Patent ID: 6336996
Filing Date: 2002-01-08
Classification: D21F,D21G

Abstract:
A process for transferring a fibrous material web including a threading strip that increases in width crosswise to the material web from a thin strip to an entire width of the fibrous material web from a moist releasing belt to an accepting belt in a web producing machine that includes a transfer region and a separating region arranged in this order in a web travel direction, the process comprising:guiding the accepting and releasing belts together at least in the transfer region; separating the accepting belt from the releasing belt in the separating region; and suctioning a surface of the accepting belt opposite a fibrous web and strip carrying surface so that the strip and the fibrous material web are carried by the carrying surface, wherein, when the strip is being transferred, the suctioning occurs at in least the transfer region, and wherein, when an entire width of the fibrous material web is being transferred, the suctioning occurs at least primarily in the separating region.