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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7399382 | Device for cleaning a roll in a paper production plant A device for cleaning a roll in a paper production plant has a doctor blade assigned to the surface of the roll. The doctor blade is mounted such that it can be pivoted with respect to the roll by two bearing journals that are aligned parallel to the axis of the rol... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7340999 | Method 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 |
| 7240393 | Automatic clean device An automatic clean device includes a base body, a transmission element, a cleaning element and an elastic member. Wherein the transmission element and the cleaning element are disposed on the base body, the elastic member has an end connected to the cleaning element... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7044683 | Stripping device for a soil compacting roller and a soil compacting roller having such a stripping device A stripping device for a soil compacting roller having tamping feet is equipped with a spar on which are provided stripper teeth and an optionally adjustable spar mount which permits readjustment of the stripper teeth on the soil compacting roller. The spar preferab... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7013526 | Equipment and method for changing a blade Equipment and a method for changing a blade which is intended to be placed in a blade holder (10) and which is preferably arranged as a flexible band (16). The equipment has reels (14, 15) for keeping the band (16) reeled and transfer dev... | 03/21/2006 |
| 6458247 | Loading arrangement in a paper machine doctor A loading arrangement in a paper machine doctor includes a blade carrier, a blade holder, and loading devices to turn the blade holder in relation to the blade carrier and thus to press the doctor blade against the surface to be doctored. The loading devi... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6153055 | Apparatus for assisting in the release of a web An apparatus is disclosed for assisting in the release of a web from contact with the heated surface. The apparatus includes a material which is urged into contact with the heated surface upstream relative to the contact of the web to the heated surface. ... | 11/28/2000 |
| 6004468 | Serial drum apparatus and method for processing wet material An apparatus for processing a solid-liquid material comprises a housing formed with a series of interconnected chambers defined by chamber walls with at least two drums mounted in series within the chambers. Each chamber receives one of the at least two d... | 12/21/1999 |
| 5902456 | Dewatering apparatus Apparatus is disclosed for dewatering pulp suspensions including a pair of cylindrical rotatable liquid-premeable press rolls forming a nip therebetween, so that the material suspension can pass between the nip to be dewatered and to form a material web, ... | 05/11/1999 |
| 5855168 | Sugar cane milling system A sugar cane milling system for two roll or three roll crushing mill modules in tandem in which one or more of these mill modules is provided in addition and adjacent to it with at least one toothed feeder roller and with a juice drainer in the form of a ... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5826296 | Roll cleaning assembly In a roll cleaning assembly devised to remove liquid material continuously from the cylindrical surface of a rotating roll, for example from a compression roll (3) in a coating machine, a blade holder (5) which releasably retains a doctor blade (7) is mou... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5806136 | Device in the operation of a doctor in a paper/board machine A method and device in the operation of a doctor blade in a paper machine/board machine in which different quantities of lubricating medium are supplied into different areas in the longitudinal direction, i.e., along the width, of the doctor blade, indepe... | 09/15/1998 |
| 5768987 | Device for clearing the surface of a drum press The invention relates to a drum press comprising a device for clearing the inner surface of the drum or the outer surface of the roll. The drum is usable for instance for squeezing moist bark so as to make it suitable as a fuel. The drum press has a remov... | 06/23/1998 |
| 5758573 | Paperboard carton piercing, crushing and recycling system A paperboard carton piercing-crushing and recycle system and apparatus which includes a safety operated door which controls motor operated carton piercing and crushing rolls in order to crush paperboard cartons for disposal. The safety operated door is pr... | 06/02/1998 |
| 5705447 | Oil absorbing cleaning member A cleaning device for cleaning a recording material bearing member has a surface contacting with the recording material bearing member. The surface as a non-woven cloth including fibers having an average thickness of below 10 μm and 70% or more of said f... | 01/06/1998 |
| 5456802 | Threading vacuum sheave for a tissue calender A vacuum/blowing sheave on the end of the lower calender roll of a papermaking machine threads a tissue web tail from a Yankee dryer to a take-up reel through the calender. The sheave is positioned adjacent to the outlet of the threader tube from the Yank... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5417762 | Mounting apparatus for doctor blades A blade mounting apparatus for a blade in a coater secures essentially the entire blade length. The coater provides a cross profile adjustment of a suspension flow. The blade mounting apparatus includes an adjustable thrust element engaging the blade alon... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5349901 | Apparatus for the treatment of oil filters for low contaminant recycle Oil filter elements are processed to be substantially free of oil and thus contamination by passage through a series of counterrotating nip rolls which squeeze the filter element media and carry the separated oil circularly to be doctored off opposite the... | 09/27/1994 |
| 5333951 | Roll mixing machine and method A mixing machine including a frame; a first roller rotatably supported by the frame; a second roller rotatably supported by the frame in a position parallel to the first roller and closely adjacent thereto so as to facilitate compression of material there... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5174862 | Polishing doctor blade with diamond abrasive particles for a calendering roll Disclosed is a polishing doctor blade for resurfacing the surface of a metal calendering roll while in operation, comprising a working surface containing diamond abrasive particles harder than the surface material.... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5138740 | Doctor blade and blade to blade connector for pull through blade transfer system In a pull through doctor blade transfer system, the blade ends are slotted at their working edges. The slots are arranged and configured to accept complimentarily shaped portions of a connecting link used to detachably connect the trailing end of a spent ... | 08/18/1992 |
| 5095815 | Scraping device for can crushing apparatus A device is provided for releasing cans clinging to an outer wall surface of a crushing roller and/or an inner wall surface of a tubular drum in a can crushing apparatus. To remove cans adhered to the roller, a scraping mechanism is adjustably mounted on ... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5081857 | Cold rolling method using cleaning brushes for at least the back up rolls A method for cold rolling a strip is wherein brushing roll are provided to both the work rolls and the back up rolls of the temper mill, to remove particles from the surface of the rolls of the mill and suction ducts adjacent to the brushing rolls transpo... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5007132 | Hydraulic drive for pull through doctor blade transfer system In a pull through doctor blade transfer system wherein a coiled blade is payed off one rotatable reel while simultaneously being taken up on another rotatable reel, with an intermediate portion of the blade between the reels being supported in a blade hol... | 04/16/1991 |
| 4986178 | Holding arrangement for a device directed against a linearly adjustable roll, such as a doctor blade, blowing device or similar Holding arrangement for a device directed against a linearly adjustable roll, such as a doctor blade, blowing device or similar. On a holding arrangement for a device for surface treatment of the roll shell, directed against a linearly adjustable roll, wh... | 01/22/1991 |
| 4919756 | Method of and apparatus for compensatingly adjusting doctor blade A method of and apparatus for adjusting the impact angle of a doctor blade are provided to at least partially offset negative effects of doctor blade wear. For example and not by way of limitation, in papermaking machines for making creped tissue paper, a... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4919824 | Roller/squeezer deliquifier Solid particles with entrained liquid are removed from a filtration tank and deposited on a chute inlet to a pair of rollers. One roller is pressed toward the opposite roller such that the solid particles pass through the nip of the rollers and the liquid... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4802928 | Doctoring apparatus and method employing prestressed doctor blade A doctor blade assembly has a doctor blade supported in a blade holder. The blade has a projecting front edge adapted to be placed in contact with a moving surface to be doctored, and a rear edge adapted to be received in the blade holder. The blade is pr... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4765550 | Mill roll A juice extracting mill roll is provided with a plurality of juice channels connected with a plurality of juice inlet passages. The juice inlet passages have a longer dimension in an axial direction and a shorter dimension in a circumferential direction. ... | 08/23/1988 |
| 4735688 | Device for scraping a doctor blade For the purpose of cleaning the doctor blade of a roller of a paper mill, a blade scraping device mounted upon an end of the frame retaining the doctor blade, the device having spring loaded scraping jaws between which the blade is drawn upon being withdr... | 04/05/1988 |
| 4691406 | Doctoring apparatus A doctoring apparatus employs a doctor blade having a length greater than the face length of the surface being doctored. A blade holder applies an intermediate portion of the blade to the doctored surface. The blade is movable longitudinally through the b... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4609110 | Seed separating apparatus and method An apparatus and a method for the separation of seeds from seed-containing fruit rag or the like, particularly the separation of seeds from citrus fruit rag, which essentially consists of seeds, seed sacks and membranes to which the seeds adhere, and of a... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4436027 | Stripper bar for roll baling machine In a roll baling machine having a floor roller and a bale forming apron, a stripper bar is provided to remove crop material from the floor roller and thereby minimize the amount of crop material lost between the floor roller and the apron while baling.... | 03/13/1984 |
| 4359799 | Doctor blades A composite doctor blade assembly includes a length of steel strip 21, forming the doctor blade, and a similar but narrower back-up blade 22. The strips 21, 22 are clamped between a resiliently flexible carrier strip 23 and an arched resilient strip 24 he... | 11/23/1982 |
| 4285090 | Cleaning device for cold pressure fusing roller In combination, a cylindrical cold pressure fusing roller for an electrophotocopying machine and a section of wire helically strung across the surface of the cold pressure fusing roller for removing electrostatic toner particles from the cylindrical surfa... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4281434 | Apparatus for cleaning the surface of a rotating roller Apparatus for cleaning the surface of a rotating roller (1). First and second cleaning blades (8, 9) each have an edge extending axially across the surface of the roller and adjacent thereto, the edges being parallel and directed against the direction of ... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4281623 | Sheet stripping members for fixing device for fixing images of an original document on sheets of copy materials A couple of copy sheet stripping members are provided for scraping away a copy sheet adhered strictly to one of two rollers which are driven to fix images of an original document on the copy sheet in pressure engagement. At least one of the copy sheet str... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4265705 | Apparatus for cleaning doctor blades in paper machines In a paper making machine, apparatus for cleaning a doctor blade which extends across a roll of the paper making machine in the cross-machine direction includes a frame mounted for oscillating movement over the length of the doctor blade, which frame is d... | 05/05/1981 |
| 4206528 | Doctor blades and pressure plates A doctor for a papermaking machine comprising a blade holder carrying a doctor blade and a pressure plate bearing against the doctor blade, the pressure plate and/or the doctor blade being formed of a multiplicity of short contiguous sections, with or wit... | 06/10/1980 |
| 4171552 | Pile squeezing apparatus Pile squeezing apparatus with pile squeezing rollers between which a fiber strip can pass. Each of two stripping blades is associated with one of the pile squeezing rollers. The stripping blades is brought into pressure contact by an adjusting device, wit... | 10/23/1979 |
