Device for spreading and distributing particles on a material web
AssigneeValmet Fibertech Aktiebolag
InventorsLennart Gustavsson, Lars Nilsson
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Abstract
Apparatus is disclosed for spreading and distributing particles such as glue-coated wood fibers onto a moving web including rotatable axles disposed transverse to the direction of movement of the moving web with each axle including a number of distributors rotatable with the axles and disposed generally obliquely with respect to the axes of the axles, each of the axles disposed at successively increasing heights from the moving web in its direction of movement whereby each of the distributors extends into the wood fiber particles comprising the moving web and distributes the particles across the moving web.
Claims17
Apparatus for spreading and distributing particles onto a moving web of said particles carried by a moving belt and moving in a predetermined direction, said apparatus comprising a plurality of rotatable axles disposed transverse to said predetermined direction, each of said plurality of rotatable axles including a plurality of distributors rotatable with said corresponding plurality of rotatable axles and disposed generally obliquely with respect to said plurality of rotatable axles, each of said plurality of rotatable axles disposed at successively increasing heights from said moving web in said predetermined direction, whereby each of said plurality of distributors extends into said particles comprising said moving web and distributes said particles across said moving web.
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