Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen Gmbh

J. M. Voith Gmbh

Manfred Ueberschar

Zygmunt Madrzak

Martin Friedrich Kustermann

Ingo Gottwald

Hans-Peter Sollinger

Richard Christian Bernert

Bernhard Kohl

Michael Trefz

Anton Plomer

Eckard Wozny

Franz Fischer

Benjamin Mendez

Jurgen Mittag

Thomas Klein

Sergio Giuste

Eckhart Krageloh

A device for doctoring and/or metering a liquid or viscous medium on a moving operating surface includes a doctoring assembly having a doctoring surface extending transversely across the entire operating surface and pressing thereagainst. A doctoring support beam movably supports the doctoring assembly in a direction transverse to the operating surface. A pressure unit produces a force which is exerted on the doctoring assembly in order to produce a contact pressure between the doctoring surface and the operating surface. Undesired temperature-based movements of the doctoring support beam relative to the operating surface can be compensated for by a compensation device located in the pressure flow path between the doctoring support beam and the doctoring assembly. This ensures that the contact pressure between the doctoring surface and the operating surface is substantially unaffected by such movements or deformations of the doctoring support beam. Thus, a compensation system for targeted counter-deformation of the doctoring support beam is not necessary.

Floating doctoring apparatus

The invention relates to an application unit for directly or indirectly applying a liquid or pasty medium (4) to a continuous material web (6), particularly one made of paper or cardboard, having two gap limiting walls (13, 14) that are spaced apart from one another, are each formed on corresponding lip members (2, 3) and between them define a metering gap (12) for the liquid or pasty medium (4), and having a gap-width adjustment device (8, 9) mated at least with the one lip member (2). There is provided on at least one gap limiting wall (13) an elastic adjustable wall member (7) which can be expanded into the metering gap (12) relative to the gap limiting wall (13), extends across the length of the metering gap (12) and can be actuated by the gap-width adjustment device (8, 9).

Application unit for directly or indirectly applying a liquid or pasty

A device for the application of a liquid or viscous medium onto a running opposing surface includes a doctor blade that is mounted on a support beam, whereby the relative positions of the support beam and the opposing surface are adjustable by use of a regulating device. A flexible pressure tubing that is adjustable against the doctor blade is also provided on the support beam. In the process of controlling/regulating the device, the operating condition of the coating applicator is recorded, control values are established on the basis of the recorded results, and the regulating device and/or fluid pressure in the flexible pressure tubing is influenced on the basis of the established control values. Control/adjustments are made in such a manner that the angle of attack between the doctor blade and the opposing surface is maintained at a predetermined value. The tension condition of the flexible pressure tubing is recorded as an operating condition value and information regarding the deformation characteristics of the flexible pressure tubing, as well as the bending characteristics of the doctor blade, are considered when establishing the control values.

Method of maintaining an angle between a doctor blade and an opposing

An apparatus for joining at least one actuator to at least one oblong working unit of a coating system allows translatory and/or rotatory adjustment. The apparatus includes, in one variant, at least one coupling system joining the actuator and the working unit. The coupling system is configured as a force transmission element which, in at least one axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal expanse of the oblong working unit, is bending-elastic. The coupling system is substantially resistant to tension and compression with respect to the actuating direction of the actuator.

Apparatus for joining at least one actuator to at least one oblong

An applicator implement applies liquid or pasty coating medium directly onto a moving layer of material, in particular paper or cardboard. The applicator implement includes a pre-metering device which extends along the width of the moving material layer. The pre-metering device is divided into a number of segments, each of which are in turn associated with at least one actuator that enables the segments to move with respect to the thickness of the material layer in order to shape a desired profile of the pre-metering device. The applicator implement further includes, following along the path of movement of the material layer, a finishing metering device which also extends along the width of the moving material layer, and which is divided into a number of segments, each of which are in turn associated with at least one actuator that enables the segments to move with respect to the thickness of the material layer in order to shape a desired profile of the finishing metering device. The widths of the segments of the pre-metering device and the finishing metering device are identical according to a first embodiment or first base model. According to a second embodiment or second base model, the widths of the segments of the pre-metering device and the finishing metering device are not identical.

Method and apparatus for the application of a coating of a liquid or

In a method for direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty medium onto a traveling material web, notably of paper or cardboard, where during the application the cross profile (length profile) of the medium is modified under control and thereafter, in the direction of travel, the length profile (cross profile) of the previously applied medium is modified under control. Control of the cross profile and control of the length profile of the applied medium occur separately from one another in automatic control loops based on measurements of the applied profile. In addition is a pertaining apparatus with an applicator, an equalizer, a pertaining cross profile control loop, and a pertaining length profile control loop.

Method and apparatus for direct or indirect application of a liquid or

An applicator for direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty coating medium onto a traveling fiber material web, notably of paper or cardboard, includes at least one metering system with a metering slot configured as an open-jet nozzle and formed between an approach-side lip and a departure-side lip. The applicator includes at least one guide surface bordering on the exit of the metering slot and intended for the coating medium issuing as an open jet out of the metering slot. The length of the guide surface is adjustable in at least one direction substantially parallel to the flow direction of the coating medium along the guide surface.

Coating medium applicator with guide surface

The invention is directed to a machine for processing a fiber web. The machine includes a spreading device with a width. The spreading device is configured for applying a liquid or pasty medium onto the fiber web, or finely controlling an amount of the liquid or pasty medium on the fiber web. A support beam associated with the spreading device has opposing ends and a length which extends across the width of the spreading device. Two support elements are engaged with the support beam for holding the support beam in place. The two support elements are spaced along the length of the support beam, with each support element being located at a distance from a respective end of the support beam.

Fiber web processing machine having a spreading device with a support

The invention is directed to a coating apparatus for the direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty substance onto a moving layer of material, such as paper, carton or cardboard, with a dispenser implement and, at some distance further along the line, a spreading device for finely controlling the amount of applied medium. The dispenser implement and the spreading device share a common collector/drain surface and a common collector bin for gathering excess amounts of the liquid or pasty substance.

Coating apparatus and method to directly or indirectly apply a liquid or

The invention relates to an application unit for the direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty medium (12) onto a moving material web, in particular consisting of paper or board, comprising a dosing gap formed as a free jet nozzle, the dosing gap being formed between a leading lip (4) and a trailing lip (8), and at least one feed channel (14) leading to the dosing gap. The application unit is characterized in that the dosing gap is subdivided in a comb-like manner and has a plurality of defined through-gaps (32) for the liquid or pasty medium (12).

Application unit for the direct or indirect application of a liquid or

An application unit for the direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty medium onto a moving material web includes a dosing gap formed as a free jet nozzle. The dosing gap is formed between a leading lip and a trailing lip. The leading lip is adjustable along the length of the application unit in terms of its distance from the trailing lip. A gap adjustment can be carried out during the operation of the application unit by an adjusting device.

An applicator for direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty medium on a traveling material web includes a support beam, a mating roll opposing the support beam, and a doctor element extending across the width of the mating roll and detachably fixed on the support beam via a holder. The holder includes an actuator and a pressure apparatus operable and brought in contact (K) with the doctor element by the actuator, for pressing the doctor element on an abutment surface. The lever type pressure apparatus is disposed in a region between the mating roll and the support beam, and includes at least one elastic spring element acting directly or indirectly on the lever type pressure apparatus, against the reset force of which spring element acts the actuator upon its activation, and which spring element, upon deactivation of the actuator, lifts by its reset force the contact (K) between the pressure apparatus and the doctor element, releasing the contact (K).

Applicator for direct or indirect application of a liquid or pasty

A device for predosing coating composition on a traveling web of paper. A guide member extends obliquely toward the web. Downstream in the path of the web past the guide member, a doctor element is supported spaced from the tip of the guide member for defining a pressure space between the a guide member and the doctor element. Coating composition is fed through a feed channel between the guide member, on the one hand, and the doctor element and the supports for the doctor element up to the pressure space, on the other hand. An exit slot from the pressure space between the guide member and the web is defined at the tip of the guide member. The guide member has a guide surface down from the tip of the guide member, on the side of the guide member away from the doctor element which faces generally toward the web. The guide surface defines a return channel for coating composition that has moved out of the pressure space and through the slot. The guide surface is gradually inclined so that the return channel gradually enlarges away from the tip of the guide member and the return channel serves as a pressure reduction space for the excess coating composition. The doctor element may be in the form of a doctor bar or a coating blade with an angle of application against the web of at most 20.degree..

Control over excess coating composition in coating device for traveling

A coating blade adjustment system with a blade which on its one end is retained in a mounting and supported between this mounting and its working edge by one or several support elements. Between the support edge of the support element(s), in the area within or on the support elements, there is at least one measuring sensor provided for measuring the spacing of the blade from the measuring sensor for a precision adjustment.

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