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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7441497 | Wringing device A wringing device is used to expel fluids from a flexible container contained within an intermediate bulk container (IBC). The wringing device includes a support frame and a carriage movably coupled to the support frame for supporting components thereof. The wringin... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7360482 | Crank roller paper cutting device This invention reveals a crank roller paper cutting device, which comprises a base, a supporter, a handle part, a master roller, a slave roller, and a group of speed-reducing gears. Via the group of speed-reducing gears, handle part correlates to the master roller a... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7322285 | Mechanized can crushing apparatus An apparatus for crushing objects includes an inlet for serially feeding objects to the apparatus and a driver roller that is rotatably driven about a first axis by a power input mechanism, wherein the driver roller has a first notch. The apparatus further includes ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7300549 | Method for controlling the operation of a paper, board or tissue production line The invention relates to a method for controlling the operation of a paper, board or tissue production line (11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18). A magneto-rheological or an electrolrheological fluid, whose flow characteristics are changed in a controlled way, is used in... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7258291 | Destructive device, foam gas collecting device, and foam gas separating and collecting system A destructive device, wherein treated material (1) including a foam body is pre-compressed in thickness direction and fed to the opposed part of a pair of compression rolls (21, 22), partition walls forming independent air bubbles in the foam body is d... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7186056 | Split drum and support arrangement for a compacting work machine A split drum is provided for a compacting work machine and includes a first and a second drum section. A support arrangement defines a housing that surrounds a vibratory mechanism and is adapted to support the first and second drum sections. The support arrangement ... | 03/06/2007 |
| 7178195 | Device for wringing a mop and floor cleaning system having the device A device for wringing moisture from a mop includes pressure elements between which a holder of the mop, together with a mop cover attached thereto, can be pressed. The mop cover projects beyond the holder, thereby forming a cushion at edges of the holder in order to... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7162953 | Roll arrangement Roll arrangement that includes a deflection controlled roll and a counter roll. The counter roll and the deflection controlled roll are arranged to form at least one nip. The deflection controlled roll includes a rotating roll jacket, a carrier axially passing throu... | 01/16/2007 |
| 7134387 | Refrigerator dismantling method, compression equipment, and refrigerator dismantling device A refrigerant gas is collected and a compressor is removed from a discarded refrigerator, a heat-insulating housing including a heat insulator is cut/processed and separated into a plurality of pieces, and the pieces are compressed/processed by compression rollers o... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7134388 | Calender for a sheet of paper A calender for a sheet of paper comprising a metal roll which is rotated by a first driving unit. The calender further comprises a rotatable cylindrical jacket, a pressurizing shoe, and a plurality of support members. The cylindrical jacket is disposed opposite the ... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7113717 | Closed loop control of nip pressure in a fuser system A fuser system of a xerographic device, including a fuser member and a pressure member in which the pressure member is made to exert pressure upon the fuser member so as to form a nip having a nip width between the fuser member and the pressure member, wherein the n... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7017479 | Calender A soft calender has a body structure (10) and at least two roller sets (11; 12). There is at least one calendering nip (N1, N2, N3, N4) formed in between two rollers (13, 14; 14, 15; 16, 17; 17, 18). Of the rollers fo... | 03/28/2006 |
| 7000536 | Belt calender The invention relates to a belt calender, comprising a first roll (11), a second roll (13; 15), and a belt loop therebetween, comprising an incompressible metal belt (12) pressed by the second roll (13; 15) against the first roll (11 | 02/21/2006 |
| 6998019 | Glazed paper webs Provided is a process for preparing a smooth and glossy surfaced paper web. The process comprises subjecting the paper web to shear by using calender rolls driven at different speeds or calender rolls with different diameters. The resulting paper has a totally diffe... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6997106 | Shoe roll A multi-roll calender, supercalender, soft calender or equivalent has at least one nip (YN, PN1, KN, PN2, AN) profiling a fibrous web (W) which is being calendered. A shoe roll (1, 4, 6, 10) constitutes at least one of the calender rolls which d... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6950720 | Preset controller of compensator in rotary press A preset controller which performs preset control, which allows, in the case of updating and correcting a print operational condition for a print pattern number, another print operation for a different print pattern number to reflect the updated and corrected compen... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6935993 | Roll The invention relates to a roll, including a roll tube that is supported exclusively, at least in radial direction, in an axially central area on a continuous roll support, whereby outside of the central area the roll tube is positioned at a distance A from the roll... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6905119 | Pressurized roller A roller for use in an imaging system includes a variable hardness, fluid-pressurizable roller core, and a roller cover surrounding the roller core. A source of pressurized fluid can be used to pressurize the roller core to a fixed, predetermined pressure prior to i... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6875310 | Roll configuration for an air press of a papermaking machine An air press for use in a paper machine removes liquid from a fiber web. The air press includes a plurality of rolls, with each roll having a peripheral surface. The plurality of rolls include at least one pair of adjacent rolls defining a nip therebetween. Each rol... | 04/05/2005 |
| 6854385 | Elastic roll for smoothing paper webs Roll for smoothing paper webs including a hard roll core and an elastic covering layer provided on an outside of the core. The elastic covering includes an elastic matrix material, and is structured to operate within a temperature range between approximately 25° C.... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6837157 | Calendar for a sheet of paper A calender for a sheet of paper comprising a metal roll which is rotated by a first driving unit. The calender further comprises a rotatable cylindrical jacket, a pressurizing shoe, and a plurality of support members. The cylindrical jacket is disposed opposite the ... | 01/04/2005 |
| 6829986 | Compactor In a compressor comprising at least one traveling drum (4,4a,4b) rotatable about a drum axis (2), and an oscillation exciter supported in the drum (4,4a, 4b), the angular position of the oscillation exci... | 12/14/2004 |
| 6758134 | Method for rebuilding a calender A calender having a supporting frame and a set of rolls attached to vertical portions of the supporting frame so as to form a stack of rolls in which adjacent rolls placed one above another form calendering nips therebetween. The stack including a top roll, a bottom... | 07/06/2004 |
| 6702924 | Main roll for an air press of a papermaking machine A roll for use in an air press assembly of a papermaking machine has a pair of ends associated therewith. The roll includes a pair of edge portions with each edge portion extending to one of the pair of ends. Each edge portion has an edge surface portion ... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6692008 | Sealing arrangement A sealing arrangement for closing off an end of a chamber formed between a plurality of rollers of a pressing apparatus, comprises a seal member made of a hard seal material such as carbon fiber material. The sealing arrangement is preferably a self-loade... | 02/17/2004 |
| 6688218 | Calender A calender for treating a paper web, having at least one roll stack capable of being loaded from the end and in each case comprising a top and bottom end roll and a plurality of intermediate rolls, which are jointly arranged in a roll stack plane, and the... | 02/10/2004 |
| 6598521 | Soft nip calender employing a continuous elastic belt A calender having a heated first roll which is opposed to and forms a nip with a soft surface counter roll system comprised of a second roll which has an outer shell. An endless polyurethane belt or blanket having an inside diameter 5 to 50 mm larger than... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6589394 | Controlled-force end seal arrangement for an air press of a papermaking machine An air press for pressing a fiber web includes a plurality of rolls and a pair of end seal arrangements. Of the plurality of rolls, each pair of adjacent rolls forms a nip therebetween. Further, each roll has a pair of roll ends, the plurality of rolls to... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6571695 | Article compacting device An apparatus for the compaction of articles, e.g., disposable metal cans or disposable plastic bottles, includes a pair of mutually counter-rotatable, interacting squeeze rollers, wherein the first roller has a fixed support and wherein the second roller ... | 06/03/2003 |
| 6568318 | Process for operating a calender and calender Process for operating a calender and a calender. The calender includes a hard roll and a soft roll with an elastic surface, in which the hard roll and the soft roll are arranged to form at least one nip, and a finishing medium application device positione... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6464834 | Calender roll and process for operating a calender roll A process is provided for operating a calender roll including a roll jacket surrounding an inner chamber. The process includes creating an active oscillation in the inner chamber that acts upon the roll jacket. By creating an oscillation within the calend... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6425322 | Method and means for handling of forestry wastes The present invention is for a log made from wastes from forestry and the like material. The invention also is for means and method for the production of such log. The log comprises a sheath which surrounds the compressed forestry wastes of the log. A log... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6425323 | Method and apparatus for disposing of web material In a method and an apparatus for disposing of thin, flexible material, which is in the form of a material web moved in the web direction and supplied to the disposal apparatus, a front web section at the front in the movement direction is held fast in are... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6398701 | Cylinder for a rotary press A cylinder for a rotary printing press can be subdivided into a plurality of sections in a first operational mode. In a second operational mode, the cylinder has a functionally continuous outer surface.... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6395211 | Method and calender for treating a sheet A calender for treatment of a web of a nonwoven textile V made of thermoplastic fibers. The calendar includes a heated embossing roller made of steel and a counter-roller that runs at the same circumference velocity. The local plastification in the nonwov... | 05/28/2002 |
| 6257133 | Method and apparatus for controlling cross directional nip dynamics A method and apparatus for obtaining a desired nip pressure distribution profile in the cross direction of a paper web. The paper web passes through a nip, the latter defined by at least one elastomer covered roll, the covered roll having polarizable part... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6253671 | Process for glazing a material web and roller for a glazing calender Process and apparatus for glazing a material web so as to influence or control the transparency of a material web. The material web is guided through at least one nip which is formed by a roller having an elastic covering made, in particular of a plastic ... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6244171 | Elastic coating for a calender roll, calender and process for operating the calender, and calender roll and method of forming the calender roll Calender and process for operating the calender, calender roll and process for forming the calender roll, and a coating for the calender roll. The calender includes at least one calender roll body, and an elastic coating coupled to the at least one calend... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6241900 | Unrollable media filtration with subsequent folding and pressing of media According to a waste water treatment method and apparatus of the present invention, a permeable sheet 3 is fed into a treatment tank 2 in which a stream is formed. The waste water, which flows downstream, is caused to pass through the permeable sheet 3, w... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6189442 | Apparatus for calendering paper The invention relates to an apparatus for calendering a fiber web, wherein the fiber web passes through an extended and heated nip, said nip being formed on one side by a cylindrical heated roll and on the other side by a flexible tubular jacket which is ... | 02/20/2001 |
