Paper web width adjustment device

A paper web width adjustment device comprising:

• one or more pressing members provided in a rotatable manner for making contact with surfaces of a traveling paper web and creating ripples in the paper web and having a plurality of contact points provided integrally so as to be spaced mutually at intervals along the widthwise direction of the paper web;
• support shafts for supporting the pressing members in a rotatable manner;
• ripple adjustment means capable of moving the support shafts towards and away from the surfaces of the paper web;
• and
• pressing member rotational drive means for, in cooperation with the pressing members, rotatably driving the pressing members collectively,
• wherein at least one of the pressing members is capable of moving towards and away from a surface of the paper web, and the rotational speed of the peripheral surfaces of the contact points of the pressing members can be rotatably driven at different speeds to the speed of travel of the paper web,
• wherein two pressing members are provided facing each other on either side of the paper web,
• wherein the ripple adjustment means comprises eccentric sleeves fitted in a fixed manner to the ends of the support shafts, and a drive transmission mechanism capable of angularly displacing the eccentric sleeves, being provided in such a manner that central lines of rotation of the pressing members provided to the support shafts in a rotatable manner and central lines of angular displacement of the eccentric sleeves are spaced from each other and are parallel to each other, with the eccentric sleeves being angularly displaced about the center line of angular displacement by the drive transmission means, and with the ripple adjustment means being capable of deciding the positioning of the pressing members with respect to the paper web.