Patent ID: 6942758
Filing Date: 2005-09-13
Classification: D21G,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method for tail threading a web in a paper machine or a similar, in which tail threading is carried out in stages: guiding the web to a broke treatment at a selected dryer of a dryer section, before the said dryer, cutting the web into a tail portion and a broke web portion, the broke web portion having an edge alongside the cut, guiding the from the selected dryer to the following section while the broke web portion is transferred further to the broke treatment, whereby while travelling through the dryer section, the tail portion is widened to a full web width and the broke web portion is simultaneously reduced away, the method characterized in that during the tail threading operation, the edge of the broke web portion is turned away from the web in order to form an open draw between the tail portion and the broke web portion.