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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 23, 1999
Ulrich Begemann, Heidenheim, DE;
Dirk Thomas, Heidenheim, DE;
Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH, Heidenheim, DE;
Abstract
Process and apparatus for improving a consistency cross-direction profile of a fiber web in the wet section. The process includes distributing a fiber suspension across a machine width from a headbox to one of on a wire and between two wires, adjusting a cross-sectional basis weight by sectionally mixing, across the machine width, a first suspension having a first solid content and a first percentage composition and a second suspension having second solid content that is one of lower and higher than the first solid content, and a second percentage composition of the solids content of the second suspension differs from the first percentage composition, and sectionally admixing at least a third suspension across the machine width, the third suspension having a solids content that is one of lower and higher than the solids content of at least one of the first and second solids content, and having a third percentage composition that differs from at least one of the first and second percentage compositions. The apparatus includes one of a first machine-wide feed and a first set of individual feeds for the first suspension, a second set of individual feeds for the second suspension, control devices coupled to the second set of individual feeds for regulating a flow of the second suspension, a turbulence generator, a headbox nozzle. At least a third set of individual feeds for a third suspension is positioned at least one of upstream from the turbulence generator and to act equally on each section across the machine width. The third suspension has a solids content that differs from the solids contents of the first and second suspensions, and additional control devices coupled to the third set of individual feeds for regulating a flow of the third suspension.