Patterned paper machine clothing
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorRobert Stanley Ampulski
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Abstract
A papermaking belt for use in making paper. The papermaking belt may be used in conjunction with a single-wire draw or twin-wire draw of a papermaking machine. The papermaking belt includes a woven reinforcing element and a patterned framework. The framework defines either or both faces of the papermaking belt. The pattern of the framework is independent of the weave of the reinforcing element.
Claims10
A papermaking belt for use in making paper, said papermaking belt having mutually opposed faces, a paper-contacting face and a machine-contacting face,
- said papermaking belt comprising a reinforcing element of woven filaments;
- said papermaking belt further having a framework, said framework having a pattern independent of said reinforcing element, said pattern of said framework defining at least one of said first face and said second face.
A papermaking machine for making paper thereon in combination with a papermaking belt for carrying a nascent paper web of a hard grade of paper, said papermaking belt having mutually opposed faces, a paper-contacting face and a machine-contacting face, said papertnaking belt comprising a reinforcing element of woven filaments;
- said papermaking belt further having a framework, said framework having a pattern independent of said reinforcing element, said pattern of said framework defining at least one of said first face and said second face.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.