Papermakers fabric having cabled monofilament oval-shaped yarns
AssigneeHuyck Licensco, Inc.
InventorRene Marchand
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Abstract
A papermaker's fabric for use in the press section of a papermaking machine having a base fabric layer woven from either oval shaped monofilament yarns or "cabled monofilament oval yarns", which are cabled yarns comprised of two or more oval shaped monofilament yarns.
Claims14
A papermaker's fabric for use in the press section of a papermaking machine comprising a base fabric layer having a plurality of cabled monofilament oval yarns, each of said cabled monofilament oval yarns having two or more oval shaped monofilament yarns, each of said oval shaped monofilament yarns having a height h and a width w, where for each oval shaped monofilament yarn, h is less than a radius of a circular yarn of approximately the same size as said oval shaped monofilament yarn.
The papermaker's fabric for use in the press section of a papermaking machine of claim 3 wherein each of said oval shaped monofilament yarns has a height in the range of 4 to 20 mil and a width in the range of 6 to 25 mil.
A method of manufacturing a papermaker's fabric for use in the press section of a papermaking machine comprising the steps of:
- providing a plurality of oval shaped monofilament yarns, each of said oval shaped monofilament yarns having a height h and a width w, where for each oval shaped monofilament yarn, h is less than a radius of a circular yarn of approximately the same size as said oval shaped monofilament yarn;
- cabling said oval shaped monofilament yarns to form cabled monofilament oval yarns, each of said cabled monofilament oval yarns having at least two oval shaped monofilament yarns;
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- weaving a base fabric layer from said cabled monofilament oval yarns.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.