Patent ID: 7172680

Claim:
A paper or cardboard making machine defining a machine direction, comprising: a shoe element defining a longitudinal axis extending in a crossmachine direction, the shoe element having a machine direction length and a longitudinal direction length along the longitudinal axis, the shoe element mounted to a static frame by a plurality of first loading elements; a profiling strip considerably narrower than the shoe element in the machine direction, and roughly equal in longitudinal direction length, and mounted to the static frame by a plurality of second loading elements, the profiling strip located in the immediate vicinity of the shoe element spaced downstream in the machine direction from the shoe element; an endless belt rotatably mounted about the shoe element, the profiling strip and the static frame; an opposed counter-roll forming a first nip with the roll shoe and a second nip with the profiling strip so that the endless belt passes through the first nip and the second nip; and a lubricating system arranged to providing a lubricating cycle between the endless belt, and the shoe element and the profiling strip.