EP0275231A3 - Method and apparatus for consolidating web materials, in particular a fibre web - Google Patents

Method and apparatus for consolidating web materials, in particular a fibre web Download PDF

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EP0275231A3
EP0275231A3 EP88730002A EP88730002A EP0275231A3 EP 0275231 A3 EP0275231 A3 EP 0275231A3 EP 88730002 A EP88730002 A EP 88730002A EP 88730002 A EP88730002 A EP 88730002A EP 0275231 A3 EP0275231 A3 EP 0275231A3
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calender rolls
fibre web
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Hans Bader
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Corovin GmbH
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H1/00—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres
    • D04H1/40—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties
    • D04H1/54—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties by welding together the fibres, e.g. by partially melting or dissolving
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F—MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F1/00—Mechanical deformation without removing material, e.g. in combination with laminating
    • B31F1/07—Embossing, i.e. producing impressions formed by locally deep-drawing, e.g. using rolls provided with complementary profiles
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F—MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F2201/00—Mechanical deformation of paper or cardboard without removing material
    • B31F2201/07—Embossing
    • B31F2201/0707—Embossing by tools working continuously
    • B31F2201/0715—The tools being rollers
    • B31F2201/0723—Characteristics of the rollers
    • B31F2201/0733—Pattern
    • B31F2201/0735—Pattern inclined with respect to the axis of the roller
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F—MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F2201/00—Mechanical deformation of paper or cardboard without removing material
    • B31F2201/07—Embossing
    • B31F2201/0707—Embossing by tools working continuously
    • B31F2201/0715—The tools being rollers
    • B31F2201/0753—Roller supporting, positioning, driving means
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B31—MAKING ARTICLES OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER; WORKING PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F—MECHANICAL WORKING OR DEFORMATION OF PAPER, CARDBOARD OR MATERIAL WORKED IN A MANNER ANALOGOUS TO PAPER
    • B31F2201/00—Mechanical deformation of paper or cardboard without removing material
    • B31F2201/07—Embossing
    • B31F2201/0771—Other aspects of the embossing operations
    • B31F2201/0776—Exchanging embossing tools
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/10—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor
    • Y10T156/1002—Methods of surface bonding and/or assembly therefor with permanent bending or reshaping or surface deformation of self sustaining lamina
    • Y10T156/1007—Running or continuous length work
    • Y10T156/1023—Surface deformation only [e.g., embossing]
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/17—Surface bonding means and/or assemblymeans with work feeding or handling means
    • Y10T156/1702—For plural parts or plural areas of single part
    • Y10T156/1712—Indefinite or running length work
    • Y10T156/1741—Progressive continuous bonding press [e.g., roll couples]
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/24—Structurally defined web or sheet [e.g., overall dimension, etc.]
    • Y10T428/24802—Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.]
    • Y10T428/24826—Spot bonds connect components
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T442/00—Fabric [woven, knitted, or nonwoven textile or cloth, etc.]
    • Y10T442/60—Nonwoven fabric [i.e., nonwoven strand or fiber material]
    • Y10T442/69—Autogenously bonded nonwoven fabric

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Treatment Of Fiber Materials (AREA)
  • Shaping Of Tube Ends By Bending Or Straightening (AREA)
  • Machines For Manufacturing Corrugated Board In Mechanical Paper-Making Processes (AREA)
  • Laminated Bodies (AREA)
  • Treatments For Attaching Organic Compounds To Fibrous Goods (AREA)

Abstract

Fibre webs are consolidated and embossed using pairs of rotating calender rolls between which the fibre web passes. The calender rolls have been provided with raised discrete areas which form a surface pattern and determine the pattern which is embossed on the fibre web. To emboss different patterns, depending on the desired constitution and stiffness of the fibre web, different calender rolls are available, but it is very inconvenient to interchange the calender rolls. To avoid this disadvantage, the calender rolls of the novel apparatus are each driven at a synchronous speed and it is made possible to alter the speed of one of the rolls for a short time, so that the surface patterns of the two calender rolls become displaced relative to one another. This creates different degrees of overlap between mutually opposite pairs of raised areas, so that it is possible to set different embossing patterns in the course of continuous operation without it being necessary to replace the calender rolls. <IMAGE>
EP88730002A 1987-01-10 1988-01-05 Method and apparatus for consolidating web materials, in particular a fibre web Expired - Lifetime EP0275231B1 (en)

Priority Applications (1)

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AT88730002T ATE75267T1 (en) 1987-01-10 1988-01-05 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STRENGTHENING WEB-FORM MATERIALS, PARTICULARLY A FIBER FLEECE.

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DE3700609 1987-01-10
DE19873700609 DE3700609A1 (en) 1987-01-10 1987-01-10 METHOD AND DEVICE FOR STRENGTHENING A FIBER FIBER

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EP0275231A2 EP0275231A2 (en) 1988-07-20
EP0275231A3 true EP0275231A3 (en) 1989-11-29
EP0275231B1 EP0275231B1 (en) 1992-04-22

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EP87119026A Withdrawn EP0285707A3 (en) 1987-01-10 1987-12-22 Method and apparatus for the consolidation of materials in band form, particularly a fiber web, by means of infinitely controllable consolidation surfaces
EP88730002A Expired - Lifetime EP0275231B1 (en) 1987-01-10 1988-01-05 Method and apparatus for consolidating web materials, in particular a fibre web

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EP87119026A Withdrawn EP0285707A3 (en) 1987-01-10 1987-12-22 Method and apparatus for the consolidation of materials in band form, particularly a fiber web, by means of infinitely controllable consolidation surfaces

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EP (2) EP0285707A3 (en)
JP (1) JP2659118B2 (en)
AT (1) ATE75267T1 (en)
DE (2) DE3700609A1 (en)

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DE3700609A1 (en) 1988-07-21
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JP2659118B2 (en) 1997-09-30
EP0275231A2 (en) 1988-07-20
DE3700609C2 (en) 1991-01-03
ATE75267T1 (en) 1992-05-15
JPS63264963A (en) 1988-11-01
EP0275231B1 (en) 1992-04-22
EP0285707A3 (en) 1990-01-17
EP0285707A2 (en) 1988-10-12

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