DRYING SECTION FOR A PAPERMAKING MACHINE AND ASSOCIATED APPARATUS AND METHOD

摘要

A drying section for a papermaking machine includes an initial dryer having a rotatable through-air drying cylinder for providing initial drying of a wet paper web entering the drying section, and a fabric for receiving the web. The fabric is configured to receive the web at a web receiving point and to advance the web at least partially about the cylinder in a rotational direction from an inlet to an outlet, the angular distance between the inlet and the outlet defining a wrap angle. A roll disposed adjacent to the cylinder defines the inlet. The roll is also disposed upstream with respect to the rotational direction from a tangent to the cylinder, wherein the tangent is defined by an engagement between the fabric and the cylinder absent the roll, to increase the wrap angle about the cylinder with respect to the tangent. Associated apparatuses and methods are also provided.