Method and apparatus for calendering a paper or paperboard web

1. A method for calendering a paper or paperboard web, comprising the steps of:

calendering the web in a calender in a calendering step, followed by

reeling the web in a reeling step; and

wherein at least one edge area of the web is calendered in the reeling step separately from a remaining portion of the web.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the calendering of the edge areas of the web takes place in at least one calendering nip formed by a means guiding the web onto a roll, such as a reeling cylinder and a calendering roll.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein two calendering nips are provided, one for each edge area of the web.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the calendering nips are placed on substantially the same straight line intersecting the width of the web in the transverse direction, and that the calendering of both edge areas of the web takes place substantially simultaneously at both edges of the web.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the length of the calendering roll in its axial direction is at least equal to the width of said edge area of the web.

6. A device for calendering a paper or paperboard web comprising:

a calender;

a reel-up; and

means for calendering at least one edge area of the web separately from a remaining portion of the web in the reel-up.

7. The device according to claim 6 , wherein the means for calendering the edge areas of the web comprise a means for guiding the web onto a roll, such as a reeling cylinder and at least one calendering roll, which form at least one calendering nip.

8. The device according to claim 6 , wherein it comprises two calendering nips, one for each edge area of the web (W).

9. The device according to claim 8 , wherein the calendering nips are placed on substantially the same straight line intersecting the width of the web in the transverse direction, and that both edge areas of the web are calendered substantially simultaneously.

10. The device according to claim 6 , wherein the length of the calendering roll in its axial direction is at least equal to the width of the edge area of the web at said edge.

11. The device according to claim 6 , wherein the shell of the calendering roll is substantially cylindrical.

12. The device according to claim 6 , wherein the shell of the calendering roll is substantially conical.

13. A device for calendering a paper or paperboard web comprising:

a calender;

a reel-up positioned in web receiving relation with respect to the calender,

a machine reel in the reel-up, wherein the reel-up has at least one roll forming a nip with the machine reel, the at least one roll arranged to guide the web on to the machine reel and the web extending over said at least one roll;

wherein the web extending over said at least one roll has portions forming a first web edge and portions forming a second web edge, the first web edge and the second web edge defining therebetween a web center line;

at least one edge calendering roll forming a nip with said at least one roll, through which the portion of the web forming the first web edge extends; and

wherein the at least one edge calendering roll extends from a position between the web center line and the first edge to at least the first web edge.

14. The device of claim 13 , further comprising a wire or belt loop arranged to guide the web to the web roll, and wherein the at least one roll guides the wire or belt loop to pass through the nip which the at least one roll forms with the web roll.

15. The device of claim 13 wherein the at least one roll forming a nip with the web roll is a reeling cylinder having a rotatable surface forming the nip with the web roll, and wherein the reeling cylinder is equipped with a center drive.

16. The device of claim 13 further comprising a second edge calendering roll which forms a nip with said at least one roll, through which the portion of the web forming the second web edge extends.

17. The device of claim 15 wherein the at least one edge calendering roll has a conical shape having an end with a larger diameter and an end with a smaller diameter, and wherein the least one edge calendering roll is pressed against the web on the reeling cylinder so that the end of the roll with the larger diameter extends beyond the first edge of the web and rests in driving relation against the rotatable surface of the reeling cylinder.

18. The device of claim 15 wherein the at least one edge calendering roll is mounted for free rotation and wherein an actuator is arranged to press the at least one edge calendering roll against the reeling cylinder.

19. The device of claim 13 wherein the calender has at least one nip formed between a hard-faced heated thermo roll and a soft-faced polymer roll.

20. The device of claim 16 , wherein the first edge calendering roll and second edge calendering roll nips are placed on substantially a straight line perpendicular to the center line so that both the first web edge and the second web edge are calendered substantially simultaneously.

21. The device of claim 13 , wherein the at least one edge calendering roll is substantially cylindrical.