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J. M. Voith Gmbh

Richard Meyer

Helmut Heinzmann

Wolfgang Muller

Air guide box 20 for a paper machine where the paper web 16 to be dried runs together with the backing belt 18 across drying cylinders 10 through 14. The air guide box 20 extends from a point A where the backing belt 18 departs from a cylinder 10, 12 toward a point Z where the backing belt runs on the following cylinder 11, 13. A diverging gap 23 remains between the air guide box 20 and the backing belt 18. The air guide box 20 has in the area of the departure point A a mechanical air boundary layer stripper 25. Facing toward the backing belt 18 and diverging in its running direction from the contact screen, the wall 21 of the air guide box 20 is shaped in accordance with the operationally occurring curved trajectory of the contact screen 18, is composed, preferably in polygon fashion, from flat wall elements 21.1, 21.2 and 21.3.

Air guide box for the drying section of a high-speed paper machine

In a device for stabilizing the run of a material web, which successively runs over two rolls, namely a delivering and a receiving roll, there is a box provided that extends between the delivering and the receiving roll across the width of the paper web. This box has a so-called guide wall that extends along the course of the material web, with an air gap remaining between the guide wall and the material web. Additionally provided on the box are means which create a vacuum in the air gap. In a device of this type, the guide wall is shaped in a way such that its spacing from the theoretical trajectory plane tangent to the two rolls is in the center area of the material web greater than it is in the araa of the material web edges. A device of this type serves to better stabilize the smooth running of the material web on its way between the rolls. A preferred applicational area of the invention is an air guide box (20) for the drying section of a high-speed paper machine where the paper web (16) to be dried meanders together with a backing belt (18) over drying cylinders (10-14).

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Richard Meyer