Claims
- 1. The method of operating pressure type screening apparatus for screening particles from a liquid including a screen member having an inlet screening surface and an outlet surface, comprising the steps of continuously varying the fluid pressure on the inlet surface of said screen member from a maximum to a minimum and simultaneously varying the fluid pressure on the outlet surface of said screen member from a minimum to a maximum at a repetitive cycle rate and amplitude such that a flow reversal occurs through the screen member nominally one time for each such cycle, said foregoing steps being accomplished by pressure pulses generated only by the fluid entering the inlet of said pressure screen and only by pressure pulses generated at the outlet of said pressure screen wherein the pressure pulses are sufficient to create a flow reversal at the surface of the screen.
- 2. The method of preventing the formation of a fiber mat on an inlet surface of a screen member in pressure screening apparatus for screening papermakers' stock in which the screen member has an inlet surface and an outlet surface, comprising the steps of applying a pulsating pressure to the stock in said pressure screen causing a pulsating pressure at said screen member outlet surface, such pulsating pressures being applied out-of-phase with each other such that discreet intervals of pressure reversals are caused across the screen member between the inlet and outlet surfaces during which any fiber mat that tends to form on the inlet surface is disrupted or fluidized, said foregoing steps being accomplished by pressure pulses generated only by fluid entering an inlet of said pressure screen and only by pressure pulses generated at an outlet of said pressure screen wherein the pressure pulses are sufficient to create a flow reversal at the surface of the screen.
- 3. The method of claim 2 in which said pulsating pressures are applied such that the pressure reversals last for a shorter period of time than the times in which the pressure across the screen member is not reversed.
- 4. A method of claim 2 in which said pressure screening apparatus has an inlet for feeding papermakers' stock into the interior of said pressure screening apparatus and has an accepts outlet in which screened stock passes from the interior of said pressure screening apparatus, in which said pulsating pressures are applied respectively at said inlet and said outlet.
- 5. The method of claim 2 in which said pulsating pressures are approximately 180° out of phase with each other.
- 6. a method of operating a pressure-type screening apparutus for screening a suspension of paper fibers in liquid including a screen member in said apparatus defining therein an inlet chamber on one side of said screen member and an accepts chamber on an oppiste side of said screen member, comprising the steps of continuously and cyclically varying the pressure in said inlet chamber from a maximum to minimum and simultaneously continuously varying the pressure in said accepts chamber from a minimum to a maximum at a common repetitve cyclic rate, in which the amplitude of said continuously varying pressures, at least during a portion of each cycle, causes a pressure reversal across said screen member for disrupting any mat of paper fibers that has formed on the screen inlet surface, thereby maintaining the fibers in a fluidized condition in said inlet chamber, said foregoing steps being accomplished by pressure pulses generated only by fluid entering an inlet of said pressure screen and only by pressure pulses generated at an outlet of said pressure screen wherin the pressure pulses are suffient to create a flow reversal at the surface of the screen.
- 7. Pressure screening apparatus for screening a suspension of papermakers' fibers in a liquid comprising a housing having an inlet for applying said suspension to a screen in said housing for said suspension at a positive pressure, said screening apparatus further having an outlet through which stock suspension passing through said screen is removed from said housing, a cyclical pressure impulse generator connected to apply a continuously varying pressure through said housing inlet, and a further cyclical pressure impulse generator connected to apply a continuously varying pressure through said outlet, said generators at least a portion of the time providing an out-of-phase pressure impulse across said screen sufficient to cause periodic pressure reversals across said screen.
- 8. The apparatus of claim 7 in which said pressure generators provide substantially sinusoidal pressure waves at substantially the same frequency but substantially out-of-phase with each other.
- 9. Pressure screen apparatus for screening a suspension of papermakers' fibers in a liquid comprising a housing having an inlet for applying said suspension to an inlet surface of a screen in said housing at a positive pressure, said screening apparatus further having an outlet for removing said suspension from said housing through an outlet surface of said screen, a plurality of individual non-rotating foils in an offset relation to the inlet surface of the screen said non-rotating foils defining a plurality of flow channels to direct said suspension to said inlet surface of said screen, said apparatus further comprising a first means for creating pressure pulses and a second means for creating pressure pulses said first and second means associated to create flow reversal of said suspension at the inlet and outlet surface of the screen.
Parent Case Info
This application is a 371 PCT/US99/04660 filed Mar. 4, 1990, which claims benefit of 60/077,533 filed Mar. 11, 1998.
PCT Information
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PCT/US99/04660 |
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Publishing Document |
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WO99/46026 |
9/16/1999 |
WO |
A |
US Referenced Citations (14)
Provisional Applications (1)
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60/077533 |
Mar 1998 |
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