Papermakers fabric
AssigneeScapa Group PLC
InventorRobert L. Crook, Jr.
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Abstract
A papermakers fabric comprises a felt made up of a base cloth and a batt of fibres needled to the base cloth. The papermakers fabric is woven from machine direction yarns and cross machine direction yarns. The machine direction yarns form a series of loops at each of the fabric ends, the two sets of loops being interdigitable and capable of union by a pintle wire. The machine direction yarns comprise a core of cabled monofilaments surrounded by a sheath of multifilaments.
Claims10
A papermakers fabric comprising a base cloth for a papermakers felt for forming a belt for a papermaking machine having a running direction and a cross machine direction, the base cloth having opposite ends and being woven from a plurality of first yarns extending in an intended running direction of the belt and second yarns extending in an intended cross machine direction of the belt,
- wherein at least some of the first yarns form a series of loops unitary with and at each of the base cloth ends, the loops of the respective base cloth ends being interdigitated to form, with a hinge wire located perpendicular to the first yarn, a seam,
- wherein the first yarns which form the loops comprise a core of cabled monofilaments surrounded by a sheath of multifilaments.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.