Patent ID: 7905988

Claim:
A machine for producing a web of tissue material by supplying at least two stock grades to a multilayer flow box, winding up the tissue web on a reel of a reel-up; and maintaining a winding nip having a line pressure of less than or equal to 0.8 kN/m to influence the hardness of the reel produced, the machine comprising: a multilayer flow box structured and arranged to supply at least two stock grades; an endless supporting belt; a drying cylinder and an opposing unit arranged to form a press nip, wherein endless supporting belt guides the web through the press nip; a reel-up for reeling up the tissue web; and a device to influence, in a predefined way, a hardness of a reel produced as the tissue web is reeled, comprising a controller to maintain in the winding nip the line pressure of less than or equal to 0.8 kN/m, wherein said multilayer flow box comprises a nozzle that is subdivided into at least two channels by at least one slat extending over a entire machine width, and wherein said slat extends outwardly beyond said nozzle in a region of an outlet gap.