Improvements in Paper Making Machines.
Year: 1891

page_text: Date of Application, 19th Aug., 1891
Complete Specification Left, 19th May, 1892-Accepted, 25th June, 1892
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paper Making Machines.
I, HUBERT BIERMANS, Paper Mill Manager, of 1 Rue de l'Eglise, Gendrugge,
near Ghent, in the Kingdom of Belgium, do hereby declare the nature of the
said invention to be as follows :-
This invention has for its object to enable the sheet of paper to be readily
detached from the wires when required.
Hitherto, this could only be effected with great difficulty and much loss was
occasioned, say when in starting the end of the sheet was to be transferred from
the wires to the first rolls or to the couch press.
In carrying this invention into practice I attach to any suitable portion of the
frame of a paper machine a socket or guide piece which carries a box or casing
having an inlet and an outlet.
The inlet is connected with any suitable water supply. To the outlet is attached
a flexible pipe of convenient length. At the end of the flexible pipe is a nozzle
with a spring-valve and handle. The spring-valve is operated by a button or the
like. In order to detach the sheet from the wire the operator grasps the handle
and directs the nozzle, so that when he presses the button opening the spring valve
a jet of water impinges upon the under-side of the sheet and loosens it from the
wires.
Dated this 19th day of August 1891
BERNHARD DUKES,
226, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improvements in Paper Making Machines.
I, HUBERT BIERMANS of 1 Rue de l'Eglise Gendbrugge near Ghent in the
Kingdom of Belgium Paper Mill Manager do hereby declare the nature of this
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly
described and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
This invention has for its object to enable the sheet of paper to be readily
detached from the wire when required.
Hitherto this could only be effected with great difficulty and much loss was
experienced say when, in starting, the end of the sheet was to be transferred from
the wires to the first rolls or to the couch-press.
In carrying this invention into practice I attach to any suitable portion of the
frame of a paper machine, by a socket or guide-piece or otherwise, a box or casing
having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is connected with any suitable water-
supply. To the outlet is attached a flexible pipe say of india rubber, of any
convenient length.
At the end of the flexible pipe is provided the device shown in the drawings in
which Fig. 1 is an elevation and Fig. 2 is a section.
The device consists of a nozzle A with a spring valve B and handle C. The
spring valve is operated by a button or the like. In order to detach the sheet
from the wire the operator grasps the handle and directs the nozzle-end D so that,
when he presses the button opening the spring valve a jet of water impinges upon
the underside of the sheet and loosens it from the wire. E is the end upon which
the rubber supply pipe is slipped.

page_text: Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is:
In paper making machines a device for directing a jet of water in such manner
as to raise or detach the edge of the sheet.
Dated this 19th day of May 1892.
BERNHARD DUKES,
226, High Holborn, London, W.C., Agent for the Applicant.