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7383772 Guiding elements for a printing unit  
A guiding element for a printing unit is provided to facilitate use of the printing unit in an imprinter function. In one operating situation, a strip is printed as it passes through a printing gap...
7311234 Vectored air web handling apparatus  
A web control device is provided as a generally cylindrical hollow bar having a plurality of holes disposed thereon. Each of the plurality of holes is capable of providing fluid contact between the...
7210606 Web conveyor for a thermoforming apparatus, web support apparatus for a thermoforming apparatus, and thermoformable web support apparatus  
A web conveyor is provided having a frame, a pair of conveyor rails, and at least one sag rail. The pair of conveyor rails is carried by the frame in laterally spaced-apart relation. The pair of...
7207794 Pouch production apparatus and method  
A pouch production apparatus includes a pouch forming apparatus operable to form pouches from an elongate web of material and zipper tape and an extrusion apparatus responsive to operation of the...
7112258 Method and apparatus for making a tissue paper with improved tactile qualities while improving the reel-up process for a high bulk web  
A dry end section for a paper-making machine for producing a high-bulk tissue is provided. Such a machine comprises a through-air dryer adapted to finally dry a paper web and a through-air drying...
7073747 Guiding roller and adjusting method  
A guiding roller, that is used to turn a web of material, has a jacket surface provided with holes over at least a portion of its periphery. An inner surface of the guiding roller is provided with...
7040519 Thermoformable web support apparatus and support device for a heated plastic sheet  
A web conveyor is provided having a frame, a pair of conveyor rails, and at least one sag rail. The pair of conveyor rails is carried by the frame in laterally spaced-apart relation. The pair of...
7025303 Turning bar for contactless guidance of a tubular film  
A turning bar for contactless guidance of a tubular film web moved at a loop angle around the turning bar, including a support tube with a hollow interior, which can be connected with a compressed...
6994239 Methods and apparatus for prescribing web tracking in processing equipment  
Methods and apparatus to reduce or eliminate misalignment, wrinkles, and creases in coated web product. A relationship between web outgassing pressure and surface roughness of the web and web...
6936137 Air clamp stabilizer for continuous web materials  
A device for non-contact support of a continuous moving web of material employs an air clamp stabilizer that includes a Coanda slot and a backstep that is located downstream of the direction of the...
6881362 Process and apparatus for the relaxation of interlayer sheet  
A process for relaxation of interlayer sheet is provided which comprises heating the interlayer sheet, followed by leading the heated interlayer sheet over an air-cushion table with regulation of...
6635111 Contactless guide system for continuous web  
Known devices for contactlessly guiding or treating continuous lines of material ( 1 ) have one chamber ( 2 ). A supply device ( 3 ) for a gaseous fluid is connected to said chamber ( 2 ), which...
6619583 Device for contact-free guidance of a web material over a surface  
A device for contact-free guidance of a web material over a surface element whereon a first longitudinal fold is formed in the web material, the surface element decreasing in width continuously...
6604463 Device to compensate for print misregister due to paper distortion on web offset printing presses  
A printing web distortion device for imposing a measured amount of distortion into a moving web of substrate, such as paper, to compensate for lateral stretching of the substrate during a printing...
6543662 Web transport system  
A method and apparatus for transporting a web having at least one table element including at least one inclined blowing device ( 4 a -4 d ), at least one rounded hump ( 8 ), and at least one...
6511015 Method and apparatus for stabilizing the running of a web in a paper machine or a like  
A method and a device for stabilizing the web run in a paper machine or the like having a blow suction module ( 12 ) mounted above and/or below the web. The blow suction module comprises a blow...
6505792 Non-contact floating device for turning a floating web  
Air turn for supporting and optionally drying a web, comprising an arcuate surface having a plurality of apertures formed therein. Pressurized gas is supplied to the air turn plenum, and exits...
6502735 Device for the suspension guidance of a travelling web  
A device ( 100 ) for the suspension guidance of a travelling paper or paper-like web (B) by air and which is especially useful for deflecting a damp travelling paper web. The device has a plurality...
6461671 Paper coating apparatus and method for coating paper  
Apparatus and method for coating a moving paper web, in which the web to be coated is first guided to a coating station correctly aligned and a first side of the web is coated with a coat layer....
6454903 Method and apparatus for the transfer of a lead strip of a paper web  
An apparatus transfers a lead strip of a paper web, in particular the beginning of a still wet lead strip or tail, from a press roll of a paper-making machine to a following section of that...
6443389 Self threading air bar  
An air-bearing apparatus for aiding in conveying a web is taught comprising a central web support housing including a cylindrical surface and two sides. There is an end cap positioned adjacent each...
6428246 System and method of conveying, storing, and dispensing packing material  
A system and method for conveying and dispensing packing material, such as a chain of linked air bags which includes a pressurized pathway and an elongated hopper that conveys and dispenses the air...
6425512 Web handling process  
A process of transporting at least a portion of a web from a first structure to a second structure via an apparatus that includes at least two pulleys located at spaced locations from each other,...
6394331 Device and process for separating and transferring a leader strip  
Apparatus and process for separating and transferring a leader strip to be threaded into a machine for at least one of producing and treating a material web. The apparatus includes a separating...
6375801 Method for improving stability of moving webs  
In manufacturing a moving web, such as a tissue sheet, the web is transported at very high speeds, often in an unsupported manner, which can result in unstable operations regarding handling and...
6328852 Method and apparatus for improving stability of moving webs  
In manufacturing a moving web, such as a tissue sheet, the web is transported at very high speeds, often in an unsupported manner, which can result in unstable operations regarding handling and...
6325896 Apparatus for transferring a fast running fibrous web from a first location to a second location  
An apparatus for transferring a fast-running, ready-dried fibrous web from a first location to another with minimal undesirable motion is described. The apparatus includes an air foil defining a...
6270629 Web handling apparatus  
An apparatus and process for transporting at least a portion of a web of flexible material between first and second structures spaced from each other. The apparatus includes at least two pulleys...
6251477 Paper coating apparatus and method for coating paper  
Apparatus and method for coating a moving paper web, in which the web (2) to be coated is first guided to a coating station (7) correctly aligned and a first side of the web (2) is coated with a...
6250581 Web winding device and method  
Web winding device for winding a material web into a winding roll. The device comprises a rotatably driven first support roller having a circumferential shell and opposed ends, the shell having an...
6228216 Transfer of a cellulosic web between spaced apart transport means using a moving air as a support  
A gas stream directed at a velocity against a cellulosic web in a papermaking machine can act to transfer the web from a transport web moving at a first speed to a transport web moving at a second...
6155518 Blow box for levitated guidance of a material web  
Apparatus for levitated guidance of a material web moving in a travel direction, includes a blow box which defines an air chamber in communication with a source for supply of blowing air. The blow...
6125754 Web pressurizing channeled roller and method  
The present invention is a channeled roller, used in association with flexible webs, which is provided with a pressurized gas flow, and which may be used to remove web wrinkles, clean webs and...
6042307 Controlled speed air conveyor for unstable articles  
The method and apparatus of this invention include first and second sets of louvers which extend through the conveying surface for creating downstream and upstream force vectors of air which serve...
6004432 Sheet turn with vectored air supply  
In a papermaking machine for forming tissue paper, a turning bar is disposed having a curved surface about which a web of tissue paper is turned. The bar has an internal air plenum which supplies...
6003750 Process for guiding a web  
Process for guiding a web from one treatment station to another in a web manufacturing or treatment process. The process includes guiding the web with at least one pneumatic support device and...
5991964 Web cleaner  
A tissue web cleaner and method of cleaning tissue webs in a rewinder utilize the Coanda effect to produce an improved tissue product. The Coanda effect web cleaner utilizes the smooth flow of a...
5970627 Active web stabilization apparatus  
An active web stabilizer including a structure having a leading edge and a working surface coupled by a curved surface, the working surface being positioned proximate to a passing web. An internal...
5967457 Airfoil web stabilization and turning apparatus and method  
An apparatus and method for stabilizing and changing the direction of a web moving in a web path between web handling devices. The apparatus includes an airfoil having a bulbous front end tapering...
5950899 Device for changing the direction of a moving web without contacting the web  
An apparatus for guiding and changing the direction of a moving web without contacting the web itself, and for preventing contact at the apparatus entry and, optionally exit points. The apparatus...
5924619 Method and apparatus for passing a printed web between the separated cylinders of a deactivated printing unit of a web fed rotary printing press  
A method and apparatus are provided for passing a printed web through the separated printing or blanket cylinders of a motionless downstream printing unit of a lithographic rotary printing press....
5921451 Dryer assembly for supporting and positioning a web  
The position of a printed web passing through an elongated dryer is shifted laterally during passage of the web through the dryer. A component of the resultant of all of the frictional forces...
5904312 Reel slitter  
A reel slitter includes a slitting station for slitting a material web into partial webs and a winding station to wind the partial webs into partial web rolls. A transporter conveys at least one...
5893505 Guide for a material web  
An arrangement for guiding a web of material, e.g., a pulp web or paper web, within a web production machine may include at least one web stabilizer extending substantially across an entire width...
5830321 Method for improved rush transfer to produce high bulk without macrofolds  
A method for improving the rush transfer of a web, such as a tissue web, is disclosed. The method provides for greater angles of convergence and divergence of the carrier fabric and the transfer...
5829166 Air-cushion nozzle for drying apparatus  
An air-cushion nozzle for an air-treatment device has a hollow housing having an upper wall formed by a pair of end plates and a central plate. The end plates form with the central plate a pair of...
5792318 Method to stabilize sheet between press section and dryer section of a paper-making machine  
A novel sheet transfer stabilizer is provided for transferring a fibrous wet sheet from a press section to a dryer section of a paper-making machine by way of a felt, or the like. The sheet...
5788425 Flexible system for handling articles  
The apparatus for handling and operating on an article includes a flexible member having a working surface and at least one fluid orifice which pass through the flexible member and terminates in...
5752641 Suspension dryer, in particular offset dryer  
A suspension dryer for freshly moisturized webs of swellable paper has a row of lower nozzle beams which extend transversely to a throughgoing direction so as to be spaced from one another along a...
5432653 Loop-shaped pneumatic drive  
A loop-shaped drive and drive system for retrieving and storing information on flexible recording strips. The drive has a loop-shaped conduit having a working surface on its inner periphery. A...
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