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Multi-disk refiner

US4619414A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJan 31, 1985
Grant dateOct 28, 1986
Priority date
Expiry dateJan 31, 2005

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
  • CPC primaryD21D1/303
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An apparatus for refining fibrous materials such as stock suspensions for papermaking which includes a housing, an inlet and outlet in said housing for receiving and discharging the treated materials, a shaft rotatable in said housing, a plurality of rotating refiner disks spaced along the shaft and an additional plurality of refiner disks interspersed with the rotor disks and providing therewith refining gaps through which the stock suspension passes. The other refiner disks can be either stationary or counter-rotating with respect to the rotor disks. The two sets of refiner disks are supported by means of axially flexible membranes. The present invention provides refiner disks which have undercut portions in the surfaces adjacent to the flexible annular membranes to increase the axial flexibility of the membranes.

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