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US 10,584,444 B2Granted
Laminated papermaking belt
AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsMark Alan Burazin, Geoffrey Fenn Carlow, Richard Alan Zanon
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AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsMark Alan Burazin, Geoffrey Fenn Carlow, Richard Alan Zanon
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Disclosed is a two layered belt useful in the manufacture of tissue products comprising a first woven layer and a second nonwoven layer joined together in a laminated arrangement. The woven layer typically forms the machine contacting layer of the belt and is woven from a highly abrasion resistant material, while the nonwoven layer contacts the nascent tissue web. The woven layer may be provided with valleys and ridges that the nascent web is molded into, while the nonwoven layer may be provided with elements that impart a visually aesthetic pattern to the web. In this manner the belt may be useful in the production of products having desirable physical properties resulting from molding into the woven fabric while also being visually pleasing to the user.
A laminated papermaking belt having a machine direction and a cross-machine direction, a machine contacting surface and an opposite web contacting surface, the belt comprising discrete first and second layers joined together in a face-to-face relationship, each of the at least first and second layers having a top surface, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, the top surface of the first layer forming a portion of the web contacting surface of the belt, and the bottom surface of the second layer forming the machine contacting surface of the belt, wherein the first layer comprises a nonwoven material and the second layer comprises a plurality of woven ridges lying in a first x-y plane and a plurality of woven valleys lying in a second x-y plane below the first x-y plane such that the first layer contacts at least a portion of the plurality of woven ridges and comprises a plurality of suspended portions elevated in the z-direction from the second x-y plane to form void spaces between the second x-y plane and the suspended portions.
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