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Thune-Eureka A/s

Hedemora Ab

Torsten L Berggren

Method and apparatus for dewatering and squeezing material

Apparatus for thickening and refining fibre-pulp suspensions

A machine for producing thin shavings from chopped cellulose chips, in which the shavings are cut substantially in the fiber direction and have a large surface area relative to their thickness. The machine comprises a first part provided with at least one knife means and a second part provided with at least one anvil surface for the chips, the first and second parts being arranged for rotation relative to one another. The second part provided with the anvil surface comprises a center member having open, helical conveying channels for conveying the chips axially, while the first part provided with the knife means is in the form of a cylindrical ring which surrounds the center member and which closes said channels over at least a part of their axial length. The depth of the channels varies in the peripheral direction of the member, said channels being deeper at the leading edge thereof than at their trailing edge, as seen in the relative rotational direction of the member relative to the surrounding ring. The depth of the channels also suitably varies in the axial direction, said channels being deeper adjacent the inlet edge of the surrounding ring with respect to the chip flow than at the opposite edge of said ring.

Machine for producing wood shavings from chips

A screw press for pressing liquid from fibrous slurries, such as paper pulp, sludge, sedimentation and like material, in which the material is fed into the press at one end of a press screw arranged within a cylindrical strainer drum and rotatable about its longitudinal axis, and fed out of the press through a discharge zone located at the other end of said screw. The core of the screw has a successively increasing diameter along the major part of its length such that the space defined between the core and the wall of the drum gradually decreases in the feed direction. According to the invention the drum is arranged to rotate at a speed which differs from the speed of rotation of the screw. The speed of rotation of the drum is so selected that there is obtained, as the result of the centrifugal force, an effective draining through the drum of free liquid present in the slurry and liquid pressed from said slurry due to the action of the press-screw. Preferably, the press is provided with means for introducing washing liquid in at least one stage for the purpose of washing material introduced into the press.

Screw-press

A beater for refining fibre slurries, such as paper pulp, and for refining lump goods, such as wood chips and shavings comprises a central rotor and two outer fixed parts surrounding the rotor. The rotor is provided with two ring-shaped beater means and each of the two outer parts is provided with a ring-shaped beater means to form two beater zones between the beater means, one zone on each side of the rotor, in which zones the goods to be refined are treated during passage thereof substantially radially outwardly and as a result of the relative rotation between the rotor and the outer parts. The rotor has a cavity with an axial inlet for the goods to be refined and radially converging, substantially V-shaped defining walls, in which walls holes are arranged through which the goods can be passed to respective zones via passages formed between the rotor and the surrounding parts. A rotatable propeller-like means is arranged in the cavity to disintegrate the goods and to spread it by centrifugal force and to cause it to divide into two substantially equal flows which pass out through the holes in respective walls and into passages connecting therewith.

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Nassjo, Sweden

Torsten L Berggren