Steven M Monroe

US Patent:

8132338, Mar 13, 2012

Filed:

Apr 6, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/754656

Inventors:

Charles E. Deem - De Pere WI, US
Mark S. Hunter - Green Bay WI, US
Donald J. Hodkiewicz - Green Bay WI, US
Steven W. Monroe - Green Bay WI, US
Scott M. Thomson - Lena WI, US
Thomas H. Barrie - Green Bay WI, US
Timothy D. Jadin - Green Bay WI, US
Steven M. Gardner - De Pere WI, US
Scott L. Giannunzio - Oneida WI, US

Assignee:

Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP - Atlanta GA

International Classification:

F26B 3/02

US Classification:

34454, 34444, 34466, 34497, 162198, 162274

Abstract:

A paper machine configured as a swing machine capable of producing both light and heavy grades providing a Yankee hood split into a wet end half and a dry end half, at least one hood half being a flex-hood half wherein the supply for that half is capable of being run with either combustion heat or recycled heat and is capable of either recirculating the exhaust from the hood or discharging it to the atmosphere. The heater for the flex-hood half comprises both a primary combustion heat source and an indirect heat source capable of extracting by-product heat from another operation. The exhaust system for the flex hood half is capable of being run in either a straight through mode or in a recirculating mode.