US3840430A - Twin-wire papermaking machine wherein the forming wires pass through the slice chamber which contains flexible trailing elements - Google Patents

Twin-wire papermaking machine wherein the forming wires pass through the slice chamber which contains flexible trailing elements Download PDF

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US3840430A
US3840430A US00267930A US26793072A US3840430A US 3840430 A US3840430 A US 3840430A US 00267930 A US00267930 A US 00267930A US 26793072 A US26793072 A US 26793072A US 3840430 A US3840430 A US 3840430A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21F—PAPER-MAKING MACHINES; METHODS OF PRODUCING PAPER THEREON
    • D21F9/00—Complete machines for making continuous webs of paper
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  • ABSTRACT A twin-wire papermaking machine wherein the forming wires are guided into and through an elongate tapered slice chamber prior to entering a dewatering run.
  • the slice chamber is formed in part by imperforate plates over which the wires move, and non-porous backing belts are guided to pass with the forming wires over the plates to control dewatering.
  • Within the slice chamber are located flexible elements in sheet or filament form to control large scale turbulence. Clear or white water is supplied between the forming wires and the outermost elements in the slice chamber for lubrication purposes.
  • the invention relates to improvements in a paper making machine and more particularly to improvements in machines of the type known as twin wire formers wherein looped foraminous wires are brought into opposed relationship for dewatering through both wires and forming a two-sided paper web.
  • the invention relates to an improved construction of this type of machine capable of operation to achieve advantages in construction and in the formation of a paper web over structures heretofore available.
  • the strength of the members requires that they have substantial size with the provision of space for the walls for the headbox and reinforcing members, and particularly for the slice up to the point of delivery through the slice lift. This space for the parts has made it difficult to construct a headbox wherein the stock is properly controlled to retain homogeneity and optimum design must be compromised to afford space for elements of sufficient strength.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide an arrangement embodying a unique type of headbox wherein the headbox provides a broad delivery area, and the slice chamber is actually defined by the opposed traveling forming wires themselves, and a structure is provided which accomplishes the retention of small scale turbulence and dispersion and nonorientation of the fibers throughout travel through a slice chamber onto the forming wires.
  • a still further object of the invention is to provide an improved twin wire paper web forming machine which is more compact and less expensive to construct than structures heretofore available.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide a headbox with a slice chamber for delivering stock between opposed forming wires wherein air entrainment is eliminated.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic side elevational view of a paper making machine constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention.
  • FIG. 2 is another side elevational view shown in schematic form of a modified arrangement.
  • a pair of looped endless forming wires 10 and 11 are arranged to accommodate the formation and dewatering of a web therebetween.
  • the wires are of the foraminous type known to the art and used in twin wireforming machines.
  • the wires are guided in parallel dewatering relationship through a dewatering run 13.
  • the wires are guided through an elongate tapering slice chamber or zone 14 leading to a pressure throat 12 immediately upstream of the dewatering run 13.
  • the wire 10 is supported at an upstream end of the slice zone by a roll 17 and at a downstream end of the slice zone by a roll 18.
  • the wire 11 is supported at the upstream end of the slice zone by a roll 19 and at the downstream end by a roll 20.
  • the rolls 18 and 20 support the wires forming the pressure throat 12.
  • sheets of water are delivered between the upper belt 21 and the outermost trailing member 26a and between the lowermost trailing member 26b and the lower belt 22.
  • These layers of water are delivered by water supply means shown schematically by the arf rowed lines 10a and 11a which extend across the machine.
  • the water may be clear water or white water and functions to lubricate and prevent frictional contact between the wires 10 and 11 and the self-positionable trailing elements 260 and 26b.
  • Side plates such as shown at 9 are provided at each edge of the machine to seal the ends and to prevent the lateral escape of water from the edge of the machine.
  • the stock for the formation of the web flows from the headbox through the tapered slice zone 14 and into the pressure throat 12 to begin dewatering and formation belts 21 and 22.
  • the belts travel over the rolls 17 and is delivered by suitable stock delivery means including fan pumps to a headbox having an open chamber.
  • the head box is provided with a wall 25 having a plurality of flow dividing passages 25a therethrough.
  • the flow passages 25a divide the stock stream into a plurality of smaller flows.
  • the fibers of stock are homogeneously distributed therethrough, and the stock is under large scale turbulence as caused by the fan pump and equipment in advance of the headbox.
  • This large scale turbulence is broken down and divided into fine scale turbulence, and the flow of the stock is divided into a plurality of relatively thin layers by flexible trailing selfpositionable members 26.
  • These trailing members 26 are preferably in the form of continuous thin flexible plastic sheets which extend in a cross-machine direcsheets in the slice zone. It has been discovered that the layers of stock flowing between the sheets maintain their fibers in homogeneous random orientation while confined between the sheets.
  • the trailing flexible sheets can extend fully to the pressure throat 12 and formation of the web can begin almost immediately after the stock comes in contact with the traveling wires. Also, there is no entrainment of air or disturbance of the stock flow such as occurs in the usual construction when the stock must be discharged across an air space from a slice opening onto the traveling wires. There is also no speed change such as can occur where a jet engages traveling wires because the stock is already traveling with the wires.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates another arrangement embodying the principles of the invention, and in this figure, traveling forming wires 27 and 28-are guidedin a parallel dewatering run 29.
  • the looped wires 27 and 28 immediately upstream of the dewatering run are guided together in a pressure throat 30.
  • Immediately upstream of the throat they are guided in an elongate tapering path to form the walls of a slice zone 31.
  • the stock is discharged from a headbox 44 into the slice zone.
  • the headbox has a perforate wall 43 with passages 43a.
  • Within the slice zone 31 are a plurality of trailing self-positionable flexible elements 45.
  • the elements 45 are anchored solely at their upper end to the wall 43 and downstream of their upper anchored end are self-positionable being located solely due to the forces of the stock flowing along their surfaces.
  • the flow of stock is divided into a plurality of layers between the flexible trailing members and it has been discovered that a high degree of homogeneity and random orientation is maintained while the stock is retained'between the trailing elements.
  • the trailing elements should extend fully to the pressure throat 30 so that the stock is not uncontrolled for any portion of its travel and is fully confined up to the time it begins to be dewatered to begin its formation as a web.
  • the wires are guided and supported so that they taper together to form the walls of the slice zone 31.
  • the wire 27 is supported upstream of the slice zone by a roll 32 and downstream by a roll 33.
  • the wire 28 is supported upstream of the slice zone by a roll 34 and downstream of the slice zone by a roll 45.
  • Lubricating sheets of water are fed between the outermost trailing flexible elements 45a and 45b. These layers of water are supplied through supply means extending across the machine as indicated schematically by the arrowed lines and 51. Clear'water or white water may be employed.
  • the backing for the wires in this area is provided by solid slides 36 and 37 which are imperforate and prevent the escape of the sheets of water and in effect, provide a hydraulic support for the tapering slice. When the wires reach the ends of the imperforate plates 36 and 37, the water will be permitted to escape through the wires.
  • the web begins formation as it reaches, the end of the pressure throat 30 and dewaters through the wires 27 and 28 as they converge and press the layer of stock therebetween.
  • controlled differential dewatering is obtained by guiding the position of the imperforate belts 47 and 46 in their travel along the forming Zone so that they aid in dewatering control.
  • the perforate belt 46 is brought gradually away from the lower wire 28 in an acute angle of divergence to form the dewatering gap 38.
  • the angle 48 of divergence is preferably in the range of 0 to 5.
  • controlled dewatering can be accomplished by moving either the upper imperforate belt 47 or the lower imperforate belt 46 either toward .or away from the wires on the off-running side of the pressure throat 30.
  • the arrangement above described has been found to accomplish the formation of an improved web which does not have two-sidedness, and wherein the fibers are uniformly randomly dispersed so as to achieve a paper which has a uniform basis weight profile in a machine direction and a cross-machine direction.
  • the resultant paper also has better receptivity to coating and better printability and attains more uniform tear strength in machine direction and cross-machine direction and improved appearance.
  • a headbox with a main chamber for discharging stock and having a tapered slice chamber immediately downstream of the headbox chamber
  • the combination including a plurality of passages in the headbox in advance of the slice zone extending parallel to the flow of the stock toward the slice zone.

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US4128455A (en) * 1977-05-20 1978-12-05 Beloit Corporation Headbox trailing element mounting and method
US4714521A (en) * 1984-11-15 1987-12-22 Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Twin wire former with an impermeable belt inside the top wire
WO1991006704A1 (en) * 1989-11-03 1991-05-16 Rodriguez Peter A Method and apparatus for recovering pulp solids from whitewater
US5196090A (en) * 1989-11-03 1993-03-23 Glauco Corbellini Method for recovering pulp solids from whitewater using a siphon
US5204009A (en) * 1991-08-14 1993-04-20 Kvaerner Hymac Inc. Slurry rising apparatus and method therefor
US5298125A (en) * 1991-08-22 1994-03-29 Beloit Technologies, Inc. Fluid jet supported headbox
DE29711721U1 (de) * 1997-07-04 1997-09-04 Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH, 89522 Heidenheim Stoffauflauf mit Lamelle

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US4128455A (en) * 1977-05-20 1978-12-05 Beloit Corporation Headbox trailing element mounting and method
US4714521A (en) * 1984-11-15 1987-12-22 Mitsubishi Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha Twin wire former with an impermeable belt inside the top wire
WO1991006704A1 (en) * 1989-11-03 1991-05-16 Rodriguez Peter A Method and apparatus for recovering pulp solids from whitewater
US5196090A (en) * 1989-11-03 1993-03-23 Glauco Corbellini Method for recovering pulp solids from whitewater using a siphon
US5204009A (en) * 1991-08-14 1993-04-20 Kvaerner Hymac Inc. Slurry rising apparatus and method therefor
US5298125A (en) * 1991-08-22 1994-03-29 Beloit Technologies, Inc. Fluid jet supported headbox
DE29711721U1 (de) * 1997-07-04 1997-09-04 Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH, 89522 Heidenheim Stoffauflauf mit Lamelle
US6017421A (en) * 1997-07-04 2000-01-25 Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen Gmbh Headbox with baffle

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