ROBERT LYNN BERAN
Engineers in Covington, VA

5284551, Feb 8, 1994

Oct 23, 1992

7/965007

Robert L. Beran - Covington VA
Stephen Nicholson - Covington VA
Mark A. Taylor - Covington VA

Westvaco Corporation - New York NY

D21F 156

162353

To protect the paper machine fourdrinier screen, deckle blades are fabricated with a soft polymer (polytetrafluoroethylene) lower edge having little adhesive affinity for either papermaking fiber or traditional plastic bonding compounds. Necessary structural rigidity is contributed to the assembly by a mechanical cladding of suitably stiff polymer plates that are adhesively bonded to a compatible plastic mounting body.

4885060, Dec 5, 1989

Aug 3, 1988

7/228842

Robert L. Beran - Covington VA
John DeLigt - Covington VA

Westvaco Corporation - New York NY

D21F 102

162344

Flocs of papermaking fiber are dispersed by a multiplicity of white-water jets directed into a papermachine headbox prior to the slice opening. Jet direction is oriented counterflow to the papermaking stock slice flow to create maximum turbulence, fluid shear and energy dissipation. Such jets issue from nozzle orifices in the slice profiling bar and are supplied with fluid through a two-stage manifold system. To preserve vertical plane pliability of the conduit-connected profiling bar, section area of the profiling bar between nozzles is minimized. Self sealing, push fit, fluid conduit connections with the jet nozzle orifices are made with flexible conduits between a sectional bar type of intermediate header and the profiling bar.

6183128, Feb 6, 2001

May 3, 1999

9/304225

Robert Lynn Beran - Covington VA
James Arthur Rule - Lexington VA

Westvaco Corporation - New York NY

G01N 2518

374 44

This invention relates to an apparatus and method for determining paperboard thermal conductivity. Such structures of this type, generally, determine the thermal conductivity of a planar material, such as paperboard or insulating foams. The apparatus is designed to characterize the heat flow from a heated brass cylinder, through a flat paperboard sample, and into another brass cylinder. The brass cylinders are fully insulated, except at the sample interface. During the test, which is in a transient state, the hot mass loses energy, raising the temperature of the cooler mass as the two masses approach an intermediate equilibrium temperature. Knowing that the brass masses are fully insulated, except for the heat transfer interface, and knowing the physical properties of the masses, the only unknown in the mathematical model describing the experiment is the thermal conductivity, k, of the paperboard sample, which enables its determination.

5000227, Mar 19, 1991

Sep 27, 1989

7/413069

Robert L. Beran - Covington VA
John DeLigt - Covington VA

Westvaco Corporation - New York NY

D21F 102

138106

Flocs of papermaking fiber are dispersed by a multiplicity of white-water jets directed into a papermachine headbox prior to the slice opening. Jet direction is oriented counter-flow to the papermaking stock slice flow to create maximum turbulence, fluid shear and energy dissipation. Such jets issue from nozzle orifices in the slice profiling bar and are supplied with fluid through a two-stage manifold system. To preserve vertical plane pliability of the conduit-connected profiling bar, section area of the profiling bar between nozzles is minimized. Self sealing, push fit, fluid conduit connections with the jet nozzle orifices are made with flexible conduits between a sectional bar type of intermediate header and the profiling bar.

5404751, Apr 11, 1995

Jul 29, 1994

8/282550

Robert L. Beran - Covington VA
Steven P. Metzler - Covington VA

Westvaco Corporation - New York NY

G01N 324

73150A

This invention relates to an apparatus and method for measuring the peel strength of a paper joint which is adhesively bonded. Such structures of this type, generally, allow the peel strength of the adhesively bonded joint to be accurately and repeatably measured in an inexpensive manner.

6211470, Apr 3, 2001

Nov 22, 1999

9/444441

Robert Lynn Beran - Covington VA
David D. Mulligan - Covington VA
Lawrence Hoy James - Raleigh NC

Westvaco Corporation - New York NY

G01G 1114, B65G 4300, B65G 4700, D21F 1100, D21F 1300

177 16

This invention relates to a height measurement apparatus for determining volume/density of wood chips on a conveyor. Such structures of this type, generally, employ the use of contacts that ride on top of the pile of wood chips in order to more accurately measure the volume and density of the wood chips.

4968387, Nov 6, 1990

Jan 23, 1990

7/468764

Robert L. Beran - Covington VA
Ralph S. Peterson - Clifton Forge VA
William J. Thurston - Covington VA

Westvaco Corporation - New York NY

D21F 156

162353

The lateral edges of a papermachine forming fabric pond are contained by a deckle board having a bottom edge positioned above the forming fabric upper surface elements but below the fabric supported stock pond surface. Lateral edges of the forming fabric run under the deckle board and upon an edge support beam within an elongated fluid channel between the outside surfaces of the deckle board structure and the inside surfaces of the edge support beam. Fluid flow within the elongated fluid channel, preferably independent of the papermachine headbox slice opening, supplies the elongated fluid channel volume for a fluid barrier to pond stock loss under the deckle board bottom edge.

5298127, Mar 29, 1994

Oct 23, 1992

7/965006

Robert L. Beran - Covington VA

Westvaco Corporation - New York NY

D21F 156

162353

A paper machine deckle board is supported and protected from fiber accumulations by a multi-functional structure which adjustably positions the deckle board with an integrated flushing water conduit and film distribution fountain.