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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2000
Joachim Grabscheid, Gerestetten, DE;
Volker Schmidt-Rohr, Heidenheim, DE;
Dieter Egelhof, Heidenheim, DE;
Johann Moser, Heidenheim, DE;
Hans Dahl, Ravensburg, DE;
Roger Wiedenmann, Giengen, DE;
Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH, Heidenheim, DE;
Abstract
Wire section, guidance device, and process of forming a web in a machine for producing a fibrous material web. The device include two revolving endless wire belts, a twin wire zone formed between the two revolving endless wire belts, and a revolving flexible support belt located in a vicinity of the twin wire zone and positioned to support at least one of the two wire belts in a support region. The flexible support belt is generally guided along an at least essentially circular cylindrical path, and the support region includes a support path having an average curvature radius that is greater than a curvature radius of the essentially circular path. The process includes supporting at least one of the two endless wire belts with the flexible support belt in a support region, rotating the flexible support belt along a generally circular path, and deflecting the support belt from the generally circular path in the support region, whereby the support belt in the support regions travels along a support path. An average radius of curvature of the flexible support belt in the support path is greater than an average radius of curvature of the flexible support belt in the generally circular path.