Valmet Corporation

Metso Paper Inc.

Valmet Paper Machinery Inc.

Bertel Karlstedt

Pertti Heikkila

Richard Solin

Henrik Pettersson

Rami Aaltonen

Ilkka Jokioinen

Matti Lepisto

Raimo Rajala

Roland Banecki

Jukka Parvinen

Eelis Matilainen

A method and flotation dryer unit effects drying of a web such as a coated paper web. The flotation dryer unit advantageously includes several nozzle boxes extending across the web for feeding drying air toward the web to be dried, a distribution chamber for drying air for leading the dry air into the nozzle boxes, and a suction chamber for gathering the drying air led toward the web from the web area and for directing it to the side of the web. The suction chamber is divided into an equalizing space and an air transport chamber by a perforated plate for equalizing the return air flow occurring from the web area.

Flotation dryer unit and method of use

A method and device for drying a coating on a paper web or equivalent in which the direction of running of the paper web is turned, free of contact, by blowings produced by a turning device and the coating on the paper web is dried free of contact by blowings of drying devices placed at both sides of the paper web. The direction of running of the paper web is turned by drying blowings. The exhaust air of the turning device and drying device, which is placed at the side of the turning device, is removed from direct vicinity of the paper web or equivalent by a common exhaust device. The turning device and drying device are placed under and within a common box construction so that access of the exhaust air into the surrounding space is prevented. The device includes a turning device for turning the running direction of the paper web free of contact and a drying device for contact-free drying of the coating on the paper web. The turning device and drying device have nozzles for producing blowings and an exhaust-air device for removing the exhaust air from the vicinity of the paper web or equivalent. The device is arranged to produce drying blowings at the turning device. The turning device and the drying device have common exhaust-air members.

Method and device for drying a coating on a paper web or equivalent

An arrangement for lowering the noise level in connection with a cooling layer in a pulp dryer having a heat-insulated bottom wall and top wall constituting a sound-attenuating construction and a wall at the inlet side of the cooling layer also constituting a sound-attenuating construction. At the outlet side of the air flow from the cooling layer in the pulp dryer, sound-attenuation baffles are arranged preferably perpendicular to or inclined in relation to the direction of the air flow and which are placed at a distance from one another.

Arrangement for lowering the noise level of a cooling layer in a pulp

A method and device for contact-free treatment of a web in which the web is treated, for example supported, reversed, spread, carried, and/or dried, by blowings which provide a carrier-face zone. The carrier-face zone has a curved form regulatable in a direction transverse to the direction of progress of the web. The nozzle-carrier face unit of the device is bent to the curved form in the cross direction of the machine while a frame part of the device is kept in a stationary position. The device includes a regulation arrangement for bending the nozzle-carrier-face unit to a curve form in the direction transverse to the running direction of the web while the frame part of the device is supported in a stationary position.

Method and device in contact-free treatment of a web

A device for contact-free supporting, turning, and spreading of a paper web, comprises a face (K) curved in accordance with the turning of the web (W), in connection with which face (K) the web (W) runs supported by air blown in between the face (K) and the web (W). The nozzle members in the device comprise guide faces (28a, 28b) and carrier faces (27, 37) placed in connection with the guide faces, air being blown through nozzle slots (26a,26b,36) in the nozzle members, transverse to the direction of running of the web (W), onto the carrier faces (27,37). The nozzle slots (26a,26b,36) are, from one side, defined by the guide faces (28,28b,38). The air-supported face (K) in the device is defined by carrier faces (27,37) substantially parallel to the run of the web (W) to be supported, provided at float-nozzle boxes (20) and at foil-nozzle boxes (30). In the direction of running of the web (W), the first nozzle box and the last nozzle box are float-nozzle boxes (20), in which the nozzles (26a,26b) that flow (F.sub.1) against each other produce pressurized carrier faces (K+). Between the float-nozzle boxes (20), there are one or several foil-nozzle boxes (30). Between the nozzle boxes (20,30), there are pressure equalization pockets (18).

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Bertel Karlstedt