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A mouthguard includes a U-shaped upper bite plate which removably fits over upper teeth of a person, with the entire upper bite plate being made from a soft, deformable and edible gummi candy.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7363725 | Device for drying paper webs, especially tissue paper webs The invention relates to a device for drying paper webs, especially tissue paper webs, with a dryer cylinder 1 and a dryer hood 2, 3 for blowing hot air onto the paper web. It is mainly characterised by the inlet air parts of the dryer hood 2, 3... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7300547 | Absorbent sheet exhibiting resistance to moisture penetration An absorbent paper sheet is treated with an aqueous wax dispersion such that the sheet includes a fused wax and emulsifier residue in an amount of from about 1 to about 20 weight percent of the sheet based on the combined weight of the fiber, wax residue and an emul... | 11/27/2007 |
| RE39601 | Method of and a device for transferring running dried web from one device to a subsequent device To accomplish a web transfer, which in reliability is comparable to the one obtained with a closed draw, in any operating environment, but especially where it is desirable to transfer a fast running tissue web (4) from the drying section of a tissue machine, ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7192506 | Shortened layout from dryer to reel in tissue machine A dry end of a tissue machine is made shorter by close-coupling a reel-up to the drying section and supporting the web from the drying section to the reel-up by a foil or a belt such that web stability is maintained, thus allowing high-speed operation. The foil's do... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7160418 | Wet crepe throughdry process for making absorbent sheet and novel fibrous products An improved process for making sheet from a fibrous furnish includes: depositing the furnish on a foraminous support; compactively dewatering the furnish to form a nascent web; drying the web on a heated cylinder; creping the web therefrom and throughdrying the web ... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7135091 | Arrangement for threading of web in a pulp machine The invention relates to an arrangement for threading a pulp web (W) from the press section (1) of a pulp machine to the dryer (2) of the pulp machine. The arrangement comprises a closing tail threading belt (3) or the like, which is arranged to... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7047881 | Nozzles for a cleaning installation of a printing machine The nozzle has a channel (24) in which a cleaning solution is injected under pressure, and an outlet (26) through which the solution is sprayed against a cylinder. The outlet (26) is formed by a first part (23) and a second part (25 | 05/23/2006 |
| 6998022 | Paper machine and press section thereof A soft crepe paper machine comprises a wet section with a press section having a press defined by first and second press elements forming a press nip through which a press felt runs with a paper web. A suction roll is arranged in the loop of the press felt before th... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6972073 | Method for conveying and guiding a lead-in strip of a web in a paper machine The invention relates to a method for conveying and guiding a lead-in strip in a paper machine, in which method a lead-in strip is directed over a run of a conveyor in the paper machine and a longitudinal vacuum effect is produced across the run of the conveyor in t... | 12/06/2005 |
| 6942758 | Method and equipment for tail threading in the dryer section of a paper machine or a similar machine A method and equipment for tail threading in a paper machine in which tail threading is carried out in stages: the web is guided to the broke treatment at a selected dryer, a cut is formed in the web to separate a ... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6926804 | Multi-tier rope harness A multi-tier fabric loading harness for installing a fabric onto a papermaking machine. The loading harness has a first portion with a supporting rigid member that attaches to an end of the fabric in the cross-machine direction and a plurality of apertures spaced ac... | 08/09/2005 |
| 6916404 | Method and apparatus for web threading in a drying section of a paper machine or similar A method and an apparatus for web threading in a drying section of a paper machine or the like. A leader (24) and a so called run-down strip are formed by cutting in the web coming to the drying cylinder in the drying section. An underpressure box (18)... | 07/12/2005 |
| 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 |
| 6904700 | Apparatus for drying a tissue web A through-air drying apparatus is disclosed. The through-air drying apparatus includes a rotating drying cylinder over which a tissue web is carried and dried. A hood surrounds the drying cylinder leaving an open free end. In accordance with the present invention, a... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6896770 | Arrangement within a yankee cylinder or the like and a roller of a paper machine A Yankee cylinder or the like at the dry end of a paper machine has at least a drying cylinder, a hood covering the drying cylinder, a web guiding means, and a roller. After the drying cylinder at the dry end of the machine, seen in the machine direction, a covered ... | 05/24/2005 |
| 6772533 | Arrangement in the drying section of a paper machine A multi-cylinder dryer of a paper machine, has at least one drying cylinder (10) and at least one roll (11, 12) located at a different height to the cylinder and at a distance to it in the machine direction. A paper web (14) travels from the dry... | 08/10/2004 |
| 6733633 | Pull-on leader A leader which is used to pull a seamable papermaker's fabric onto a paper machine comprising a ravel area for securing pull ropes or cables thereto. ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6705024 | Machine for producing a material web A machine for producing a material web is provided having at least one smooth roll at least partially wrapped by the material web. The machine includes an air blowing device arranged for ventilating the material web with at least one discharge stream, wherein the at... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6533899 | Device for conveying and guiding a lead-in strip of a web in a paper machine The invention relates to a device for conveying and guiding a lead-in strip in a paper machine, which device comprises a conveyor belt (20) which is permeable to air and in whose connection devices (15) are fitted by whose means a vacuum effect can be pro... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6513263 | Ventilator for offset pocket and method of ventilating the same The ventilator is used to ventilate an offset pocket in the drying section of a papermaking machine. The papermaking machine comprises a row of spaced-apart upper drying rolls and a row of spaced-apart lower drying rolls. It also comprises two rows of spa... | 02/04/2003 |
| 6510623 | Dryer group in a dryer section of a paper or board machine and a dryer section of a paper or board machine A cantilevered frame in a paper machine dryer group of a dryer section supports a drying wire loop to run by at least one impingement drying unit positioned outside the loop. The frame structure (60) supports devices and rolls situated inside the wire loo... | 01/28/2003 |
| 6482295 | 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, maintaining the material web in uninterrupted contact with the at least one heated area at least until the material web achieves a ... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6454903 | Method and apparatus for the transfer of a lead strip of a paper web An apparatus transfers a lead strip of a paper web, in particular the beginning of a still wet lead strip or tail, from a press roll of a paper-making machine to a following section of that machine. An air jet device peels off the beginning of the tail fr... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6418639 | Method and device in the dryer section of a paper/board machine The invention concerns a method and a device in the dryer section of a paper/board machine. In the dryer section a normal single-wire draw is applied at least partly, in which method the web (W) is passed through the dryer group on support of a drying wir... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6398915 | Leader device for installation of on machine seamable papermaker's fabrics and belts A leader having a shape substantially that of a triangle which is used to pull a seamable papermaker's fabric onto a paper machine comprising a plastic coated substrate having plastic reinforcing strips thereon.... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6367164 | Dryer section Dryer section and process for drying a fibrous web. Dryer section includes a plurality of dryer groups with at least one heated dryer cylinder and at least one belt to press the fibrous web against a surface of the at least one heated dryer cylinder. Tran... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6358366 | System and method for threading a moist web in a pulp dryer or the like from one section to the following section A system and method effectively threading the moist tail of a web through a pulp dryer. A tail threading belt in a closed loop passes the tail of the web through the dryer, and the most tail of the web is transferred from a support wire in the press secti... | 03/19/2002 |
| 6343424 | Apparatus for drying and cooling with subsequent coiling or sheet cutting of a paper web An apparatus for drying, cooling, winding up and transverse cooling of a paper web. A lopping device is provided downstream of a conveyor segment lifting the web over the winder or sheet cutter, whichever is proximal to the cooler, the paper web then reac... | 02/05/2002 |
| 6328852 | Method and apparatus for improving stability of moving webs In manufacturing a moving web, such as a tissue sheet, the web is transported at very high speeds, often in an unsupported manner, which can result in unstable operations regarding handling and winding of the web. This is particularly true in the region b... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6274000 | Method and device in threading of paper web The invention relates to a method in a paper machine in threading of paper web, in which method a narrower tail (T) is separated from the edge of the paper web and transferred to threading guiding means arranged in connection with the moving parts of a ma... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6247247 | Blow box for the drying section of a papermaking machine, method for sealing a pocket with a blow box in the drying section of a papermaking machine, and arrangement in a papermaking machine A blow box used in the drying section of a papermaking machine and a method for sealing a pocket provided with a blow box, and a blow nozzle. The blow box is arranged to eject air away from the space between a wire and the blow box and/or maintain an unde... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6241138 | Paper web threading apparatus and method for threading a paper web through a papermaking machine A paper web threading apparatus is provided for a papermaking machine. The threading apparatus includes a transfer sheave assembly mounted on an end of a middle rotating drum disposed between an upstream drum and a downstream drum. The transfer sheave ass... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6207021 | Creping blade Creping blade for the detachment of a travelling paper web from a dryer cylinder, said blade having an edge or tip section engaging said cylinder and being constantly hit by the traveling web during its detachment from the cylinder. The invention resides ... | 03/27/2001 |
| 6189233 | Dryer section Dryer section of a machine for at least one of producing and processing a web of material. The dryer section includes at least one heatable drying cylinder having a circumference, at least a part the circumference adapted to be surrounded by the material ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6161301 | Continuous drying apparatus for porous web A continuous drying apparatus for a porous web including a porous web for traveling on a drying line, a heating cylinder for contacting the porous web at its circumferential surface and rotating in synchronization with the travel of the porous web to heat... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6151797 | Device for heat treatment of permeable webs of goods A device is known for heat treatment of permeable webs of goods with a housing in which at least one screen roller is mounted and a pumping device is associated endwise with the roller, said pumping device drawing a processing medium in the formal of a va... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6145217 | Machine for manufacturing a material web A machine for manufacturing a material web, in particular a paper or cardboard web, comprises a drying section that exhibits at least one drying group comprising two rows, including an upper and a bottom row of heatable drying cylinders, which are each as... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6134804 | Total restraint drying The present invention relates to the dryer section of a paper machine consisting of a number dryer groups having dryer cylinders and one reversal role between each two dryers within a dryer group. The dryer section may have top felted or bottom felted dry... | 10/24/2000 |
| 6131304 | Dryer section Dryer section of a machine for producing a material web. The dryer section may include at least one dryer group including a plurality of heatable dryer cylinders so that the material web to be guided around at least a portion of the plurality of heatable ... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6119362 | Arrangements for impingement drying and/or through-drying of a paper or material web An arrangement for impingement drying and/or through-drying of a paper or material web in which the web is dried by blowing hot air and/or superheated steam from an impingement drying and/or through-drying dryer in a direction substantially perpendicular ... | 09/19/2000 |
