Patent ID: 7601244
Filing Date: 2009-10-13
Classification: D21F

Abstract:
1. A press for a paper machine with a smoothing press which is provided as a press at a final stage of a press section of a paper machine and functions to smooth a surface of a traveling wet web, said press comprising: the smoothing press comprising: a carrying belt provided on the upstream side of said first press roll and said second press roll for carrying the wet web from a final water-removing press of said press section to said elastic member; and a pair of nip transfer rolls provided on the upstream side of said first press roll and said second press roll for generating, in a state wherein the wet web is held between said carrying belt and said elastic member, a nip pressure on the wet web; wherein said elastic member is a paper feeding belt which does not have air permeability and whose hardness is set higher than that of said carrying belt.