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US 2013/0340965 A1Published application
Multiaxial Fabrics
AssigneeAlbany International Corp.
InventorsSteven Yook, William Maddock, Scott Quigley
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Abstract
The present invention provides a multilayer multiaxial woven fabric for a papermachine having a reduced interference pattern and accordingly improved dewatering uniformity. The present invention also provides a method of forming such multilayer multiaxial fabric.
Claims3
A multiaxial fabric for use in a paper machine comprising:
- a base fabric woven from a plurality of machine direction and cross-machine direction yarns, wherein the cross-machine direction yarns are removed in a first and second seam area of the base fabric;
- a laminate attached to an outside or inside portion of the base fabric by needling, wherein at least a portion of needled or unneedled laminate is removed from the seam areas;
- wherein the base fabric is folded over at the seam area, thereby joining the seam areas and making the fabric endless.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.