Abstract: A vibration-minimizing suspension mechanism for a press roll is provided. The press roll and an opposing roll each having a rotational axis and cooperate to form a press nip adapted to impart a linear load on a fiber web passing therethrough. The linear load is oriented through the rotational axes of the press roll and the opposing roll. As such, the suspension mechanism comprises a suspension arm having opposed ends and a medially-disposed pivot, wherein the press roll is rotatably engaged at the rotational axis thereof with one of the opposed ends of the suspension arm. The suspension arm is further pivotably and adjustably mounted at the pivot so as to allow the pivot to be adjusted in substantially parallel relation to the linear load.

Abstract: An on-machine-seamable papermaker's fabric includes a base fabric having seaming loops at its widthwise edges for joining the papermaker's fabric into endless form on a paper machine. The seam formed when the seaming loops are interdigitated and joined to one another with a pintle is covered with a strip of flow-resistant material, or, where the base fabric is a laminated structure having a top layer and a bottom layer, strips of flow-resistant material are placed between the top and bottom layers adjacent to the seam. The flow-resistant material provides the seam region with permeabilities to air and water substantially identical to those of the rest of the papermaker's fabric. At least one layer of staple fiber batt is entangled through the base fabric and flow-resistant material.

Abstract: The invention relates to a former-press section (100, 110) of a paper machine and to a method of transferring a web from a former to a press section. Between the former section (100) and the press section (110) there is a pre-press zone (PP) which removes water from the web (W) and through which the web (W) is passed as a closed draw from the former section (100) to the press section (110). The upper wet wire (10) or the equivalent transfer wire (10A) of the former section (100) is passed through the pre-press zone (PP), the web (W) being passed on the lower face of said wire into and through the pre-press zone (PP). Inside the loop of the upper wet wire (10) or of the equivalent transfer wire (10A) and/or inside the loop of the lower wet wire (20) there are transfer devices (15, 15a, 16, 26) based on the use of a pressure difference.

Abstract: A fabric for the forming, press and dryer sections of a paper machine, for use as a reinforcing base for a polymeric-resin-coated paper-processing belt or as a corrugator belt, or in other industrial settings where a material is being dewatered, is formed from a monofilament yarn, which is spirally wound in the form of a closed helix, adjacent turns thereof being abutted against and joined securely to one another. The monofilament yarn has a first side and a second side which are oppositely and correspondingly shaped, so that, when spirally wound in a plurality of turns, the first side fits closely into or against the second side of an adjacent and abutting turn, and adjacent spiral turns are secured to one another at the abutting first and second sides to form the fabric.

Abstract: Press section of a machine and process for producing webs. The press section includes a shoe press including a shoe press unit and a counter roll. The shoe press unit includes at least two press shoes and an elastic liquid-impermeable press belt guided over the at least two press shoes, and the at least two press shoes have different lengths measured in a web travel direction and each of the two press shoes is arranged for movement between an idle position and a press position facing the counter roll.

Abstract: A press for processing a web and a method of controlling a press. The press includes at least one nip having a first press roll and a second press roll. A first belt runs through the at least one nip. A second belt runs through the at least one nip. A sandwich stretch is formed by the first and second belts and is arranged after the at least one nip. A first mechanism is provided for driving the first belt. A second mechanism is provided for driving the second belt. The method includes driving the first belt at a first speed, and driving the second belt at a second speed, wherein the first speed is substantially the same as the second speed at least in a region of the sandwich stretch.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for maximizing water removal from an absorbent web in a press nip. The present invention uses a pressing unit having a blanket with a void volume and with a pressure profile that maximizes water removal in the press section or on the Yankee dryer of a paper machine. The pressure profile of the pressing unit according to the present invention has a very steep pressure drop at and/or following the exit of a pressure distribution curve in order to maximize water removal by minimizing rewet of the web. The improved pressure profile according to the present invention results in increased water removal and/or improved line speed. The void volume further increases water removal and/or improves line speed.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for maximizing water removal from an absorbent web in a press nip. The present invention uses a pressing unit having a blanket with a void volume and with a pressure profile that maximizes water removal in the press section or on the Yankee dryer of a paper machine. The pressure profile of the pressing unit according to the present invention has a very steep pressure drop at and/or following the exit of a pressure distribution curve in order to maximize water removal by minimizing rewet of the web. The improved pressure profile according to the present invention results in increased water removal and/or improved line speed. The void volume further increases water removal and/or improves line speed.

Abstract: An apparatus for processing a continuous web having a first side and a second side includes a plurality of rollers are arranged for cooperative rotation. The plurality of rollers are positioned to define a corresponding plurality of nips. The continuous web is processed through at least two of the plurality of nips. At least a first roller of the plurality of rollers has at least one void formed in the cylindrical middle surface. First and second sealing panels engage first and second circular ends of each of the plurality of rollers and define a chamber. A first pressure source is fluidly coupled to the chamber to pressurize the chamber. A membrane is positioned adjacent the first side of the continuous web to separate the continuous web from direct communication with the chamber.

Abstract: An arrangement for fastening a press jacket to a press roll end. In the arrangement, thinnings are formed at an edge of the press jacket and the press jacket is fastened to the roll end by means of holes formed at the edge of thicker jacket portions between the thinnings.

Abstract: Machine for producing a web includes a former for sheet formation of the web, a press section for dewatering the web, a drying section for drying the web, and at least one edge strip forming device positioned in an area of at least one of the press section and the drying section, which is arranged to separate at least one edge strip from the web.

Abstract: Device for producing a paper having a three dimensional pattern which has been given the paper web in connection with drying the paper web. The device comprises at least one press nip (12) comprising a rotatable heated roll (13) and a counter means (11, 14), at which either the heated roll (13) along its periphery alternatively a member surrounding the roll or a patterned wire, band or belt is provided with said three dimensional pattern, and wherein the wet paper web (10) is intended to pass through said press nip (12) and is given said pattern. A detaching roll (16) is arranged at a certain distance from the press nip (12) for taking off the paper web from the heated roll (13), and creping means (17) are arranged for creping the paper from said detaching roll (16).

Abstract: A device (10) for use in connection with a fabric (F) in a former or a press section of a paper machine comprises sub-assemblies which accomplish at least two of the following functions: guiding, spreading and/or cleaning of the fabric (F). The device (10) has an automatic guide (20) and a guide roll (40) for guiding the fabric (F), a curved spreader roll (30) for spreading the fabric (F), and a suction unit 19 for cleaning the fabric (F).

Abstract: The invention concerns a dewatering belt (1, 13, 17, 25, 30), in particular as a drying screen for paper machines, which is assembled from a plurality of plate-shaped planar elements (2, 14, 18, 24, 26, 27, 31, 32, 40) that, in order to adjust the permeability, have passthrough openings (41) and/or leave gaps (19, 36) between them, the planar elements (2, 14, 18, 24, 26, 27, 31, 32, 40) being coupled to one another, by way of flexible connecting cords (9, 16, 22, 23, 28, 37) which pass through the planar elements (2, 14, 18, 24, 26, 27, 31,. 32, 40), in such a way that the longitudinal forces acting on the dewatering belt (1, 13, 17, 25, 30) during operation act on them. The dewatering belt (1) is characterized in that the connecting cords (9, 16, 22, 23, 28, 37) extend in the longitudinal direction of the dewatering belt (1, 13, 17, 25, 30) and are anchored at their ends in end pieces (5, 6, 20, 29, 38) which can be coupled to one another.

Abstract: Felt for use in a paper machine, with a textile backing element (20, 60) that comprises threads oriented transversely (30) and longitudinally (40) with respect to the direction of transport of the paper machine, and onto which fibres are needled to form a felt structure, wherein at least some of the transverse threads (30) exhibit a twisted structure (10).

Abstract: Machine and process for producing a fibrous material web. The machine includes at least one shoe press having at least one drying cylinder and a shoe press unit which are arranged to form a pressing nip elongated in a web travel direction. At least one suctioned apparatus is arranged before the at least one shoe press relative to the web travel direction, and a water-permeable continuous carrying belt is arranged to guide the fibrous material web over the at least one suctioned apparatus and through the elongated pressing nip. A hood subjected to an overpressure is assigned to the suctioned apparatus and is arranged to support an underpressure effect of the at least one suctioned apparatus. The process includes guiding the fibrous material web and the carrying belt through the elongated pressing nip, and supporting an underpressure effect of the suctioned apparatus by creating an overpressure in the hood.

Abstract: The invention relates to a press in a machine for the production or treatment of a continuously running web of cellulosic fibrous material, for instance a paper, tissue or board machine, which press comprises a press device and a counter element arranged opposite the press device, which is arranged to form a press zone in the form of an extended press nip in cooperation with the press device having a certain width in the machine direction for pressing the fibrous web as it runs through the press nip, which press device comprises a press shoe, a support element for supporting and pressing the press shoe in a direction towards the counter element via at least one power device arranged between the press shoe and the support element for application of a certain pressure onto the fibrous web during the pressing operation, a flexible and preferably impermeable belt that is arranged to run in a continuous loop around the support element and through the press nip, having a sliding contact with the press shoe and a fi

Abstract: A papermaking felt which offers excellent elasticity over a long duration comprises a base body (2) and batt layers (3), and a film layer (5) with elongate ridges (4) having their orientation in the CMD direction. The film is arranged in the base body, in the batt layers, or between the layers. The papermaking felt is capable of running flexibly and smoothly in a winding path of a papermaking machine, and is highly resistant to flattening through fatigue, even if subjected to repeated compression under the nip pressure.

Abstract: A papermaking felt comprises a woven ground fabric layer and a fibrous web accumulated on one side or on both sides of the ground fabric layer. The ground fabric and the fibrous web are intertwined and made integral by needling. To maintain the three dimensional structure of the felt against the pressure to which the papermaking felt is continually subjected in a high speed papermaking machine, and thereby retain the felt's water-squeezing function over a long period of time, all yarns of the warp or weft, or a part of the distributed yarns of the warp or weft which composes the ground fabric layer, are replaced by straight yarns S so that the warp or weft themselves maintain the felt's dimensional stability. Alternatively, straight yarns may be additionally and evenly inserted along the warp or weft of the ground fabric layer.

Abstract: A paper machine for manufacturing soft paper comprises a press section with a shoe press nip, through which a substantially impermeable belt and a felt run with the fibrous web enclosed between them, a drying cylinder and a transfer roll forming a nip for transfer of the web to the drying cylinder. According to the invention the belt comprises a carrier with a compressible polymer coating having a hardness of 50 to 97 Shore A, which polymer coating has a web-contacting surface with a degree of roughness in unloaded state of Rz=2-80 microns, measured in accordance with ISO 4287, and a lower degree of roughness of Rz=0-20 microns when the polymer coating is compressed by linear load of 20-220 kN/m on the belt as measured in a non-extended press nip, the belt and the web-carrying felt being arranged to run together not until they enter the press section, the belt running directly to the press section.

Abstract: Pressing arrangement for treating a fibrous material web that includes opposing surface and shoe press roll including non-rotationally mounted carrier, flexible pressing jacket arranged to circulate around carrier, and at least one press shoe supported on carrier. The at least one press shoe is arranged to press flexible pressing jacket against opposing surface. Shoe press roll and opposing surface are arranged to form press nip elongated in jacket travel direction, and the at least one press shoe includes outlet arranged to extend beyond, in jacket travel direction, an end of press nip. The at least one press shoe is arranged to press pressing jacket against opposing surface such that, in a region of press nip, pressing jacket is moved radially outside of a circular path formed by pressing jacket in an unstressed state, and pressing jacket is arranged to rest against a free end of outlet.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a machine and process for producing a tissue web. The machine includes a forming area including at least one rotating continuous dewatering wire with zonally varied wire permeability, and at least one shoe press. The process includes dewatering the tissue web with at least the at least one continuous dewatering wire with zonally varied wire permeability, and pressing the tissue web in the at least one shoe press.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of and a device for the manufacture of dimensionally stable, liquid-impermeable, flexible, elastic pressbands, particularly for use with broad-nip shoepresses of paper making machines. The method comprising pouring a flowable mixture of a prepolymer onto a substrate moved by a distance maintaining device over a cylindrical mandrel and maintained during this movement in an adjustable distance from the surface of said mandrel, and being coated during this movement by a coating device with a flowable prepolymer, wherein during this coating of the substrate threads or wires are laid down onto the substrate in the direction of rotation of the mandrel and are coated with the polymer substance.

Abstract: The present invention is a method for maximizing water removal from an absorbent web in a press nip. The present invention uses a pressing unit having a blanket with a void volume and with a pressure profile that maximizes water removal in the press section or on the Yankee dryer of a paper machine. The pressure profile of the pressing unit according to the present invention has a very steep pressure drop at and/or following the exit of a pressure distribution curve in order to maximize water removal by minimizing rewet of the web. The improved pressure profile according to the present invention results in increased water removal and/or improved line speed. The void volume further increases water removal and/or improves line speed.

Abstract: Shoe press and press section including shoe press for processing a fibrous material web that includes two shoe press units arranged to form an essentially level press nip elongated in a web travel direction. Each of the two shoe press units include a circulating flexible, continuous sealing belt and a press shoe, such that the circulating flexible, continuous sealing belt is arranged to be guided over the press shoe in a region of the press nip. At least two driven continuous press belts are arranged such that at least one of the at least two driven continuous press belts are positioned on each side of the fibrous material web to guide the fibrous material web through the press nip.

Abstract: 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.

Abstract: Press arrangement for processing a fibrous material web that includes at least first and second presses arranged to form at least first and second press nips. The at least first and second presses are structured and arranged without a common center roll and without a common felt. The first press is a double felted press including a suction press roll and a mating roll, and is positioned upstream from the second press relative to a web run direction. The suction press roll is structured and arranged as a pick-up roll and is located on top of said mating roll.

Abstract: An arrangement for adjusting the width of a fibre web in an apparatus comprising two filter wires permeable to water, the filter wires having the same direction of travel, and a conduit for placing pulp suspension between the wires. The arrangement comprises channel for feeding water between the wires and to the edges thereof.

Abstract: Apparatus and process for processing material web. Apparatus includes a rotatable cylinder, in which material web is guided over rotatable cylinder, first fixed carrier, and at least three belt guide rolls, in which one of the at least three guide belts is pivotably coupled to fixed carrier. Endless belt is mounted on and guided by at least three belt guide rolls, where endless belt is guided over rotatable cylinder in a same direction as material web, and pivotably coupled belt guide roll is pivotably positionable between a tensioning position and a retracted position relative to endless belt. Second fixed carrier is provided and tensioning roll is positioned outside of endless belt and pivotably coupled to second fixed carrier, so that tensioning roll is pivotably positionable between a retracted position and a loading position of endless belt. Tensioning roll is further positioned between pivotably coupled belt guide roll and adjacent belt guide roll.

Abstract: A paper-making press felt (1) includes a base member (2) and at least one batt layer (3) laminated on the base member (2), and is characterized in that the base member (2) is made of a plurality of ground fabrics, and in that, of the plurality of ground fabrics, a second ground fabric (B) arranged next to a first ground fabric (A) arranged nearest to a surface (4) on which a wet paper sheet is placed has a structure whose density is higher than or whose air permeability is lower than that of the first ground fabric (A), and can regulate water from moving from the second ground fabric (B) to the first ground fabric (A) and hence can prevent a re-wetting phenomenon effectively.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a press fabric for a paper machine includes the attachment of a strip of top laminate layer material to a base fabric using a heat-activated adhesive film. The top laminate layer material may be a woven fabric, a nonwoven mesh, or a thermoplastic sheet material, and, in any case, has the heat-activated adhesive film bonded to one of its two sides. The strip of top laminate layer material and heat-activated adhesive film together form a multi-component strip, which is spiralled onto the outer surface of the base fabric, with the side of the strip of top laminate layer material having the heat-activated adhesive film against the outer surface, in a closed helix, and bonded thereto with heat and pressure. The portions of the multi-component strip overhanging the lateral edges of the base fabric are then trimmed, and a staple fiber batt is needled into and through the top laminate layer formed by the multi-component strip to firmly attach it to the base fabric.

Abstract: A device for dewatering solid/liquid suspensions, especially pulp suspensions, where the suspension is dewatered between two belts, with one dewatering zone being a wedge zone. A pair of rolls downstream of the wedge zone impart both area pressure and line pressure on the pulp web formed by the pulp suspension.

Abstract: An endless belt in which a fibrous material is dispersed in a substantially uniform manner all over an endless elastic body layer is provided. A non-woven tape is impregnated with a polyurethane elastomer material liquid and wound and layered on a supporting belt, and then, after curing the polyurethane elastomer material liquid to form an elastic body, it is removed from supporting belt.

Abstract: A flat woven papermaker's forming fabric having a paper side layer and a machine side layer interconnected by pairs of weft binder yarns. Each of the binder yarn pair members in sequence interweaves with a portion of the paper side layer warp yarns in segments of the weft yarn path so as to complete an unbroken weft path in the paper side layer weave pattern, and to provide an internal paper side layer float. Each of the binder yarn pair floats interlaces with a machine side layer warp yarn so as to bind the paper and machine side layers together. To recess the binder yarns from the plane of fabric wear the interlacing point is located at or near the midpoint of an internal float in the machine side layer warp yarn. The number of paper side layer weft yarns located between each of the pairs of intrinsic weft yarns is irregular within one repeat of the overall fabric weave pattern. The location of the paper side layer internal floats also determines the interlacing locations with the machine side layer.

Abstract: A device for processing a continuous fiber web includes a membrane, a pressurized enclosure, a tension roll and a guide roll. The pressurized enclosure includes at least a first roll and defines an air press chamber. The first roll partially defines the air press chamber and carries the membrane. The tension roll also carries the membrane and is movable toward and away from the first roll. The guide roll further carries the membrane and is positioned between the first roll and the tension roll. The guide roll has opposite ends, at least one of which is pivotable toward and away from the first roll.

Abstract: Device for the washing and dewatering a fibrous suspension, which device incorporates two hollow, circular cylindrical filter drums (1), which filter drums incorporate evacuation chambers inside the-filter drums for evacuation of fluid. The filter drums rotate in opposite directions to create a pinch (2) where at least one of the said filter drums (1) is installed in a trough (7,8) which partly encloses the outer surface (3) of the filter drum and which, in the direction of rotation of the filter drum, converges towards the outer surface of the filter drum. At least one pulp inflow chamber (4) is installed at the highest point (1) of one or both of the filter drums each equipped with a trough for the introduction of pulp between the outer surfaces (3) of the filter drum and its trough (7,8) for the formation of a fibrous web.

Abstract: Pressing arrangement having two press rolls forming at least one press nip for dewatering a web, and two dewatering belts arranged to be guided through the at least one press nip with the web. The dewatering belts positioned on opposite sides of the web to absorb water. A common guidance path, formed by the dewatering belts guiding the web, is located after the at least one press nip. A separating roll and a lower one of the dewatering belts is arranged to wrap the separating roll along with the web at an end of the common guidance path. An upper one of the dewatering belts is arranged to be guided away from the web in a separation path in a region of the separating roll. Lower dewatering belt and web wrap the separating roll subsequent to the separation path at a wrapping angle of at least about 30°.

Abstract: A roller unit for a pressing apparatus for processing a continuous web includes a roller having a first circular end, a second circular end and a cylindrical middle surface. An elastic sealing sleeve having a plurality of pressurizable fluid cavities is positioned over the cylindrical middle surface of the roller. A first end seal can be attached to said first circular end of the roller and a second end seal can be attached to said second circular end or the roller, wherein each of said first end seal and said second end seal includes a plurality of pressurizable fluid cavities.

Abstract: A method for detecting contamination on or damage to a web-contacting face in a paper machine or a paper finishing machine, including the steps of detecting vibrations of the web-contacting face over a period of time by means of a plurality of detectors arranged in association with the machine and determining the location of the contamination on or damage to the web-contacting face based on the time the vibrations were detected.

Abstract: Water draining device for a paper machine or the like, in particular for a felted press of such a paper machine, including a receiving tank extending at least essentially over the machine width. The receiving tank includes a first chamber that receives arriving water and is under ambient pressure, and a second chamber that is connected to the first chamber and is under vacuum, into which the water collecting in the first chamber is aspirated and from which the water is eventually drained. A water receiving device of improved efficiency is also provided by forming a water receiving device by at least one suction channel projecting into the wedge-shaped area between the upper press roll and the dewatering belt, and extending transverse to the pulp web, which suction channel is connected to a source of reduced pressure.

Abstract: Press section and method of using the same for drainage of a fibrous material web that includes a shoe press roll, a cylindrical counter roll, at least one nip, a first nip of the at least one nip formed by the shoe press roll and the cylindrical counter roll, and at least one press felt. The at least one press felt is disposed on each side of the fibrous material web. The at least one press felt travels through a last nip of the at least one nip where the at least one press felt is separated from the fibrous material web and conveyed away after leaving the last nip. The drainage capacity and the reliable guidance of the fibrous material web are improved.

Abstract: A paper machine and web control system for the same to be activated on web rupture, which paper machine has a double-felted press nip and a treatment unit for increasing the dry solids content of the web downstream of the press nip, the web being transferred from the press nip to the treatment unit in an open draw. The web control system has a water-application device arranged at the open draw to discharge jets of water against the upper press felt on rupture of the web so as to prevent an upstream end of the web continuing with the upper press felt, a felt-deflection device situated downstream of the press nip to bring the press felts into contact with each other downstream of the press nip on rupture of the web so as to sandwich the web between the felts, and a suction device in the loop of the lower press felt at a position between the press nip and the felt-deflection device to temporarily attach the web to the lower press felt by suction.

Abstract: Device and method for draining a web in a paper production machine. The device may include a press section having at least one press nip for draining and smoothing the web. The at least one press nip may be arranged to smooth one surface of the web more than its opposite surface and the device may also include a roughening device that roughens the one surface of the web. The method may include guiding the web through a press section of the paper production machine to drain and smooth the web in which the press section include at least one nip, smoothing one surface of the web more than its opposite surface in the at least one nip, and roughening the one surface.

Abstract: A method in a paper machine for transferring a paper web from a wet wire in a former section to a pick-up fabric or an equivalent transfer fabric of a press section, including the steps of forming a pick-up point on the wet wire and separating an edge strip from at least one edge of the web prior to the pick-up point by means of at least one cutting device. The method further includes separating the web from the wet wire and passing the web onto the pick-up fabric at the pick-up point. The method also includes applying a pressure difference to the at least one edge strip through the wet wire or the pick-up fabric at or after the pick-up point to cause the at least one edge strip to either follow the wet wire or become separated from the pick-up fabric after the pick-up point and to be placed in a broke system arranged beneath the paper machine.

Abstract: A web of tissue is formed in a crescent former, followed by an air press for water removal in the pressing section, passing onto a Yankee dryer. A headbox injects stock between upper and lower dryer fabrics brought together on a breast roll. The fabrics move over vacuum boxes, and the web is heated with steam and passed between an upper pressure box and a lower vacuum box forming an air press which dewaters the web. A sheet transfer pickup vacuum box holds the sheet to the upper fabric as the lower fabric diverges from the upper fabric. A pressure roller transfers the web onto a Yankee dryer. The fabrics are cleaned on vertical runs before returning to the breast roll. A second upper fabric or transfer fabric operating at a lower speed then the first can be used to form a rush transfer between the forming fabrics and the Yankee dryer which increases web bulk and absorbency. Instead of a second fabric, a vacuum pressure roll may perform the rush transfer between the lower forming fabric and the Yankee dryer.

Abstract: A method for the treatment of a material web and a press arrangement with a plurality of press gaps. A roll has a flexible press jacket supported from an inside, and forms a respective press gap with each of at least two further driven rolls. The drive power, or speed of one of the driven rolls, is regulated in accordance with a predetermined desired value, to ensure a common speed of the driven roll. A maximum line force and/or drive power of a front press gap, considered in a web running direction, is controlled and/or regulated, at least within a certain range, in accordance with a maximum line force, or drive power, of a rear press gap, considered in the web running direction.

Abstract: A method in a paper machine for transferring a paper web from a wet wire in a former section to a pick-up fabric or an equivalent transfer fabric of a press section, including the steps of forming a pick-up point on the wet wire and separating an edge strip from at least one edge of the web prior to the pick-up point by means of at least one cutting device. The method further includes separating the web from the wet wire and passing the web onto the pick-up fabric at the pick-up point. The method also includes applying a pressure difference to the at least one edge strip through the wet wire or the pick-up fabric at or after the pick-up point to cause the at least one edge strip to either follow the wet wire or become separated from the pick-up fabric after the pick-up point and to be placed in a broke system arranged beneath the paper machine.

Abstract: Drying screen for a fibrous pulp web and process for using the same. The drying screen includes a support structure composed of one of a web or mesh, and an elastic coating having a shaped surface provided on a side of the support structure adapted to face the fibrous pulp web. The process of using the drying screen includes pressing the drying screen and the fibrous pulp web together, whereby the press device compresses the elastic layer of the drying screen, adhering the fibrous pulp web to the drying screen via suction after the pressing of the fibrous pulp web and drying screen, and guiding the fibrous pulp web on the drying screen.

Abstract: A papermaking belt and paper made thereon. The papermaking belt comprises a patterned framework and a reinforcing element. The papermaking belt may be used as a through air drying belt, a forming wire, a backing wire, a conventional press felt, etc. The papermaking belt has a reinforcing element and a framework extending from the reinforcing element. Intermediate various portions of the framework are deflection conduits. The framework is interrupted and subdivided by synclines. The framework, synclines and deflection conduits respectively impart first, second and third values of intensive properties to regions of the paper made on these portions of the belt. The value of the intensive property of the regions of the paper corresponding to the synclines is intermediate the value of the regions of the paper corresponding to the framework and deflection conduits.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for forming a continuous web on a forming fabric includes providing a pressurized chamber, processing the forming fabric through the pressurized chamber, and distributing a pressurized flow of a slurry having a first composition in the pressurized chamber across the width of the forming fabric to form the continuous web.