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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8172986 | Fabric belt having ends of reduced thickness A fabric belt unit for manufacturing corrugated board in a corrugator machine includes a belt (1) joined together at its two ends (2, 3) to form a continuous belt. The fabric belt has an outer paper side (6) as well as an inner driven side (8... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8147654 | Wet paper web transfer belt A wet paper web transfer belt (1) has a wet paper web-side layer (31), including a hydrophilic fibrous body (30), and a machine-side layer (32). A base fabric (33) disposed in the belt comprises a first woven fabric (34), di... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8123911 | Press felt and method for its production The invention relates to a felt belt, especially a press felt for a paper—, cardboard or tissue machine, with a basic structure that is formed by (a) a longitudinal reinforcement module extending on the width and length of the felt belt, including (1) a laid longi... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8083898 | Method for manufacturing a machine felt, and machine felt A method for manufacturing a machine felt. Firstly a tube having a longitudinal yarn layer is manufactured with a peripheral length double the length of the machine felt, and a width that corresponds to the width of the machine felt. The tube is compressed into a fl... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8075738 | Apparatus with an impermeable transfer belt in a papermaking machine, and associated methods An apparatus for transferring a wet paper web from a press nip to a drying cylinder (52) of a papermaking machine, and for structuring the web, comprises an impermeable transfer belt (35) having a web-contacting surface, the wet paper web passing throu... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8043477 | Belt and method of making a belt for a paper making machine Belt and method of making a belt for a paper making machine. The belt includes a flat woven material having a top side surface and a bottom side surface and two terminal ends separated in a machine direction. Folds formed in the flat woven material are separated in ... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8025771 | Papermaking felt Papermaking felts include a base material and a batt layer provided on one or both sides of the base material. The batt layer includes a water-absorbing resin, and the water-absorbing resin has a coefficient of water absorption of from 1.05 and 10. ... | 09/27/2011 |
| 7988829 | Papermaking machine employing an impermeable transfer belt, and associated methods A papermaking machine for making paper includes a forming section, a press section, and a drying section. The paper web is pressed between two press members while enclosed between a press felt and a transfer belt having non-uniformly distributed microscopic depressi... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7943013 | Shoe press belt for paper making Disclosed is a shoe press belt (10) which comprises a reinforcing fibrous base material (6) embedded in a polyurethane layer, and has an outer circumference layer (2a, 21) and an inner circumference layer (2b, 22 | 05/17/2011 |
| 7918970 | Band for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper, board or tissue, and process for the production of such a band A band for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper, board or tissue, includes at least one fabric layer having longitudinal filaments running substantially in a band longitudinal direction and transverse filaments running substantially in a band tr... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7892401 | Press fabric treatment A fabric for use in a papermaking machine, the fabric including a first end portion of the fabric having a first flexibility, and a second end portion of the fabric having a second flexibility. At least one of the first end portion and the second end portion is trea... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7892402 | Flat woven full width on-machine-seamable fabric A laminated on-machine-seamable industrial fabric made from a flat woven full width base fabric layer wherein the base fabric layer is folded inwardly and flattened to produce a fabric with seaming loops disposed at the two widthwise edges. ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7871497 | Paper machine covering A covering for a machine for treating a material web, in particular a fibrous web, has a multilayer construction with at least two layers formed respectively by at least one polyurethane film, between which there lies a layer made of a reinforcement fabric whose mes... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7811418 | Papermaking machine employing an impermeable transfer belt, and associated methods A papermaking machine for making paper includes a forming section, a press section, and a drying section. The paper web is pressed between two press members while enclosed between a press felt and a transfer belt having non-uniformly distributed microscopic depressi... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7799175 | Passive sensor system for detection of wear problems in paper machine clothing A stratified press fabric for the press section of a paper machine having a passive sensor system for detecting wear in the press fabric. The lower (non-surface) layer(s) of the stratified press fabric are produced using colored staple fiber batt material. As the su... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7789998 | Press fabric seam area A pinseam press fabric is smoothed in the area of the seam by depositing polyurethane particles having a size of about 1 to 500 micrometers across the seam of the felt defined by the ends of the fabric. The polyurethane particles are drawn into the seam end by the a... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7758728 | Needled corrugator fabric with pin seam The present invention relates generally to papermaking, and relates more specifically to fabrics employed in making press felts on a paper machine, pulp machine fiber cement belts, and corrugated paper board, or box-board. The invention also relates to the monofilam... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7722743 | Method for manufacturing a felt belt, and felt belt The invention is a method for manufacturing a felt belt having a support which is embedded in a fiber matrix and is made up of at least two yarn layers arranged one above another, at least one is a longitudinal yarn layer made up of longitudinal yarns extending in p... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7670461 | Papermachine fabric The invention relates to a papermachine fabric for dewatering and drying a fibrous web in a machine producing a fibrous web, including a plurality of layers with at least one carrier structure and a fiber batt having at least one fiber non-woven. The papermachine fa... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7658821 | Patterned press fabric A press fabric having a plurality of surface pressing plates on a sheet side of the fabric imparts an impression onto a sheet of paper web during a pressing process. The surface pressing plates are preferably resin pressing plates, and form at least one of a random ... | 02/09/2010 |
| 7641768 | Method and joining assembly for joining ends of a fabric in a paper machine A method of joining two ends of a fabric for use in a paper machine, carried out using a joining assembly, includes the steps of: placing a first end of the fabric on a first portion of a pin plate, the pins in the first portion of the pin plate extending into the f... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7638018 | Paper machine covering A covering for a machine for the production of a fibrous web has, at least in some sections, a two-dimensional structure which is formed by a multiplicity of polymer-based regions which differ from each other at least in part by virtue of a different fraction of fil... | 12/29/2009 |
| 7527707 | Methods for bonding structural elements of paper machine and industrial fabrics to one another and fabrics produced thereby A method of manufacturing and a papermaker's or industrial fabric, which includes the application of a polymeric resin material onto preselected discrete locations on a base substrate in a controlled manner in droplets having an average diameter of 10μ (10 microns)... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7517434 | Paper transporting felt, and press apparatus of paper machine having paper transporting felt A paper transporting felt includes a base layer, a first batt layer formed on a wet paper side surface of the base layer, a second batt layer formed on a press side surface of the base layer, a polymer elastic material impregnated in the base layer, the first batt l... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7481907 | Paper transporting felt, and press apparatus of paper machine having paper transporting felt A paper transporting felt includes a base layer, a first batt layer formed on a wet paper side surface of the base layer, a second batt layer formed on a roll side surface or a shoe side surface of the base layer, and a wet paper contacting layer formed on a wet pap... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7481906 | Paper transporting felt, and press apparatus of paper machine having the paper transporting felt A paper transporting felt includes a base layer, a first batt layer formed on a wet paper side surface of the base layer, a second batt layer formed on a roll side surface or a shoe side surface of the base layer, and a wet paper contacting fibrous layer formed on a... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7473336 | Multiaxial fabrics The present invention provides a multilayer multiaxial fabric for a paper machine having a reduced interference pattern and accordingly improved dewatering uniformity. The present invention also provides a method of forming such a multilayer multiaxial fabric. ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7455752 | Semi-permeable fabrics for transfer belt and press fabric applications A papermaker's fabric formed by arranging a number of layers in a predetermined manner, wherein at least one layer comprises a material which is woven, knitted or braided and has a first melting point temperature and wherein each of the remaining layers has a meltin... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7442426 | Press felt for papermaking A papermaking press felt comprises a base body, a batt layer, and an anti-rewetting layer comprising a non-oriented film, all intertwiningly integrated by needle punching. The anti-rewetting layer has openings with a three-dimensional structure, with an aperture on ... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7426943 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric includes pairs of warps obtained by stacking an upper side warp to be woven with an upper side weft and a lower side warp to be woven with a lower side weft and having, as at least one of the pairs. A pair of binding warps includes war... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7426944 | Double layer forming fabric with high center plane resistance Double layer forming fabrics, woven to an overall repeating weave pattern requiring at least 8 sheds in the loom, provide a low drainage area in a notional center plane between the paper and machine side layers, to resist and retard initial impingement drainage. Tra... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7415993 | Fabrics with multi-segment, paired, interchanging yarns A composite forming fabric (10) comprising a paper side layer (12) having a paper side surface, a machine side layer (14) having a bottom wear side surface, and a plurality of pairs of first and second intrinsic, interchanging weft binder yarns ... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412991 | Industrial two-layer fabric In an industrial two-layer fabric, either one of an upper side binding yarn and a lower surface binding yarn constituting a pair to be woven with an upper surface weft and a lower side weft passes under one lower surface weft and then passes over a plurality of lowe... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7407564 | Stratified press fabric A stratified press fabric for the press section of a paper machine includes a base fabric in the form of an endless loop. A first staple fiber batt material is attached to the outer side of the base fabric by needling. A fine fabric covers the first staple fiber bat... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406985 | Papermaking screen A papermaking screen, especially for the sheet forming zone, has one paper side and one machine side with a first type of transverse yarns of the paper side and a second type of transverse yarns (25 to 40) of the machine side. The transverse yarns are ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7393434 | Method and device for stabilizing unseamed loops A method of stabilizing the seam loops of a papermaking fabric or other industrial fabric until the fabric is ready to be installed and seamed on a machine. Stabilizing the loops prevents torque imbalance and other forces from distorting the loop alignment over time... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7384515 | Four layer seam multi-axial fabric A fabric and a method of forming a fabric formed by the steps of providing an endless fabric having at least two layers of MD yarns, raveling CD yarns in an area of said endless fabric to be cut, cutting at least one layer of MD yarns at a first predetermined locati... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7381306 | Paper machine belt The invention concerns a paper machine belt having front ends (6, 7) extending transversely to the machine direction and having a yarn structure (2, 4) made up of longitudinal yarns (3) extending in the machine direction and transverse yarns ( | 06/03/2008 |
| 7381307 | Method of manufacturing a press felt, and a press felt, with the shape of a closed loop The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a press felt and to a press felt and a base fabric. The base fabric comprises at least a first planar compo-nent (4), which includes a first transverse (CMD) joining edge area (11) and a second transve... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7381308 | Seam for multiaxial papermaking fabrics A method of seaming an on-machine-seamable multiaxial papermaker's fabric to prevent yarn migration. The multiaxial fabric is in the form of an endless loop flattened into two layers along fold lines. CD yarns are removed from the folds to create extended ravel area... | 06/03/2008 |
