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dandy roll

[′dan·dē ‚rōl]
(mechanical engineering)
A roll in a Fourdrinier paper-making machine; used to compact the sheet and sometimes to imprint a watermark.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Dandy Roll

 

a skeleton roll on a paper machine, consisting of a wire frame wrapped with netting. It is designed to level the surface of the paper, improve the paper’s structure and uniformity, and put watermarks on the paper web.

REFERENCE

Ivanov, S. N. Tekhnologiia bumagi, 2nd ed. Moscow.
The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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