| US 7,601,244 B2 | ||
| Press for paper machine with smoothing press, and paper production method | ||
| Hidemasa Iijima, Hiroshima (Japan); Takasi Bando, Hiroshima (Japan); Hirosi Iwata, Hiroshima (Japan); Daisuke Goto, Hiroshima (Japan); and Kotaro Shinoda, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Oji Paper Co., Ltd., Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/555,773 PCT Filed May 12, 2004, PCT No. PCT/JP2004/006686 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Aug. 11, 2006, PCT Pub. No. WO2004/101885, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 25, 2004. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2003-134264 (JP), filed on May 13, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2007/0023155 A1, Feb. 01, 2007 | ||
| Int. Cl. D21F 3/04 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 162—360.2 [162/205; 162/361] | 4 Claims |
| 1. A press for a paper machine with a smoothing press which is provided as a press at a final stage of a press section of
a paper machine and functions to smooth a surface of a traveling wet web, said press comprising:
the smoothing press comprising:
an elastic member for guiding traveling of the wet web while retaining one face of the wet web;
a first press roll contacting with the other face of the wet web and having a surface formed from a rigid material; and
a second press roll having a surface formed from a rigid material for cooperating with said first press roll through said
elastic member to generate a nip pressure to press the wet web;
a carrying belt provided on the upstream side of said first press roll and said second press roll for carrying the wet web
from a final water-removing press of said press section to said elastic member; and
a pair of nip transfer rolls provided on the upstream side of said first press roll and said second press roll for generating,
in a state wherein the wet web is held between said carrying belt and said elastic member, a nip pressure on the wet web;
wherein
said elastic member is a paper feeding belt which does not have air permeability and whose hardness is set higher than that
of said carrying belt.
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