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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7410554 | Unique modular construction for use as a forming fabric in papermaking or tissue or nonwovens A forming fabric including a sheet contact layer of woven material and a base layer formed of a layer of spiral turns formed by a spirally-wound material strip, the material strip having a width which is smaller in width than the forming fabric, the longitudinal axi... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7384513 | Forming fabrics A papermaker's fabric for use as a forming fabric. The fabric may include bondable or meltable monofilament yarns which may be formed from materials that retain substantial strength and tenacity after thermal treatment. Further, the remaining yarns in the forming fa... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7357157 | Industrial two-layer fabric In a repeating unit of a two-layer fabric, a first upper surface side warp forms a first upper surface side warp design. A second upper surface side warp forms a latent portion in which the second upper surface side warp passes between the two layers of the fabric. ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7318796 | Two-layer drum cover made of a metal alloy in the warp directions and a plurality of metal alloys in the shute directions on both front and back surfaces A two-layer drum cover and a method of producing the same are provided. The two-layer drum cover includes a backing wire constructed of a relatively high grade metal alloy in the warp direction and alternating relatively low grade metal alloys in the shute direction... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7300554 | Textured surface of a tissue forming fabric to generate bulk, cross directional tensile, absorbency, and softness in a sheet of paper A multi-layer tissue forming fabric constructed so that the top forming surface has topographical differences measured as a plane difference between at least two top weft yarns. The plane difference—the difference in height between the two weft yarns—must be gre... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7264645 | Plate-shaped filter element A plate-shaped filter element made from several wire cloth layers and having at least one layer in the form of a filter cloth is designed to allow particles of a certain size can be filtered out from a filterable material, whereby, in particular, particles can be fi... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7207356 | Through air dryer fabric A through-air dryer (TAD) fabric formed by interweaving of a warp yarn system with a weft yarn system. The TAD fabric has a paper side with a contact area between 20% and 30%. The warp yarn system includes flat warp yarns and/or the weft yarn system includes flat we... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204461 | Wire cloth A wire cloth includes metallic warp wires and metallic weft wires interwoven with one another, wherein the weft wires have each a diameter which is equal or smaller than a clear distance between two neighboring warp wires, and wherein the weft wires are constricted ... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7198067 | Warp-runner triple layer fabric with paired intrinsic warp binders A papermaker's fabric, usable in a forming section of a paper machine, having a first layer formed of a first system of paired machine-direction (MD) warp yarns interwoven with a first system of cross machine-direction (CD) weft yarns and a second layer formed of a ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7175743 | Antifouling papermaker's fabric In an antifouling papermaker's fabric woven from a warp and weft made of synthetic resin filament, the fabric is coated with a resin composition made by blending a two-liquid reaction type epoxy resin with a prepolymer of phenolsulfonic acid as a curing agent to for... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7121306 | Industrial fabric including yarn assemblies A woven industrial fabric, including a plurality of warp yarns interwoven with a plurality of weft yarns. At least a portion of one of the plurality of warp and the plurality of weft yarns includes yarn assemblies. Each yarn assembly is comprised of at least a first... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7114529 | Multilayer through-air dryer fabric A multilayer through-air dryer (TAD) fabric architecture having a single warp yarn system with a maximum warp fill and a weft yarn system comprised of two sets of weft yarns selected to set the warp yarn height above the weft yarns without embedment into the fabric ... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7077362 | Sieve tray for a sieve device A sieve tray for a sieve device that includes at least one sieve netting. The sieve netting includes wire netting having warp and weft wires mutually connected in a weave. The weave has mutually spaced alternating crossings extending diagonally with respect to the w... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7059357 | Warp-stitched multilayer papermaker's fabrics A warp-stitched multilayer papermaker's fabric has a set of bottom warp yarns, a set of bottom weft yarns, a set of top weft yarns and a set of warp stitching yarn pairs. The bottom warp yarns are interwoven with the bottom weft yarns. The stitching warp yarns inter... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7059360 | Double layer forming fabric with paired warp binder yarns A papermaker's fabric, usable in the forming section of a paper machine, has first and second layers of cross-machine direction (CD) yarns interwoven with sets of machine-direction (MD) yarns. Each set has four pairs of MD yarns with each pair comprising a first MD ... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7048830 | Paper-making machine wire cloth A paper-making machine wire cloth has an individual woven cloth for the paper side (12) and an individual woven cloth for the running side (14). Each woven cloth includes a set of weft threads (16;20) and warp threads (18;22). The diamete... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7048829 | Paper making wire cloth A papermaking wire cloth, especially for the sheet forming zone, includes a paper side (12) and a backing side (14). The wire cloth is formed out of at least one type of transverse threads (16, 18) which are interwoven with at least one type of ... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7005038 | Belt-machine combination A paper process belt and method for manufacturing the same are provided. The belt includes at least one elongated resilient coupling filament operatively connected to a first end section of the belt and a second end section of the belt such that the first end sectio... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7005045 | Belt for machines for producing material webs and process of producing the belt A belt for a material web producing machine and a process of producing the belt. The belt includes a plurality of long-chain strength supports arranged to form interstices and a filler at least partially filling the interstices. The process includes forming a sheet ... | 02/28/2006 |
| 7001489 | Paper machine fabric A paper machine fabric comprising at least two separate layers formed using at least two separate yarn systems: one constituting the paper side and comprising machine direction and cross machine direction yarns and the other constituting the machine side and compris... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6959737 | Machine direction yarn stitched triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics Triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics having a set of top MD yarns that are interwoven exclusively with a set of top CMD yarns to form at least part of a top fabric layer and a set of bottom MD yarns that are interwoven exclusively with a set of bottom CMD yarns... | 11/01/2005 |
| 6904942 | Composite fabric A composite fabric, particularly for a paper making wire, contains at least two warp sheets (10, 12) of individual warp threads (8). One of the warp sheets (10) forms an upper side (14) of the fabric. Another warp sheet (12) forms ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6899143 | Forming fabric with twinned top wefts and an extra layer of middle wefts A papermaker's fabric, usable in the forming section of a paper machine, has three layers of cross-machine-direction (CD) wefts. The forming layer wefts are grouped into pairs. This twinning of the top-layer wefts results in non-equal spacing in the forming (top) la... | 05/31/2005 |
| 6841037 | Machine and process for producing a tissue web A machine for producing a tissue web is provided, including a former having a forming region which includes at least one circulating, continuous dewatering wire having zonally variable wire permeability. Furthermore, a process for producing the tissue web in a tissu... | 01/11/2005 |
| 6827821 | High permeability, multi-layer woven members employing machine direction binder yarns for use in papermaking machine A multilayer, woven fabric for use in a papermaking machine includes a self-sustaining top layer including a plurality of top machine direction yarns interwoven with a plurality of top cross-machine-direction yarns and a bottom layer including a plurality of bottom ... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6742548 | Dryer screen A dryer screen, which is woven of flat machine direction threads and round cross-machine direction threads. After weaving the fabric is subjected to heat treatment, and as a result of the strong shrinkage of the weft threads the adjacent warp threads are overlapping... | 06/01/2004 |
| 6740203 | Papermaker's nip thickener fabric A papermaker's fabric for use on a pulp thickening device and the like, having a body with edge portions on which are located guides with transition points between the body, and edge portions being reinforced with a coating that extends from the edge portions over t... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6649026 | Paper making machine fabric The invention relates to a paper machine clothing in the form of a fabric with a web pattern which recurs regularly over the surface and has indentations (20) that are formed by the thread overlays (21), the latter having been surface ground. The thread o... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6610619 | Patterned felts for bulk and visual aesthetic development of a tissue basesheet A method of imparting bulk and/or visual aesthetics to a tissue basesheet involves pressing the basesheet with a felt having a raised pattern on it so that the pattern becomes inherent in the sheet. A pattern is stitched into a carrier layer which is join... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6610176 | Coreless papermaker's yarn A yarn is produced which consists substantially of twisting filaments which are wrapped sequentially upon each other helically upon the yarn in layers, wherein the helically wound filaments preferably are wound right to left and then left to right alterna... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6533901 | Paper machine fabric A paper machine fabric comprising two separate layers which are made of a yarn system made up of warp and weft yarns forming the paper side and a yarn system made up of warp and weft yarns forming the machine side. The yarn system forming the paper side i... | 03/18/2003 |
| 6479414 | Textile machine felt A textile machine felt, which can be used, for example, as a compacting felt on machines for rendering textiles shrinkproof, consists of a ground textile (1) and a felt layer (2) which is stitched thereon and comprises at least in its surface region an el... | 11/12/2002 |
| 6398910 | Decorative wet molding fabric for tissue making Tissue products such as facial tissue, bath tissue, paper towels and the like are wet molded and dried using a through-air-drying fabric which has a three dimensional, sculptured, textured background accentuated with decorative signature patterns. The tex... | 06/04/2002 |
| 6379506 | Auto-joinable triple layer papermaker's forming fabric Auto-joinable triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics which exhibit relatively low caliper values, good mechanical stability, and relatively high permeability. In one embodiment of the present invention, triple layer papermaker's forming fabrics having ... | 04/30/2002 |
| 6158478 | Wear resistant design for high temperature papermachine applications A multilayer papermaking fabric having interwoven machine direction (MD) and cross-machine direction (CMD) yarns, the CMD yarns defining at least upper and lower CMD yarn subsets which are interwoven with the MD yarns in a repeat pattern such that the MD ... | 12/12/2000 |
| 6123116 | Low caliper mechanically stable multi-layer papermaker's fabrics with paired machine side cross machine direction yarns Multi-layer papermaker's fabrics are provided which include in the bottom fabric layer pairs of cross machine direction yarns that are woven in the same shed so as to provide paired bottom fabric layer cross machine direction yarns. Typically, these paire... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6077397 | High support papermakers fabric A woven papermakers fabric having a first system of yarns interwoven with a second system of yarns. The second system of yarns having a repeat which defines three successive knuckles on the paper carrying side of the fabric while maintaining vertical alig... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5975149 | Multilayer press fabric including long floats of high temperature MD yarns in the paper support layer A papermaker's fabric of a type for use in high temperature operations and including interwoven machine direction (MD) and cross-machine direction (CMD) yarns that define a base fabric and a paper support layer. The fabric is characterized by the paper su... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5894867 | Process for producing paper using papermakers forming fabric A process for forming paper using papermaker's forming fabric comprising a fabric layer including cross machine direction fabric yarns and machine direction fabric yarns interwoven to form a papermaking surface with alternating single knuckles thereon. Fi... | 04/20/1999 |
| 5853547 | Papermaking fabric, process for producing high bulk products and the products produced thereby The present invention is an improved 7,3-broken twill, TAD fabric for use in the formation of a paper web. The present invention is also a process of using this fabric to produce a paper product having high bulk and absorbency. Finally, the present invent... | 12/29/1998 |
