Patent ID: 6997106
Filing Date: 2006-02-14
Classification: D21G,F16C

Abstract:
1. A calender having a plurality of calender rolls arranged one upon the other, and including a top calender roll and a bottom calender roll, and defining in operation at least one profiling nip for profiling a fibrous web that is being calendered, at least one of the calender rolls defining the profiling nip being a shoe roll comprising an outer shell and at least one row of internal shell-loading shoe means for profiling the shell, the nip and the fibrous web as well as for controlling contact in the nip, the improvement comprising: the shoe roll is located between the top and bottom calender rolls; the shoe roll outer shell is of continuous-fibre reinforced composite material, the fiber orientation being such that the composite material outer shell is more rigid in the circumferential direction than in the axial direction; and the at least one row of internal shell-loading shoe means of the shoe roll is arranged parallel to a nip defined against the shoe roll.