Claim l. A method of cooling a material web, which comprises:
moving the material web in a given direction over a cooling cylinder and at least
one other cylinder disposed at a location
selected from the group consisting of a location upline and a location downline from the
cooling cylinder, as viewed in the given direction of the web path;
carrying out the step of moving of the material web with looping sections of the
material web passing over the cylinders, the looping sections being connected for
moving the material web along the looping sections at least approximately on a web
path being meander-shaped, always curved or non-rectilinear; and
arranging the cylinders with respect to one another so as to
exclude contact pressure with one another between respective
two of the cylinders.
Claim 4. A device for cooling a material web comprising:
a cooling cylinder around which the material web movable on a web path is partly
looped; and
another cylinder disposed at a location selected from the
group consisting of downline from and upline from the cooling cylinder;
the material web having looping sections passing over said cylinders, the looping
sections being connected for moving the material web along the looping sections at
least approximately on a web path being meander-shaped, always curved or
non-rectilinear.
THE PRIOR ART
The references relied on by the examiner as evidence of
anticipation and obviousness are:
Tafel 4,920,881 May 01, 1990
Reichel 5,188,028 Feb. 23, 1993
Hahne 5,275,103 Jan. 04, 1994
THE REJECTIONS
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