Method and device in threading of paper web

• US 6,274,000 B1
• Filed: 11/22/1999
• Issued: 08/14/2001
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/1997
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Valmet Technologies OY
• Original Assignee: Valmet Incorporated (Metso Corporation)
• Inventors: Koivukunnas, Pekka, Salminen, Kari
• Primary Examiner(s): FORTUNA, JOSE A
• Application Number:
  US09/424,308
• Time in Patent Office: 631 Days
• Field of Search: 162/193, 162/194, 162/286, 162/310, 162/361, 162/111, 162/196, 162/109, 162/280-281, 341/14, 341/17, 341/20, 226/7, 226/12, 226/91, 226/97.3, 83/53, 831/77, 839/22, 836/14, 837/64, 264/282-283, 156/183, 493/442-443, 493/408, 493/217
• US Class Current: 162/193
• CPC Class Codes: D21G 9/0063 Devices for threading a web tail through a paper-making machine

Abstract

The invention relates to a method in a paper machine in threading of paper web, in which method a narrower tail (T) is separated from the edge of the paper web and transferred to threading guiding means arranged in connection with the moving parts of a machine conveying the paper web. Before transferring the tail (T) to the threading devices, its free length is shortened, for example by crinkling, wherein its tensile stretch is increased and bending stiffness reduced.

Claims

1. Method in threading of paper web, in which method a narrower tail (T) is separated from the edge of the paper web and transferred to threading guiding means arranged in connection with the moving parts of a machine conveying the paper web, wherein before transferring the tail (T) to the threading devices, its free length is shortened in its longitudinal direction by means of a working action directed to the tail.

2. Method according to claim 1, wherein the section of the machine conveying the paper web after the treatment point of the tail (T) is run at a lower speed than the section preceding the same.

3. Method according to claim 1, wherein the tail (T) is worked by crinkling it.

4. Method according to claim 3, wherein said crinkling is performed by crê

ping.

5. Method according to claim 4, wherein said crinkling is performed with a crê

ping doctor against the surface of a cylinder.

6. Method according to claim 4, wherein said crê

ping is performed with a release doctor against the surface of a cylinder.

7. Method according to claim 3, wherein said crinkling is performed between two surfaces in contact with the tail.

8. Method according to claim 7, wherein said folding is performed between two rolls in contact with the tail.

9. Method according to claim 1, wherein said the speed of the threading devices is reduced below the threading speed applied to the untreated tail, according to the change in the longitudianal direction of the tail.

10. Method according to claim 1, wherein said mechanical working is directed to a tail (T) which is folded at a longitudinally extending folding line.

11. Device in threading of paper web for improving the properties of a tail (T), separated from the edge of the paper web, before guiding it to threading devices arranged in connection with the moving parts of a machine conveying the paper web, wherein the device (2) comprises means placed on the travel path of the tail (T) and arranged to work the tail in such a way that its free length becomes shorter.

12. Device according to claim 11, wherein in the machine conveying the paper web, the section after the means working the tail is arranged to run at a lower speed than the section preceding the same.

13. Device according to claim 11, wherein the means are arranged to crinkle the tail.

14. Device according to claim 13, wherein the means comprise of a release doctor and a surface of the cylinder conveying the tail (T), against which surface the release doctor is placed.

15. Device according to claim 13, wherein the means comprise of a crê

ping doctor and a surface of the cylinder conveying the tail (T), against which surface the crê

ping doctor is placed.

16. Device according to claim 13, wherein the means comprise of two crinkling surfaces effecting the working, between which the tail (T) is led.

17. Device according to claim 16, wherein the means comprise the surfaces of two opposite rolls (2a, 2b) between which the tail (T) is led.