Multi-purpose calendar

US5501145A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Paul Troester Maschinenfabrik · DE

Inventor

• Gerald Fromm · Großburgwedel, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 29, 1994
• Grant date: Mar 26, 1996
• Expiry date: Apr 29, 2014

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B29C43/28
• WIPO field: Other special machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A multi-purpose calender having latterly spaced frames mounting four superposed calender rolls with their axes of rotation extending horizontally and three rolls offset relative to a vertical plane. Two outer rolls are provided with two coactive inner rolls intermediate the outer rolls. A first inner roll is mounted with an axis of rotation fixed in a vertical and in a horizontal plane. The frames have slot guides therein mounting beating housings and the bearings therein of the three other rolls adjustably shiftable and crossable independently along respective inclined planes.