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Class 100/161 - Plural stage or pass


Subclass of Class 100 - Presses
Definition: Apparatus in which material is compressed between more than
No. of patents: 78
Last issue date: 08/19/2008


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NumberTitleIssue Date
7413632Method for calendering a fibrous web and a calender
A calender includes at least two roll stacks which each have at least three rolls, and in each of which the web path of a fibrous web meanders between each roll pair of the stack. In order to produce a selectable fibrous web grade, the web is passed between each rol...
08/19/2008
7387064Method and apparatus for producing calendered paper
A paper web moistened in a paper machine and reeled on a machine reel is calendered in a multinip calender arranged apart from the paper machine, whose roll assembly is formed of a first set of rolls and a second set of rolls in the travel direction of the paper web...
06/17/2008
7353670Tile sponge washing and conditioning apparatus
A tile sponge washing and conditioning apparatus is disclosed for washing in water a sponge used during a ceramic tile laying operation. The apparatus includes a frame for disposition thereof within the water. The frame includes a first wall and a second wall which ...
04/08/2008
7340999Method for operating a multi-roll calendar and a calendar
Calender and process for operating calender depending upon a desired surface quality, in which calender includes a plurality of nips located between end nips formed by replaceable rolls and end rolls. Process includes selectively guiding a web though several nips of...
03/11/2008
7340998Arrangement for closing roll nips
A multi-roll calender (1) has one or several sets of rolls (2) attached to a frame (7) so that each set of rolls has at least three rolls. At least the first roll (3; 31) and the last roll (3; 32) have casings which can be moved to...
03/11/2008
7331849Belt and roller flattening apparatus
An apparatus for tenderizing, progressively flattening and smoothing food items includes a roller set of substantially parallel rollers arrayed laterally for contacting, mechanically advancing and tenderizing a first side of a food item; and a compressing conveyor b...
02/19/2008
7325490Relief cylinder structure of a multinip calender
A relief cylinder structure for guiding a roll in a multinip calender has a frame and an arm that is arranged to move linearly in relation to the frame. A quick-opening cylinder is placed inside the arm. In a fault situation, the relief cylinder causes the cylinder ...
02/05/2008
7311039Method and arrangement for preventing vibrations in a multi-nip calender or calender array
Vibration is prevented in a multi-nip calender (1) or an array of multi-nip calendars. Each calender has a lower roll (3; 40), an upper roll (3; 30) and two or more intermediate rolls. A fiber web is conveyed through the closed roll nips of the ...
12/25/2007
7134387Refrigerator 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
7096779Calender arrangement
A vertical calender arrangement comprises a controllable-deflection top roll, a controllable-deflection bottom roll and intermediate rolls arranged between top and bottom rolls. The top roll and the bottom roll are each provided with a power drive. ...
08/29/2006
7070495Meat rolling device and method for treating meat
Embodiments of the invention provide a more efficient method for treating meat. In one embodiment, a rolling device includes several rolling units comprising in turn several rollers. To optimize the treatment process, sheeting with a degree of play is placed over th...
07/04/2006
7037407Method and calender for calendering a paper web above the glass transition range of the paper
A paper web is calendered by passing the paper web through a nip formed by a heatable thermo roll and a backing roll. The surface temperature of the thermo roll is above the glass transition range of the paper. ...
05/02/2006
7024990Calender and an arrangement for fastening rolls of a calender
A calender and an arrangement for mounting calender rolls, the calender comprising at least two calender nips (1, 2) formed by at least two stacked rolls (11–14). The rolls are have bearing housings (3–6) by means of which the rolls (11â€...
04/11/2006
7017479Calender
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
7013799Calender
Calender that includes at least one supporting bracket, and a roll stack having at least two rolls. At least one axial end of each of the at least two rolls are supported by the at least one supporting bracket. A connection arrangement includes a fluid connection co...
03/21/2006
7011038Hygienic and ergonomic breading machine
A food breading machine includes a lowerable cage carrier grate of two grids between which the cutlet resides. The cage supports a meat, fish or vegetable cutlet thereon, which descends into a first basin having a bath of raw egg fluid. The egg saturated product is ...
03/14/2006
7004066Table top and process of making the same
A process for making a table top includes the steps of mounting a ring-shaped outer mold on a flat surface, mounting a plurality of decorative members which are arranged in a layer on the flat surface and within the outer mold, the decorative members being spaced ap...
02/28/2006
6998019Glazed 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
6997106Shoe 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
6955346Adjustable locator for assembly of trusses
A locator for locating and holding a structural member in engagement with an adjacent structural member at a predetermined position of an assembly apparatus during a truss assembly operation. The locator includes a cylindric sleeve having an outer wall configured fo...
10/18/2005
6892631Process for operating a calender
Process for operating and calender with a roll stack having a plurality of rolls, including two end rolls arranged to form a press plane and middle rolls arranged between the end rolls. The plurality of rolls includes at least one elastic roll. The process includes ...
05/17/2005
6890407Method and apparatus for producing calendered paper or board
A method and an arrangement for manufacturing calendered paper or board particularly in the on-line manufacturing method. In the method, a base web is formed from a mixture of water and pulp supplied from the headbox and the web is dried by removing water over the p...
05/10/2005
6886454Calendering arrangement for a paper machine
Higher-gloss paper grades, in particular paper grades with a Hunter gloss % above 40, are produced in an arrangement having pairs of calendering units (1, 3) disposed in the machine direction one after the other and apart from one another, which pairs are eac...
05/03/2005
6875311Method and apparatus for producing calendered paper or board
A method and an arrangement for manufacturing calendered paper or board particularly in the on-line manufacturing method. In the method, a base web is formed from a mixture of water and pulp supplied from the headbox and the web is dried by removing water over the p...
04/05/2005
6857356Calender and process for operating a calendar
Calender including a roll stack having a plurality of rolls that rest against one another in a press direction. At least one of the rolls has an elastic surface. A vibration recording device determines in an uninterrupted manner a vibration of at least one of the ro...
02/22/2005
6834580Offset press with improved cylinder mounting
The offset press comprises a frame, at least one plate cylinder, a press cylinder, and a blanket cylinder interposed between the plate cylinder and the press cylinder, together with bearing assemblies carried by the frame and receiving the longitudinal ends of the c...
12/28/2004
6827009Multiple-nip calender and calendering arrangement
A supercalender for calendering a paper web and a calendering arrangement for producing matte-quality paper web has a multiple-nip calender in which at least one of the calendering nips of the multiple-nip calender is an extended nip (N9) formed between a...
12/07/2004
6827010Multi-roll calender
A multi-roll calender for controlling the moisture gradient of a fibrous web and for enabling the manufacture of high quality paper grades, such as WFC, LWC-roto and SC-A by on- and off-line calendering. An on- or off-line multi-roll calender formed of separate sets...
12/07/2004
6758135Method and device for moisturization of a paper or board web in calendering
A paper or board web (W) is calendered in at least one calendering nip (N1-N8), and the web (W) is moisturized before calendering. The web (W) is moisturized by means of liquid moisturization (20; 21) very close before at least one calendering n...
07/06/2004
6733632Process and apparatus for the on-line calendering of SC-A paper
A process and an apparatus for the manufacture of SC-A paper having a high gloss and high smoothness, wherein the paper arriving from the paper machine is supplied on-line to a supercalender (multinip soft calendar), and wherein the paper travels through a plurality...
05/11/2004
6708608Device and method preventing evaporation of moisture and heat losses in calendering
The invention relates to a calender intended to calender a paper or board web (4), which calander comprising a calendering section, in which there are at least two members, such as rolls (1, 2, 3), in nip contact, between which the web (4) being...
03/23/2004
6698342Method for a multi-roll calender as well as a multi-roll calender
A method for a multi-roll calender and a multi-roll calender for controlling the moisture gradient of a fibrous web and for enabling the manufacture of high quality paper grades, such as WFC, LWC-roto and SC-A by on- and off-line calendering. An on- or of...
03/02/2004
6698341Calender roll and process for operating a calender roll
A process for operating a calender roll that cooperates rotatingly with at least one other calender roll of a roll stack, at least one calender roll of the roll stack being provided with an elastic cover. The process includes operating the calender roll; ...
03/02/2004
6688218Calender
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
6675702Method and device for producing a strip of cellulose fiber material for use in hygiene articles
The invention relates to a method for producing a strip of absorbent, rollable cellulose fiber material (100) which is suitable for use in the hygiene sector. A fiber layer consisting of cellulose fibers is placed on a base layer (8) and pre-compressed to...
01/13/2004
6672202Device for flattening pieces of meat
The invention relates to an improved flattening device for flattening pieces of meat so that said pieces of meat have a larger surface and a reduced thickness. The inventive device comprises a conveyor device (15, 31) on which the pieces of meat to be fla...
01/06/2004
6658998Continuously operating device for directing pressing or pulling force at an object fed in relation to the device
The invention relates to a continuously operating device for directing pressing or pulling force at an object fed in relation to the device, at that part of the object which is at the location of the device, by using the at least two pairs of rolls or the...
12/09/2003
6615709Method for detecting contamination and/or damaging of a face that runs through a nip or nips in a calendar for paper
The invention concerns a method for detecting a contamination and damaging of a face (10) that runs through a nip or nips (N1 . . . N10) in a calendar for paper. In the method vibrations occurring in connection with the constructions...
09/09/2003
6601499Apparatus for marinating, tenderizing, strip cutting cube cutting and progressively flattening meat
An apparatus for flattening pieces of meat without piercing nor shredding the meat including a first roller set, each roller in the first roller set having non-sharpened outer edges; a second roller set, each roller in the second roller set having non-sha...
08/05/2003
6418840Calendering method and a calender that makes use of the method
A calendering method and calender in which a web material is passed through a calender, the calender being defined by two rolls having resilient roll coatings and being loaded towards each other so that due to the resilient nature of the roll coatings an ...
07/16/2002
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