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machine</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fourdrinier_paper_machine,_Frogmore_Mills_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1544694.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Fourdrinier_paper_machine%2C_Frogmore_Mills_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1544694.jpg/220px-Fourdrinier_paper_machine%2C_Frogmore_Mills_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1544694.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Fourdrinier_paper_machine%2C_Frogmore_Mills_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1544694.jpg/330px-Fourdrinier_paper_machine%2C_Frogmore_Mills_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1544694.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Fourdrinier_paper_machine%2C_Frogmore_Mills_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1544694.jpg/440px-Fourdrinier_paper_machine%2C_Frogmore_Mills_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1544694.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="427" /></a><figcaption>A Fourdrinier paper machine</figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>paper machine</b> (or <b>paper-making machine</b>) is an industrial machine which is used in the <a href="/wiki/Pulp_and_paper_industry" title="Pulp and paper industry">pulp and paper industry</a> to create <a href="/wiki/Paper" title="Paper">paper</a> in large quantities at high speed. Modern paper-making machines are based on the principles of the Fourdrinier Machine, which uses a moving woven <a href="/wiki/Mesh" title="Mesh">mesh</a> to create a continuous paper web by filtering out the fibres held in a paper stock and producing a continuously moving wet mat of fibre. This is dried in the machine to produce a strong paper web. </p><p>The basic process is an industrialised version of the historical process of hand paper-making, which could not satisfy the demands of developing modern society for large quantities of a printing and writing substrate. The first modern paper machine was invented by <a href="/wiki/Louis-Nicolas_Robert" title="Louis-Nicolas Robert">Louis-Nicolas Robert</a> in France in 1799, and an improved version patented in Britain by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fourdrinier" title="Henry Fourdrinier">Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier</a> in 1806. </p><p>The same process is used to produce <a href="/wiki/Paperboard" title="Paperboard">paperboard</a> on a paperboard machine. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Process_sections">Process sections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Process sections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Paper machines usually have at least five distinct operational sections: </p> <ul><li><a href="#Forming_section_or_wet_end">Forming section</a>, commonly called the wet end, is a continuous rotating wire mesh which removes water from the paper by sucking it out of suspension via vacuum.</li> <li><a href="#Press_section">Press section</a>, where the wet fibre web passes between large rolls loaded under high pressure to squeeze out as much water as possible.</li> <li><a href="#Drying_section">Drying section</a>, where the pressed sheet passes partly around, in a serpentine manner, a series of steam heated drying cylinders. Drying removes the water content down to a level of about 6%, where it will remain at typical indoor atmospheric conditions. Infra-red driers are also used to supplement cylinder drying where required.</li> <li><a href="#Size_Press_section">Size Press section</a>, where the semi-dried paper is applied with a thin layer of starch and/ or other chemicals to improve several paper properties, reduce dusting and air permeability, increase stiffness, bursting strength and short span compression</li> <li><a href="#Calender_section">Calender section</a>, where the dried paper is smoothened under high loading and pressure. Only one <i>nip</i> (where the sheet is pressed between two rolls) is necessary in order to hold the sheet, which shrinks through the drying section and is held in tension between the press section (or breaker stack if used) and the calender. Extra nips give more smoothing, but at some expense to paper strength. The calendar section can either be a part of the machine (On-line) or in a separate part of the paper mill (Off-line).</li> <li><a href="#Reel_section">Reel section</a>, where paper coming out of the machine is wound onto individual spools for further processing.</li></ul> <p>There can also be a coating section to modify the surface characteristics with coatings such as <a href="/wiki/Kaolinite" title="Kaolinite">kaolin clay</a>, alternatively known as china clay. This section can be on-line or off-line as well. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before the invention of <a href="/wiki/Continuous_production" title="Continuous production">continuous</a> paper making, paper was made in individual sheets by stirring a container of pulp slurry and either pouring it into a fabric sieve called a sheet mould or dipping and lifting the sheet mould from the vat. While still on the fabric in the sheet mould, the wet paper was pressed to remove excess water. The sheet was then lifted off to be hung over a rope or wooden rod to air dry. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Fourdrinier_machine">Fourdrinier machine</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Fourdrinier machine"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fourdrinier_machine_model.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Fourdrinier_machine_model.jpg/220px-Fourdrinier_machine_model.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Fourdrinier_machine_model.jpg/330px-Fourdrinier_machine_model.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/60/Fourdrinier_machine_model.jpg/440px-Fourdrinier_machine_model.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3412" data-file-height="2385" /></a><figcaption>Model of a <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fourdrinier" title="Henry Fourdrinier">Fourdrinier</a> continuous paper making machine at <a href="/wiki/Frogmore_Paper_Mill" title="Frogmore Paper Mill">Frogmore Paper Mill</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1799, <a href="/wiki/Louis-Nicolas_Robert" title="Louis-Nicolas Robert">Louis-Nicolas Robert</a> of <a href="/wiki/Essonnes" class="mw-redirect" title="Essonnes">Essonnes</a>, France, was granted a <a href="/wiki/Patent" title="Patent">patent</a> for a continuous paper making machine. At the time, Robert was working for <a href="/wiki/Didot_family#Saint-Léger_Didot" title="Didot family">Saint-Léger Didot</a>, with whom he quarreled over the ownership of the invention. Didot believed that England was a better place to develop the machine but due to the turbulence of the <a href="/wiki/French_Revolution" title="French Revolution">French Revolution</a>, he could not go there himself, so he sent his brother-in-law, John Gamble, an Englishman living in Paris. Through a chain of acquaintances, Gamble was introduced to the brothers <a href="/wiki/Sealy_Fourdrinier" title="Sealy Fourdrinier">Sealy</a> and <a href="/wiki/Henry_Fourdrinier" title="Henry Fourdrinier">Henry Fourdrinier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stationers" class="mw-redirect" title="Stationers">stationers</a> of London, who agreed to finance the project. Gamble was granted British patent 2487 on October 20, 1801. The Fourdrinier machine used a specially woven fabric <a href="/wiki/Mesh" title="Mesh">mesh</a> <a href="/wiki/Conveyor_belt" title="Conveyor belt">conveyor belt</a> (known as a <i>wire,</i> as it was once woven from bronze) in the forming section, where a slurry of fibre (usually wood or other vegetable fibres) is drained to create a continuous paper web. The original Fourdrinier forming section used a horizontal drainage area, referred to as the <i>drainage table</i>. </p><p>With the help of <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Donkin" title="Bryan Donkin">Bryan Donkin</a>, a skilled and ingenious mechanic, an improved version of the Robert original was installed at <a href="/wiki/Frogmore_Paper_Mill" title="Frogmore Paper Mill">Frogmore Paper Mill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Apsley,_Hertfordshire" title="Apsley, Hertfordshire">Apsley, Hertfordshire</a>, in 1803, followed by another in 1804. A third machine was installed at the Fourdriniers' own mill at Two Waters. The Fourdriniers also bought a mill at <a href="/wiki/St_Neots" title="St Neots">St Neots</a> intending to install two machines there, and the process and machines continued to develop. </p><p>Close to Frogmore Mill in Apsley, <a href="/wiki/John_Dickinson_(inventor)" title="John Dickinson (inventor)">John Dickinson</a> designed and built an alternate machine type; a Cylinder Mould Machine in 1809. </p><p>Thomas Gilpin is most often credited for creating the first U.S. cylinder type <a href="/wiki/Papermaking" title="Papermaking">papermaking</a> machine at <a href="/wiki/Brandywine_Creek_(Christina_River)" class="mw-redirect" title="Brandywine Creek (Christina River)">Brandywine Creek</a>, <a href="/wiki/Delaware" title="Delaware">Delaware</a> in 1817. This machine was a cylinder mould machine. The Fourdrinier machine wasn't introduced into the USA until 1827.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Similar_designs">Similar designs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Similar designs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Records show <a href="/wiki/Charles_Kinsey" title="Charles Kinsey">Charles Kinsey</a> of <a href="/wiki/Paterson,_NJ" class="mw-redirect" title="Paterson, NJ">Paterson, NJ</a> had already patented a continuous process papermaking machine in 1807. Kinsey's machine was built locally by Daniel Sawn and by 1809 the Kinsey machine was successfully making paper at the Essex Mill in Paterson. Financial stress and potential opportunities created by the <a href="/wiki/Embargo_of_1807" class="mw-redirect" title="Embargo of 1807">Embargo of 1807</a> eventually persuaded Kinsey and his backers to change the mill's focus from paper to cotton and Kinsey's early papermaking successes were soon overlooked and forgotten.<sup id="cite_ref-Bidwell_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bidwell-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HAER_NJ-6_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HAER_NJ-6-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gilpin's 1817 patent was similar to Kinsey's, as was the John Ames patent of 1822. The Ames patent was challenged by his competitors, asserting that Kinsey was the original inventor and Ames had been stealing other people's ideas, their evidence being the employment of Daniel Sawn to work on his machine.<sup id="cite_ref-Bidwell_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bidwell-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Related_inventions">Related inventions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Related inventions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The method of <a href="/wiki/Continuous_production" title="Continuous production">continuous production</a> demonstrated by the paper machine influenced the development of continuous rolling of iron and later steel and other <a href="/wiki/Continuous_production" title="Continuous production">continuous production</a> processes.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Pulp_types_and_their_preparations">Pulp types and their preparations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Pulp types and their preparations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Pulp_(paper)" title="Pulp (paper)">Pulp (paper)</a></div> <p>The plant fibres used for pulp are composed mostly of cellulose and hemi-cellulose, which have a tendency to form molecular linkages between fibres in the presence of water. After the water evaporates the fibres remain bonded. It is not necessary to add additional binders for most paper grades, although both wet and dry strength additives may be added. </p><p>Rags of <a href="/wiki/Cotton" title="Cotton">cotton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Linen" title="Linen">linen</a> were the major source of pulp for paper before wood pulp. Today almost all pulp is of wood fibre. Cotton fibre is used in speciality grades, usually in printing paper for such things as resumes and currency. </p><p>Sources of rags often appear as waste from other manufacturing such as denim fragments or glove cuts. Fibres from clothing come from the cotton boll. The fibres can range from 3 to 7 cm in length as they exist in the cotton field. Bleach and other chemicals remove the colour from the fabric in a process of cooking, usually with steam. The cloth fragments mechanically abrade into fibres, and the fibres get shortened to a length appropriate for manufacturing paper with a cutting process. Rags and water dump into a trough forming a closed loop. A cylinder with cutting edges, or knives, and a knife bed is part of the loop. The spinning cylinder pushes the contents of the trough around repeatedly. As it lowers slowly over a period of hours, it breaks the rags up into fibres, and cuts the fibres to the desired length. The cutting process terminates when the mix has passed the cylinder enough times at the programmed final clearance of the knives and bed. </p><p>Another source of cotton fibre comes from the <a href="/wiki/Cotton_ginning" class="mw-redirect" title="Cotton ginning">cotton ginning</a> process. The seeds remain, surrounded by short fibres known as linters for their short length and resemblance to lint. Linters are too short for successful use in fabric. Linters removed from the cotton seeds are available as first and second cuts. The first cuts are longer. </p><p>The two major classifications of pulp are <a href="/wiki/Chemical_pulp" class="mw-redirect" title="Chemical pulp">chemical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mechanical_pulp" class="mw-redirect" title="Mechanical pulp">mechanical</a>. Chemical pulps formerly used a <a href="/wiki/Sulfite_process" title="Sulfite process">sulphite process</a>, but the <a href="/wiki/Kraft_process" title="Kraft process">kraft process</a> is now predominant. Kraft pulp has superior strength to sulphite and mechanical pulps and kraft process spent pulping chemicals are easier to recover and regenerate. Both chemical pulps and mechanical pulps may be bleached to a high brightness. </p><p>Chemical pulping dissolves the <a href="/wiki/Lignin" title="Lignin">lignin</a> that bonds fibres to one another, and binds the outer <a href="/wiki/Fibril" title="Fibril">fibrils</a> that compose individual fibres to the fibre core. Lignin, like most other substances that can separate fibres from one another, acts as a debonding agent, lowering strength. Strength also depends on maintaining long cellulose molecule chains. The kraft process, due to the alkali and sulphur compounds used, tends to minimize attack on the cellulose and the non-crystalline <a href="/wiki/Hemicellulose" title="Hemicellulose">hemicellulose</a>, which promotes bonding, while dissolving the lignin. Acidic pulping processes shorten the cellulose chains. </p><p>Kraft pulp makes superior <a href="/wiki/Linerboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Linerboard">linerboard</a> and excellent printing and writing papers. </p><p>Groundwood, the main ingredient used in <a href="/wiki/Newsprint" title="Newsprint">newsprint</a> and a principal component of magazine papers (coated publications), is literally ground wood produced by a grinder. Therefore, it contains a lot of lignin, which lowers its strength. The grinding produces very short fibres that drain slowly. </p><p>Thermomechanical pulp (TMP) is a variation of groundwood where fibres are separated mechanically while at high enough temperatures to soften the lignin. </p><p>Between chemical and mechanical pulps there are semi-chemical pulps that use a mild chemical treatment followed by refining. Semi-chemical pulp is often used for corrugating medium. </p><p>Bales of <a href="/wiki/Recycled_paper" class="mw-redirect" title="Recycled paper">recycled paper</a> (normally old corrugated containers) for unbleached (brown) packaging grades may be simply pulped, screened and cleaned. Recycling to make white papers is usually done in a deinking plant, which employs screening, cleaning, washing, bleaching and flotation. <a href="/wiki/Deinked_pulp" class="mw-redirect" title="Deinked pulp">Deinked pulp</a> is used in printing and writing papers and in <a href="/wiki/Tissue_paper" title="Tissue paper">tissue</a>, napkins and <a href="/wiki/Paper_towel" title="Paper towel">paper towels</a>. It is often blended with virgin pulp. </p><p>At integrated pulp and paper mills, pulp is usually stored in high density towers before being pumped to stock preparation. Non integrated mills use either dry pulp or wet lap (pressed) pulp, usually received in bales. The pulp bales are slushed in a [re]pulper. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Stock_(pulp)_preparation"><span id="Stock_.28pulp.29_preparation"></span>Stock (pulp) preparation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Stock (pulp) preparation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stock preparation is the area where pulp is usually refined, blended to the appropriate proportion of <a href="/wiki/Hardwood" title="Hardwood">hardwood</a>, <a href="/wiki/Softwood" title="Softwood">softwood</a> or recycled fibre, and diluted to as uniform and constant as possible consistency. The <a href="/wiki/PH" title="PH">pH</a> is controlled and various fillers, such as whitening agents, <a href="/wiki/Sizing" title="Sizing">size</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wet_strength" title="Wet strength">wet strength</a> or dry strength are added if necessary. Additional <a href="/wiki/Filler_(materials)" title="Filler (materials)">fillers</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Clay" title="Clay">clay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Calcium_carbonate" title="Calcium carbonate">calcium carbonate</a> and <a href="/wiki/Titanium_dioxide" title="Titanium dioxide">titanium dioxide</a> increase <a href="/wiki/Opacity_(optics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Opacity (optics)">opacity</a> so printing on reverse side of a sheet will not distract from content on the obverse side of the sheet. Fillers also improve printing quality.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Pulp is pumped through a sequence of tanks that are commonly called <i>chests</i>, which may be either round or more commonly rectangular. Historically these were made of special ceramic tile faced reinforced concrete, but mild and stainless steels are also used. Because fibre and fillers are denser than water and tend to settle out quickly and also fibres are attracted together to form clumps called floc, low consistency pulp slurries are kept agitated in these chests by propeller like agitators near the pump suction at the chest bottom. </p><p>In the following process, different types of pulp, if used, are normally treated in separate but similar process lines until combined at a blend chest: </p><p>From high density storage or from slusher/pulper the pulp is pumped to a low density storage chest (tank). From there it is typically diluted to about 4% consistency before being pumped to an unrefined stock chest. From the unrefined stock chest stock is again pumped, with consistency control, through a refiner. Refining is an operation whereby the pulp <a href="/wiki/Slurry" title="Slurry">slurry</a> passes between a pair of discs, one of which is stationary and the other rotating at speeds of typically 1,000 or 1,200 RPM for 50 and 60 Hz AC, respectively. The discs have raised bars on their faces and pass each other with narrow clearance. This action unravels the outer layer of the fibres, causing the <a href="/wiki/Fibril" title="Fibril">fibrils</a> of the fibres to partially detach and bloom outward, increasing the surface area to promoting bonding. Refining thus increases tensile strength. For example, tissue paper is relatively unrefined whereas packaging paper is more highly refined. Refined stock from the refiner then goes to a refined stock chest, or blend chest, if used as such. </p><p>Hardwood fibres are typically 1 mm long and smaller in diameter than the 4 mm length typical of softwood fibres. Refining can cause the softwood fibre tube to collapse resulting in undesirable properties in the sheet. </p><p>From the refined stock, or blend chest, stock is again consistency controlled as it is being pumped to a machine chest. It may be refined or additives may be added en route to the machine chest. </p><p>The machine chest is basically a consistency levelling chest having about 15 minutes retention. This is enough retention time to allow any variations in consistency entering the chest to be levelled out by the action of the <a href="/wiki/Grammage" title="Grammage">basis weight</a> valve receiving feedback from the on line basis weight measuring scanner. (Note: Many paper machines mistakenly control consistency coming out of the machine chest, interfering with basis weight control.)<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>notes 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operation">Operation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Operation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>There are four main sections on this paper machine. The forming section makes the pulp into the basis for sheets along the wire. The press section, which removes much of the remaining water via a system of nips formed by rolls pressing against each other aided by press <a href="/wiki/Felt" title="Felt">felts</a> that support the sheet and absorb the pressed water. The dryer section of the paper machine, as its name suggests, dries the paper by way of a series of internally <a href="/wiki/Steam" title="Steam">steam</a>-heated cylinders that evaporate the moisture. Calenders are used to make the paper surface extra smooth and glossy. In practice calender rolls are normally placed vertically in a <i>stack</i>. </p> <div style="clear:both;" class=""></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Fourdrinier.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Fourdrinier.svg/880px-Fourdrinier.svg.png" decoding="async" width="880" height="326" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Fourdrinier.svg/1320px-Fourdrinier.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Fourdrinier.svg/1760px-Fourdrinier.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1750" data-file-height="648" /></a><figcaption>Diagram showing the sections of the Fourdrinier machine</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Forming_section_or_wet_end">Forming section or wet end</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Forming section or wet end"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Florida_Pulp_and_Paper_Company_mill,_Cantonment,_Florida.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Florida_Pulp_and_Paper_Company_mill%2C_Cantonment%2C_Florida.jpg/300px-Florida_Pulp_and_Paper_Company_mill%2C_Cantonment%2C_Florida.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="233" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Florida_Pulp_and_Paper_Company_mill%2C_Cantonment%2C_Florida.jpg/450px-Florida_Pulp_and_Paper_Company_mill%2C_Cantonment%2C_Florida.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a0/Florida_Pulp_and_Paper_Company_mill%2C_Cantonment%2C_Florida.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="465" /></a><figcaption> A worker inspecting wet, bleached wood pulp on an old-fashioned <a href="/wiki/Hollander_beater" title="Hollander beater">Hollander pulper</a> or "beater"</figcaption></figure> <p>From the machine chest stock is pumped to a head tank, commonly called a "head tank" or <i>stuff box</i>, whose purpose is to maintain a constant head (pressure) on the fiber slurry or <i>stock</i> as it feeds the basis weight valve. The stuff box also provides a means allowing air bubbles to escape. The consistency of the pulp slurry at the stuff box is in the 3% range. Flow from the stuff box is by gravity and is controlled by the basis weight valve on its way to the fan pump suction where it is injected into the main flow of water to the fan pump. The main flow of water pumped by the fan pump is from a whitewater chest or tank that collects all the water drained from the forming section of the paper machine. Before the fiber stream from the stuff box is introduced, the whitewater is very low in fiber content. The whitewater is constantly recirculated by the fan pump through the headbox and recollected from the wire pit and various other tanks and chests that receive drainage from the forming wire and vacuum assisted drainage from suction boxes and wet fiber web handling rolls. On the way to the head box the pulp slurry may pass through centrifugal cleaners, which remove heavy contaminants like sand, and screens, which break up fibre clumps and remove oversized debris. The fan pump ultimately feeds the headbox, whether or not any centrifugal cleaners or screens are present.<sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Machine_ops_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Machine_ops-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The purpose of the headbox is to create turbulence in order to keep the fibers from clumping together and to uniformly distribute the slurry across the width of the wire. Wood fibers have a tendency to attract one another, forming clumps, the effect being called flocculation. Flocculation is lessened by lowering consistency and or by agitating the slurry; however, de-flocculation becomes very difficult at much above 0.5% consistency. Minimizing the degree of flocculation when forming is important to physical <a href="/w/index.php?title=Properties_of_paper&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Properties of paper (page does not exist)">properties of paper</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The consistency in the headbox is typically under 0.4% for most paper grades, with longer fibres requiring lower consistency than short fibres. Higher consistency causes more fibres to be oriented in the <b>z</b> direction, while lower consistency promotes fibre orientation in the <b>x-y</b> direction. Higher consistency promotes higher calliper (thickness) and stiffness, lower consistency promotes higher tensile and some other strength properties and also improves formation (uniformity).<sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many sheet properties continue to improve down to below 0.1% consistency; however, this is an impractical amount of water to handle. (Most paper machine run a higher headbox consistency than optimum because they have been sped up over time without replacing the fan pump and headbox. There is also an economic trade off with high pumping costs for lower consistency). </p><p>The stock slurry, often called <i>white water</i> at this point, exits the head box through a rectangular opening of adjustable height called the <i>slice</i>, the white water stream being called the <i>jet</i> and it is pressurized on high speed machines so as to land gently on the moving fabric loop or <i>wire</i> at a speed typically between plus or minus 3% of the wire speed, called <i>rush</i> and <i>drag</i> respectively. Excessive <i>rush</i> or <i>drag</i> causes more orientation of fibres in the machine direction and gives differing physical properties in machine and cross directions; however, this phenomenon is not completely avoidable on Fourdrinier machines.<sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On lower speed machines at 700 feet per minute, gravity and the height of the stock in the headbox creates sufficient pressure to form the jet through the opening of the slice. The height of the stock is the head, which gives the headbox its name. The speed of the jet compared to the speed of the wire is known as the <i>jet-to-wire ratio</i>. When the jet-to-wire ratio is less than unity, the fibres in the stock become drawn out in the machine direction. On slower machines where sufficient liquid remains in the stock before draining out, the wire can be driven back and forth with a process known as <i>shake</i>. This provides some measure of randomizing the direction of the fibres and gives the sheet more uniform strength in both the machine and cross-machine directions. On fast machines, the stock does not remain on the wire in liquid form long enough and the long fibres line up with the machine. When the jet-to-wire ratio exceeds unity, the fibers tend to pile up in lumps.<sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The resulting variation in paper density provides the antique or parchment paper look. </p><p>Two large rolls typically form the ends of the drainage section, which is called the <i>drainage table</i>. The <i>breast roll</i> is located under the flow box, the jet being aimed to land on it at about the top centre. At the other end of the drainage table is the suction (<i>couch</i>) roll. The couch roll is a hollow shell, drilled with many thousands of precisely spaced holes of about 4 to 5 mm diameter. The hollow shell roll rotates over a stationary suction box, normally placed at the top centre or rotated just down machine. Vacuum is pulled on the suction box, which draws water from the web into the suction box. From the suction roll the sheet feeds into the press section.<sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Down machine from the suction roll, and at a lower elevation, is the <i>wire turning roll</i>. This roll is driven and pulls the wire around the loop. The wire turning roll has a considerable angle of wrap in order to grip the wire.<sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ultrasonic_foil.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ultrasonic_foil.JPG/220px-Ultrasonic_foil.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ultrasonic_foil.JPG/330px-Ultrasonic_foil.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ultrasonic_foil.JPG/440px-Ultrasonic_foil.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Ultrasonic foil installed under the wire on a paper machine</figcaption></figure> <p>Supporting the wire in the drainage table area are a number of drainage elements. In addition to supporting the wire and promoting drainage, the elements de-flocculate the sheet. On low speed machines these table elements are primarily <i>table rolls</i>. As speed increases the suction developed in the nip of a table roll increases and at high enough speed the wire snaps back after leaving the vacuum area and causes stock to jump off the wire, disrupting the formation. To prevent this drainage foils are used. The foils are typically sloped between zero and two or three degrees and give a more gentle action. Where rolls and foils are used, rolls are used near the headbox and foils further down machine.<sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_8-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ultrasonic foils can also be used, creating millions of pressure pulses from imploding <a href="/wiki/Cavitation" title="Cavitation">cavitation</a> bubbles which keep the fibres apart, giving them a more uniform distribution. </p><p>Approaching the dry line on the table are located low vacuum boxes that are drained by a barometric leg under gravity pressure. After the dry line are the suction boxes with applied vacuum. Suction boxes extend up to the couch roll. At the couch the sheet consistency should be about 25%.<sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_8-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TAPPI_Wet_End_Ops-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Variations_of_the_Fourdrinier_forming_section">Variations of the Fourdrinier forming section</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Variations of the Fourdrinier forming section"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The forming section type is usually based on the grade of paper or paperboard being produced; however, many older machines use a less than optimum design. Older machines can be upgraded to include more appropriate forming sections. </p><p>A <b>second headbox</b> may be added to a conventional fourdrinier to put a different fibre blend on top of a base layer. A <i>secondary headbox</i> is normally located at a point where the base sheet is completely drained. This is not considered a separate ply because the water action does a good job of intermixing the fibers of the top and bottom layer. Secondary headboxes are common on <a href="/wiki/Linerboard" class="mw-redirect" title="Linerboard">linerboard</a>. </p><p>A modification to the basic Fourdrinier table by adding a second wire on top of the drainage table is known as a <b>top wire former</b>. The bottom and top wires converge and some drainage is up through the top wire. A top wire improves formation and also gives more drainage, which is useful for machines that have been sped up. </p><p>The <b>Twin Wire Machine</b> or <b>Gap former</b> uses two vertical wires in the forming section, thereby increasing the de-watering rate of the fibre slurry while also giving uniform two sidedness.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There are also machines with entire Fourdrinier sections mounted above a traditional Fourdrinier. This allows making multi-layer paper with special characteristics. These are called <b>top Fourdriniers</b> and they make multi-ply paper or <a href="/wiki/Paperboard" title="Paperboard">paperboard</a>. Commonly this is used for making a top layer of bleached fibre to go over an unbleached layer. </p><p>Another type forming section is the <b>cylinder mould machine</b> invented by <a href="/wiki/John_Dickinson_(inventor)" title="John Dickinson (inventor)">John Dickinson</a> in 1809, originally as a competitor to the Fourdrinier machine.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This machine uses a mesh-covered rotating cylinder partially immersed in a tank of fibre slurry in the wet end to form a paper web, giving a more random distribution of the <a href="/wiki/Cellulose" title="Cellulose">cellulose</a> fibres. Cylinder machines can form a sheet at higher consistency, which gives a more three dimensional fibre orientation than lower consistencies, resulting in higher caliper (thickness) and more stiffness in the machine direction (MD). High MD stiffness is useful in food packaging like cereal boxes and other boxes like dry laundry detergent. </p><p><b>Tissue machines</b> typically form the paper web between a wire and a special fabric (felt) as they wrap around a forming roll. The web is pressed from the felt directly onto a large diameter dryer called a <i>yankee</i>. The paper sticks to the yankee dryer and is peeled off with a scraping blade called a <i>doctor</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tissue_paper" title="Tissue paper">Tissue</a> machines operate at speeds of up to 2000 m/min. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Press_section">Press section</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Press section"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e9/Paper_machine.ogv/220px--Paper_machine.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="165" data-durationhint="134" data-mwtitle="Paper_machine.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Paper_machine.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e9/Paper_machine.ogv/Paper_machine.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="320" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Paper_machine.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"" data-width="320" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e9/Paper_machine.ogv/Paper_machine.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="320" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e9/Paper_machine.ogv/Paper_machine.ogv.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="192" data-height="144" /></video></span><figcaption>Paper machine</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Granite_Press_Roll.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Granite_Press_Roll.JPG/220px-Granite_Press_Roll.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Granite_Press_Roll.JPG/330px-Granite_Press_Roll.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Granite_Press_Roll.JPG/440px-Granite_Press_Roll.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2169" data-file-height="1446" /></a><figcaption>Granite press roll at a granite quarry site</figcaption></figure> <p>The second section of the paper machine is the press section, which removes much of the remaining water via a system of nips formed by rolls pressing against each other aided by press <a href="/wiki/Felt" title="Felt">felts</a> that support the sheet and absorb the pressed water. The paper web consistency leaving the press section can be above 40%.<sup id="cite_ref-Technical_Association_for_the_Pulp_and_Paper_Industry_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Technical_Association_for_the_Pulp_and_Paper_Industry-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pressing is the second most efficient method of de-watering the sheet (behind free drainage in the forming section) as only mechanical action is required. </p><p>The number of press rolls, their arrangement and the arrangement and type of felts used are influenced by the grades of paper being produced and the desired operational characteristics of the machine.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Press felts historically were made from wool. However, today they are nearly 100% synthetic. They are made up of a <a href="/wiki/Polyamide" title="Polyamide">polyamide</a> woven fabric with thick batt applied in a specific design to maximise water absorption. </p><p>Presses can be single or double felted. A single felted press has a felt on one side and a smooth roll on the other. A double felted press has both sides of the sheet in contact with a press felt. Single felted nips are useful when mated against a smooth roll (usually in the top position), which adds a two-sidedness—making the top side appear smoother than the bottom. Double felted nips impart roughness on both sides of the sheet. Double felted presses are desirable for the first press section of heavy paperboard. </p><p>Simple press rolls can be rolls with grooved or <a href="/wiki/Blind_hole" class="mw-redirect" title="Blind hole">blind drilled</a> surface. More advanced press rolls are suction rolls. These are rolls with perforated shell and cover. The shell made of metal material such as bronze or stainless steel is covered with rubber or a synthetic material. Both shell and cover are drilled throughout the surface. A stationary suction box is fitted in the core of the suction roll to support the shell being pressed. <a href="/wiki/End_face_mechanical_seal" class="mw-redirect" title="End face mechanical seal">End face mechanical seals</a> are used for the interface between the inside surface of the shell and the suction box. For the smooth rolls, they are typically made of granite rolls.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The granite rolls can be up to 30-foot (9.1 m) long and 6 feet (1.8 m) in diameter.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Conventional roll presses are configured with one of the press rolls is in a fixed position, with a mating roll being loaded against this fixed roll. The felts run through the nips of the press rolls and continues around a felt run, normally consisting of several felt rolls. During the dwell time in the nip, the moisture from the sheet is transferred to the press felt. When the press felt exits the nip and continues around, a vacuum box known as an Uhle Box applies vacuum (normally -60 kPa) to the press felt to remove the moisture so that when the felt returns to the nip on the next cycle, it does not add moisture to the sheet. </p><p>Some grades of paper use suction pick up rolls that use vacuum to transfer the sheet from the couch to a lead in felt on the first press or between press sections. Pickup roll presses normally have a vacuum box that has two vacuum zones (low vacuum and high vacuum). These rolls have a large number of drilled holes in the cover to allow the vacuum to pass from the stationary vacuum box through the rotating roll covering. The low vacuum zone picks up the sheet and transfers, while the high vacuum zone attempts to remove moisture. Unfortunately, at high enough speed <a href="/wiki/Centrifugal_force" title="Centrifugal force">centrifugal force</a> flings out vacuumed water, making this less effective for dewatering. Pickup presses also have standard felt runs with Uhle boxes. However, pickup press design is quite different, as air movement is important for the pickup and dewatering facets of its role. </p><p>Crown Controlled Rolls (also known as CC Rolls) are usually the mating roll in a press arrangement. They have <a href="/wiki/Hydraulics" title="Hydraulics">hydraulic</a> cylinders in the press rolls that ensure that the roll does not bow. The cylinders connect to a shoe or multiple shoes to keep the crown on the roll flat, to counteract the natural "bend" in the roll shape due to applying load to the edges. </p><p>Extended Nip Presses (or ENP) are a relatively modern alternative to conventional roll presses. The top roll is usually a standard roll, while the bottom roll is actually a large CC roll with an extended shoe curved to the shape of the top roll, surrounded by a rotating rubber belt rather than a standard roll cover. The goal of the ENP is to extend the dwell time of the sheet between the two rolls thereby maximising the de-watering. Compared to a standard roll press that achieves up to 35% solids after pressing, an ENP brings this up to 45% and higher—delivering significant steam savings or speed increases. ENPs densify the sheet, thus increasing tensile strength and some other physical properties. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dryer_section">Dryer section</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Dryer section"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Papermaking_machine_at_a_paper_mill_near_Pensacola.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Papermaking_machine_at_a_paper_mill_near_Pensacola.jpg/300px-Papermaking_machine_at_a_paper_mill_near_Pensacola.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Papermaking_machine_at_a_paper_mill_near_Pensacola.jpg/450px-Papermaking_machine_at_a_paper_mill_near_Pensacola.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0f/Papermaking_machine_at_a_paper_mill_near_Pensacola.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="468" /></a><figcaption> Dryer section of an older Fourdrinier-style paper-making machine. These narrow, small diameter dryers are not enclosed by a hood, dating the photo to before the 1970s.</figcaption></figure> <p>The dryer section of the paper machine, as its name suggests, dries the paper by way of a series of internally <a href="/wiki/Steam" title="Steam">steam</a>-heated cylinders that evaporate the moisture. Steam pressures may range up to 160 psig. Steam enters the end of the dryer head (cylinder cap) through a steam joint and condensate exits through a siphon that goes from the internal shell to a centre pipe. From the centre pipe the condensate exits through a joint on the dryer head. Wide machines require multiple siphons. In faster machines, centrifugal force holds the condensate layer still against the shell and turbulence generating bars are typically used to agitate the condensate layer and improve heat transfer.<sup id="cite_ref-Technical_Association_for_the_Pulp_and_Paper_Industry_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Technical_Association_for_the_Pulp_and_Paper_Industry-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The sheet is usually held against the dryers by long felt loops on the top and bottom of each dryer section. The felts greatly improve heat transfer. Dryer felts are made of coarse thread and have a very open weave that is almost see through, It is common to have the first bottom dryer section unfelted to dump broke on the basement floor during sheet breaks or when threading the sheet. </p><p>Paper dryers are typically arranged in groups called <i>sections</i> so that they can be run at a progressively slightly slower speed to compensate for sheet shrinkage as the paper dries. Some grades of paper may also stretch as they run through the machine, requiring increasing speed between sections. The gaps between sections are called <i>draws</i>. </p><p>The drying sections are usually enclosed to conserve heat. Heated air is usually supplied to the pockets where the sheet breaks contact with the driers. This increases the rate of drying. The pocket ventilating tubes have slots along their entire length that face into the pocket. The dryer hoods are usually exhausted with a series of roof mounted hood exhausts fans down the dryer section. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Size_Press">Size Press</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Size Press"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Additional <a href="/wiki/Sizing" title="Sizing">sizing</a> agents, including <a href="/wiki/Resin" title="Resin">resins</a>, <a href="/wiki/Glue" class="mw-redirect" title="Glue">glue</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Starch" title="Starch">starch</a>, can be added to the web to alter its characteristics. <a href="/wiki/Sizing" title="Sizing">Sizing</a> improves the paper's water resistance, decreases its ability to fuzz, reduces abrasiveness, and improves its printing properties and surface bond strength. These may be applied at the wet (internal sizing) or on the dry end (surface sizing), or both. At the dry end sizing is usually applied with a <i>size press</i>. The size press may be a roll applicator (flooded nip) or Nozzle applicator . It is usually placed before the last dryer section. Some paper machines also make use of a 'coater' to apply a <a href="/wiki/Coated_paper" title="Coated paper">coating</a> of <a href="/wiki/Fillers" class="mw-redirect" title="Fillers">fillers</a> such as <a href="/wiki/Calcium_carbonate" title="Calcium carbonate">calcium carbonate</a> or <a href="/wiki/China_clay" class="mw-redirect" title="China clay">china clay</a> usually suspended in a binder of cooked starch and <a href="/wiki/Styrene-butadiene" title="Styrene-butadiene">styrene-butadiene</a> latex. Coating produces a very smooth, bright surface with the highest printing qualities. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-W1015-015,_Technitz,_Schreibpapier_AROS_aus_Altrohstoffen.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-W1015-015%2C_Technitz%2C_Schreibpapier_AROS_aus_Altrohstoffen.jpg/260px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-W1015-015%2C_Technitz%2C_Schreibpapier_AROS_aus_Altrohstoffen.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-W1015-015%2C_Technitz%2C_Schreibpapier_AROS_aus_Altrohstoffen.jpg/390px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-W1015-015%2C_Technitz%2C_Schreibpapier_AROS_aus_Altrohstoffen.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-W1015-015%2C_Technitz%2C_Schreibpapier_AROS_aus_Altrohstoffen.jpg/520px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-W1015-015%2C_Technitz%2C_Schreibpapier_AROS_aus_Altrohstoffen.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="578" /></a><figcaption>Paper leaving the machine is rolled onto a <i>reel</i> for further processing.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Calender_section">Calender section</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Calender section"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Calender" title="Calender">Calender</a></div> <p>A <a href="/wiki/Calender" title="Calender">calender</a> consists of two or more rolls, where pressure is applied to the passing paper. Calenders are used to make the paper surface extra smooth and glossy. It also gives it a more uniform thickness. The pressure applied to the web by the rollers determines the finish of the paper. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reel_section">Reel section</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Reel section"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After calendering, the web has a moisture content of about 6% (depending on the furnish). The paper is wound onto metal spools using a large cylinder called a <i>reel drum</i>. Constant nip pressure is maintained between the reel drum and the spool, allowing the resulting friction to spin the spool. Paper runs over the top of the reel drum and is wound onto the spool to create a <i>master roll</i>. </p><p>To be able to keep the paper machine running continuously, the reel must be able to quickly switch from winding a finished roll to an empty spool without stopping the flow of paper. To accomplish this, each reel section will have two or more spools rotating through the process. Using an overhead crane, empty spools will be loaded onto two <i>primary arms</i> above the reel drum. When the master roll reaches its maximum diameter, the arms will lower the new spool into contact with the reel drum and a machine behind the drum will run a tape along the moving sheet of paper, swiftly tearing it and attaching incoming paper onto the new spool. The spool is then lowered onto the <i>secondary arms</i>, which steadily guide the spool away from the reel drum as the diameter of paper on the spool increases. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Roll_hardness_tester" title="Roll hardness tester">roll hardness</a> should be checked, obtained and adjusted accordingly to insure that the roll hardness is within the acceptable range for the product. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Winder_section">Winder section</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Winder section"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reels of paper wound up at the end of the drying process are the full trimmed width, minus shrinkage from drying, of the web leaving the wire. In the winder section reels of paper are slit into smaller rolls of a width and roll diameter range specified by a customer order. To accomplish this the reel is placed on an unwind stand and the distances between the slitters (sharp cutting wheels), are adjusted to the specified widths for the orders. The winder is run until the desired roll diameter is reached and the rolls are labeled according to size and order before being sent to shipping or the warehouse. 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Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">January 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>broke</b>: waste paper made during the paper making process, either made during a sheet break or trimmings. It is gathered up and put in a repulper for recycling back into the process. </p><p><b>consistency</b>: the percent dry fiber in a pulp slurry. </p><p><b>couch</b>: French meaning <i>to lie down</i>. Following the couch roll the sheet is lifted off the wire and transferred into the press section. </p><p><b>dandy roll</b>: a mesh covered hollow roll that rides on top of the Fourdrinier. It breaks up fiber clumps to improve the sheet formation and can also be used to make an imprint, as with <a href="/wiki/Laid_paper" title="Laid paper">laid paper</a>. See also <a href="/wiki/Watermark" title="Watermark">watermark</a>. </p><p><b>fan pump</b>: the large pump that circulates white water from the white water chest to the headbox. The pump is a special low pulse design that minimizes the effect of vane pulses which would cause uneven basis weight of paper in the machine direction known as <i>barring</i>. The flow from the fan pump may go through screens and cleaners, if used. On large paper machines fan pumps may be rated in tens of thousands of gallons per minute. </p><p><b>felt</b>: a loop of fabric or synthetic material that goes between press rolls and serves as a place to receive the pressed out water. Felts also support the wet paper web and guide it through the press section. Felts are also used in the dryer section to keep the sheet in close contact with the dryers and increase heat transfer. </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/Filler_(materials)" title="Filler (materials)">filler</a></b>: a finely divided substance added to paper in the forming process. Fillers improve print quality, brightness and opacity. The most common fillers are clay and calcium carbonate. Titanium dioxide is a filler but also improves brightness and opacity. Use of calcium carbonate filler is the commonly used in alkaline papermaking, while kaolin clay is prevalent in acidic papermaking. Alkaline paper has superior ageing properties. </p><p><b>formation</b>: the degree of uniformity of fiber distribution in finished paper, which is easily seen by holding paper up to the light. </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/Headbox" class="mw-redirect" title="Headbox">headbox</a></b>: the pressure chamber where turbulence is applied to break up fiber clumps in the slurry. The main job of the headbox is to distribute the fiber slurry uniformly across the wire. </p><p><b>nip</b>: the contact area where two opposing rolls meet, such as in a press or calender. </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/PH" title="PH">pH</a></b>: the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a solution. Alkaline paper has a very long life. Acid paper deteriorates over time, which caused libraries to either take conservation measures or replace many older books. </p><p><b><a href="/wiki/Sizing" title="Sizing">size</a></b>: a chemical or starch, applied to paper to retard the rate of water penetration. Sizing prevents <i>bleeding</i> of ink during printing, improving the sharpness of printing. </p><p><b>slice</b>: the adjustable rectangular orifice, usually at the bottom of the headbox, through which the whitewater jet discharges onto the wire. The slice opening and water pressure together determine the amount and velocity of whitewater flow through the slice. The slice usually has some form of adjustment mechanism to even out the paper weight profile across the machine (CD profile), although a newer method is to inject water into the whitewater across the headbox slice area, thereby using localized consistency to control CD weight profile. </p><p><b>stock</b>: a pulp slurry that has been processed in the stock preparation area with necessary additives, refining and pH adjustment and ready for making paper </p><p><b>web</b>: the continuous flow of un-dried fiber from the couch roll down the paper machine </p><p><b>white water</b>: filtrate from the drainage table. The white water from the table is usually stored in a white water chest from which it is pumped by the fan pump to the headbox. </p><p><b>wire</b>: the woven mesh fabric loop that is used for draining the pulp slurry from the headbox. Until the 1970s bronze wires were used but now they are woven from coarse mono-filament synthetics similar to fishing line but very stiff. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Materials">Materials</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Materials"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Stainless steels are used extensively in the <a href="/wiki/Pulp_and_paper_industry" title="Pulp and paper industry">Pulp and Paper industry</a><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for two primary reasons, to avoid iron contamination of the product and their corrosion resistance to the various chemicals used in the paper making process. 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Also, varying pressure of the consistency control dilution water will introduce swings in consistency. This can be and should be verified for any particular system using dynamic material balance software. Run model by creating a sharp consistency change ≈½% and observe system stability.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Paper_machine&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width reflist-columns-2"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hills, Richard, "Papermaking in Britain 1488–1988", Athlone Press, 1988.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Bidwell-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bidwell_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bidwell_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBidwell2013" class="citation book cs1">Bidwell, John (2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.upne.com/1584659648.html"><i>American Paper Mills, 1690–1832: A Directory of the Paper Trade with Notes...</i></a> Dartmouth College Press. pp. <span class="nowrap">154–</span>155. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-58465-964-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-58465-964-8"><bdi>978-1-58465-964-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=American+Paper+Mills%2C+1690%E2%80%931832%3A+A+Directory+of+the+Paper+Trade+with+Notes...&rft.pages=%3Cspan+class%3D%22nowrap%22%3E154-%3C%2Fspan%3E155&rft.pub=Dartmouth+College+Press&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-1-58465-964-8&rft.aulast=Bidwell&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.upne.com%2F1584659648.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3APaper+machine" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HAER_NJ-6-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HAER_NJ-6_3-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation journal cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cdn.loc.gov/master/pnp/habshaer/nj/nj0100/nj0180/data/nj0180data.pdf">"Historic American Engineering Record Essex Mill NJ-6"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>National American Engineering Record</i>. 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