Patent ID: 7287974
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: D21G,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A calender arrangement for calendering a fiber web, comprising: a mating roll; a shoe roll including a revolving shell being fixed to two rotatably mounted terminating elements, each of two said rotatably mounted terminating elements being arranged at an end of said revolving shell, said shoe roll being loaded in a direction of said mating roll via a press shoe matched to an outside of said mating roll, said revolving shell having a base layer located radially on an inside of said revolving shell and an adjacent functional layer located radially on an outside of said revolving shell, said base layer including a resilient matrix material reinforced by a plurality of embedded fibers, said functional layer including a matrix material with another plurality of embedded fibers having a lower fiber content than said base layer; and an extended nip formed between said shoe roll and said mating roll, the fiber web being guided through said extended nip.