Abstract: A press section of a paper machine comprises, in the direction of web run, at least three separate press nips for removing water from a web, the web passing between two fabrics in each of the three nips. Dewatering of the web takes place through both faces of the web at least in the first press nip which is formed between two open-faced press rolls. The second and third press nips are formed between an open-faced roll and one of an open-faced roll and a smooth-faced roll. According to the invention, the press section includes two upper fabrics and two lower fabrics, the first upper and lower fabrics in the direction of web run being water-receiving press fabrics, one of which constitutes a press fabric only in the first press nip, the other fabric constituting a press fabric both in the first and second press nips. One of the second upper and lower fabrics is a water-receiving press fabric, the other being a water-non-receiving transfer fabric adapted to receive minimal amounts of water, if any.

Abstract: A closed press section of a paper machine in which a paper web leaving the wire section of the paper machine is passed, supported by a first upper fabric, through a first double-felted press nip formed by two hollow-faced rolls. The lower fabric in the first double-felted press nip is a second fabric which carries the web forwardly after the first press nip. The press section further includes a smooth-faced central roll against which at least two single-felt nips are formed, the press fabric in the first one of the single-felt nips being constituted by the second fabric. The web is detached from the second fabric and adheres to the face of the smooth-faced central roll and moves along therewith into the next single-felt nip. The press section is devoid of press rolls of the suction type with the first double-felted press nip being formed between two solid-mantle hollow-faced rolls.

Abstract: A dewatering apparatus is disclosed containing a pre-dewatering funnel possessing pervious walls over which there are guided two wires. Arranged after the pre-dewatering funnel are two dewatering cylinders over which both of the wires are guided along a substantially S-shaped path of travel. A press roll is arranged after the last dewatering cylinder, this press roll coacting with further press rolls.

Abstract: A multi-nip press portion or section of a paper or cardboard machine wherein a web is detached from a forming wire by a pick-up roller and transferred onto a first fabric which carries the web into the first nip and wherein the press section includes at least two water-removing press nips which include a common smooth-surface central roller. The central roller has a downwardly facing open sector with which a scraper is associated for passing the web in the case of a break to a pulper or the like. The first nip, which can constitute a press nip and/or a transfer nip is formed by a counter-roller situated in nip-defining relationship with the pick-up roller. A second fabric passes through the first nip over the counter-roller and carries the web on its upper face from the first nip to a second double-fabric nip through which the second fabric, constituting a lower fabric, and a third fabric, constituting an upper fabric pass.

Abstract: A press section in a paper machine includes a first double felted press nip defined by first and second rolls through which first upper and second lower felt fabrics pass and at least two single felted press nips defined with a plain surface roll, the first felt fabric passing through a first one of the single felted press nips. The press section includes only non-suction rolls, the first and second rolls defining the first double felted press nip each having a solid shell and recessed surface. The first felt fabric supports the web leaving the wire section and is guided over a first sector of the first recessed surface roll wherein the direction thereof is changed so as to be directed generally upwardly prior to the first double felted press nip. The second lower felt fabric which passes through the first double felted press nip is guided over a second sector of the first recessed surface roll which comprises at least a substantial portion of the first sector thereof to provide external support for the web.

Abstract: A paper machine press arrangement for receiving a paper web from a forming wire and carrying the web through at least two non-suction press nips and, for example, a dryer section. A first press nip is defined by a first grooved roll and a first controlled crown grooved roll. A second press nip is defined by a relatively large diameter plain press roll and a second grooved roll. In certain embodiments, a third non-suction press nip is included and is defined by the large diameter press roll and a second controlled crown grooved roll. A first felt wraps a suction pickup roll positioned in working relation to the forming wire and picks up the web on the underside of the felt and carries the web through at least two non-suction press nips. The second felt contacts the web prior to the first press nip and supports the web through the first press nip and is then guided downwardly away from the subsequent press nips so that any broke may be dumped without shutting down the machine or accumulating broke.

Abstract: A paper machine has a forming wire loop which transports a web to a detachment transfer roll situated inside said wire loop at a detaching location where the web is to be detached from the wire and transported to a press section. A relatively dry felt engages the web on a sector of the detachment transfer roll at the detaching location and receives the web from the wire and continues to transport the web, while it adheres to the felt, to the press section. The detachment of the web from the wire on the detachment transfer roll is facilitated by the centrifugal force acting on the web which results from the substantial change of direction undergone by the web on the detachment transfer roll. In one embodiment, the press felt is directed to cover the web on a sector of the detachment roll by a press suction roll located on substantially the same level as the detachment transfer roll, the press roll having a suction sector which facilitates transfer of the web from the wire to the felt.

Abstract: A paper machine has a press section for dewatering a web, this press section including at least three consecutive press nips and a common endless fabric, in the form of a suitable wire or felt, traveling through all three press nips for conveying a web consecutively therethrough. At the first two of the three consecutive press nips there is an additional fabric structure in the form of one or two endless fabrics in the form of suitable wires or felts, which engage the web at the first and second press nips at the side of the web opposite from the common fabric. However, the additional fabric structure is spaced from that part of the web which travels from the first to the second press nip.

Abstract: A method in a paper machine press section for dewatering a wet paper web by threading the web in an improved way and avoiding crushing or stretching the web structure through at least three nips of the press section. The invention is particularly characterized by following features of dewatering steps. The web while passing the press section through said three nips is all the time adhered to and supported by the surface of a felt or a roll without any open draws therebetween. Pressing the web in the first dewatering nip takes place between two felts and so the web is dewatered simultaneously through both sides of the web. Further dewatering and pressing steps take place in press nips which all are formed against a plain roll having a large diameter which enables a spacious location of the press rolls and their felts. Detaching the web from the surface of said plain roll for conducting the web into dryer section, takes place in a point allowing easy removal and handling of broke in case of a web break.

Abstract: A press mechanism and method for removing liquid from a traveling fibrous web such as in a paper making machine including first and second elongate extended press nips including an endless looped traveling belt passing over spaced guide rolls with first and second opposed press rolls pressed into the belt to form the extended nips between the press rolls and belt and opposed shoes within the belt pressing outwardly against the press rolls to form the extended nips with the shoes urged against the belt by opposed pistons having a liquid pressure chamber therebetween so that the reaction forces of the fluid on the pistons are cancelled with the web being carried through the nips on felts and following the belt between the nips.

Abstract: A press section for a paper making machine including rolls arranged to form five sequential press nips for pressing a multi-ply web with each of the nips being a double felted press, and the first nip formed between first and second rolls with the first roll having a suction gland extending between the first and second nip and the third roll having a suction gland extending between the second and third nip with the felts on the outer side of the web separated from the web immediately on the offrunning side of the first and second nips so that the outer surface of the web is exposed to atmosphere with a suction gland within the felt supporting the web so that water is first drawn from one side of the web and then the other side after passing through double felted nips.

Abstract: A paper-manufacturing machine and method include the feature of detaching a web from a forming wire by utilizing a stationary transfer suction box past which a felt travels while contacting the web so that the latter becomes detached from the forming wire and adheres to the felt while travelling with the latter beyond the forming wire. The felt and web are lapped through a substantial angle around a roll having a recessed surface whiletravelling toward the first press nip of a press section, and at this roll around which the felt and web are lapped a means is provided for directing steam toward the web and through the latter and the felt inwardly toward the recessed surface of the guide roll so that the flowing steam will on the one hand heat water carried by the web to enhance dewatering of the web at the first press nip while on the other hand the steam will serve to maintain the web reliably in engagement with the felt as the latter travels toward the first press nip.

Abstract: A method for feeding a paper web from a forming wire and for dewatering the web including the steps of urging a pick-up felt against the web on the forming wire, adhering the web by suction to the surface of a pick-up felt, transferring the web onto a transfer felt which wraps a transfer roll, the latter being contiguous to the pick-up roll, passing the web on the transfer felt to a first dewatering press nip formed by an upper suction press roll and a cavernous surface lower press roll, the latter operating inside the transfer felt loop while the suction roll operates inside its own felt loop, pressing the web in the first press nip to dewater the web in two directions i.e.

Abstract: In a paper-manufacturing machine a web is subjected to suction by placing a space between the web and a suction roll lapped thereby in communication with a region of substantially less than atmospheric pressure which is maintained at a part of the suction roll which is not lapped by the web. The structure includes a jacket which defines with the part of the suction roll which is not lapped by the web a hollow region with which a source of suction communicates. This hollow region of less than atmospheric pressure is situated at the exterior of the suction roll and bounded in part by an exterior surface of the suction roll, so that the hollow interior of the shell of the suction roll need not necessarily be utilized for providing the suction at the web.

Abstract: A method and machine for manufacturing a multilayer paper board which includes an outer web bonded to a base web has the features of initially forming the outer web on a planar section of a single wire where through a suitable structure a first dewatering stage of the web on the single wire is provided, a second dewatering stage being provided by way of a suitable dewatering show subsequent to the first dewatering stage with this second dewatering stage having an initial portion where dewatering takes place simultaneous in opposite directions and a final portion where dewatering takes place only outwardly away from the first wire.

Abstract: A machine for manufacturing paper, such as tissue paper, includes a twin-wire former made up of a rotary forming roll and a pair of endless fabrics, each of which may be a wire or felt, lapped around the rotary forming roll to provide twin-wire web formation therewith. At the location where these endless fabrics travel beyond the forming roll they diverge from each other to define between themselves a diverging space where one of the endless fabrics has an upwardly directed surface on which the web is carried beyond the forming roll. This latter endless fabric carries the web to a press section where this latter endless fabric travels with the web through a first press nip of the press section defined between an inner press roll situated within the loop of the latter endless fabric and an outer press roll situated outside of the latter loop.

Abstract: A continuous web of wood or cellulose pulp leaving a dewatering apparatus such as a suction mould or vat machine and having a relatively high content of water, is slitted in two or more longitudinal webs of approximately the same width. The narrow, slitted webs are turned so as to be parallel and brought together or gathered to a multilayer web which is narrower and thicker than the original web. This multilayer web is subjected to further dewatering in one or more pressing machines having dimensions adapted to those of the multilayer web. Finally, the multilayer web is cut transversely into sheets of appropriate size for stacking and packing in bales of suitable size.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improvement in the feeding of a wet web of paper from the fourdrinier wire of a paper making machine, at the couch roll thereof, to the felt of the adjacent first press section. A corner roll of the press section, with the felt entrained therearound is adjacent the couch roll, and a draw roll is positioned above the corner roll and slightly downstream thereof relative to the couch roll. The draw roll is in contact with the wet web on the felt and is driven thereby. This configuration results in fewer breaks and a cleaner web, thereby increasing productivity and reducing downtime.

Abstract: A paper machine has a wire which transports a web to a detaching location where the web is to be detached from the wire and transported to a press section. A felt travels up to and beyond the detaching location to engage the web at the detaching location and receive the web from the wire while continuing to transport the web, while it adheres to the felt, to the press section. At the detaching location, by way of a structure which preferably is in the form of a suction box, a flow of air is created to travel first through the wire, then through the web, and then through the felt with this flow of air being highly localized so as to travel only through a relatively narrow rectangular area which extends transversely across the felt throughout the entire width thereof as well as the entire width of the web and wire.

Abstract: A paper-making machine roll press or mill comprising a suction press roll over which there is trained a press felt, and which simultaneously serves for the direct transfer of a web of paper from a wire. A take-off press roll cooperates with the suction press roll to form a press station. The take-off press roll serves for the transfer of the paper web from the suction press roll and for the delivery thereof to a downstream part of the paper-making machine. An additional press station is provided between the suction press roll and the take-off press roll and is formed by a contact-pressure roll over which there is trained a felt. The contact-pressure roll comprises a hydrostatic flexure adjusting or controlled deflection roll having a shell mounted to be rotatable about its lengthwise axis and displaceable in the press direction relative to a fixed or stationary support.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying a secondary layer or coating on surfaces of wet formed board materials are disclosed. The secondary layer is applied to the wet mat material of the board being manufactured during press rolling of the wet mat. The secondary layer material is supplied in the form of a slurry which is caused to adhere to the surface of a wire screen. The wire screen surface bearing the layer of slurry material is then pressed onto the mat surface to deposit the slurry layer thereon.

Abstract: During the manufacture of a paper product such as paper or cardboard, a moving web of sheet material which is to form the paper product is lapped over a roll while the relatively smooth, hard surface of a smoothing member is pressed against an outer surface region of the sheet material across the entire width thereof while an inner surface region thereof engages the roll, so as to impart in this way desired characteristics to the surface of the web engaged by the smoothing member, with a frictional rubbing action being provided between the web and the surface of the smoothing member. The above roll may be the roll of a press section, a drying section, or a calendering section of a paper machine, and a suitable support structure carries the smoothing member to maintain the latter in engagement with the moving web. The smoothing member may be fixed to the supporting structure or may take the form of a smoothing roller supported for rotary movement by the supporting structure.

Abstract: A method and mechanism for forming a continuous traveling web from bagasse fibers including forming a web between a pair of looped traveling wires to dewater from both sides of the formed web, lifting the formed web off of one of the wires and immediately passing the web through a first press nip sandwiched between two press felts with the web continually being supported between the forming wire and first nip, carrying the web on the upper side of one of the felts to a second nip and passing the web between two felts in the second nip, bringing the web to a dryness of at least 30% in the first two double felted nips, transferring the web onto a plain roll and passing it through third and fourth nips on the plain roll with felts outwardly of the web and removing the web from the plain roll to transfer it to a dryer section.

Abstract: A paper machine arrangement for receiving a paper web from a forming wire and carrying the web through a plurality of press nips. A first felt picks up the web on the undersurface of the felt and carries the web through at least two press nips of a reverse press which includes an intermediate multi-compartment press roll and a first and second outer press roll forming first and second press nips with the intermediate roll. A second felt contacts the web prior to the reverse press and carries the web through the first press nip and the second felt is then guided downwardly away from the second outer press so that any broke can be dumped from the reverse press without shutting down the machine or accumulating the broke.

Abstract: A pickup and press section of a paper machine includes a suction pickup roll and felt which transfers a web from a wire, a first suction press roll and felt cooperating with the suction pickup roll and felt to define therewith a first press nip to which the web is transferred. A second suction press roll and a lower press roll situated therebeneath as well as a felt which cooperates with the latter lower press roll define a second press nip to which the web travels subsequent to the first press nip, the felt for the latter lower roll of the second press nip and for the first suction press roll being constituted by a single felt common to both of the latter rolls and supporting the web while it travels from the first to the second press nip.

Abstract: A paper machine wherein a pick-up roll or felt are eliminated. A pair of endless fabrics and forming rolls cooperating therewith provide with the pair of endless fabrics an ascending twin-wire former and in advance of the twin-wire former a single-wire former. One of these endless fabrics has an upper run extending laterally from the twin-wire former and carries the web formed at the twin-wire former beyond the latter on an upper surface of this upper run. A pair of press rolls include lower and upper press rolls which define a first press nip through which the above upper run travels together with an endless felt which is lapped around the upper press roll so that this endless felt and the above upper run are sandwiched between the press rolls with the web travelling beyond the first press nip together with the endless felt around part of the upper press roll.

Abstract: A paper machine, particularly adapted for manufacturing tissue paper, has inner and outer endless fabrics, each in the form of a wire or felt, guided around a smooth forming roll where the inner fabric is situated next to the forming roll between the latter and the outer fabric to define at the forming roll a curved twin-wire former. The outer fabric has an elongated portion situated in advance of the twin-wire former and spaced from the inner fabric to form a single-wire former which receives stock from a headbox and with which a suitable dewatering structure cooperates so that a considerable amount of water has been removed from the web forming on the single-wire former by the time the web reaches the twin-wire former. At the end of the twin-wire former distant from the single-wire former, the inner and outer fabrics are separated from each other and the web is transferred to the inner fabric by way of the normal table roll effect between the inner fabric and the smooth forming roll.

Abstract: A paper making machine including a hollow cylinder rotatable in a predetermined direction having a porous surface, a mesh wrapped around the cylinder, an outer band partially surrounding the cylinder and together with the mesh forming an inlet aperture, a nozzle for spraying suspended matter into the aperture, and a housing formed with a plurality of chambers disposed and open on a side facing the cylinder surrounded by the outer band, successive chambers in the direction of operative rotation of the cylinder being increasingly pressurized, the entire inner surface of the cylinder being subjected to a uniform pressure smaller than the pressure exerted on the part thereof surrounded by the outer band.

Abstract: A paper-machine press section having structure for transferring a web away from the press section toward the drying section of the machine. The press section includes a press roll with which a transfer structure cooperates for transferring a web from this press roll away from the latter and toward the drying section. This transfer structure includes at least a transfer suction roll having an outer shell formed with perforations through which suction is transmitted to a web. A suction chamber communicates with these perforations while between the suction chamber and the outer shell which has the perforations there is a sealing structure which is capable of providing between the perforated shell and the suction chamber a seal which does not require the use of seal water.

Abstract: Apparatus for manufacturing sleeves of fiber pulp by passing fiber pulp through a nozzle including a mandrel extending through the nozzle and a reciprocating piston mounted on the mandrel to exert pressure on the pulp. Screen members are located on the interior surface of the nozzle, the exterior surface of the mandrel, and the end surface of the piston in conjunction with suction means to provide for dewatering of the pulp.

Abstract: This invention relates to an improvement in a roller arrangement for removing water from fibrous material in which the material is fed between a pair of endless sieve bands which rotate in contact with each of upper and lower rollers. The improvement comprises upper and lower rollers each having a smaller diameter in the operating direction of the sieve bands than the preceding roller, and the vertical axial distances of the rollers also decrease in the operating direction. The invention also includes an improvement in which an additional roller is mounted above at least one upper roller contacted by both of the sieve bands, and the additional roller having a smaller diameter than the upper roller, whereby the sieve bands pass around the rollers in a Z-shaped path.