Monofilament, and papermaking fabric manufactured therewith
AssigneeThomas Josef Heimbach GmbH & Co.
InventorWalter Best
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Abstract
The invention concerns a monofilament for use in engineering textiles, in particular in papermaking fabrics, made up of a plastic material having a principal constituent that is polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTMT) and at least one additional constituent, and is characterized in that the additional constituent is a nylon or a mixture of several nylon types. The invention further concerns a papermaking fabric having the aforesaid monofilaments.
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A papermaking fabric having monofilaments, said monofilaments being made of a plastic material comprising polytrimethylene tereththalate (PTMT) as a principal constituet and at least one additional constituent comprising nylon.
A papermaking fabric having monofilaments comprising a mixture of polytrimethyleneterephthalate (PTMT) and an additional constituent comprising nylon, wherein a concentration of said PTMT in said mixture is higher than a concentration of said additional constituent in said mixture.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.