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US 4,490,925 AGranted
Low permeability spiral fabric and method
AssigneeWangner Systems Corporation
InventorRichard W. Smith
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InventorRichard W. Smith
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A fluid permeable fabric is disclosed having particular advantages as a dryer fabric for papermaking is disclosed. The fabric includes a number of helix A extending cross-wise in the fabric and joined together along the length dimension by pintles 38. Crevice spaces 40 formed by intermeshing bend portions extending into the loop openings C are closed by a contoured filler strip B. The contoured filler strip occupies the loop openings and includes contoured edges 56 which penetrate and occupy a substantial portion of the crevice spaces. A fabric having a low permeability is thus provided. An enlarged heat radiating surface 52 facing the paper side 39 of the fabric increases the heat transfer occurring in the paper web W to expedite drying. Crevice space 40 and tapered edges 56 of the filler element provide a guiding function which facilitates filler insertion in the loop openings.
Apparatus for drying a web of paper material in a dryer section of a papermaking machine which includes a plurality of heated cylinders over which the web travels for drying, an endless traveling dryer belt carried about rollers and adjacent said cylinders contacting said web to hold said web against said heated cylinders for drying, said belt being of the type which comprises a non-woven fabric which includes a plurality of elongated helix means extending in a crosswise direction constructed from a polymeric material said helix means including helix loops having upper and lower runs presenting a web contacting surface for contacting said paper and curved bend portions joining said upper and lower runs, joint means received through adjoining intermeshing bend portions of adjacent helix means successively joining said helix means together in a machine direction to provide an endless dryer belt of desired dimension;
A non-woven permeable fabric comprising a plurality of elongated helix means extending cross-wise in said fabric and adjacent helix means intermeshed and adjoining one another lengthwise in said fabric, each said helix means including a plurality of open helix loops generally aligned across said fabric each said loop comprising a top run, a bottom run, and a bend portion joining said top and bottom runs, an open loop space defined by said top and bottom runs and the intermeshing bend portions of adjacent adjoining helix means, crevice spaces defined in the corners of said loop space between said runs and said intermeshing bend portions of said adjacent helix means, elongated contoured filler means within said open loop spaces extending cross-wise in said fabric, said contoured monofilament filler means including contoured edge means extending laterally over said intermeshing bend portions of adjacent helix means for penetrating and occupying a number of said corner crevice spaces and reducing the permeability of said fabric.
A permeable fabric for contacting and drying a paper web in a papermaking machine including a plurality of helix strip means with adjacent helix strip means intermeshing with one another, each said helix strip means including aligned open loops extending across said fabric, bend portions of adjacent intermeshing helix strip means extending into said open loop spaces creating crevice spaces in corners of said open loop spaces and contoured monofilament filler means extending within said loop spaces across said fabric, said contoured monofilament fiber means extending laterally over said intermeshing bend portions for penetrating and occupying a number of said crevice spaces for closing off fluid flow through said fabric.
A method for constructing a permeable belt fabric having a low permeability characteristic which includes joining a plurality of open helix strips to one another by intermeshing bend portions of the loops of adjacent ones of said helix strips, joining said intermeshing bend portions together, and filling the open loops with a contoured monofilament filler strip element having contoured edge portions which penetrates and occupies, at least in part, a number of corner crevice spaces formed by the intermeshing bend portions extending into said open loops of said helix strips to close off flow through the fabric and lower the permeability of said fabric.
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