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Paper Technology Journal 17 - Voith

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58<br />

Walter Blum<br />

<strong>Voith</strong> <strong>Paper</strong><br />

walter.blum@voith.com<br />

<strong>17</strong>/04<br />

DuoShake –<br />

continues to be successful<br />

The DuoShake has proven its potential<br />

and superiority on 70 paper machines<br />

worldwide – in the meantime, from China<br />

through Europe to North and South America.<br />

This extends over the entire bandwidth<br />

from low-speed machines to highspeed<br />

machines running at 1,200 m/min<br />

as well as at basis weights from 18 g/m 2<br />

to 550 g/m 2 .<br />

The advantage of the DuoShake over conventional<br />

shakes is mainly due to the fact<br />

that the DuoShake only transmits negligible<br />

centering and frictional forces to the<br />

foundation. Other shakes on the market<br />

do not have these advantages and support<br />

their shake rod force in the machine<br />

foundation. This means that extensive<br />

constructional measures are required to<br />

take up these forces. No special foundations<br />

are required for the DuoShake, except<br />

a steel base.<br />

The operating principle of the DuoShake<br />

permits shake frequencies that are not<br />

achievable with any conventional shake.<br />

Through this, distinctly measurable improvements<br />

in formation can be reached<br />

even at very high machine speeds.<br />

The shake characteristic number is calculated<br />

with the following formula:<br />

Frequency 2 x stroke<br />

Machine speed<br />

It has been found that, as a rule, the best<br />

results are reached at shake characteristic<br />

numbers from approx. 3,000 to 4,000.<br />

If a frequency of 280 strokes/minute and<br />

a stroke of 14 mm are now taken as a<br />

basis for a shake, this results, at a machine<br />

speed of v = 300 m/min, in a shake<br />

characteristic number of 3,659. However,<br />

if the machine speed is raised to v =<br />

1,000 m/min, this results in a shake characteristic<br />

number of only 1,098, which<br />

has hardly any influence on formation.<br />

With the DuoShake an excellent value at<br />

much higher shake frequencies is<br />

reached even at higher machine speeds.<br />

At a shake frequency of, for example,

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