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US 5,690,149 AGranted
Papermakers fabric with stacked machine direction yarns
AssigneeAsten, Inc.
InventorHenry J. Lee
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Abstract
A papermakers fabric having a system of cross machine direction yarns interwoven with flat monofilament machine direction yarns. The flat machine direction yarns are arranged in stacked pairs. At least the upper machine direction yarns have an aspect ratio greater than 3:1 and weave in a float pattern over multiple cross machine direction yarns.
Claims10
A papermakers fabric comprising a system of CMD (cross-machine direction) yarns interwoven with a system including flat monofilament MD (machine direction) yarns in a selected repeat pattern;
- said flat MD yarns comprise pairs of upper and lower flat MD yarns stacked in vertical alignment;
- at least said upper flat MD yarns have an aspect ratio greater than 3:1;
- said upper flat MD yarns weave in a repeat pattern with at least a first layer of CMD yarns with a float over a selected number of CMD yarns;
- and said selected number is at least two.
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