Valmet Fibertech Ab

Valmet Fibertech Aktiebolag

Lennart Gustavsson

Lars Nilsson

A sluice ( ) for discharging bulk material, in particular fibers, from a cyclone device comprises a circumferential wall ( ) in the form of a curved bendable band, which defines a generally cylindrical chamber ( ) with an inlet ( ) for receiving bulk material from the cyclone device and an outlet ( ) for discharging bulk material substantially tangentially from the cylindrical chamber. A sluice wheel ( ) is rotatable in the chamber about a vertical axis ( ) extending through the center of the sluice wheel for sluicing the bulk material in batches from the inlet through the chamber to the outlet. The inlet ( ) is situated centrally above the sluice wheel for supplying bulk material substantially axially to the slice wheel.

Sluice for discharging bulk material

Apparatus is disclosed for spreading and distributing particles such as glue-coated wood fibers onto a moving web including rotatable axles disposed transverse to the direction of movement of the moving web with each axle including a number of distributors rotatable with the axles and disposed generally obliquely with respect to the axes of the axles, each of the axles disposed at successively increasing heights from the moving web in its direction of movement whereby each of the distributors extends into the wood fiber particles comprising the moving web and distributes the particles across the moving web.

Growing community of inventors

Växjö, Sweden

Lennart Gustavsson