Claims
- 1. Screen for fiber suspensions having a shape which is essentially rotationally symmetrical in relation to a screen axis, with a first and a second circumferential side, one of which forms an inlet side and the other an outlet side of the screen for the fiber suspension, with a series of straight profiled bars arranged at spacings from one another in the circumferential direction of the screen, extending transversely to the circumferential direction of the screen and forming slot-shaped screen openings of identical width between them, the cross sections of the profiled bars each having an elongate shape with a first end region facing away from the second circumferential side of the screen and a second end region facing away from the first circumferential side of the screen, and with several ring-shaped profiled bar supports arranged at spacings from one another in the direction of the screen axis and lying in planes extending perpendicularly to the screen axis, each of the profiled bar supports having in its first edge region facing away from the second circumferential side of the screen a series of cutouts opening towards the first circumferential side of the screen, the shape of the cutouts—viewed in the direction of the screen axis—corresponding to the configuration of the second cross-sectional end regions of the profiled bars lying in these cutouts, and forming at a radial spacing from the first edge of the profiled bar support facing the first circumferential side of the screen an undercut in which a projection of the profiled bar cross section engages so that the profiled bars are held positively in a radial direction in relation to the screen axis and in the circumferential direction of the screen with their second cross-sectional end regions in the profiled bar support cutouts, with the profiled bars preferably projecting with their first cross-sectional end regions in a radial direction over the first edges of the profiled bar supports, wherein the second cross-sectional end region of each profiled bar has for each profiled bar support a recess which decreases the width of the second cross-sectional end region measured in the circumferential direction of the screen, and the recesses of each profiled bar are arranged at spacings from one another corresponding to the spacings of the profiled bar supports and are located outside the profiled bar supports in the finished screen, and wherein the profiled bar recesses are of such configuration that the areas of the second cross-sectional end regions of the profiled bars provided with these recesses are insertable transversely to the longitudinal direction of the pertinent profiled bar into the profiled bar support cutouts at least without any substantial plastic deformation of the profiled bar supports and/or the profiled bars.
- 2. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the profiled bar recesses are of such configuration that the areas of the profiled bars provided with these recesses are insertable transversely to the longitudinal direction of the pertinent profiled bar into the profiled bar support cutouts without any deformation of the profiled bar supports and/or the profiled bars.
- 3. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein in the finished screen all profiled bar recesses are arranged immediately adjacent to the profiled bar supports.
- 4. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the length of the profiled bar recesses measured in the longitudinal direction of the profiled bars is at least the same size as the thickness of the profiled bar supports measured in the direction of the screen axis.
- 5. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the length of the profiled bar recesses measured in the longitudinal direction of the profiled bars is approximately the same size as the thickness of the profiled bar supports measured in the direction of the screen axis.
- 6. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein in a section through a profiled bar extending perpendicularly to the screen axis and through the center of a profiled bar recess the second cross-sectional end region of the profiled bar is delimited by two flanks of the profiled bar extending approximately parallel to one another and approximately perpendicularly to the circumferential direction of the screen.
- 7. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein in a section through a profiled bar extending perpendicularly to the screen axis and through the center of a profiled bar recess the maximum width of the second cross-sectional end region of the profiled bar measured in the circumferential direction of the screen is approximately equal to the minimum width of the cutout of the profiled bar support also measured in the circumferential direction of the screen.
- 8. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the profiled bars are drawn bars and the profiled bar recesses are milled or ground.
- 9. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the profiled bar supports have such deformed areas at the side of the profiled bars facing the second circumferential side of the screen that as a result of a displacement of profiled bar support material in the direction towards the first circumferential side of the screen the profiled bar projections are pressed in this direction against the undercuts of the profiled bar support cutouts.
- 10. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the profiled bars and the profiled bar supports are metallic.
- 11. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the screen is cylindrical or conical.
- 12. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the first circumferential side of the screen forms its inlet side for the fiber suspension.
- 13. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the inner circumferential side of the screen forms its inlet side.
- 14. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein all profiled bars have the same cross-sectional shape, all profiled bar support cutouts have the same configuration, and all profiled bar recesses have the same shape.
- 15. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the first cross-sectional end regions of the profiled bars are of such configuration that they generate microturbulences in a fiber suspension circulating at the inlet side of the screen.
- 16. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein—viewed in the direction of the screen axis—the undercut of the profiled bar support cutouts forms at that side of the profiled bar support cutout constriction formed by the undercut which faces the second circumferential side of the screen a flank which is inclined in relation to a diameter plane of the screen running through this constriction at such an acute angle (α) opening towards the second circumferential side of the screen that self-locking occurs between this flank and a flank of the profiled bar projection pressed against this flank.
- 17. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the second end region of the profiled bar cross section is of approximately club-shaped configuration.
- 18. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the first end region of the profiled bar cross section is of approximately mushroom-head-shaped configuration with flanks facing the second circumferential side of the screen and forming stops cooperating with the first edge of the pertinent profiled bar support.
- 19. Screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the stability of the profiled bar material is greater than the stability of the profiled bar support material.
- 20. Method for the manufacture of a screen in accordance with claim 1, wherein the profiled bars are inserted with their areas provided with the recesses into the cutouts of the profiled bar supports in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the profiled bars, and the profiled bar supports and the profiled bars are then displaced relative to one another in the longitudinal direction of the profiled bars such that the profiled bar recesses lie outside of the profiled bar supports and the second cross-sectional end regions of the profiled bars lie at least substantially free of play in the profiled bar support cutouts.
- 21. Method in accordance with claim 20, wherein with the profiled bar recesses lying outside the profiled bar supports, the profiled bar supports are made to undergo such plastic deformation at the side of the profiled bars facing away from the first edges of the profiled bar supports that as a result of a displacement of profiled bar support material in the direction towards the first edges of the profiled bar supports, the profiled bar projections are pressed in this direction against the undercuts formed by the profiled bar support cutouts.
- 22. Method in accordance with claim 20, wherein the profiled bar supports are only bent into closed rings after insertion of the profiled bars into the profiled bar support cutouts and displacement of the profiled bars and the profiled bar supports relative to one another.
- 23. Method in accordance with claim 21, wherein the plastic deformation of the profiled bar supports causing the displacement of material is carried out on the ring-shaped profiled bar supports.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of International Application No. PCT/EP00/01385, with an International filing date of Feb. 19, 2000, published in German under PCT Article 21(2) which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety and for all purposes.
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