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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7721464 | System and process for throughdrying tissue products A system and process for producing tissue webs is disclosed. The tissue webs are formed from an aqueous suspension of fibers and dried using a through-air dryer. During formation of the web, the web is transferred from a transfer fabric to a throughdrying fabric and... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7356984 | Device and method for treatment of a traveling yarn with a steam-creating treatment medium A device for treatment of a traveling yarn with a steam-creating medium includes a column of several chambers provided with yarn inlet- and yarn outlet-channels and arranged one over the other, of which one of the chambers is a steam treatment chamber provided with ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7290412 | Washing machine A washing machine in which steam and hot water are supplied to heat wash water. The washing machine includes a water tub for containing wash water, a steam generating unit for heating water supplied thereto, thereby generating steam, a water supply unit for supplyin... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7125473 | Apparatus and method for conditioning a web on a papermaking machine An apparatus and method for conditioning a moving porous web on a papermaking machine is disclosed. The web has a first and a second surface and a high temperature gaseous boundary layer adjacent at least the second surface. The apparatus contains means for conveyin... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7117775 | Method and apparatus for transferring a paper web A method of, and apparatus for, transferring a web, in particular a paper web or cardboard web or an insertion tail severed from the web, from a web-discharging web-guiding surface, via a web conveying apparatus, to the next structural unit of a machine for producin... | 10/10/2006 |
| 7089839 | Method and apparatus for transferring a paper web A method of, and apparatus for, transferring a web, in particular a paper web or cardboard web or an insertion tail severed from the web, from a web-discharging web-guiding surface, via a web conveying apparatus, to the next structural unit of a machine for producin... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7067039 | Method and equipment in connection with a paper machine or a paper web finishing apparatus A variable representing runnability of a paper web to be manufactured with a paper machine or processed with a finishing apparatus is measured and the speed difference between operational groups of the paper machine and/or the finishing apparatus is adjusted on the ... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7066091 | Methods and apparatus for controlling impurity levels in an enclosed printing press environment Methods and apparatus for controlling impurity levels in an enclosed printing press environment are disclosed. A disclosed system controls impurity levels by using variable speed fans to control the intake of air into the enclosed environment and the exhausting of a... | 06/27/2006 |
| 6953516 | Process for making throughdried tissue by profiling exhaust gas recovery The energy efficiency of a throughdrying papermaking process is improved by recycling exhaust gas from one or more throughdryers prior to throughdrying to profile the consistency of the web. ... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6944966 | Steam blower box A steam blower box for the application of steam on a material web, particularly paper, which travels past the steam blower box includes a housing wall which faces the material web and extends transversely of the web travel direction. A plurality of steam outlet open... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6928912 | Method and apparatus for transferring a web An apparatus transfers a moving web of a flexible material from a web guide surface. The web guide surface outputs the moving web, and the moving web has at least one web edge. The apparatus includes at least one edge nozzle, each edge nozzle being positioned so as ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6869506 | Apparatus for dewatering a paper web and associated system and method An apparatus for decreasing heat emission and enhancing a vacuum system in a papermaking machine is provided. Such an apparatus includes a drying device having an inlet for receiving heated air for removing moisture from a paper web and an outlet for exhausting the ... | 03/22/2005 |
| 6706150 | Method and arrangement of impingement for blowing compensation of a tendency of curling of a paper board web to be treated as well as a paper or board machine An air impingement arrangement and method for compensating for the curling tendency of a paper or board web which is being treated. Air impingement is disposed in connection with a paper or board process or with its finishing process and extends across the width of ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6615511 | Process for monitoring web breaks Process and apparatus for monitoring web breaks in a machine for producing a material web includes at least one impingement dryer. The process includes guiding the material web through the at least one impingement dryer, and monitoring the material web fo... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6555013 | Treatment method for things like sludge and treatment apparatus A method and apparatus for treating an aqueous-containing sludge in which the sludge is filtered on an elongate moving sheet of a water permeable unwoven fabric on paper. The moving sheet is folded and compressed between rollers whereby to express water t... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6551461 | Process for making throughdried tissue using exhaust gas recovery The energy efficiency of a throughdrying papermaking process is improved by recycling exhaust air from one or more throughdryers to further heat the web at various places in the process.... | 04/22/2003 |
| 6523279 | Drying roll for drying a material web Roll and drying section of a machine for producing a material web and process for drying a material web. The roll includes a jacket having a plurality of throughput openings, a device for supplying gas through the jacket, and a second jacket located withi... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6473997 | Method and drying section for dewatering a fibrous web The invention relates to a method and a drying section for dewatering a fibrous web (9), the drying section preferably being intended to dry fibrous webs in a paper machine, and the drying section comprising a number of drying cylinders (8), by which an i... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6449874 | Method for blowing steam against paper web, and steam box of paper machine A method for blowing steam against a paper web, whereby the steam is blown by a steam box having several profiling chambers in the cross direction of a paper machine. The cross-profile of the paper web is controlled by the steam supplied by the profiling ... | 09/17/2002 |
| 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 |
| 6378229 | Method for the sub-critical drying of lyogels to produce aerogels The present invention refers to a method for the sub-critical drying of lyogels to produce aerogels. The method for the sub-critical drying of lyogels to produce aerogels provides for the lyogel particles to be disposed as a fixed bed and for a drying gas... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6365004 | Method and apparatus for drying a paper web A method and apparatus effect drying of a paper web using a plurality of heated drying cylinders and at least one air impingement module having a hood. The paper web is brought into operative contact with the heated drying cylinders, and at least one of t... | 04/02/2002 |
| 6228220 | Air press method for dewatering a wet web An air press for noncompressively dewatering a wet web to consistency levels not previously thought possible at industrially useful speeds without thermal dewatering.... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6216706 | Method and apparatus for producing reconstituted tobacco sheets An apparatus and method for drying reconstituted tobacco sheets includes positioning a steam box below an endless conveyor belt. A slurry is cast onto the conveyor belt and conveyed over a steam box before entry into a drying apparatus. The steam box func... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6189237 | Process for drying a web Process and device for drying a moving web. The process includes vaporizing moisture in the web, creating a blanket of compressed air along a first surface of the web, and the blanket of compressed air directing the vaporized moisture in a direction from ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6143135 | Air press for dewatering a wet web An air press for noncompressively dewatering a wet web to consistency levels not previously thought possible at industrially useful speeds without thermal dewatering. The air press has an air plenum and a vacuum collection device, each on opposite sides o... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6035550 | Method and apparatus for treating bog in a low temperature liquid storage tank A method and apparatus of treating the BOG generated in low temperature liquid storage tanks are described, wherein the BOG is strongly adsorbed to and stored in a porous material by contacting the BOG with the porous material in the presence of a compoun... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5950329 | Method of and apparatus for drying a fiber web The invention relates to a method of and an apparatus for drying a fiber web, whereby the fiber web (5) is dried in a cylinder drying unit (12) and in a band drier unit (11). The cylinder drying unit (12) and the band drier unit (11) are arranged one abov... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5845415 | Method for impingement drying and/or through-drying of a paper or material web A method and apparatus 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 and/or equivalent from an impingement drying device in a direction substantially perpendic... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5813135 | Conditioning of fabrics by recirculating air/steam method and apparatus The present invention is directed to a coaxial waveguide applicator for an electromagnetic wave-activated sorption system which comprises at least one sorber having a metallic tubular housing defining an outer conductor and first and second ends which are... | 09/29/1998 |
| 5787605 | Method of storing and transporting gases A method of storing and transporting gas wherein a large amount of gas is stored and transported by bringing the gas into contact with a porous material having fine pores and a large specific surface area in the presence of a compound serving as a host at... | 08/04/1998 |
| 5636452 | Paper drying machine and method for drying a paper web in a paper drying machine A paper drying apparatus including a first rotatable drum, wherein the first rotatable drum has an inner perimeter and an outer perimeter and a second rotatable drum having an inner perimeter and an outer perimeter. A fabric sheet for carrying a paper web... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5465505 | Inverted dryer group in a multi-cylinder dryer in a paper machine An inverted dryer group having a single-wire draw in a multi-cylinder dryer in a paper machine, including steam-heated drying cylinders arranged in a lower row and against which the drying wire of the cylinder group presses a web to be dried into direct c... | 11/14/1995 |
| 5426867 | Dryer section of a paper machine Dryer section of a paper machine having so-called normal drying groups with a single-wire draw, heated contact drying cylinders arranged in an upper row and leading cylinders or rolls arranged in a lower row. At least one drying module is arranged between... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5388347 | Dryer section in a paper machine A dryer section in a paper machine for drying a paper web, having normal dryer groups with a single-wire draw in which drying cylinders are arranged in an upper row and reversing cylinders in a lower row. The dryer section has at least one inverted dryer ... | 02/14/1995 |
| 5152961 | Method of storing perborate monohydrate Method of storing sodium perborate monohydrate granules at elevated surrounding temperature of between 10° and 65° C., according to which the granules are stored in bulk in a closed enclosure proofed against the surrounding atmosphere, into which is int... | 10/06/1992 |
| 5071513 | Method for the mechanical-thermal dewatering of a fiber stock web At least two substantially parallel rows of adjustable pressure elements cooperate with a heatable counter element like a counter roll and are arranged immediately consecutive but separate from each other to define at least two pressing sections of an ext... | 12/10/1991 |
| 5060396 | Zoned cylindrical dryer A dryer used to remove a flammable solvent or vapors from a traveling web of material supported in flotation by opposing air bars. The dryer consists of a large metallic cylinder through which the web of material moves longitudinally. Seals in the ends of... | 10/29/1991 |
| 5038494 | Apparatus and method for drying and restoring wet books This invention relates to an apparatus and method for drying and/or restoring books and other materials which have been wet, wherein the wet and/or distorted materials are placed in a vacuum chamber and subjected to vacuum while being gradually and unifor... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5020238 | Vacuum guide roll apparatus A vacuum guide roll apparatus is disclosed for guiding a web between an upstream dryer and a downstream dryer of a dryer section. The apparatus includes a perforate roll shell having a first and a second end. The shell defines an elongate chamber which ex... | 06/04/1991 |
