US3346465A - Method of making wire clot for paper machines - Google Patents

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US3346465A
US3346465A US310986A US31098663A US3346465A US 3346465 A US3346465 A US 3346465A US 310986 A US310986 A US 310986A US 31098663 A US31098663 A US 31098663A US 3346465 A US3346465 A US 3346465A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21F—PAPER-MAKING MACHINES; METHODS OF PRODUCING PAPER THEREON
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  • Wire cloth for paper machines is made by coating the wire with an electrically insulating varnish, after which the face of the cloth intended to come into contact with the machine is ground until visible fiat facets of the base metal are produced, then a metal resistant to wear is electrolytic-ally deposited on the fiat facets, and finally the varnish is removed.
  • the present invention relates to wire cloth intended for use on paper machines, and is directed to improvements in these wire cloths intended to increase substantially their resistance to wear and in consequence their working life.
  • Wire cloths for paper machines are generally manufactured of Phosphor bronze, this alloy being chosen for its qualities of ductility, flexibility and resistance to corrosion, which are well adapted to the working conditions to which they are subjected. In practice, it is especially wear by abrasion which puts them out of service.
  • these wire cloths have been made from other alloys, for example of stainless steel or special bronzes but their strong tendency to coldhardening and their bad weldability always constitute a stumbling block to their manufacture and to their use. For this reason therefore, these cloths of alloys other than Phosphor bronze have not achieved any great development up to the present time, so that in most cases, it is wear by abrasion which is the essential cause of replacement of these wire cloths.
  • the invention has for its object to remedy this weakness by making the usual cloths of Phosphor bronze more resistant to abrasion.
  • the invention is characterized in that the lower face of the cloth, namely that which is intended to come into contact with the parts of the paper machine, is arranged so as to comprise flat facets which form a larger contact surface with the said parts, and the facets are coated, by electrolysis or other means, with a covering of metal which is resistant to wear.
  • the production of the flat facets intended to form the wearing surface can be carried out on the wires before weaving or on the woven wire cloth.
  • the wire cloth can be woven by employing wires of flattened section, in particular rectangular and square section.
  • wires can be utilized on which a flat has been formed to produce the wearing surface.
  • the facets are formed on the woven cloth, they can advantageously be obtained by partial grinding.
  • the preparation of the facets is preferably combined with an insulating coating of the cloth in order that only the wearing surface is allowed to be exposed during the subsequent passage through the electrolytic bath or other process such as immersion in a chemical bath, metallization under vacuum, etc., ensuring the formation of the coating of wear-protection metal.
  • the metallic deposit which is resistant to wear may be of chromium, nickel, copper, iron, tin, cobalt, molyb- 3,346,465 Patented Oct. 10, 1967 denum, aluminum, and generally speaking of any metal or compound such as a metallic oxide or the like, capable of giving the cloth a better resistance to abrasion. It may also be produced by alternate or simultaneous deposits of these metals, and can have a thickness from a fraction of a micron up to several tenths of a millimeter.
  • Wire cloths thus prepared have the same flexibility as the conventional cloths. However, their resistance to Wear is increased to a very considerable extent.
  • the wire cloth according to the invention is different from the previous arrangements in which it has been proposed to coat the entire surface of the wire cloth with a deposit of nickel or other metal, for the purpose of making it resistant to corrosion, particularly when the cloth is utilized in an acid medium.
  • This protection has furthermore proved illusory, since the deposit applied to the cloth rapidly splits during the bending of the cloth in use, and corrosion starts at the gaps or fissures.
  • the weaving is carried out by means of warp or weft wires, or simultaneously of warp and weft wires of flattened section, preferably having flat or substantially flat faces, or alternatively the cloth is woven using round wires on which there has been previously formed a flat portion intended to constitute the wearing surface.
  • the arrangement of the wearing surface may also be effected on the wire cloth itself after weaving, either by subjecting it to a flattening operation, by rolling or compression, so as to cause the formation of facets which constitute the wearing surface, or by grinding the face of the cloth in order to produce these facets.
  • the electrolytic deposition of metal resistant to abrasion is applied to the wires or to the cloth thus prepared, with a wearing surface created systematically on at least one face.
  • This deposit can be made over the whole of the surface of the wires or the cloth, or in accordance with a preferred form, only on the portions which form the wearing surface.
  • the invention is totally different from this consideration of flatness, since it contemplates the formation of flat facets, not on the outer surface which receives the paper, but on the inner surface in contact with the parts of the paper machine. Furthermore, the invention contemplates the coating of these flat portions by wear-resistant metal.
  • the wire cloths obtained in accordance with this method retain the flexibility which they had before the treatment, provided that the galvanic deposit (which would be liable to stiffen the cloth) is restricted to the wearing surfaces only and that it is kept within reasonable thicknesses.
  • the resistance to abrasion of these wire cloths is on the other hand enormously increased, even if a metallic deposit is chosen which does not have excessive hardness (in order to prevent the cloth from becoming abrasive in its turn). A protection of the cloth against corrosion has not been specially sought in this process.
  • the galvanic coating of the wire cloth or of the wires used in weaving it can be applied to all wire cloths and more particularly to endless Fourdrinier wires for paper machines, for endless cloths for cylinder machines and for dandy rolls, laying rolls and design rolls, etc.
  • These cloths may have any size of mesh and may be manufactured in all known types of weaving (such as for example plain weaves, long crirnp weave, serge, twill, socalled fabrics with double and triple warp wires, repp fabrics, etc.) by employing metal wire, single or composed of a number of twisted strands, of any dimensions and any section (for example of round, rectangular, tubular, flattened section) in any alloy and more particularly alloys with a base of copper, iron or nickel (such as for example bronzes, brasses, nickel silver, ordinary steels, stainless steels).
  • weaving such as for example plain weaves, long crirnp weave, serge, twill, socalled fabrics with double and triple warp wires, repp fabrics, etc.
  • metal wire single or composed of a number of twisted strands, of any dimensions and any section (for example of round, rectangular, tubular, flattened section) in any alloy and more particularly alloys with a base of copper, iron or nickel (such as for example bronzes
  • wire cloths in which only the warp wires (or only the weft wires) are of metal, the weft wires (or warp wires) being formed by single threads or multiple threads of synthetic material.
  • the metal wires would be coated by a galvanic deposit.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 show in cross-section an element of wire cloth of a conventional type, by way of comparison and explanation;
  • FIG. 3 shows a cross-section of an element of wire cloth according to the invention
  • FIG. 4 is a view in cross-section of another form of construction
  • FIG. 5 is a cross-section of an alternative form of construction
  • FIG. 6 is a plan view of an element of wire cloth of plain weave, prepared according to the invention.
  • FIG. 7 is a view in cross-section of the cloth shown in FIG. 6;
  • FIG. 8 is a plan view of an element 'of wire cloth of long crimp weave prepared so as to form the wearing surface
  • FIG. 9 is a view in cross-section of the wire cloth shown in FIG. 8;
  • FIG. 10 illustrates the grinding of the cloth in order to form the wearing surface
  • FIG. 11 shows the preparation of a wire in order to provide it with flat faces intended to constitute the wearing surface
  • FIG. 12 shows the wire thus obtained
  • FIG. 13 is a diagram of the installation for electrolytic treatment of the wire cloth
  • FIG. 14 is the diagram of an apparatus for checking wear.
  • these contact and wearing surfaces 4 are previously created on the wire cloth, and their resistance to abrasion is ensured by the electrolytic or other deposit of a hard metal.
  • One means of giving the wire cloth an adequate surface of wear consists in weaving the cloth with oval warp wires 5 (FIG. 3) the surfaces 6 of which correspond to the flat side of the oval, forming after weaving flat portions which constitute the wearing surface.
  • Warp wires of rectangular or square section can also be utilized, having their sides in contact with the abrasive surface 2 and constituting the wearing surface.
  • wires of oval or rectangular section for the weft wires, which assist by their faces 8 (FIG. 3) and 9 (FIG. 4) in forming the wearing surface in contact with the parts 2 of the machine.
  • This grinding of the wire can be effected in particular in a simple manner by holding the wire of round section against a grindstone constituted by a cylinder of abrasive material (for example of emery), rotating at high speed about its axis, and causing the wire to pass at constant speed perpendicularly to the axis of the grinder.
  • a grindstone constituted by a cylinder of abrasive material (for example of emery)
  • These wires with a fiat face are then woven, in the warp or in the weft, or both in the warp and the weft, in such manner that the flats 10 constitute the wearing surface of the cloth.
  • a further method of construction consists of weaving the wire cloth following the usual methods with wires of round section (or oval, rectangular), and then rolling the cloth between two presses.
  • the wearing surface can also be formed by grinding the inner face of the endless wire cloth woven with wire of round section (or oval, or rectangular, or other). This grinding, carried out on wire cloth of plain weave 11 (FIGS. 6 and 7) produces facets 12 which are substantially flat. On a cloth 13 of long crimp weave (FIGS. 8 and 9), there are formed in the same way substantially fiat facets 14 which constitute the wearing surface.
  • FIG. 10 illustrates the formation of the facets 14 on the wire cloth 13 by means of the rotating grinder 15,
  • the wearing surface formed on the cloth that is to say the ratio between the total surface area of the facets 12, 14 on the one hand and the total surface area of the woven cloth on the other, may be more or less large, depending on the degree of rolling or grinding, and on the type of fabric employed. For example, on a fabric of long crimp Weave (FIGS. 8 and 9), this ratio may exceed 15/ 100 after the grinding of the cloth, that is to say the wearing surface represents more than 15% of the area of the cloth.
  • either the wires intended for weaving or the cloth are coated electrolytically with a deposit of hard metal resistant to abrasion.
  • the galvanic deposit of hard metal to the flat portions of the wires only.
  • This can readily be achieved by taking care to coat the wires 1 with an insulating material, for example a coating of varnish 16, before grinding the flat 10 (FIGS. 11 and 12).
  • the action of the grinder 17 removes the varnish only along the fiat 10, which is then treated galvanically as previously described, the remainder of the surface of the wire being protected by the coat of varnish After galvanic treatment and after washing, this varnish is rapidly removed by passing the wire through an appropriate solvent.
  • the fabric When the fabric is prepared so as to comprise a sufficient wearing surface, it is treated galvanically in order to deposit a layer of hard metal on the facets of the said wearing surface. This is effected by causing the endless welded fabric to pass through a galvanic bath.
  • the endless cloth 18 is stretched as shown in FIG. 13 by means of cylinders 19, of which one is put into rotation at an appropriate constant speed by a motor 20.
  • a tank 21 it is subjected to a de-greasing operation which can be carried out by solvent or electrolytically, and in a further tank 22 a neutralization following the electrolytic de-greasing.
  • It then passes into an electroplating bath 23 of suitable size, in which it acts as the cathode (or when so required as the anode).
  • This bath contains salts, acids or bases of the metal to be deposited together with the suitably arranged anodes or cathodes 24, and it has passed through it a direct electric current which effects the electrolysis.
  • the cloth is coated with hard metal in this bath, and it is then copiously washed with water in a tank 25 by distributors 26 of Water under pressure. It is then dried, either by hot air distributors 27 or by infra-red heating, or by contact with a heated cylinder. The cloth is then ready for use on a paper machine.
  • the cloth woven with wire of round (or other) section of the usual alloys is welded to an endless form. It is then stretched by means of the I cylinders 19 (FIG. 13) and is entirely coated with a layer of insulating material, such as a varnish which is not attacked by the galvanic bath, and applied by dipping into a tank 28 or by painting with a spray gun. This varnish is dried for example by infra-red elements 29.
  • the grinder 30 is then ground on its inner face, for example by the grinder 30, formed by a metal tube having a length greater than the width of the cloth, on which is wound in a spiral a band of fine grain emery cloth, and which rotates at high speed about its axis, the cloth being slowly moved perpendicularly to this grinder which is pressed against the cloth. 2 ⁇ wearing surface is thus formed and grinding is contlnued until a satisfactory wearing surface is obtained.
  • the unground parts of the wire cloth remain covered with insulating material.
  • the cloth is then subjected to the treatments previously described: de-greasing, neutralization, electrolytic deposit of metal, rinsing and drying.
  • pieces of cloth of 6 small size can be treated in the same manner, after which they are joined together by Welding or by sewing.
  • Example A wire cloth is manufactured in the usual manner in long crimp weave using Warp wires of Phosphor bronze with 8% of tin and having a breaking strength of 54 kg./mm. and a diameter of 0.23 mm., and weft wires of brass having of copper and 25% of zinc and a diameter of 0.25 mm. It comprises 25 warp wires per cm. and 20 weft wires per cm.
  • the cloth is made endless by welding the Warp wires, and is then entirely coated with varnish currently used in electro-plating work.
  • the endless cloth is stretched by cylinders and treated as described with reference to FIG. 13:
  • FIG. 14 A perfectly flat piece of the cloth 31, for example, with a width of 15 cm. and a length of 30 cm., is pressed against a perfectly smooth cylinder 32 of ordinary steel so that it encloses the latter over of its periphery.
  • Jaws 33 one of which is loaded with a weight 34 of 4 kg., grip the two extremities of the piece of cloth at a distance of 30 cm. from each other, giving the required pressure between the cloth and the cylinder.
  • the latter rotates in the proper direction (marked by an arrow) at 400 rpm. and abrades the Wearing surface of the cloth.
  • a small fan keeps the cloth and the cylinder at the ambient temperature during the tests.
  • This test can be carried out by spraying or immersion in a liquid medium which is slightly acid or basic (pH value comprised between 5 and 8) corresponding to the conditions of working of the wire cloth on the paper machine; the corresponding results are just as conclusive.
  • a method of manufacturing wire cloth for paper machines comprising coating wire with an electrically insulating varnish, grinding wire cloth comprising thuscoated wire on the face of the cloth that will come into contact with the machine until visible flat facets of the base metal are formed, and electrolytically depositing on said fiat facets a metal that is more resistant to wear than is the metal of the wire cloth.

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