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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1974
Karl Wolf, Heidenheim-Schnaitheim, DT;
E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, Heidenheim(Brenz), DT;
Abstract
Headbox assembly for a papermaking machine provided with a wire screen through which water from wet paper stock drains, the assembly including a headbox having a discharge nozzle for a jet of the paper stock, at least one forward and one rearward wedge member as viewed in feed direction of the stock jet from the discharge nozzle, the wedge member underlying the headbox and having respective wedge surfaces of different inclination, respective base members pivotally supporting the headbox and supportingly engaged by the wedge members respectively, a threaded spindle whereon the wedge members are mounted in common, the spindle being actuable for adjusting the position of the wedges forward and rearward of the stock feed direction and accordingly of the headbox whereby the discharge nozzle thereof is adjustable relative to the wire screen of the machine, and guide stop means engaging with the headbox as a brace for adjusting forces applied thereto.