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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 7441566 | 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... | 10/28/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7381665 | Press felt for papermaking and manufacturing method A press felt for papermaking comprises a base body, a fibrous assembly, and a three-dimensional knitted fabric layer comprising two pieces of fabric connected by connecting fibers. The three-dimensional knitted fabric layer is disposed within the press felt at a dis... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7374639 | Papermaking belt A papermaking belt having a reinforcing structure and a pattern layer is disclosed. The reinforcing layer has a first layer of interwoven machine direction yarns and cross-machine direction yarns. The machine direction and cross-machine direction yarns of the first ... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373957 | Papermaking screen A papermaking screen includes at least one individual fabric for the paper side and at least one individual fabric for the machine side. Each of those fabrics is provided with a set of weft yarns (4, 6) and warp yarns (1, 5). At least one part of the s... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7357155 | Different contour paired binders in multi-layer fabrics A multi-layer fabric which may be utilized in a papermaking process. The fabric layers are bound together by plural pairs of weft binder yarns. Each binder yarn within a pair weaves a different contour pattern and combines with the other binder yarn in that pair to ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7357972 | Support as or for a paper machine clothing A liquid-permeable support for a paper machine clothing that is usable in the press section of a paper machine includes a support having at least two plies that brace against one another via discrete bracing elements. At the points where the plies brace against one ... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7323087 | Anti-rewet felt for use in a papermaking machine An anti-rewet fabric is used for carrying a fiber web through an air press. The ant-rewet fabric includes at least one air distribution fabric layer, one air distribution fabric layer being configured for contacting the fiber web, and a perforated film layer and/or ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7311806 | Papermaking needle felt Papermaking felt containing a hydrophilic urethane resin that can maintain functions such as water drainage, wet-paper smoothness, and wet-paper transportability by imparting a hydrophilic property to the papermaking felt thereby preventing the deposition and accumu... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7306704 | Press felt A method of manufacturing a press felt, a press section, and a press felt. The press felt comprises a base structure (11), a batt fibre layer (12) being attached to a first, web-side surface (B) of the base structure. Further, the structure of the pres... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7306703 | Contamination resistant press fabric structure and method of manufacture The present invention is directed to fabrics for paper making machines that are rendered contamination resistant and maintain good permeability as a result of a durable coating that lasts the entire life of the fabric. A fluoropolymer will render the fabric contamin... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7306014 | Industrial two-layer fabric In a lower surface side layer of an industrial two-layer fabric, warps are formed by sequentially arranging a repeating design unit, in which one warp passes over six successive lower surface side wefts, passes under one lower surface side weft, passes over two lowe... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7297234 | 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)... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7297233 | Dewatering apparatus in a paper machine A dewatering system in a paper machine includes a dewatering fabric and a press. The dewatering fabric includes a woven permeable fabric and a polymeric layer having openings therethrough, the polymeric layer is connected to the permeable fabric. The press applying ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7294238 | Non-woven through air dryer and transfer fabrics for tissue making One embodiment of the present invention is an endless non-woven tissue making fabric having a three-dimensional texture suitable for use as a fabric for producing three-dimensional fibrous webs. The endless non-woven tissue making fabric comprises a plurality of sub... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7276137 | Textile product having an integrated sensor for measuring pressure and temperature The invention concerns a textile product (6) for use in a paper machine, having a monofilament or a profiled structure as support element (1) on which is arranged a layered sensor for measuring pressure and/or temperature, and is characterized in that ... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7270151 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric which comprises eight pairs of warps obtained by arranging eight upper surface side warps and eight lower surface side warps, and a plurality of upper surface side wefts and lower surface side wefts, and has an upper surface side layer... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7267745 | Papermakers felt having a point-bonded web layer formed of coarse fibers A paper makers felt comprising a fibrous outer layer formed of inter-engaged fibers of between 3.0 and 67 dtex inter-engaged preferably by needling, and a web layer formed of fibers which are between 200 and 600 dtex and are inter-engaged preferably by point bonding... | 09/11/2007 |
| RE39709 | Multiaxial pin seamed papermaker's press felt A multilayer papermaker's press felt fabric comprising in combination a woven first fabric layer, typically a double layer fabric, has a cross machine direction pin seam. A second fabric layer is located on the paper side face of the first fabric layer, and a layer ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7229531 | Method of seaming a multiaxial papermaking fabric to prevent yarn migration 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 ravel areas. This l... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7220340 | Paper machine clothing and method for its manufacture The invention concerns a porous paper machine clothing (1) for dewatering a paper web in a paper machine, having a yarn layer made up of at least one ply (2) of longitudinal yarns (3) and at least one ply (4) of transverse yarns (5, 6,... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7216677 | Industrial two-layer fabric In an industrial two-layer fabric, running surface side wefts constituting the running surface side layer each has a design in which the running surface side weft passes over a running surface side warp, passes under two successive running surface side warps, passes... | 05/15/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7192507 | Machine for producing a fibrous material web Machine for producing a fibrous material web and process for guiding the web through the machine. The machine includes a wire section, a drying section, arranged downstream of the wire section with regard to a web travel direction, having at least one free web draw,... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7172982 | Dryer and/or industrial fabric with silicone-coated surface An industrial fabric having improved sheet restraint and wear resistance along with acceptable permeability. The improvement is effected by coating only the high spots of the fabric with silicone material. The coating methods used in this invention may include kiss ... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7166195 | Grooved and perforated layer for use in papermakers' fabric A grooved perforated layer for use in a papermakers' fabric is provided. The grooves serve to diffuse flow at the surface of the perforated layer so as to reduce the pressure drop across the layer and thereby reduce the migration of fines. In this manner, the light/... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7156956 | Paper industry process belt with a surface structure composed of a porous membrane A family of paper industry process belts (“PIPB's”) having a range of properties for different applications in the paper industry. The PIPB can be a laminate comprising a grooved press belt and a porous membrane embedded therein and used as a substitute dewateri... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7144479 | Method for increasing press fabric void volume by laser etching A method whereby a water permeable press fabric is given greater dewatering and drainage capacity by providing voids which are reservoirs of minimum pressure available to accept water. ... | 12/05/2006 |
| 7141144 | Multi-layer woven seam baseweave having different sized seam attachments A multi-layer woven papermaker's fabric having at least two sets of seam loops. Longer and a shorter seam attachment mechanisms are used to connect the bottom and top layer seam loops. The longer attachment mechanism in the top layer being over the shorter attachmen... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7141142 | Method of making paper using reformable fabrics Papermaking fabrics, particularly those fabrics useful for making tissue and towel products, can be modified to alter their structure, such as surface texture, and re-used to make a different product. The fabrics can be modified after removal from the paper machine ... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7138037 | Press felt with base fabric layer which includes regenerated cellulosic fibers A press felt for use in the press section of a papermaking machine is provided. The press felt includes a base fabric layer and at least one layer of a staple fiber batt material connected thereto. The press felt has a paper side surface (PS) which when in operation... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7135096 | Press felt with improved dewatering capability A press felt for use in the press section of a papermaking machine is provided. The press felt includes a base fabric layer and at least one layer of a staple fiber batt material connected thereto. The staple fiber batt material is includes between 20% to 100% by we... | 11/14/2006 |
