Patent GB-1030900-A (GB)
IPC: D21F9/00
Filed: 1962-12-20
Abstract: 1,030,900. Paper making machines. KIMBERLY-CLARK CORPORATION. Dec. 20, 1962 [Dec.21, 1961],No.48248/62. Heading D2A. In a paper making machine, paper stock is directed into a nip between a felt, and a forominous belt-e.g. wire or wire covered cylinder. As shown paper stock is discharged by a stock inlet 43 directly into the nip between a breast roll 11 which carries a wire 10 and a slice roll 25 carrying an upper felt 24. The roll 25 is arranged to depress the wire 10 leaving the roll 11 so that the paper web travels in an horizontal path betwen the wire and the upper felt past rolls 12, 26 and suction boxes 79, 80 to a roll 13 at which point the paper web is separated from the wire 10 and remains on the underside of the felt 24. The latter is preferably a resilient porous matted woollen felt of relatively smooth surface. The partially dewatered web is further dewatered in its passage between press  rolls 27, 38 the latter preferably being provided with a suction gland 40. In its passage through the nip of these rolls, the web is sandwiched between the felt 24 and a lower, somewhat coarser textured felt 39. The latter is cleaned by water sprays at 85 and dewatered by press rolls 58, 60. The web W is still further dewatered by the pressure nip between a suction roll 30 and Yankee drier 41 to which the web is transferred for final drying before being reeled. Spray 88 and suction boxes 89, 90 serve to clean and dewater the felt 24 on its return travel to the slice roll 25. The breast roll may be of open, vaned construction having a ribbon wound helically around the roll to provide a perforate outer surface (Fig. 2 not shown) or may preferably be a suction roll having angletipped vanes set in a perforated cylinder with vacuum sealing partitions disposed inside this cylinder (Figs. 3 and 4 not shown). In this latter arragement the suction gland does not operate on the initial area of the web-forming region in order to prevent embedding of the fibres in the wire. The slice roll 25 may be replaced by a fixed shoe having a curved surface over which the upper felt may slide (Fig. 5 not shown). In a modification of the arrangement of Fig. 1 (Fig. 6 not shown), the slice roll is moved away from the breast roll so that the web forming region is largely constituted by the stretch of the wire which bridges the gap between the breast roll and slice roll. Furthermore, separation of the upper felt with the paper web adhering thereto from the wire takes place at the slice roll which therefore has the added function of a pickup roll. In a further modification (Fig. 7 not shown), the paper web is formed at the nip between a slice roll carrying a felt as previously described and a suction roll which is encased in a stock-draining wire fabric. From the nip between these rolls the paper web travels immediately on the underside of the felt being dewatered by various suction boxes but without passing through any press rolls until reaching a point at which it is transferred to a Yankee drier as described in relation to Fig. 1. In the embodiment of Fig.9 (not shown), which is particularly suitable for heavier type papers such as book paper, the paper web is separated from a free stretch of the wire by a suction pickup roll, and transferred from the felt 24 at a press constituted by plain roll and suction roll to a bottom felt and passes thereon through a similar press, to a separate felt and thereon to a third press. The paper web is finally dried on can driers. In this embodiment, the breast roll is shown as having a double suction gland. An alternative curve-lipped stock inlet which is applicable to the embodiment of Fig. 9 is also described (Fig. 8 not shown). A closed headbox type inlet or an open type headbox (Figs. 10 and 11 not shown) may be used alternatively with the embodiment of Fig. 9. In the embodiment of Fig. 12 (not shown), the slice roll which carries an upper felt is preferably of larger diameter than the breast roll and the two rolls are mounted with their axes in a common horizontal plane, stock being discharged from pressure forming inlet means vertically downward between the rolls which are set apart slightly. The wire passes around the lower part of the slice roll enclosing the paper web and felt. The extent of the web forming region is in fact partly governed by the tension of the wire. The felt, web and wire pass over a take-off suction roll which may have a pressure nip with the slice roll but which is disposed closely adjacent thereto in any case, over a suction box 224 and roll 213.