Spiral fabric papermakers felt and method of making

A dryer fabric comprising:

• a plurality of cross-machine direction spiral coils disposed in a common plane in a side-by-side relationship to form the machine direction of a dryer fabric of desired length, adjacent of said spiral coils intermeshed and joined together in a hinged relationship by a cross-machine direction hinge yarn, said hinge yarn having a non-circular cross section.

A dryer fabric comprising:

• a plurality of spiral coils arranged side-by-side in a common plane with adjacent coils being joined together by a hinge yarn in a hinged relationship, said coils providing a flat paper receiving surface and a flat machine roll contacting surface, two of said hinge yarns occupying substantially the entire interior of any given spiral coil.

A papermakers fabric comprising:

• a plurality of hinge yarns, all of said hinge yarns extending in a common direction;
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• a plurality of spiral coils disposed in a common plane in a side-by-side relationship, each of said coils extending in a common direction, adjacent of said spiral coils being intermeshed and joined together in a hinged relationship by at least one of said hinge yarns, each of said spiral coils formed from yarns having a non-circular cross section.

A dryer fabric comprising:

• a plurality of cross-machine direction spiral coils disposed in a common plane in a side-by-side relationship to form the machine direction of a dryer fabric of desired length, adjacent of said spiral coils intermeshed and joined together in a hinged relationship by a cross-machine direction hinge yarn, each of said spiral coils formed from yarns having a non-circular cross section.