Voith Sulzer Finishing Gmbh

Sulzer Papertec Krefeld Gmbh

Heinrich Stein

Rolf Van Haag

Dieter Junk

A calender for a sheet material, e.g., paper, having at least two treatment stations through which the sheet material passes in succession. To regulate a desired parameter of the sheet material, each treatment station may include a plurality of adjacently arranged adjustment zones positioned in a row extending across a width of the sheet material. The adjustment zones of one of the treatment stations are positioned to be offset relative to the adjustment zones of the other treatment station by a fraction of a width of the adjustment zones, e.g., one-half the width. The particular arrangement enabling improved correction potential without increasing structural expenditure.

Calender for paper and the like

A calender includes at least one roller stack. The upper roller and lower roller of the roller stacks are deflection compensation rollers. The upper roller and/or the lower roller have an outer covering made of a flexible plastic and is designed to bend easily. The roller adjacent to the upper and lower roller is a hard roller.

Calendar including a roller with a ductility factor F greater than or

A bearing for a heated calendar roll comprises a bearing ring having a first surface. The bearing is rotatable about an axis. A first radially fixed hydrostatic bearing arcuate segment has a first surface which mates with the first surface of the bearing ring. The hydrostatic bearing has at least one bearing pocket. The bearing pocket has a device for permitting hydraulic fluid to flow into the at least one bearing pocket. The hydrostatic bearing is disposed substantially at a circumferential position with respect to the bearing which corresponds to a bearing load from the calendar roll. A second hydrostatic bearing arcuate segment has a first surface which mates with the first surface of the bearing ring. The second hydrostatic bearing has a first radially adjustable bearing pocket. The radially adjustable bearing pocket has a device for permitting hydraulic fluid to flow into the radially adjustable bearing pocket. The second hydrostatic bearing is disposed substantially diametrically opposite to the first hydrostatic bearing. A running gap is formed between the first surface of the first hydrostatic bearing and the first surface of the bearing ring. The running gap has a gap height which varies from a middle of the running gap toward an edge of the running gap such that at the beginning of a heating cycle, the middle gap height is less than the edge gap height, and in a heated state of the calendar roll the middle gap height is greater than the edge gap height.

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Moenchengladbach, Germany

Heinrich Stein