Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of manufacturing a rotor for a screening apparatus and a rotor structure for a screening apparatus. The rotor structure is particularly suitable in screening fiber suspensions of the pulp and paper industry. The apparatus relates to a novel rotor construction, and especially to a novel means of fastening a turbulence element on the rotor surface. The rotor is provided with easily replaceable turbulence elements so that at least a part of the rotor has at least one area —having a surface configuration different from the remaining rotor surface, on which area the turbulence element is fastened.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a rotor element for use with a rotor and a rotor featuring said elements. The rotor is used in a screening apparatus of the pulp and paper industry. The rotor element (10) has two longitudinal edges, a first, so-called leading edge (12) and a second, so-called trailing edge (14); two opposite ends, a first end and a second end; and a surface (18) arranged between said first edge (12) and said second edge (14), said surface (18) being divided by means of a borderline (20) into a first, so called leading surface (22) having its origin at said first edge (12), and a second, so called trailing surface (24) having its origin at said second edge (14), where a distance (W1) between said borderline (20) and said first edge (12) is smaller at said first end of said rotor element (10) than at the second end of said rotor element (10).

Abstract: A device including a hollow cylindrical body, first and second stationary coaxial annular screening screens disposed within the body, and a rotor within the body and positioned between the screens to conduct the slurry through the first screen and then through the second screen, the rotor being driven in rotation. The pulp slurry passes through a central entry pipe, radially outward and then upward along the inside of the rotor, further inward through a coarse screen cylinder, and then around the end of the rotor to pass between the outer surface of the rotor and the inner surface of a fine screen cylinder. The pulp slurry then finally passes outward through the fine screen cylinder. Coarse rejects, such as knots or other coarse material, are collected at the end of the coarse screening chamber and led away for further processing. Fine rejects are similarly collected at the end of the fine screening chamber, also to be led away separately for further processing.

Abstract: A screen and a method for screening pulp. The screen comprises a body, a screen cylinder arranged inside the body for screening the pulp, and an accept chamber and an accept aggregate connected with it for removing the accepted pulp fraction from the screen. The accept chamber is arranged between the screening surface of the screen cylinder and the screen body and it is arranged to expand in the radial direction of the screen cylinder outwards from the screen cylinder continuously in the longitudinal direction of the screen cylinder towards the line which is parallel to the radius of the screen cylinder and corresponds to the cross-section of the body and on which the accept aggregate is arranged.

Abstract: A screening device for the wet screening of a paper fiber suspension comprising at least one screen plate having a plurality of screen openings, a support structure being detachably attachable to the screen plate, a rotor movable adjacent the screen plate and an outlet opening for a portion of the paper fiber suspension passing the screen openings The support structure of the device is characterized by an outer support ring and an inner support ring and at least one middle support element arranged radially between the inner and outer support rings to support the at least one screen plate. Elastic pre-stressing against the screen plate is generated, and as a result of the elastic pre-stressing, the screen plate exerts compressive forces on at least one radially intermediate support element and respectively exerts tensile forces both on the inner support ring and on the outer support ring.

Abstract: A device for cleaning a suspension, preferably a fibrous suspension for paper production. The device includes a screen basket, on the exterior surface of which the suspension to be cleaned is supplied and from the interior surface of which the screened accepted stock is released. A housing surrounds the screen basket. The housing includes an inflow for the suspension to be cleaned, an accepted-stock outlet for the cleaned suspension and a reject outlet for impurities. A scraping device rotates on the outside of the screen basket about the screen basket axis and has scraper blades (foils) which scrape along the exterior surface of the screen basket. The scraping device comprises a drum with a cylinder surrounding the screen basket. The cylinder carries a plurality of foils on its inside facing the screen basket.

Abstract: An inline sifter including a gas-powder mixture receiving module which receives a mixture of a gas and powdery material from an inlet, a sieving module which communicates with a supply chamber of the gas-powder mixture receiving module, a rotating mechanism which is laterally extended inside the supply chamber and the sieving chamber, a cylindrical sieve arranged such that the rotating shaft extended in said sieving chamber passes through a center thereof, a wind power amplifier located in an internal area of the sieve to amplify wind power and press the powdery material out from the sieve, a removal member used to remove a remaining material from the sieve, an outlet used to discharge material which has passed through the sieve, and a support member. The gas-powder mixture, being supplied in a circumferential direction of the supply chamber, flows around the rotating shaft and is fed into the sieving chamber.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for size classifying ammonium sulfate crystals using a screen, said process comprising feeding a feed suspension to the screen, said feed suspension comprising said ammonium sulfate crystals in an ammonium sulfate solution, size classifying the ammonium sulfate crystals, and keeping both sides of the screen immersed in liquid during said size classifying.

Abstract: A screening machine for a fiber suspension includes a vessel; a rotor disposed within the vessel; and a screen plate positioned in stationary opposition to the rotor. The screen plate includes a plurality of substantially parallel first grooves extending in a first direction and a plurality of substantially parallel second grooves extending in a second direction. The first grooves intersect with the second grooves. The first grooves and the second grooves conjunctively define a plurality of lands and depressions. A plurality of the lands and a plurality of the depressions include a through-hole extending through the screen plate.

Abstract: A device for cleaning a suspension, preferably a fibrous suspension for paper production. The device includes a screen basket, on the exterior surface of which the suspension to be cleaned is supplied and from the interior surface of which the screened accepted stock is released. A housing surrounds the screen basket. The housing includes an inflow for the suspension to be cleaned, an accepted-stock outlet for the cleaned suspension and a reject outlet for impurities. A scraping device rotates on the outside of the screen basket about the screen basket axis and has scraper blades (foils) which scrape along the exterior surface of the screen basket. The scraping device comprises a drum with a cylinder surrounding the screen basket. The cylinder carries a plurality of foils on its inside facing the screen basket.

Abstract: A screen cylinder (125) used for screening cellulosic fibrous material pulp in the pulp and paper industry incorporates first (66) and second (67) downstream surfaces (16) having contoured slopes that form a funnel entrance of the grooves (13) at the screen cylinder slots (17). The contoured construction of the screen cylinder (125) effects greatly enhanced utility compared to conventional milled and discrete element screen cylinders, including substantially avoiding the Coanda effect.

Abstract: A strainer for fibrous suspensions, having a container, a filtering basket inside the container and a rotor inside the filtering basket coupled to motorization means suited to set it rotating. In the container there are a drain chamber of the rejected suspension, a delivery chamber of the filtered suspension, and a collector body arranged in the upper part of the container. The collector body has a lower collector and an upper collector, both with radial longitudinal profile in the shape of a truncated cone and connected to each other in correspondence with the long bases. The lower collector has its short base facing the filtering basket and the upper collector has its short base facing upwards.

Abstract: It is an object of the present invention to provide a screen apparatus having a function of dilute water which is suitable for a centripetal type screen which rotates inside the screen. A screen apparatus A comprises a tank 1 for receiving paper raw materials including an entrance 1c for the paper raw materials, a selection exit 1d and a foreign matter exit 1e, a cylindrical screen 2 fixed in the tank 1 and dividing the tank 1 into a primary chamber 1a and a secondary chamber 1b, and a stirring member 3 which is rotatably supported inside the screen 2 for stirring the paper raw materials.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a screen for screening two or more pulp mixtures with different roughness. The screen comprises a first screen cylinder and a second screen cylinder. A coarse first pulp mixture is fed into the inlet end of the first screen cylinder, and a second, less coarse pulp mixture is supplied to the second screen cylinder. The pulp mixtures are screened by means of a screen surface of the screen cylinders into accept that passes apertures provided in the screen surface and reject that does not pass the apertures. The accept from the second cylinder is conveyed by means of a guide tube provided between the cylinders towards the inlet end of the first cylinder and it is finally mixed with the first pulp mixture. The accept from the first and the second pulp mixture passes the screen surface of the first screen cylinder.

Abstract: A method for separating polyester materials from contaminants is disclosed suitable for, for example, a polyester recycling system. The method is a dry separation method and includes rapidly spinning a mixture of polyester and contaminants within a cleaning chamber. During the spinning of the mixture, the contaminants can be degraded and pass through a screen at the chamber wall while the polyester materials are not substantially degraded and can remain in the cleaning chamber. Polyester fines can also remain in the cleaning chamber. A cleaning device suitable for use in the process is also disclosed. The device can include a screen of a hardened material that can help degrade the contaminants and a plurality of rotating blades that can spin the mixture within the device and can also help to degrade the contaminant materials.

Abstract: A rotor adapted for use in a hydrodynamic device comprising a cylindrical screen having a circumferentially continuous apertured zone. The rotor has an axis of rotation and includes a substantially cylindrical outer surface adjacent the cylindrical screen surface. The rotor further includes a plurality of sets of a plurality of adjacent vane members supported above a substantially cylindrical outer surface of a rotor by a plurality of brackets. The rotor has an axis of rotation and is mounted within and co-axial with the cylindrical screen to define an annular screening chamber between the rotor and the screen. The sets are equally spaced apart in a direction circumferential to the rotor axis, and the vane members extend the length of the screening chamber parallel to the rotor axis.

Abstract: A screen apparatus includes a tank, a first cylidrical screen disposed inside the tank to form a first chamber, and a second cylidrical screen disposed outside the first cylindrical screen. The second cylindrical screen defines a second? chamber facing the first cylindrical screen and having upper and lower portions communicating with an inlet portion, and second? chamber. A connection member has a groove facing the second? chamber at an intermediate portion of the second cylindrical screen, and a passage communicating with the groove for discharging a paper stock. The paper stock flows to the second? chamber through the upper and lower portions. A part of the paper stock passing through the first and second cylindrical screens is discharged through first and second selection outlet portions, and a part of the paper stock not passing throught the first and second cylindrical screens is discharged through the passage.

Abstract: A the operation of pulp screening apparatus may be improved by employing a multi element foil having a leading foil section and a trailing foil section spaced from and trailing leading section so that adjacent surfaces of the sections one formed by a portion of a pressure side of the leading section and the other by the leading end of the trailing foil section define opposed walls of a passage for fluid directing fluid flow from the pressure side of the leading foil section to a cambered low pressure side of the trailing section. The angle of attack (?) of the complete multi element foil is set to be significantly less than the angle of attack (?) of the trailing foil section to increase the negative pressure pulse generated by the trailing section and thereby improve operation of the screening device.

Abstract: A the operation of pulp screening apparatus may be improved by employing a multi element foil having a leading foil section and a trailing foil section spaced from and trailing leading section so that adjacent surfaces of the sections one formed by a portion of a pressure side of the leading section and the other by the leading end of the trailing foil section define opposed walls of a passage for fluid directing fluid flow from the pressure side of the leading foil section to a cambered low pressure side of the trailing section. The angle of attack (&agr;) of the complete multi element foil is set to be significantly less than the angle of attack (&thgr;) of the trailing foil section to increase the negative pressure pulse generated by the trailing section and thereby improve operation of the screening device.

Abstract: Apparatus for the screening of fiber suspensions is disclosed including a housing, a reject outlet and an accept outlet, a screen located within the housing, a rotor including pulsation wings mounted therein, a reject chamber in the housing for collecting a reject portion of the fiber suspension, and an accept chamber for collecting the accept portion of the fiber suspension passing through the screen and supplying it to the accept outlet, each of the pulsation wings including an outside face and an inside face, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and upper and lower ends so that a predetermined pressure difference is created between the outside and inside faces of the pulsation wings in the direction of the lower edge thereof.

Abstract: Pressurized screen for screening a fibrous suspension that includes intake chamber having an intake to guide the fibrous suspension into the intake chamber, and at least one wire element with a plurality of wire openings. The at least one wire element passes at least a portion of the fibrous suspension in the intake chamber and rejects at least a portion of the fibrous suspension in the intake chamber. A centrifuge rotor with apertures is positioned in the intake chamber so that at least a part the fibrous suspension in the intake chamber travels radially inwardly through the apertures and into the at least one wire element. A heavy material outlet removes at least a part of the fibrous suspension not traveling through the apertures. 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.

Abstract: Process for the filtration of paper pulp with a device that comprises a rotor and a stator; one of the two, filter (1), has perforations of slot or hole types, and the other, the backwashing element, includes means that are intended to generate pressure pulses that consist in combatting the gradual clogging of the perforations of the filter and the gradual flocculation of the pulp during the creep of the pulp between the rotor and the stator by creating deflocculation zones and/or increasing the relative speed between the pulp and the backwashing elements.

Abstract: A screen for cleaning a pulp suspension including an additional screen basket in the infeed area for pre-screening.

Abstract: A screen for cleaning a pulp suspension includes a stationary installation in the infeed area between the infeed branch and the free end of the rotor.

Abstract: A screen, for screening material used in the production of paper, board and the like, having a screen basket and a rotor supporting several blades which can be moved along the wall of the screen basket when the rotor rotates. The blades having a convex curvature on the side facing the screen basket. The radial clearance between the surface of the blade facing the screen and the screen being lowest between the front sector, viewed in the direction of rotation, and increasing towards the rear edge of the blade.

Abstract: A screening apparatus is used for screening acceptable and rejectable material from a pressurized fiber suspension. The screening apparatus includes a housing, a rotor, a screen basket and at least one sensor. The screen basket is positioned generally concentrically around the rotor, and includes at least one screen element. Each sensor is positioned in association with the screen basket. Each sensor is configured for sensing a wear parameter relating to a wear state of the screen element.

Abstract: A screening apparatus for screening acceptable and rejectable material from a pressurized fiber suspension includes a housing and a rotor within the housing. The rotor has a top end. A screen basket is positioned generally concentrically around the rotor. A rotor blade ring is connected to the top end of the rotor and rotates with the rotor. A stationary defibering ring is positioned adjacent to the rotor blade ring.

Abstract: The present invention is a pulp screening device which is capable of screening a large quantity of pulp with low power, by preventing clogging of a screen cylinder. The device is provided with one or a plurality of vanes which revolve within an agitation chamber formed between a pair of inner and outer screen cylinders, holding a predetermined small space from each of the inner and outer screen cylinders. The agitation chamber is practically partitioned in the circumferential direction by the vanes.

Abstract: A pressure screen for separating a liquid mixture is disclosed, comprising a screen housing forming a cylindrical screen chamber, and an inlet housing directly connected to the screen housing and forming a cylindrical inlet chamber, the diameter of which is less than the diameter of the screen chamber. An inlet member is positioned on the inlet chamber for supplying a suspension to be separated substantially tangentially into the inlet chamber and an outlet member is positioned on the inlet chamber for discharging coarse contaminants from the inlet chamber, whereby the scrap particles are prevented from entering the screen chamber.

Abstract: Apparatus for the screening of fiber suspensions is disclosed including a housing, a reject outlet and an accept outlet, a screen located within the housing, a rotor including pulsation wings mounted therein, a reject chamber in the housing for collecting a reject portion of the fiber suspension, and an accept chamber for collecting the accept portion of the fiber suspension passing through the screen and supplying it to the accept outlet, each of the pulsation wings including an outside face and an inside face, a leading edge, a trailing edge, and upper and lower ends so that a predetermined pressure difference is created between the outside and inside faces of the pulsation wings in the direction of the lower edge thereof.

Abstract: A screen for cleaning a pulp suspension including a cylindrical screen basket and a double-conical accept chamber which widens in the flow direction of the pulp suspension.

Abstract: Pressure screen to remove impurities from a paper fiber suspension that contains impurities. Pressure screen includes a housing having at least one inflow fitting, at least one accept outflow fitting and at least one reject outflow, and at least first and second cylindrical wires located within housing. The at least first and second wires are arranged to be consecutively flowed through by paper fiber suspension, which is introduced into housing through inflow fitting. A first accept, including a portion of paper fiber suspension that passes through first wire, flows toward second wire, and a second accept, including a portion of paper fiber suspension that passes through second wire, flows out of housing through accept outflow. The at least first and second wires are arranged within housing so that paper fiber suspension is fed radially through the at least first and second wires from an inside to an outside.

Abstract: Process and device for fractioning a suspension containing paper fibers, in which the suspension is separated into at least two fractions by a wire with a scraper. The process includes moving the scraper in a substantially parallel relation to the wire so that the wire is kept clear, and a parallel current is created in the suspension with respect to an inlet side of the wire by a rough surface of the scraper, so that the suspension is dragged along the inlet side of the wire with the scraper with minimal slippage of the suspension. The device includes at least one wire having an inlet side with openings; and a scraper having a closed rough surface provided adjacent the at least one wire; wherein the scraper is movable substantially parallel to the inlet side of the at least one wire, whereby clogging of the openings of said wire is substantially prevented.

Abstract: A screen device for separating fiber suspensions comprises a screen (40) defining a central chamber (36), and a rotor (15) in the central chamber having a first (21) and a second (27) rotor portion, respectively, provided with first (43) and second (41) pulsation elements, respectively, for pulsating the suspension close to the screen along a first (11) an a second (9) axial screen portion, respectively, of the screen. The first rotor portion (21) and the first axial screen portion (11) define a first screen chamber (39) and the second rotor portion (27) and the second axial screen portion (9) define a second screen chamber (37). Distribution means (22, 28) are provided for dividing the incoming fiber suspension into two part streams having the same axial directions in relation to the rotor and for distributing the two part streams to the first and second screen chambers (39, 37), respectively.

Abstract: Cylindrical screen, particularly for paper pulp, of the type comprising at least one filtering element (10) positioned between two flanges (1, 2) by means of a number of bars (3). The filtering element is composed by wires (10) placed side by side and held by rings (11). This filtering element is rigid in the axial direction and is placed upstream from the above mentioned bars (3), in relation to the direction of flow of the pulp. The filtering element is held against the bars (3) through the rings (11) that are in contact with the bars without being attached to them, so as to maintain its shape by withstanding the pressure exerted by the pulp.

Abstract: A screen, for screening material used in the production of paper, board and the like, having a screen basket and a rotor supporting several blades which can be moved along the wall of the screen basket when the rotor rotates. The blades having a convex curvature on the side facing the screen basket. The radial clearance between the surface of the blade facing the screen and the screen being lowest between the front sector, viewed in the direction of rotation, and increasing towards the rear edge of the blade.

Abstract: A pressure screening apparatus for screening a stock suspension and screen clearer for a pressure screening apparatus.

Abstract: A screen for cleaning a pulp suspension includes a stationary installation in the infeed area between the infeed branch and the free end of the rotor.

Abstract: A screen for cleaning a pulp suspension including an additional screen basket in the infeed area for pre-screening.

Abstract: The present invention is a pulp screening device which is capable of screening a large quantity of pulp with low power, by preventing clogging of a screen cylinder. The device is provided with one or a plurality of vanes which revolve within an agitation chamber formed between a pair of inner and outer screen cylinders, holding a predetermined small space from each of the inner and outer screen cylinders. The agitation chamber is practically partitioned in the circumferential direction by the vanes.

Abstract: A pulper for pulping a fiber suspension includes a vessel, an extraction plate assembly and a rotor. The extraction plate assembly is disposed within the vessel and includes a metal plate with a plurality of holes extending therethrough. A plurality of metal inserts are respectively disposed within the holes and project from the plate. Each insert is removably attached to the plate. A rotor is disposed within the vessel adjacent to the extraction plate assembly. The inserts are removably attached to the plate by brazing the inserts within the holes, or slightly shrinking the inserts using liquid nitrogen and placing the inserts in the holes.

Abstract: Apparatus is disclosed for screening fiber suspensions including a housing, an annular screen disposed within the housing, a rotor disposed within the annular screen for rotating relative to the annular screen, pulsation wings disposed between the outer surface of the rotor and the annular screen for relative rotation with the rotor, an inlet for the fiber suspension to feed the fiber suspension to one end of the screening zone, an accept outlet for a portion of the fiber suspension which passes through the annular screen, a reject outlet for a portion of the fiber suspension which does not pass through the annular screen, and a dilution liquid nozzle for supplying a dilution liquid to the screening zone between the rotor and the annular screen, the dilution liquid nozzle disposed proximate to the reject outlet and directing the dilution liquid into the screening zone along the outer surface of the rotor.

Abstract: A screen apparatus of the invention is provided with a tank for receiving a papermaking material; a screen situated inside the tank for dividing the tank into a first chamber and a second chamber to separate a foreign substance from the papermaking material; a first supply passage for supplying the papermaking material into the tank; a second supply passage for supplying the papermaking material into the tank; a stirring member disposed between an inner wall of the tank and the screen to stir the papermaking material introduced in the first chamber; a screened papermaking material discharge passage communicating with the second chamber for discharging a screened papermaking material outside the tank; and a foreign substance discharge passage communicating with the first chamber for discharging a foreign substance outside the tank.

Abstract: Pressure screening apparatus for screening a suspension of paper fiber stock employs a rotor in which a single impulse or foil member is carried or positioned to move along a discrete portion of the screen surface. This arrangement improves efficiency of operation of the pressure screen by reducing the rotational effect of the rotor on the stock suspension being screened and by providing a less disturbed screening region through which the single foil operates. Embodiments are shown in which multiple single impulse elements sweep over discrete portions of a screen and in which a single foil is combined, in screening apparatus, with multiple foils in accordance with the increase in consistency of the stock as it passes through the screen.

Abstract: A method and system for collecting, defluidizing and disposing of oil and gas well drill cuttings is disclosed including a system consisting primarily of a separation tank assembly, a vacuum pump assembly, a solids collection box and a liquids collection tank. The seperating tank having an upper slurry chamber, for recieving cuttings via suction from a shaker screen trough via a suction line, and a lower liquid chamber having a strainer therein, for collecting liquids compressed from the drill cuttings. A helical conveyor screw is passed through the upper slurry chamber and the strainer located in the lower liquid chamber. An adjustable plug is provided to restrict the cuttings flow through the strainer discharge opening. When cutting are forced from the upper slurry chamber via the helical conveyor screw into the strainer against the preset tension of the adjustable plug, fluids are forced through the sides of the strainer into the lower liquid chamber where they are pumped out to a liquids collection tank.

Abstract: A casing has a pulp slurry inlet, a reject outlet and an accept stock outlet and accommodates a rotor. The rotor has a hollow cylinder with scraper blades at its outer periphery. A screen plate is disposed outside of the scraper blades to provide between them a passage facing to the screen plate. The hollow cylinder is formed with pulp slurry outlets. Rotation of the hollow cylinder causes the pulp slurry to be circulated outside and inside of the hollow cylinder, so that separation of the pulp slurry into accept stock and reject is repeatedly carried out by the screen plate.

Abstract: Pressure screening apparatus for screening a suspension of papermaking stock employing an enclosing housing and a cylindrical screen, with a drum type rotor, has the screen divided or formed with axially spaced annular screening zones and a corresponding number of annular reject collection areas, one for each screening zone. The collection areas are positioned so as to receive rejects from one of the screening zones only, while a rotor is formed with outlet openings that apply stock suspension to selected ones of the screening zones so that there is no mixing of rejects between screening zones, and each screening zone receives stock suspension for screening independently of the other screening zones.

Abstract: A screen media (200) for use in screening pulp slurry has a first side (204) and a second side (206). The pulp slurry is fed from the first side of the screen media to the second side of said screen media through a plurality of screening passages (205). Each said screening passage include a contour cut (210) formed in the first side, a back groove (208) formed in the second side, and a residual thickness (234) between the contour cut and the back groove. An elongate slot (235) is formed in the residual material, and the residual thickness has a substantially uniform thickness about the elongate slot. Where the slot extends completely through the residual material it defines a through-slit (236) through which slurry flows and is filtered.

Abstract: A separation device for separating contaminants from fiber pulp suspensions, preferably produced from waste paper, comprises a cylindrical screen number (4) and a rotor (7) arranged therein. An annular inlet passage (14) for incoming suspension surrounds a tubular wall (11), which extends from the screen member (4) coaxially with the rotor (7). According to the invention, a flow deflecting wall member (16) extends toward the rotor (7) to a position in which the wall member is axially in front of an open end (12) of the tubular wall (11) and radially inside the tubular wall. Furthermore, the wall member (16) with a cross-sectional area which is substantially less than the cross-sectional area of the annular inlet passage (14).

Abstract: Cylindrical screen, particularly for paper pulp, of the type comprising at least one filtering element (10) positioned between two flanges (1, 2) by means of a number of bars (3). The filtering element is composed by wires (10) placed side by side and held by rings (11). This filtering element is rigid in the axial direction and is placed upstream from the above mentioned bars (3), in relation to the direction of flow of the pulp. The filtering element is held against the bars (3) through the rings (11) that are in contact with the bars without being attached to them, so as to maintain its shape by withstanding the pressure exerted by the pulp.