Fluid Actuator Patents (Class 242/541.6)
  • Patent number: 10351376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a w winder (1) for winding a web roll (2) from a fibrous web such as a paper web or a web of non-woven material paper (2). The winder (1) comprises two support rolls (3, 4) for supporting the web roll (2) during reeling and a core shaft (5) for winding the paper reel (2). At each longitudinal end of the core shaft (5), there is a carrier chuck (6) in which the core shaft (5) is rotatably journalled. The carrier chucks to are arranged to be movable in a frame towards or away from the support rolls (3, 4) and a rider roll (8) is arranged to be capable of acting against the web roll (2) being wound. The rider roll (8) is carried by a rider roll beam (9) and the rider roll beam (9) is arranged to be movable in the frame (7) such that the rider roll (8) can be moved towards or away from the support rolls (3, 4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: VALMET S.P.A.
    Inventor: Fabrizio Bartolini
  • Patent number: 9051146
    Abstract: Fiber webs are wound into partial web rolls (15) in a winding device having at least two winding stations (20) and rider roll units (30) that load a pair of rider rolls (31,32) against the partial web roll (15) being wound. The partial webs (W1, W2) are guided to be wound to partial web rolls (15) around cores (14) via a nip between a winding roll (10) and the partial web rolls (15). The winding position of the partial web rolls (15) is on the upper circumferential half of the winding roll (10). The rider rolls (31, 32) are moved substantially linearly in the direction of the radius of the partial web rolls (15) and co-linear with a movement path of winding chucks (25) on which the partial web rolls are supported at the two ends of a core (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Valmet Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Jarmo Malmi
  • Publication number: 20140124608
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a process for monitoring and controlling the nip force between a fixed roll having a first longitudinal axis and a pivoting roll having a second longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: George Vincent WEGELE, Frederick Edward LOCKWOOD
  • Patent number: 8302899
    Abstract: The invention relates to a winder (1) for winding strips (2), in particular thin metal strips, comprising a coiler drum (3) which is arranged such that it can rotate about a rotational axis (4), and at least one pivoting arm (5) which is arranged such that it can pivot about an axis (6) and which has at least one deflection plate (7) and at least one pressure roller (8), which deflect and press the strip (2) which is to be wound. In order to improve, in particular, the winding of thin strips, the invention provides for the at least one pressure roller (8) to be assigned at least one movement means (9), by way of which the pressure roller (8) can be moved relative to the pivoting arm (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: SMS Siemag Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Kipping, Helmut Höfer, Reinhard Irle, Thomas Holzhauer
  • Patent number: 8302898
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for continuous reeling of a pulp web (1), particularly a paper web, for example tissue, where the pulp web (1) is carried over a reel drum (2) that is supported on rocker arms (4) and is then wound onto a winding unit (5), and the pressing force in the nip (24) is measured between paper roll (16) and reel drum (4) with the aid of a load-sensing device (7), where the rocker arm (4) can be preloaded against the load-sensing device (7), where the rocker arm (4) can be preloaded against the load-sensing device (7) by means of a preloading element (8). It is mainly characterized by the preloading force for preloading the rocker arm (4) against the load-sensing device (7) being adjustable by means of the preloading element (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Andritz AG
    Inventors: Gernot Tropper, Wilhelm Mausser, Robert Schloffer, Gerald Martiner
  • Patent number: 8141810
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for winding a paper web from a rotatable drum onto a driven spool which supports a reel. The apparatus includes a frame which includes a base having a first and a second end. A stand extends from the first end of the base for rotatably supporting the drum so that the paper web is guided by the drum. A further stand extends from the second end of the base. A carriage is slidably supported by the base such that sliding of the carriage between the first and second ends of the base is permitted. A moving device extends between the carriage and the further stand for moving the carriage relative to the drum. A reel in position control device is controllably connected to the moving device for selectively moving the carriage towards and away from the drum. The arrangement is such that when the reel supported by the driven spool is mounted on the carriage and the paper web is guided by the drum onto the reel, the paper web is controllably wound onto the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Inventor: Philip W Smith
  • Patent number: 7959102
    Abstract: The machine control 30 drives the winder 1 according to the invention in such a manner that for the winding of a reel 6, the pair of supporting arms 17 is continuously moved away from the contact roller 4 in accordance with the calculated desired radius of the reel 6 which is building up. The contact roller is exposed to the contact pressure through the cylinder arrangement 24 and remains in its desired position without any perturbations (out-of-round reel, incorrectly calculated desired radius) but in the event of perturbations, can avoid the perturbation due to its floating mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Swiss Winding Performance AG
    Inventor: Werner Lanz
  • Patent number: 7845592
    Abstract: A reel-up for reeling a fiber web where the fiber web to be reeled and a supporting body form a reel nip. The reel-up has at least one measuring body which is arranged in order to be influenced by a turning torque which is a function of the linear load in the reel nip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventor: Tord Gustavsson
  • Patent number: 7516915
    Abstract: A continuous rolling machine for web materials includes two independent driving rolls (4 and 5) co-operating with a take-up reel (3A, 3B). A winding method with controlled application load of the driving rolls is also disclosed. At least one of the driving rolls of the winding device (2) is in contact with the take-up reel (3A, 3B), from the start of the phase for preparing a new reel (3A) until the finished reel has completely stopped, one (4) of the driving rolls being in contact with the reel soon after the start of the latter's (3A) formation and until the finished reel has completely stopped (3B), the other driving roll (5) being in contact with the reel from the start of the latter's (3B) formation until its release (3B), prior to connecting a new reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Monomatic
    Inventors: Jean Louis Dumas, Bernard Muller
  • Patent number: 7481390
    Abstract: A device for winding film webs, paper webs and similar material webs supplied continuously across guide rollers has a counter roller in a device frame part for supplying the material web. A winding shaft that is rotatable and movably supported in the frame cooperates circumferentially with the counter roller, wherein the winding shaft is provided with a corresponding winding drive for continuous winding of the material web onto a winding sleeve. According to the invention, for supporting the winding shaft a carrier unit is provided that is pivotable about a central transverse axis of the device and receives the winding shaft so that it is linearly movable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2009
    Assignee: Klaus Reinhold Maschinen- und Gerätebau GmbH
    Inventor: Klaus Reinhold
  • Patent number: 7338006
    Abstract: The rewinding machine comprises a winding roller (5) equipped with a moving axis to remain in contact with a log (R) being formed and allow the diameter of said log to increase. A member to control the action of said roller on the log (R) being formed is associated with the winding roller with moving axis. The control member is provided with a stop position that can be set to be reached before winding of the log (R) is completed. Winding of the log being formed is essentially completed without moving the axis of the winding roller with moving axis (5) in order to obtain a finished log always with a more or less constant diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Fabio Perini S.p.A.
    Inventors: Mauro Gelli, Sergio Gaertner
  • Patent number: 7278603
    Abstract: A winding apparatus for transferring a web from a carrier drum to a spool. Pressure between the spool and the carrier drum is higher in the area of the feed strip of the web by applying a higher contact force, or by orienting the spool and drum at an angle to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Drefs, Ewald Wetschenbacher, Zygmund Madrzak, Jorg Maurer
  • Patent number: 7261252
    Abstract: The apparatus for winding at least one web (1), on a winding roll (2), comprises at least a first roll (3), a second roll (4) and a third roll (5) parallel to one another and to said winding roll (2), said apparatus having a nominal winding position in which: said web (1) passes at least between said third roll (5) and said winding roll (2), and wherein in said nominal winding position, said half-plane delimited by the axis of said third roll (5) and comprising the axis of said winding roll (2) is substaintially horizontal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2007
    Assignee: Dupont Teijen Films U.S. Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Luc Nicolai, Dave Wager
  • Patent number: 6964394
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reeling of a web, in which the web is reeled around a reel spool. In the invention, the reel spool rests and/or it is supported substantially during the entire “nip closed” reeling process of the reeling device, substantially in its position with respect to the same supporting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Jarkko Räty, Jussi Lundberg, Pekka Ruha
  • Patent number: 6948678
    Abstract: The rewinding machine comprises: a first and a second lower winding roller (5, 7) defining a winding cradle for a reel (R) of web (N); a third upper roller (13) having a mobile axis (13) arranged over said first and second lower winding rollers and carried by two mobile slides (11) to allow for the increasing dimension of the reel under formation in said winding cradle. The two slides (11) carry two cylinders (21, 27) whose axes are parallel to the axis (13A) of the third upper roller (13) which are provided with a reciprocal approaching and distancing movement for either approaching or distancing the reel under formation in said cradle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2005
    Assignee: A. Celli Nonwovens S.p.A.
    Inventor: Giuseppe Acciari
  • Patent number: 6854682
    Abstract: Apparatus for winding a web (1) on a winding roll (2), comprises at least a first and a second roll (3, 4) and a third roll (5), said first roll being located on one side and said second roll and said third roll being located on the other side of the path of said web in course of winding on said winding roll. Said first and second rolls and said third roll are movable towards each other and towards said winding roll, so that said third roll get sandwiched between said winding roll on one hand and said first and second rolls on the other hand, said web passing between said first roll and said third roll and then between said third roll and said winding roll. Means cause said third roll to position and align freely between said first and second rolls and said winding roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: DuPont Teijin Films U.S. Limited Partnership
    Inventor: Luc Marie Hubert Andre Nicolai
  • Patent number: 6834824
    Abstract: A drum type continuous winder for winding slit sections of a web onto individual cores on a core shaft (20) includes a pair of primary support arms (24, 25) having radial slots (28) that receives the core shaft from a fixed cam plate (29) permitting the core shaft to move with the cores into engagement with a moving web on a main winding drum (22) for web cutting and transfer to fresh cores. A driven nip roll (30) supported on arms (24, 25) engages the cores on the core shaft during web transfer so that the core shaft is sandwiched between the nip roll (30) and the primary drum (22) providing web transfer onto the cores free of critical speed limitations. Secondary arms (50, 51) which receive the core shaft support a secondary winding drum (52) in guide tracks (55) for radial movement into engagement with the rolls being wound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Black Clawson Converting Machinery, Inc.
    Inventor: R. Duane Smith
  • Publication number: 20040135025
    Abstract: The apparatus for winding at lest one web (1), on a winding roll (2), comprises at least a first roll (3), a second roll (4) and a third roll (5) parallel to one another and to said winding roll (2), said apparatus having a nominal winding position in which: a driving torque is applied to at least one of rolls (39, (4) and (5) as to rotate in the direction of said web (1) in order to compensate for the rolling resistance of said apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventor: Luc Nicolai
  • Publication number: 20040129822
    Abstract: The apparatus for winding at least one web (1), on a winding roll (2), comprises at least a first roll (3), a second roll (4) and a third roll (5) parallel to one another and to said winding roll (2), said apparatus having a nominal winding position in which: said web (1) passes at least between said third roll (5) and said winding roll (2), and wherein in said nominal winding position, said half-plane delimited by the axis of said third roll (5) and comprising the axis of said winding roll (2) is substaintially horizontal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2004
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventors: Luc Nicolai, Dave Wager
  • Patent number: 6739107
    Abstract: An apparatus for packaging resiliently compressible articles is disclosed. In one embodiment, the apparatus has at least two rotatable, spaced apart article engaging elements adapted to receive an end portion of an article for rolling the article into a compact rolled up configuration. Each article engaging element can be rotatably mounted to one of at least two arm portions, which are desirably pivotally mounted to the apparatus. At least one of the arm portions can be adapted to be movable in a lateral direction. The apparatus may also be provided with a vacuum hose fluidly connected to a vacuum source for vacuum packing an article desirably before it is rolled-up. A spring containing mattress is also disclosed, which, in one embodiment, comprises plural rows of springs and substantially C-shaped border wires extending around the periphery of the end portions of the upper and lower surfaces of the mattress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: Paramount Bedding, Inc.
    Inventors: Nels V. Lewis, Gary C. Harding
  • Patent number: 6739544
    Abstract: A winding roll presser device that presses a winding roll by the entire width thereof, the winding roll being formed by a reel spool and a long material wound therearound, said device includes a plurality of rotational rolls arranged in parallel with one another in the width direction, a belt tensely wound so as to cover the plurality of rotational rolls, a first drive unit for moving the belt from a stand-by position so as to bring the belt into contact with the winding roll, and a second drive unit for pressing the winding roll with a straight part of the belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignees: Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd., Nippon Paper Industries, Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kouichi Yuuki, Kiyoshi Mannen
  • Publication number: 20030234315
    Abstract: The rewinding machine comprises: a first and a second lower winding roller (5, 7) defining a winding cradle for a reel (R) of web (N); a third upper roller (13) having a mobile axis (13) arranged over said first and second lower winding rollers and carried by two mobile slides (11) to allow for the increasing dimension of the reel under formation in said winding cradle. The two slides (11) carry two cylinders (21, 27) whose axes are parallel to the axis (13A) of the third upper roller (13) which are provided with a reciprocal approaching and distancing movement for either approaching or distancing the reel under formation in said cradle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventor: Giuseppe Acciari
  • Patent number: 6604703
    Abstract: A method is provided using a winder to afford precise adjustment, preferably control of the progression of line force between the reel drum and the wound roll despite unevenness in the surface contour of the wound roll, and ensures that no air entrapment occurs between the individual layers in the wound roll. Further, the “wound in” web tension is maintained during the entire winding process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Beisswanger, Zygmunt Madrzak, Matthias Wohlfahrt
  • Patent number: 6550713
    Abstract: A device for use in a reel-up of a paper web, the reel-up including a reeling cylinder mounted on bearings to guide a web on to a reeling axle. The device includes an actuator and a control member for setting and controlling the distance between the reeling cylinder and the reeling axle. The device further includes an actuator and a control member for effectuating and maintaining a force effect between the reeling cylinder and the reeling axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Pekka Ruha, Jarkko Räty
  • Patent number: 6527218
    Abstract: Winding device and process for winding wound rolls. The winding device includes a pressure roll axially divided into separate sections and a winding arrangement. The pressure roll is arranged to be placed on the winding arrangement. A coupling device is arranged to axially couple the separate sections together, and a drive unit is arranged to commonly rotatably drive the axially coupled separate sections. The process includes axially coupling the separate sections of the pressure roll together with the coupling device, rotatably driving the axially coupled separate sections, and pressing, at a beginning of a winding procedure, the separate sections of the pressure roll against the wound rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Cramer, Frank Schorzmann
  • Publication number: 20020145072
    Abstract: A winding roll presser device that presses a winding roll by the entire width thereof, the winding roll being formed by a reel spool and a long material wound therearound, said device includes a plurality of rotational rolls arranged in parallel with one another in the width direction, a belt tensely wound so as to cover the plurality of rotational rolls, a first drive unit for moving the belt from a stand-by position so as to bring the belt into contact with the winding roll, and a second drive unit for pressing the winding roll with a straight part of the belt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Publication date: October 10, 2002
    Inventors: Kouichi Yuuki, Kiyoshi Mannen
  • Patent number: 6402081
    Abstract: In the method for stopping a machine reel (R) in the final stage of reeling a web (W), the web (W) is cut when the machine reel (R) has become full, the web (W) is possibly guided on a new reeling shaft (2), and the rotation of the machine reel (R) detached from the nip contact with a reeling cylinder (1) is stopped by means of braking forces which are exerted both on the reeling shaft (2) of the full machine reel (R) and on the surface of the machine reel (R). The braking powers which are exerted on the reeling shaft (2) of the machine reel (R) and on the surface of the machine reel (R) and which stop the machine reel (R) are distributed in the ratio (S) of 1:1 . . . 100:1. The ratio can be changed during the deceleration of the machine reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: Metso Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Timo Rautakorpi, Petri Enwald
  • Patent number: 6390408
    Abstract: Device and process for winding a material web onto a winding core to form a wound reel. The device includes a reeling drum positionable against a winding core or a wound roll to form a winding nip, a secondary transport device to displace the winding core/wound roll along a path of travel, and a pressure device and an air squeezing element. Secondary transport device carries air squeezing element and pressure device, and pressure device is arranged to press air squeezing element against wound reel prior to a reel change. A primary transport device moves a new, still-empty reel spool into an initial winding position, and a lift device is coupled to air squeezing element and pressure device and to secondary transport device. Lift device is arranged to move air squeezing element and pressure device to distance from a rotational axis of wound reel which corresponds to a current layer thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Ewald Wetschenbacher
  • Patent number: 6378799
    Abstract: A device for controlling winding of a roll of paper or “log” in a re-reeling machine comprising, on a roll stand or frame (20), a set of three rollers arranged with their axes parallel to one another and perpendicular to the direction of feed of the paper, comprising two winding rollers (15, 16), a top one (15) and a bottom one (16), designed to co-operate with a third roller (17) which exerts a certain pressure on a roll of paper or log being formed, the first two rollers (15, 16) being supported on the frame (20), and the third roller (17) being carried by a pair of arms (21) that are free to oscillate with respect to the frame (20), the paper being wound passing over one of the two rollers (15, 16), and the finished roll (14) coming out of an output gap (43) identified between the bottom roller (15) and the third roller (17), in which the third roller (17) and the pair of arms (21) are set on a moving element (24) displaceable according to a direction (28) oscillating within an angle (&agr;) wi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Inventor: Giovanni Gambini
  • Publication number: 20010040200
    Abstract: A reeling machine is designed for continuous winding of fibrous web, in particular a paper or carton web, into a jumbo roll. An air squeeze arrangement is located in the lower area of the reeling machine which can be positioned against the jumbo roll and includes a positionable supporting profile with segmented rolls positioned eccentrically next to each other by means of bearings, whereby, the interior of the supporting profile is provided with a tube, which is surrounded by a guide pipe and filled with a pressure medium from a pressure source, upon which bearings are centrally supported by power transmission elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Walter Kaipf, Rudolf Beisswanger
  • Patent number: 6260789
    Abstract: A multi-carrying-roll winder, and method for winding a material web with a multi-carrying-roll winder. The multi-carrying-roll winder comprises a first carrying roll, a second carrying roll, a loading device, and a controller. The first and second carrying rolls contact a reel upon which a material web is to be wound, such that the first carrying roll is driven to wind the material web onto the reel. An additional loading device contacts a circumference of the reel to additionally drive the reel. A controller adjusts an amount of driving power applied to the reel by each of the first carrying roll, the second carrying roll and the additional loading device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Cramer
  • Patent number: 6250581
    Abstract: Web winding device for winding a material web into a winding roll. The device comprises a rotatably driven first support roller having a circumferential shell and opposed ends, the shell having an outer surface, an inner surface and further having a plurality of shell openings therethrough. A second support roller is also provided. An end face is disposed at one of the opposed ends of the first support roller and a plurality of conduits are axially disposed within the first support roller and axially extend to the end face section, at least one of the plurality of shell openings communicating with each the conduit. A winding bed area is defined by the first and the second support roller, and adapted to support the winding roll. A suction device is mounted to the end face and provides suction to a portion of the surface of the shell. The suction device is fixed relative to the rotation of said first support roller. A pressurization device may also be used to pressurize the winding bed area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Cramer
  • Patent number: 6250580
    Abstract: Process and winding machine for the continuous winding of a web of material onto a reel spool to form a reel. The process includes forming a winding nip between a peripheral zone of a reel drum the reel, guiding the material web over the peripheral zone of the reel drum, positioning the reel in a secondary zone, and displacing and pressing the reel drum against the reel in the secondary zone. In this manner, one of control and regulation of a linear force in the winding nip occurs through the displacement of the reel drum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Roland Möller
  • Patent number: 6234419
    Abstract: A process and a winding machine for winding up paper or cardboard utilizes a support roller with a compressible outer layer of at least 5 mm in thickness and a modulus of compression of less than 10 MPa and the contact pressure controlled so that the width of the nip has a minimum value which is a function of the speed with which the web is wound up.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Jagenberg Papiertechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Hehner, Georg M{overscore (u)}ller, Hans-Friedrich Peters
  • Patent number: 6209818
    Abstract: A rider roll arrangement adapted for use in a web winding device including at least one winding supported during winding, the rider roll arrangement including a rider roll for pressing against the one winding, the rider roll comprising a support beam and a plurality of weighting rollers mounted to the support beam. Each pair of the weighting rollers includes a bracket for mounting the roller on the support beam, and each weighting roller includes two end to end cylinder piston units that are connected to the bracket and that are located entirely within the respective roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Inventors: Jürgen Treutner, G. Walter Dörfel
  • Patent number: 6189825
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for controlling the winding density of film rolls, a desired and an actual winding density of a film roll are determined and compared with one another. The quantity obtained from the comparison is multiplied by an adapting or damping factor &agr;, and the control output resulting therefrom is adapted to the film contact pressure and the film pull. The values thus obtained are fed as manipulated variables to a contact pressure actuator and a pull actuator for the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Hoechst Trespaphan GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Mathieu, Robert Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6173918
    Abstract: A veneer reeling apparatus for winding a veneer sheet around a freely rotatable take-up reel into a veneer roll. Veneer sheet is transferred by a plurality of spaced conveyer belts extending below the take-up reel. The take-up reel is removably supported by movable reel carriages for movement therewith toward and away from the conveyer belts. Each belts is urged toward the take-up reel to be kept in resiliently pressing contact with veneer roll for friction driving. There is provided a detector for monitoring an increment in diameter of the veneer roll during reeling operation and generating a signal in response to the detection of a predetermined amount of increment in the roll diameter and for detecting the force with which a roll member presses against the veneer roll and for generating a signal upon detection of a predetermined force in response to an increase in diameter of the veneer roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Meinan Machinery Works, Inc.
    Inventors: Masaru Koike, Yukinobu Kuno
  • Patent number: 6170777
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a load roll arrangement for loading a winding arrangement with one or several wound rolls on the same axis, during the winding of a web-like material, particularly paper, onto winding cores in a multiple-drum winder wherein support drums form a winding bed, in which the winding arrangement, rotating about its axis, is supported, with a support beam (60), vertically movable dependent upon the wound roll diameter, with a multipart load roll, consisting of a number of load rollers (42), which, individually with respect to the support beam (60), are vertically movable on a mounting arrangement and can be maintained in contact with the wound roll along a nip, with means for the fluid-like, particularly hydraulic, pressing of the load rollers (42) against the winding arrangement, and with an additional adjustment device, by means of which the mounting arrangements (50) of the individual load rollers (42) can be moved to different heights, independently of each other with respect to the sup
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Inventors: G. Walter Dörfel, Bernd Görner