WO2003071030A1 - Papermachine belt - Google Patents
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- WO2003071030A1 WO2003071030A1 PCT/GB2003/000830 GB0300830W WO03071030A1 WO 2003071030 A1 WO2003071030 A1 WO 2003071030A1 GB 0300830 W GB0300830 W GB 0300830W WO 03071030 A1 WO03071030 A1 WO 03071030A1
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21F—PAPER-MAKING MACHINES; METHODS OF PRODUCING PAPER THEREON
- D21F3/00—Press section of machines for making continuous webs of paper
- D21F3/02—Wet presses
- D21F3/0209—Wet presses with extended press nip
- D21F3/0218—Shoe presses
- D21F3/0227—Belts or sleeves therefor
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21F—PAPER-MAKING MACHINES; METHODS OF PRODUCING PAPER THEREON
- D21F7/00—Other details of machines for making continuous webs of paper
- D21F7/08—Felts
- D21F7/083—Multi-layer felts
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
- D21F—PAPER-MAKING MACHINES; METHODS OF PRODUCING PAPER THEREON
- D21F7/00—Other details of machines for making continuous webs of paper
- D21F7/08—Felts
- D21F7/086—Substantially impermeable for transferring fibrous webs
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- the present invention relates to papermachine process belts and particularly, but not exclusively, to belts for transferring and/or smoothing the paper web within, to and/or from the press section of a papermachine.
- Transfer belts are used for carrying a paper web through a portion of a papermachine so as to eliminate open draws in which the paper web is unsupported and is thus likely to break. When the web breaks the papermachine must be shut down and consequently this constitutes a serious problem to the papermaker.
- Such transfer belts tend to have a smooth surface which can aid smoothing of the paper sheet and provide an extremely uniform pressure distribution in the nip with no basecloth mark. The surface should nevertheless provide for easy sheet release.
- the belt in use should be water impermeable.
- a transfer belt comprises a base support having a layer of thermoplastic material formed thereon. A batt of fibrous material is located on top of this thermoplastic material. The whole structure is then heated in order to allow the thermoplastic material to migrate to the surface. It is common for transfer belts, such as that described in EP 1127976, to suffer from the drawback of edge curl, i.e. inward curling of the edges of the belt. In severe cases this can lead to the belt folding over which would, at the very least, mark the roller and cause misalignment and damage to the paper sheet.
- Edge curl is caused by differential contraction properties associated with different materials used within the belt structure, as well as various finishing processes.
- polyurethane film has a much greater shrinkage than the yarns of a woven structure and so when a film layer attached to a woven base cloth is partially melted, on cooling, it exerts a contractive force on the base structure, resulting in curling.
- a papermachine belt comprising a papermachine belt comprising a layer for providing strength in the cross-machine direction (hereinafter “the cd supporting layer”) and two or more additional layers, wherein at least two of said additional layers consist of a polymeric material and wherein at least one of said layers of polymeric material is provided on one side of the cd supporting layer and at least another of said layers of polymeric material is provided on the obverse side of the cd supporting layer.
- the provision of a similar mass of polymeric material on either side, i.e. face of the cd supporting layer, which gives the cross- machine strength and rigidity for the belt results in a balancing effect insofar as the anticipated differential thermal shrinkage properties of the polymeric layers are concerned, so as to yield a belt with no edge curl.
- Different polymeric materials having different shrinkages may be used in combination, so that further to exposure to thermal energy, the shrinkage forces are balanced, so eliminating edge curl.
- at least one layer of polymeric material is provided on the paper facing surface of the belt.
- the polymeric material is ideally provided as a film, but may, for example, alternatively be provided as sinterable material or as a fibrous material.
- This layer in the finished product, is ideally water-impermeable.
- the layers of polymeric material preferably have a Shore hardness in the range from 30A to 75D, and ideally have a hardness of substantially 90 Shore A.
- the weight of each polymeric layer is approximately 400g/m .
- the thickness of each layer of polymeric material is ideally in the range from 0.4 to 1.0mm.
- the preferred polymeric material is a thermoplastic polymer, such as a polyether based polyurethane, ideally in film form.
- Polymeric materials having different colours may be used. For example, if a laminate of two polymeric materials were to be used in which the individual lamina had different colours then as the outer layer wears away the lower layer (having a different colour) would become exposed. This would act as wear indicator. Alternatively, the use of differently coloured polymeric materials might be useful for providing a guiding bar mark across the belt width. Pigments and additives may be included in the polymeric material as desired, such as photochromic pigments and/or ultra-violet fluorescent material.
- the cd supporting layer providing the cross-machine strength is ideally a structure made up of a plurality of cross-machine direction yarns, preferably multi-strand (e.g. multifilament or cabled) yarns, which are laid in close proximity to one another.
- the cross-machine direction yarns may preferably be loosely bound together with very fine machine- direction yarns.
- the machine-direction yarn diameter may be in the order of 0.1mm and selected for pliabilty, compared to the stiff cross-machine direction yarn with a diameter of approximately 0.5mm.
- the ratio of the mass of the cross-machine direction yarns to machine direction yarns is ideally substantially at least 160:1.
- the whole layer providing cross-machine stability has a weight of approximately 200g/m .
- this layer includes approximately 9 to 15 cross-machine direction yams/cm, preferably 12 cross-machine direction yarns/cm. It was found that this quasi-nonwoven cd supporting layer embedded between the layers of thermoplastic polymer, further to heat treatment and calendering, results in a laminated product with much improved macro-level pressure uniformity, due to the fact that there was far less chance of sheet marking, as is typical of substrates containing woven substrates with pronounced warp knuckles.
- the belt preferably comprises a machine direction (md) supporting layer to be needled on the roll side of the structure, to provide strength and md stability.
- This md supporting layer may be in the form of a woven, knitted or moulded perforated membrane, for example of the type described in EP 0285376.
- this supporting fabric ideally comprises an array of strong, stable, spirally wound, machine direction yams. Layers of fibrous batt can also be needled in order to hold the said yams in position and to provide a coherent structure. The provision of additional batt on the roll side can also offer better wear resistance.
- the machine roll side layer is made up of spirally wound, machine direction, 0.2 mm/2 ply/3 cabled, polyamide yams, with approximately 7 to 12 yams/cm.
- polyamide batt fibre in the range of 3 to 67 dtex needled thereon.
- This whole layer preferably has a weight in the range from 450 to 480g/m 2 .
- the spirally wound layer of md yarns with batt needled thereon is the preferred supporting substrate for a number of reasons. Firstly, marking due to cd/md yarn cross-over knuckles, as exist in woven substrates, is eliminated.
- shrinkage upon heat-setting of a fabric generally takes place mainly in the cross machine direction because the machine direction length is held constant between the two rollers on the stretcher.
- the spirally wound layer is more yielding than a woven structure in the cd, due to there being only batt between the md yams, which does not prevent the yams from bunching together in order to conform to the shrinkage requirements of the thermoplastic film located thereon.
- a single base stracture which acts as both a cd and md supporting layer.
- This may be, for example, a woven material or possibly a nonwoven or a film.
- a preferred example is a double layer woven fabric with polymeric material on both faces. Examples include laminates and integrally woven multiple layer bases. Yam sizes would typically be from 0.2mm to 0.6mm diameter.
- a layer of batt fibre preferably in the range from 3.1 to 44 dtex, would ideally be needled to this woven base structure.
- the structure as a whole may additionally comprise separate layers of batt fibres.
- the batt is needled to the any other layers so as to mechanically inter-lock them together, as well as providing a higher level of pressure distribution.
- the batt used preferably has a weight in the range from 50 to 800g/m and ideally in the order of 300g/m 2 .
- the total belt thickness is normally between 2.4 and 3.2mm, with an average weight of between 2600 and 3300g/m .
- the preferred stracture of the invention comprises at least five main layers, which working from bottom to top include:-
- thermoplastic film or films thermoplastic film or films, 3) a cd supporting stracture,
- thermoplastic film or films ideally wherein the mass of thermoplastic material of layer (2) is substantially the same as that in layer
- the belt is preferably made endless, but could feasibly include a seam.
- the whole stracture is consolidated through needling at various stages during the manufacturing process.
- the surface is not entirely smooth as there are around 1 to 200 batt fibres per square cm, and preferably 10 - 100 batt fibres per square cm protruding through to, and in some instances standing proud of, the polymer surface. These provide for good sheet release.
- the fibres might take the form of loops, that is the middle of the fibre has been pushed through with both ends still remaining locked within the stracture. If desired, the protruding fibres may be removed.
- the entire stracture is then exposed to sufficient thermal energy to cause the lower melt point, thermoplastic, polymeric film to melt.
- This melted polymer bonds the stracture together, embedding the cd supporting layer and part of the batt in a matrix of molten polymer and forms a very smooth and well defined impermeable surface, which is resistant to de- lamination.
- the belt is then smoothed with a cold polished cylinder. There is no need to grind the finished product, which is advantageous because this is extremely difficult to achieve in the case of low melt polymeric elastomers.
- thermoplastic film or films 1) thermoplastic film or films
- thermoplastic material of layer (1) is preferably substantially the same as that in layer (5) to minimise edge-curl.
- Fig.1 is a diagrammatic cross-section through a transfer smoothing belt in accordance with the present invention.
- a transfer and smoothing belt 10 for use in the press section of a papermachine consists of an endless loop having five layers 11-15.
- the supporting layer 11 consists of spirally wound machine direction yams 16 into which batt has been needled to hold the yams 16 in position.
- the machine direction yams consist of three pairs of yams twisted together.
- the second layer 12, located on layer 11, itself comprises two individual layers of thermoplastic polyurethane each having a weight of 400g/m 2 and being 0.4mm thick. On heating these two polyurethane layers, a single homogeneous layer is formed which bonds and partially impregnates the md supporting fabric
- Layer 13 consists of a quasi non- woven stracture made up of multifilament, cross-machine direction yams and extremely fine machine direction yarns, for loosely holding the cross-machine direction yams in position.
- This layer has a weight of approximately 195g/m 2 .
- the mass of material ratio of cross- machine direction yams to machine direction yarns is approximately 160:1. This layer provides cross-machine direction strength and rigidity.
- a layer 14 of batt is located above the cross-machine direction supporting stracture 13 to facilitate inter-locking of the various layers by needling.
- the batt material preferably has a weight in the order of 300g/m 2 .
- the final layer 15 of thermoplastic material is ideally identical to the inner thermoplastic material layer 12.
- the constituent polyurethane layers flow and bond the stracture together, embedding the top cd supporting layer and part of the batt 14, in a polymeric matrix, to form a single homogenous layer.
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AU2003207353A AU2003207353A1 (en) | 2002-02-23 | 2003-02-24 | Papermachine belt |
EP03704826A EP1481126A1 (en) | 2002-02-23 | 2003-02-24 | Papermachine belt |
CA002477099A CA2477099A1 (en) | 2002-02-23 | 2003-02-24 | Papermachine belt |
US10/921,973 US20050081570A1 (en) | 2002-02-23 | 2004-08-20 | Paper machine belt |
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GB0204310A GB0204310D0 (en) | 2002-02-23 | 2002-02-23 | Edge balanced belt |
GB0204310.7 | 2002-02-23 |
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CA (1) | CA2477099A1 (en) |
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EP0960975A2 (en) * | 1998-05-22 | 1999-12-01 | Albany International Corp. | Belts for shoe presses |
EP0978588A2 (en) * | 1998-08-06 | 2000-02-09 | Ichikawa Co.,Ltd. | Papermaking belt |
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- 2003-02-24 AU AU2003207353A patent/AU2003207353A1/en not_active Abandoned
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US4552620A (en) * | 1983-09-19 | 1985-11-12 | Beloit Corporation | Paper machine belt |
US5298124A (en) * | 1992-06-11 | 1994-03-29 | Albany International Corp. | Transfer belt in a press nip closed draw transfer |
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US7674356B2 (en) | 2002-02-23 | 2010-03-09 | Voith Fabrics Patent Gmbh | Paper machine belt |
US7407564B2 (en) | 2002-11-15 | 2008-08-05 | Albany International Corp. | Stratified press fabric |
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EP4296426A1 (en) | 2022-06-21 | 2023-12-27 | Valmet Technologies Oy | Belt |
EP4343058A2 (en) | 2022-08-31 | 2024-03-27 | Ichikawa Co., Ltd. | Papermaking belt |
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