Web connection and paper machine fabric

Abstract

A web connection for a fabric of a machine for producing or processing a fibrous material web includes a first web end with first longitudinal thread ends, a second web end with second longitudinal thread ends, and at least one connection element which extends in the transverse direction of the resultant fabric. The connection element has an upper face and a lower face, and the first longitudinal thread ends and the second longitudinal thread ends solely contact and bond to the upper face of the connection element, in particular the thread ends are welded thereto. The fabric with a paper side and a running side. The fabric has at least one first web layer with at least one such web connection which is arranged such that the lower face of the at least one connection element is oriented in the direction of the running side of the fabric.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.