Abstract:
A method in a paper machine for transferring a paper web from a wet wire in a former section to a pick-up fabric or an equivalent transfer fabric of a press section, including the steps of forming a pick-up point on the wet wire and separating an edge strip from at least one edge of the web prior to the pick-up point by means of at least one cutting device. The method further includes separating the web from the wet wire and passing the web onto the pick-up fabric at the pick-up point. The method also includes applying a pressure difference to the at least one edge strip through the wet wire or the pick-up fabric at or after the pick-up point to cause the at least one edge strip to either follow the wet wire or become separated from the pick-up fabric after the pick-up point and to be placed in a broke system arranged beneath the paper machine.

Description:
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION 
     This application is a divisional of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/375,220 filed on Aug. 16, 1999, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,214,168 which issued on Apr. 10, 2001, entitled “Method and Device in a Paper Machine for the Transfer of the Web form the Former Section to the Press Section.” 
    
    
     FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     The invention concerns a method in a paper machine for transfer of the paper web that was formed in the former section to the press section. In the method, a pick-up point is formed in connection with the wet wire of the former section, the paper web being transferred in the area of the pick-up point, using a difference in pressure, onto a pick-up fabric or an equivalent transfer fabric. Before the pick-up point, edge strips are separated from one or both edges of the web by means of cutting grooves, the web between the edge strips or the web being separated from the wet wire at the pick-up point and being passed on support of the pick-up fabric or equivalent to the press section in the paper machine. 
     Further, the invention concerns a device in a paper machine for transfer of the paper web that was formed in the former section to the press section. In the paper machine, a pick-up point for the paper web is formed in connection with the wet wire of the former section, at which pickup up point the paper web is transferred, while making use of a difference in pressure, onto a pick-up fabric or an equivalent transfer fabric. Before the pick-up point, cutter devices are arranged by whose means edge strips are separated from one or both edges of the web. The web between the edge strips is separated from the wet wire at the pick-up point and is passed on the pick-up fabric or equivalent to the press section in the paper machine. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     Increased running speeds of paper and board machines cause new problems to be solved, which problems are mostly related to the runnability of the machine. At present, speeds of up to about 1600 to 1700 meters per minute are employed in paper machines. At these speeds, so-called closed press sections, which comprise a compact combination of press rolls fitted around a smooth-faced center roll, as a rule, still operate satisfactorily. As examples of such press sections should be mentioned the current assignee&#39;s Sym-Press II™ and Sym-Press O™ press sections. 
     In recent years, as running speeds of printing-paper machines, running speeds as high as about 40 meters per second=2400 meters per minute have been contemplated. Achievement of speeds as high as this, in particular in wide machines, provides ever more difficult problems to be solved, some of the most important of which are runnability of the machine and adequate water drain capacity at a high web speed. In a corresponding way, in board machines (basis weight of web &gt;100 grams per sq. meter), attempts are made to raise the present-day web speeds (8 to 15 meters per second) to a level of 15 to 25 meters per second. 
     When running speeds of paper machines are increased, the problems of runnability of a paper machine are also encountered with increased emphasis, because a web with high water content and low strength especially does not endure the dynamic forces arising from high web speeds and changes in the running direction of the web, but web breaks and other interference in the operation arise, which will be described in more detail later and which produce standstills or faults of quality in the paper. In a modern printing-paper machine, the cost of break standstill time is currently of an order of 50,000 FIM per hour. 
     In prior-art press sections, the web is, as a rule, passed from the forming wire into the first press nip on a pick-up felt, which also operates as a press fabric that receives water in the first press nip, which nip is either a roll nip or an extended nip. In the first press nip, it is necessary to use a relatively high compression pressure and to deal with large quantities of water, and it is one drawback arising from this that the outer face of the press felt tends to be contaminated and its porous fabric structure to be partly blocked. Attempts are made to prevent this by means of efficient felt conditioning devices, which are, however, components that are quite expensive, spacious, and consume an abundance of energy. A further drawback of the press felts used in prior-art press sections is their effect of rewetting the web. 
     In a way known from the prior art, in the vicinity of the wet wire, before the pick-up point, devices for cutting of edge strips off the web, i.e. so-called edge spray cutters, are fitted, by whose means, by means of water jets applied to the web placed on the wet wire, narrow edge strips are cut off from both edges of the web so that a web of uniform width with whole and good edges is obtained to be passed to the press section. As is known from the prior art, the cutters of edge strips can be provided with position regulation devices, by whose means the web cutting width can be adjusted and regulated within certain limits. 
     By means of the present invention, attempts are made to eliminate problems related to the cutting of the edges of the paper web which have been encountered in the current assignee&#39;s test machine when running at a high speed and in particular with webs of relatively low basis weight. When the running speed of the test machine was higher than about 1500 meters per minute, the edge strips that were cut off from the paper web in the wire part before the pick-up roll tended to follow the pick-up felt after the pick-up roll, instead of following the wet wire. This took place in particular when the permeability of the pick-up felt was low. The permeability of the pick-up felt can be low also when new, because of its structure, and in particular when the felt is compacted and contaminated as a result of prolonged service life, as was described above. If the edge strips of the paper web enter fully or partially into the press nips, they cause interference with the runnability and produce fiber strings that damage the press felts and the extended-nip belts. 
     The above problems related to the cutting of the edges of a paper web and the other difficulties are emphasized further when the web speed approaches 2000 meters per minute and exceeds the speed. It is one of the problems of runnability that, owing to these problems, in the press section it is not possible to employ steam boxes in order to enhance the dewatering. It has not been possible to a major extent to reduce these problems by means of regulation of the cutting width of the water jet devices that cut the edges of the paper web, i.e. of the edge spray cutters, or by means of regulation of the suction width in a pick-up roll. 
     It is probably one of the reasons for the problems related to the cutting of the edges of the paper web that replacement air flows into the opening nip between the forming wire and the pickup felt more readily through the forming wire than through the pick-up felt. Since the width of the strip torn off from the edge is approximately equal to the width of the end seals of the suction zone in the pick-up roll, these seals may prevent the flow of replacement air through the holes in the mantle of the pick-up suction roll at the location of the seals. This is also indicated by the fact that it can also be frequently seen in production machines that the edge strips are folded double across a width of about 30 mm after the pick-up point before the edge strip knock-off jets. 
     OBJECTS AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     By means of the present invention, attempts are made to provide novel solutions for the problems dealt with above, in particular when the web speed is higher than 1500 meters per minute and, as a rule, in a range 1500 to 2500 meters per minute. 
     It is a particular object of the invention to provide a method and a device of the sort concerned by whose means it can be ensured that either the edge strips run after the pick-up point along with the wet wire or the edge strips are separated from the pick-up felt so that the edge strips can be passed in a controlled way, by the effect of centrifugal forces and, if necessary, by means of knock-off water showers, into a wire pit or equivalent placed underneath. 
     In view of achieving the objectives stated above and those that will come out later, the method in accordance with the invention for transferring a paper web from a wet wire in a former section to a pick-up fabric or an equivalent transfer fabric of a press section includes forming a pick-up point on the wet wire and separating an edge strip from at least one edge or both edges of the web prior to the pick-up point by means of at least one cutting device. The web is separated from the wet wire and passed onto the pick-up fabric at the pick-up point. The method further includes applying a pressure difference to the edge strips through the wet wire or the pick-up fabric at or after the pick-up point to cause the edge strips to either follow the wet wire or become separated from the pick-up fabric after the pick-up point and to be placed in a broke system arranged beneath the paper machine. 
     On the other hand, the paper machine in accordance with the invention in which a paper web is transferred from a wet wire in a former section to a pick-up fabric in a press section in a running direction of the web includes a pick-up point located on the wet wire and at least one cutter device arranged in association with the wet wire before the pick-up point in the running direction of the web for separating an edge strip from at least one edge or both edges of the web. The paper machine also includes means for transferring the web from the wet wire to the pick-up fabric at the pick-up point and means for applying a pressure difference to the edge strips through the wet wire or the pick-up fabric at or after the pick-up point to cause the edge strips to either follow the wet wire or become separated from the pick-up fabric after the pick-up point and to be placed in a broke system arranged beneath the paper machine. 
     In a device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, the edge strips of the web are kept in contact with the wet wire by vacuum devices of a width substantially equal to the width of the edge strips. An alternative with a full-width vacuum device is also possible, in which case intensifying suction zones can be fitted in the areas of the edge strips. A full-width alternative of a vacuum device may be provided with instantaneous switching off of the vacuum in the middle area as soon as threading of the web starts. By means of this method and device it is possible to improve the quality of the tip of the web in threading, and also in cutting-off the web, when the vacuum of the vacuum device is switched on at a suitable stage. 
     In accordance with a second preferred embodiment of the invention, pressure devices of a width substantially equal to the width of the edge strips and placed after the pick-up roll and fitted at the location of the edge strips are used, by means of which pressure devices the edge strips are separated from the pick-up felt and passed, for example, by means of a guide plate or plates down to the broke system. 
     In accordance with a third preferred embodiment of the invention, pressure zones are used, which are placed outside the vacuum zone of the pick-up roll at both sides of the vacuum zone and which have been fitted at the location of the edge strips and which prevent portions placed outside the paper web proper to be passed to the press section from following the pick-up felt. 
     In a fourth embodiment of the invention it is possible to arrange a blow device of full width inside the loop of the wet wire after the pick-up point, by means of which blow device the web of full width can be separated from the wet wire when the web is not passed to the press section, e. g., in the event of a disturbance in operation. 
     The alternative embodiments of the method and the device mentioned above can be used each of them alone or as a suitable combination, always as necessary. 
     The present pick-up method and devices are, as a rule, applied in paper machines whose speed is higher than ˜1500 meters per minute. A pick-up method and a device in accordance with the present invention are particularly useful, and in many cases even indispensable, in paper machines whose speed range is 1700 to 2500 meters per minute, in which speed range the problems that are supposed to be eliminated by means of the present invention occur with more emphasis when the speeds that are used become higher. 
     By means of the method and the device in accordance with the invention, it is possible to ensure in all different situations of operation, also at very high speeds, that the edge strips do not enter into the press section along with the pick-up felt, but the edge strips either follow the wire directly after the pick-up point and fall down into the broke system placed underneath, or are separated from the pick-up felt at the latest in or after the pick-up zone and are passed, for example, by means of a guide plate, into the broke system. Further, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, it is ensured that the web of full width is separated from the wet wire in a situation of operation in which the web is not passed to the press section, for example, in the event of a disturbance in operation, but the web is passed from the wet wire directly into the broke system. 
     In the following, the invention will be described in detail with reference to some environments of application and exemplifying embodiments of the present invention illustrated in the figures in the accompanying drawing, the invention being in no way strictly confined to the environments or embodiments. 
    
    
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     The following drawings are illustrative of embodiments of the invention and are not meant to limit the scope of the invention as encompassed by the claims. 
     FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of the invention having devices for guiding and transferring the edge strip of the web. 
     FIG. 2 shows another embodiment of the invention having two successive extended-nip presses and a particular arrangement of pick-up of the web from the lower wet wire. 
     FIG. 3 shows a device of the present invention as viewed in the direction A indicated in FIG.  1  and in the direction B indicated in FIG.  2 . 
     FIG. 4 shows a second device of the present invention as viewed in the direction C indicated in FIG.  1  and in the direction D indicated in FIG.  2 . 
     FIG. 5 shows a third device of the present invention as viewed in the direction E indicated in FIG.  2 . 
     FIG. 6 shows another embodiment of the present invention. 
     FIG. 7 is a central sectional axial view of the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 6 as viewed in the direction G indicated in FIG.  6 . 
     FIG. 8 is a modification of the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG.  7 . 
     FIG. 9 is a partial central axial sectional view of the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 6 as viewed in the direction F indicated in FIG.  6 . 
     FIG. 10 is a modification of the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG.  9 . 
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
     To begin with, reference being made to FIGS. 1 and 6, a typical environment of application of the invention will be described, which includes a compact press section marketed by the current assignee with the trade mark SymPress II B™. It should be emphasized also in this connection that the invention is not confined to the environments of application illustrated in the different figures, but many other environments can also be concerned equally well. 
     The paper machine as shown in FIGS. 1 and 6 comprises a former section  1 , a press section  2 , and a dryer section  3 . Of the former  1 , just the final end is shown, and of the dryer section  3  just the initial end is shown. On the wet wire  10  of the former  1 , the web W is brought over the suction zone  11   a  of the suction roll  11  onto a downwards inclined run of the wet wire  10 , which run extends down to the wire drive roll  12 . On this downwards inclined run of the wire  10  the paper web W is separated from the forming wire  10 , which wire is, for example, a carrying lower wire in a twin-wire former, and the web is transferred by means of the vacuum in the suction zone  21   a  of the pick-up suction roll  21  onto the pick-up felt  20  at the point P. On the lower face of the pick-up felt  20  the web W is transferred into the first nip N 1  in the press section, in which the pick-up felt  20  operates as an upper fabric. The first nip N, is formed by an upper press suction roll  22 , in which there are successive suction zones  22   a  and  22   b,  and by a lower, hollow-faced  32  press roll  31 . Through the first nip N 1 , a lower belt  30  runs, which receives water and from which the web W is separated so as to follow the upper felt  20 , with the aid of the vacuum in the suction zone  22   a  of the suction roll  22 . 
     In FIGS. 1 and 6, the second nip N 2  in the press section is formed between the suction roll  22  and a smooth-faced  26  center roll  25 . The second roll nip N 2  is placed on the suction zone  22   b  of the suction roll  22 . After the nip N 2  the web W follows the smooth face  26  of the center roll  25  into the third nip in the press section, which is a what is called extended nip NP 3 , through which a press fabric  40  that receives water runs. The lower roll in the extended nip NP 3  is the center roll  25 , and the upper roll is a shoe roll  41 , in which there are a resilient and flexible hose mantle and a press shoe  43  of the extended-nip zone NP 3 , by means of which shoe the necessary press loading and compression pressure are produced in the extended-nip zone. On a lower sector of the center roll  25 , after the web W separation point, there are doctors  27 , which keep the face of the center roll  25  clean and which separate the web from the smooth face  26  of the center roll  25  when the web is passed into the pulper (not shown) placed underneath, for example, in connection with a disturbance in operation or with threading of the web. From the smooth face  26  of the center roll  25 , the web W is separated as a short free draw W 0  and transferred onto a drying wire  60  running over a guide roll  61 . On this wire the web W is passed into the dryer section  3 , in which there are upper steam-heated drying cylinders  62  and lower reversing suction rolls  63 . 
     In the environment of application shown in FIG. 2, the run of the lower wet wire  10  of the former section  1  in the pick-up area differs from that shown in FIGS. 1 and 6. In accordance with FIG. 2, the wet wire  10  of the former section  1 , e.g. the carrying lower wire  10  of a twin-wire former, has a gently downwards inclined run onto the wire guide roll  11 A, which has an open hollow face  11   a . On the wire guide roll  11 A, the run of the wet wire  10  is turned substantially straight downwards onto the wire drive roll  12 . In FIG. 2, the pick-up point P is placed before the wire guide roll  11 A on the gently downwards inclined run of the wet wire  10 . The pick-up felt  20  carries the web W into the first extended nip NP 1  in the press section  2 , which nip is formed between an upper hollow-faced  29  roll  28  and a lower extended-nip roll  34  provided with a flexible hose mantle  35 . At the nip zone NP 1 , inside the hose mantle  35 , there is a press shoe  37 . In the first nip NP 1 , the lower fabric is a press felt  30 , from which the web W is separated on the suction zone  36   a  of the transfer suction roll  36 , being passed so that it follows the lower felt  30  onto the upper felt  40  of the second extended nip NP   2 ,  onto which the web W is transferred with the aid of the vacuum present in the suction zone  46   a  of the transfer suction roll  46 . On the upper felt  40  of the second nip NP   2   , the web W is transferred into the second extended nip NP 2,  which is formed between a hollow-faced  45  press roll  44  and a lower extended-nip roll  51 . The extended nip roll is provided with a flexible hose mantle  52  and with a press shoe  53 . After the extended nip zone NP 2 , the web W follows the lower fabric  50  of the zone, which fabric is a press felt or a transfer belt, by whose means the web W is passed onto the drying wire  60  of the dryer section  3  with the aid of the vacuum present in the suction zone  61  a of the transfer suction roll  61 . 
     As is shown in FIGS. 1 to  5 , edge strips WA and WB are cut off from the paper web W formed on the wet wire  10  by means of water spray cutters  110  or, as an alternative, by means of water spray cutters  140 . The edge strips WA, WB are separated from the useful web by means of cut grooves CA and CB, which are seen in FIG.  3 . In a normal situation of operation, the edge strips WA and WB are separated, after the pick-up point P, from the pick-up felt  20  and follow the wet wire  10  and are guided at the latest by means of a guide plate  33  into the broke system, such as a wire pit or pulper placed underneath. 
     In the device as shown in these figures, the edge strips of the web W are kept in contact with the wet wire  10  by vacuum devices  100 A and  100 B of a width approximately equal to the width of the edge strips WA and WB. FIG. 3 illustrates a full-width alternative of a vacuum device  100 . The vacuum device  100  comprises adjacent vacuum boxes  100 A, 100 B, 100 C. The boxes  100 A, 100 B placed in the lateral areas of the device  100  constitute the intensified suction zones placed at the locations of the edge strips WA,WB, between which there is a vacuum box lOOC of the middle area, It is possible to switch on pressure to the chamber  100 C in order to facilitate separation of the web passing to the press section at the time of threading and also during constant operation. A preferred embodiment of the method of the present invention includes instantaneous switching off of the vacuum in the vacuum box  100 C of the middle area right at the beginning of threading. By means of this method, it is possible to improve the quality of the tip of the web W during threading and also in connection with cutting off when the vacuum of the middle vacuum box  100 C is switched on at a suitable stage. 
     FIG. 3 illustrates the pick-up suction roll  21 , in which there is a suction zone  21   a.  The pick-up roll  21  has been mounted from its axle journals by means of bearing supports  21 A and  21 B. In connection with the second bearing support  21 B, a suction pipe  21 C has been fitted, through which a vacuum is sucked into the suction zone  21   a  by means of vacuum pumps, which is illustrated by the arrow S in FIG.  3 . 
     In FIG. 3, the widths of the vacuum boxes  100 A and  100 B placed at the edge strips WA and WB are denoted with SBA and SBB. The trimmed width of the web W is denoted with the reference SL in FIG.  3 . The sum SL+SBA+SBB of the widths can be somewhat larger than the untrimmed width of the web W. The widths SBA and SBB can also be smaller than the widths of WA and WB, for the edge at the side of cutting is more critical. In this way, excessive sucking of the web edge is also prevented. 
     In accordance with FIG. 2, after the pick-up roll  21 , there are pressure boxes  120 A,  120 B of a width substantially equal to the width of the edge strips WA, WB and placed facing the edge strips, by means of which pressure boxes the edge strips WA, WB are separated from the pick-up felt  20  and guided, for example, by means of guide plates  33  down into the broke system. 
     FIGS. 6,  9  and  10  show pressure zones  121 A and  121 B, which are placed outside the vacuum zone  21   a  of the pick-up roll  21  at both sides of the vacuum zone and facing the edge strips WA, WB, which pressure zones prevent the edge strips WA, WB, which are placed outside the paper web W proper to be passed into the press section, from following the pick-up felt  20 . 
     The various alternatives of equipment of the present invention that have been described above and that will be described later can be employed either alone or as a suitable combination, as required, and to the combination of equipment it is possible, for example, to add part components when the web speed is increased so that the effects and functions supposed to be achieved by means of the present invention can be secured in all situations. 
     In the following, the details of the illustrations in FIGS. 3 to  5  and  7  to  10  viewed in different directions will be described in more detail. 
     FIG. 3 shows the equipment alternative  100  shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 as viewed in the direction A indicated in FIG.  1  and in the direction B indicated in FIG.  2 . The suction roll  21  shown in FIG. 3 may be provided with a drive of its own (not shown), or it may be driven by the pick-up felt  20 . 
     FIG. 4 shows the equipment alternative  120 A,  120 B shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 as viewed in the direction C indicated in FIG.  1  and in the direction D indicated in FIG.  2 . FIG. 4 shows the blow boxes  120 A,  120 B placed after the pick-up point P, which boxes are placed outside the trimming width SL of the paper web W facing the edge strips WA, WB and blow the edge strips, in accordance with FIG. 2, apart from the pick-up felt  10  to as to be guided by means of the guide plate  33  into the pulper placed underneath. Moreover, FIG. 4 shows the blow boxes  121 A,  121 B placed outside the suction zone  21   a  of the suction roll  21  at both sides of the suction zone, the blow width of the blow boxes being denoted with SB, and the blow width extending outside the width SL of the trimmed paper web W across the width of the edge strips WA,WB or slightly beyond the width outside. 
     FIG. 5 shows the pressure or blow device  130  as viewed in the direction E indicated in FIG.  2 . The pressure device  130  has been fitted after the wire guide roll  11 A in connection with the downwards inclined run of the wet wire  10  before the wire drive roll  12 . The width of the device  130  is slightly smaller than the width of the wet wire  10 . FIG. 5 shows the wire guide roll  1  A and the wire drive roll  12 . By means of the pressure device  130  it is secured that, when the web W is not passed into the press section  2 , the web W of full width can be separated reliably from the wet wire  10 , from which it is dropped down into the broke system placed underneath. If the web W tends to be separated from the wire  10  too early because of the field of centrifugal forces of the wire guide roll  11 A, in stead of blowing, a suitable vacuum can also be switched on in the device  130 , in which case the web follows the wet wire better and is not separated from it until by means of knock-off water showers. 
     FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate the end part of the pick-up suction roll  21  placed at the side of the suction duct  21 C as viewed in the direction G indicated in FIG.  6 . The suction zone  21   a  is defined between axial edge seals  124   a,    124   b  in the axial direction of the pick-up suction roll  21 . The pickup suction roll  21  has a perforated mantle  122  and closed ends  123 , which have been connected with the axle journals provided with bearings. The suction zone  21   a  is defined by a stepped end seal  125   a , 125   b , 125   c  fitted at the cut groove (FIG. 4) of each edge strip WA, WB. In the direction of progress of the web W, the first end seal  125   a  is placed outside the trimming width SL of the web W and completely on the area of the edge strip WB. The middle end seal  125 b is placed on the cut groove CB, and the last end seal  125   c  is placed inside the triming width SL of the web W so that the outer edge of the end seal  125   c  is placed on the cut groove CB. By means of the stepped construction of the end seal  125   a , 125   b , 125   c,  which narrows the suction zone  21   a  stepwise at its ends in the direction of progress of the web W, it is achieved that the edge strips WA, WB are separated from the pick-up felt  20  more reliably even at very high web speeds. 
     FIG. 8 shows a modification of the construction shown in FIG.  7 . The end seal  125   d  of the suction zone  21   a  is in an inclined position at the cut groove CB so that, in the direction of progress of the web, at the location of the first axial seal  124   a,  the inner side of the end seal  125   d  is placed on the cut groove CB, whereas at the outlet end of the inclined end seal  125   d  the outside edge of the seal is placed on the cut groove CB at the location of the latter axial seal  124   b.  By means of this inclined construction, the same effect is obtained as by means of the stepped end seal construction as shown in FIG.  7 . 
     In the arrangement of the end area of the suction zone  21   a  of the suction roll  21  shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the trimmed paper web W is sucked into contact with the pick-up felt  20  in the beginning of the suction zone  21   a  after its first seal  124   a,  after which the suction holes  126  (FIGS. 9 and 10) in the mantle  122  of the suction roll  21  keep the edges of the web W in contact with the pick-up felt  20  at the same time as the opening suction holes  126  at the side of the edge strips WA, WB allow the edge strips WA, WB to be separated from the pick-up felt  20 . This same effect is produced both by means of the stepped seal construction  125   a , 125   b , 125   c  as shown in FIG.  7  and by means of the inclined seal construction  125   d  as shown in FIG.  8 . The stepped seal construction as shown in FIG. 7 has the particular advantage that each seal  125   a , 125   b , 125   c  can be set independently from the others in such a location that the operation is carried into effect optimally. In the inclined seal construction  125   d  the angle of inclination can be made adjustable for the purpose mentioned above. 
     FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate just one end of the pick-up suction roll  21 , but it is obvious that a corresponding arrangement of edge seals  125   a,    125   b,    125   c,    125   d  have been fitted in connection with the opposite end of the suction roll  21  and of its suction zone  21   a  on, and in the area of, the edge strip WA and the cut groove CA in the way illustrated in FIGS. 7 and 8. 
     FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrate the construction of the pressurized blow boxes  121 A and  121 B placed in the vicinity of the ends  123  of the pick-up suction roll  21  as viewed in the direction F indicated in FIG.  6 . FIGS. 9 and 10 show just one blow box  121 B, but a corresponding box  121 A is also provided at the opposite end of the suction roll  21 . The blow box  121 B is defined by the inner wall  127  and by the end  123  of the roll and by the perforated  126  mantle  122  of the roll  21 . In the blow box  121 B, on the end seal (FIGS. 7 and 8) of the suction zone  21   a  and on the cut groove CB of the edge strip WB, there is an end seal  129   a,  which seals the blow zone  121 B against the inner face of the roll  21  mantle  122 . The pressurized end area and the end seal constructions shown can be employed together or separately. Also a stepped seal construction and an inclined seal construction are possible between the blow zone and the suction zone. As is shown in FIG. 9, the end seal  129   a  has been perforated over its entire length in the machine direction. Into these several holes, air is fed through the pipes  128 . Such a use can be arranged in accordance with a need of pressure or vacuum, which is illustrated by the arrow AF. Out of the pipes  128  and out of the holes in the seal  129   a,  air has access into the holes  126  in the mantle  122  the roll  21  placed on the cut grooves CA, CB and on the inner edges of the edge strips WA, WB, whereby separation of the edge strip WB from the pick-up felt  20  is promoted. The construction of the blow box  121 B shown in FIG. 10 is in the other respects similar, except that its end seal is a narrow-tipped seal rib  129   b,  which has been attached to the wall  127  by means of fastening parts  129   d.  The tip edge  129   c  of the seal rib  129   b  is placed at the side of its inner side. By means of a seal rib  129   b  as shown in FIG. 10, the closed area that keeps the edge strip WA, WB in contact with the pick-up felt  20  is minimized, while the rigidity of the seal rib  129   b  is, however, retained. In stead of the holes that have been formed into the end seals  129   a,  of course, a set of ducts or any other, equivalent solution known to a person skilled in the art can be formed into the end seals  129   a,  by means of which ducts or equivalent air can be fed through the end seals  129   a  and through the holes  126  in the end areas of the mantle  122  of the roll  21  into the cut grooves CA, CB and to the inner edges of the edge strips WA, WB of the web W. 
     If necessary, the above equipment alternatives  100  and  120 A,  120 B are connected with transfer devices (not shown), by whose means the devices  100 ,  110  can be shifted in the cross direction of the machine. By means of these transfer devices, the edge strips WA, WB to be trimmed off from the web W are adjusted so that they follow the wet wire  10  directly or that they are at least dropped off from the pick-up felt  20 . In a third alternative (FIGS. 6,  9  and  10 ), the suction width of the pick-up roll  21  has been regulated precisely in relation to the positions of the cut grooves CA and CB of the edge strips WA, WB, and the pressure zones  121 A and  121 B are placed directly outside the vacuum zone  21   a  of the roll  21 . 
     FIG. 2 shows the final part of a former type in which there is no conventional wire suction roll, such as the roll  11  in FIG. 1, but the pick-up point P is placed before the wire guide rolls on a downwards inclined run of the wet wire  10 , which is less steep than in FIG.  1 . The press section shown in FIG. 2 is of the SymBelt II type. In FIG. 2, the equipment alternatives  100  and  120 A,  120 B that prevent passing of the edge strips WA, WB into the press section are the same as in FIG.  1 . In this alternative embodiment of the final end of the former, the edge strips WA, WB of the web W are even more readily inclined to follow the pick-up felt  20  than in the embodiment as shown in FIG.  1 . In the alternative embodiment as shown in FIG. 2, the web W of full width must follow the wet wire  10  also after the upper wire guide roll  11 A at a stage in which the web W is not passed into the press section  2 . This can be promoted, for example, by means of a grooved  10   a  wire guide roll  10 A and by means of a full-width vacuum device  130  fitted after the wire guide roll. 
     In the following, the patent claims will be given, and the various details of the invention can show variation within the scope of the inventive idea defined in the claims and differ from what has been stated above by way of example only.