controlled volume flow of the spray agent. The apparatus includes at least one jet arranged to be fed with a controlled volume flow of a spray agent, at least one pulsing valve which feeds the controlled volume flow of the spray agent to said at least one jet, and at least one pulse damper arranged to damp or reduce pulses occurring in the controlled volume flow of the spray agent.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbHInventors: Robert Wolf, Markus Oechsle, Frank Wegehaupt, Lothar Bendig, Klaus Landvatter, Reinhard Gaa
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Patent number: 6432272Abstract: The present invention provides compressed paper webs that maintain a substantial amount of their absorptive capacity and wet strength when compressed. The compressed webs bounce back to a portion of their uncompressed state when wetted. The present compressed webs allow more towels to be added to a dispenser without substantially sacrificing the absorbent capacity or the strength of the towels.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1998Date of Patent: August 13, 2002Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: David H. Hollenberg, Jay C. Hsu, Joseph Mitchell, Sheng H. Hu, Richard I. Wolkowicz, Wesley J. McConnell, Anand Kuchibhotla
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Publication number: 20020096277Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for making a high bulk, coated paper of a unique structure with the coating forming a lower portion of the total caliper and the paper base forming a higher portion of the total caliper than conventionally made coated paper of the same weight. The process includes the step of using furnish with a high percentage of mechanical pulp, applying that furnish to papermachine wires, preferably with a gap former, coating the paper with a coating containing a plastic pigment, preferably of 4 or more parts per 100 parts of coating pigment, and calendering the coated paper at a nip loading less than conventional supercalendering nip loading. Preferably, the finished coated paper will have a 75° TAPPI gloss of 40 or above. The method and apparatus can be used to make lightweight or other weights of coated paper.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2001Publication date: July 25, 2002Applicant: Consolidated Papers, Inc.Inventors: Ralph L. Lau, Bernard J. Berger, Martin E. Munce
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Publication number: 20020092635Abstract: A method for applying a foam to a paper web is provided. Specifically, a foam is first formed from a liquid-based composition and a gas, such as air. Once formed, the foam is applied by a foam applicator to the web. In one embodiment, for example, the foam applicator applies the foam without substantially contacting the web. When applied with the foam, the web typically has a solids consistency less than about 95% by weight of the web. In some embodiments, one or more vacuum slots can be utilized in conjunction with the foam applicator to facilitate uniform application of the foam to the paper web.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2001Publication date: July 18, 2002Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventor: Joseph G. Capizzi
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Patent number: 6398909Abstract: An apparatus for imprinting, drying, and reeling a fibrous web comprises a hot press including a pair of press members forming a nip therebetween for passage of the web therethrough and at least one clothing arranged to pass through the nip of the press with one side of the web in contact with a surface of the at least one clothing. The apparatus also includes a heat transfer device defining a heatable surface, the heat transfer device being arranged to pass through the nip of the press with the opposite side of the web in contact with the heatable surface, and a heating device operable to heat the heat transfer device such that the heat transfer device heats and dries the web during contact therewith. The apparatus further includes a reel-up including a rotatable reel spool onto which the web is reeled to form a finished roll of web material.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2000Date of Patent: June 4, 2002Assignee: Valmet-Karlstad AktiebolagInventor: Ingvar Klerelid
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Patent number: 6383340Abstract: Press arrangement and process for treating a fibrous material web that includes two shoe press rolls and a counter-roll, associated with the two shoe press rolls, positioned to form a first and a second press nip with the two shoe press rolls. The first and the second press nip are elongated in a web travel direction. The press arrangement also includes a plurality of felts, such that two of the plurality of felts are guided through at least the first press nip. The process includes transferring the web onto a pick-up felt, in which the pick-up felt is one of the two felts guided through at least the first press nip, and dewatering the web between the two felts in the first elongated press nip.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2000Date of Patent: May 7, 2002Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbHInventor: Andreas Meschenmoser
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Publication number: 20020050328Abstract: Method for improving the formation of a web material in a wire machine, including dispersing existing flocks in stock which is transported along a transport direction from an inlet box onto a plurality of wire sections which are arranged after each other along the direction of travel, counteracting the reformation of flocks in the stock on the wire by furnishing ultrasound energy as ultrasound waves with frequencies between 15 and 75 kHz to the stock on the wire sections. The ultrasound has a higher frequency within at least one section which is closer to the inlet box than a subsequent section further away from the inlet box, within which subsequent section the ultrasound has as lower frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2001Publication date: May 2, 2002Applicant: Stora Kopparbergs Bergslags AktiebolagInventors: Philip Hakansson, Tommy Carlsson, Anders Wigsten
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Patent number: 6368459Abstract: A method and apparatus for coating a moving web of paper or board from on sides with at least one coat layer. The coat is applied to the web by means of a film transfer coater (12) and next the web is passed to a dryer cylinder group (4) via an air-cushion cylinder (18) supported by a wire (14), whereby the web can run fully supported all the way from its entry to the coater up to the winder. The apparatus further comprises a belt calender (8) and a belt-supported winder (9), whereby the web is thus supported over its entire passage in the machinery from the unwinder or paper machine up to winding.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2000Date of Patent: April 9, 2002Assignee: Valmet CorporationInventor: Jorma Kinnunen