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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7497399 | Process and winding machine for winding a material web Process and apparatus for winding a material web onto a reel spool to produce a wound reel. The process is performed in the apparatus and includes producing the material web, online smoothing of the produced material web, guiding the smoothed material web over a ree... | 03/03/2009 |
| 7332059 | Method for the manufacture of a fiber material web Process for the manufacture of a fiber material web that includes passing the fiber material web to be dewatered through a press nip together with a carrier band; and subjecting the fiber material web to be dewatered to a pressing pressure of at least 3.3 MPa in the... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7288168 | Machine and method for the manufacture of a fiber material web Machine and process for the manufacture of a paper web, in particular, a tissue paper or hygienic paper web. At least one pressing gap or nip is formed between a shoe pressing unit and a Yankee drying cylinder, through which a water absorbent carrier band, a water-i... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7005045 | Belt for machines for producing material webs and process of producing the belt A belt for a material web producing machine and a process of producing the belt. The belt includes a plurality of long-chain strength supports arranged to form interstices and a filler at least partially filling the interstices. The process includes forming a sheet ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6942761 | Press device and method of using the same Press device and method of using the same for treating a fibrous material web that includes a shoe press unit that includes a flexible press belt that revolves around a non-rotating carrier, a counter roll that includes a deflection compensation roll with a roll jac... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6916405 | Process and device for drying of a material web Process and apparatus for drying a material web. The process includes guiding the material web to at least one heated area having a jacket surface of a cylinder having a diameter of between about 4-10 meters, setting the material web, having a dry content of between... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6896647 | Elastic roller and process for producing same Elastic roller and process for producing elastic roller. The elastic roller includes a hard roller core and an elastic coating layer at an outer side of the hard roller core. The elastic coating layer includes an elastic matrix material and fillers imbedded in the m... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6890408 | Headbox for the metered addition of a fluid medium into a suspension stream Headbox for one of a paper and cardboard machine includes at least one material suspension supply running a width of the machine. At least one turbulence producer has at least one conduit through which a material suspension flows. At least one metered addition point... | 05/10/2005 |
| 6749146 | Process and apparatus for threading a material web onto a reel Process and apparatus for threading a material web onto a reel. The process includes guiding a leader strip of the material web over at least a part of a circumference of a support drum, guiding the leader strip through an effective region of a guide device toward a... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6746574 | Machine and method for the manufacture of a fiber material web Machine for the manufacture of a fiber material web that includes a shoe pressing unit, a cylinder including one of a drying and tissue cylinder, in which shoe pressing unit and the cylinder are arranged to form at least one press nip, and a water absorbent carrier ... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6743337 | Process and apparatus for determining the properties of a traveling material web Process and apparatus for determining properties of a traveling material web. The process includes simultaneously illuminating a plurality of measuring points on the material web with electromagnetic radiation, and imaging, through at least one optical device, the p... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6717675 | System and method for determining fiber orientation in fibrous material webs A system and method for determining the orientation of fibers in a fibrous material web. The system includes at least one source of electromagnetic radiation disposed on one side of the fibrous material web, at least one sensor for sensing the electromagnetic radiat... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6705562 | Roll winding device and method of increasing rigidity of such device Roll winding device, in particular for a reel cutter, with at least one support device, comprising at least one carrying roll disposed with its axis in the lateral direction in a machine frame, which has a column device disposed on each of the two axial ends of the ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6705554 | Rotor for a paper stock processing machine, anti-wear element for such a rotor, and paper stock processing apparatus Rotor for a paper stock processing machine, an anti-wear element for protecting a leading front surface of a rotor blade, and a paper stock processing apparatus. The rotor includes at least one rotor blade having a leading front surface to be protected, and an anti-... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6701833 | Calender Calender and process of calendering a web in calender. The calender includes a frame, an upper roll, a lower roll, an intermediate roll arrangement that includes an intermediate roll that is fixed in the frame, and a load limiting device coupled to the in... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6694640 | Calender humidity control system and method A calender, a system, and a method of regulating the humidity in a calender. The calender includes a housing having at least two side pieces and a roll stack located at least partially between the side pieces, wherein a space is formed by the roll stack a... | 02/24/2004 |
| 6675494 | System for drying a web and process A process for drying a web provides for guiding a web having a moisture content and subjecting the web to laser radiation to remove at least some portion of the moisture content. A system for drying a web includes at least one laser, a moisture measuremen... | 01/13/2004 |
| 6668711 | Elastic roller, method for producing same device for smoothing paper and method for smoothing paper The present invention concerns an elastic roller for smoothing a paper web, wherein the roller has a hard metal core, an elastic matrix coating material thereon and an outer layer of memory metal, and is comprised especially of metal is described. The pre... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6645420 | Method of forming a semipermeable membrane with intercommunicating pores for a pressing apparatus A unitary membrane for use in a pressing apparatus includes a pair of longitudinal edge portions and a semipermeable portion having a plurality of intercommunicating pores. The semipermeable portion is positioned between the pair of longitudinal edge port... | 11/11/2003 |
| 6641017 | Process and device for laterally positioning a material web Process for handling a material web that includes moving the material web along with at least one circulating endless belt in a circulation direction, monitoring movement of an edge of said at least one circulating endless belt, and monitoring a position ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6638395 | Paper machine and process Machine and process for at least one of producing and finishing a fibrous material web. The machine includes a press section, for dewatering the fibrous web, with a press nip, a former, located before, relative to a web travel direction, the press section... | 10/28/2003 |
| 6602388 | Process for forming headbox for a machine Process of forming a headbox for a machine, which includes arranging a plurality of headbox channels into rows and columns, positioning a lamella between adjacent rows, fixing an end of the lamella at a fixing point, and arranging lamellar supports downst... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6589393 | Press arrangement and press roll for such a press arrangement A press arrangement for treating a fibrous web, especially a paper or board web, comprises at least two press rolls to form at least one press nip. At least one press roll is mounted on at least one roll end by means of a floating bearing, whose bearing r... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6589390 | Press section and process for guiding a fiber material web through the press section Press section of a machine for producing a fiber material, web and process for guiding a fiber material web through the press section. The press section includes at least two double-felted presses arranged in series in a travel direction of the fiber mate... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6589145 | Roll and calender Roll that includes a roll axle, a roll jacket, and a bearing ring positioned to rotatably support the roll jacket, and calender that includes the roll. The bearing ring is non-rotatable but is radially movable relative to the roll axle. A locking device i... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6589340 | Machine for direct or indirect application of a liquid or viscous coating medium onto a moving surface A coating machine serves to directly or indirectly apply a liquid or viscous coating medium onto a moving surface. A coater imbedded in a coater bed, defines in part the metering slot. A limiting surface at the moving surface inlet of the coater bed forms... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6584688 | Processes for manufacture of a press jacket Process for manufacturing a roll press jacket, wherein the roll press jacket includes a hollow cylindrical sleeve made of an castable elastomeric material containing at least one crystallization component, the sleeve has an interior cylindrical surface an... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6579368 | Apparatus for the application of a liquid or pasty medium to a moving fiber web An application apparatus is for applying a liquid or pasty medium to a moving base. The moving base is a surface of a material web in a case of direct application and a surface of a transfer element for transferring the medium to the material web in a cas... | 06/17/2003 |
| 6568152 | Process and device for packaging a material web roll Process and device for packaging a material web roll. The device of the invention includes a packaging web dispenser, a holding device adapted to hold at least the beginning of a packaging web against the circumference of the material web roll, and a rota... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6551460 | Process for sealing pressure zones in a paper-making machine Process for laterally sealing at least one excess pressure or vacuum zone adjoining a moving surface in a paper-making machine by way of a sealing device that includes at least one sealing element, the process comprising arranging the sealing device in a ... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6536443 | Apparatus for regulating the breaking length ratio of a manufactured paper web Apparatus for controlling a breaking length ratio L/Q of a web. The apparatus includes a machine having a headbox, the headbox has at least one headbox nozzle, at least one mechanism is used for influencing a microturbulence of a stock suspension flowing ... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6536705 | Process and winding machine for winding a material web Process and apparatus for winding a material web onto a reel spool to produce a wound reel. The process includes producing the material web, online smoothing of the produced material web, guiding the smoothed material web over a reel drum and through a ni... | 03/25/2003 |
| 6534113 | Method of controlling the amount of coating applied on a moving material web In a coating method for direct or indirect application of a coating medium onto a moving surface, the amount of coating medium dispensed by an applicator device within a given time period and the actuating force that is exerted on the metering element, in... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6527218 | Device for winding of rolls and winding process 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 a... | 03/04/2003 |
| 6523465 | Process for presetting a calender and calender for implementing the process A process for presetting a calender for a material web and a calender. The calender includes a roll stack having at least a first nip and a second nip arranged to define a stack plane and comprising a sag compensation lower roll having a rotationally secu... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6526369 | Apparatus and process for a cross-direction profile of a material web Measurement system and process for measuring a cross-direction profile of specific properties of at least one of a material web and a coating on the material web. The system includes at least one stationary cross-direction profile measurement device havin... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6520897 | Resilient roll and process for producing such a roll Roll and process for producing roll including a hard roll core, and a resilient covering layer, including a matrix material, located on an outer side of the hard roll core. The matrix material includes a soft metal. The process includes producing a matrix... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6521089 | Process for controlling or regulating the basis weight of a paper or cardboard web Device and process for controlling or regulating a basis weight of a web in a web manufacturing process of a web producing machine. The device includes a first control circuit, adapted to adjust the basis weight, that includes at least one adjustable devi... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6520896 | Elastic roll and a process for producing such a roll A roll for smoothing of a material web and a process for making the roll. The roll includes a hard roll core having an outside surface, and an covering layer includes an elastic matrix material and disposed on the outside surface, wherein the covering lay... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6508429 | Linear drive assembly and process of using same Linear drive apparatus and process of using the same. The apparatus includes a movable device and a first high-speed thrust device coupled to the movable device. The first high-speed thrust device exerts an acceleration force on the movable device to move... | 01/21/2003 |
