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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7357156 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric having eight upper side warps and eight lower warps are stacked vertically forming upper and lower layers which are bound by a warp binding yarn of these warps. In a repeating unit of the upper layer, one of the warps has repetition of... | 04/15/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7279074 | Paper machine clothing The invention refers to a paper machine clothing, in particular a forming wire or dryer felt, having a paper side and a machine side, the paper side being constituted by plastic elements (1, 11, 21, 31), for example in the form of a belt layer, yarns, coils o... | 10/09/2007 |
| 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 |
| 7238259 | Methods of seaming A papermaker's fabric and a method of forming a papermaker's fabric, for installation in a papermaking machine. The papermaker's fabric having a plurality of cross-machine, a plurality of machine directional yarns, and a plurality of heat shrunk joints connecting en... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7166189 | Method for making rolls of tissue sheets having improved properties The roll properties of tissue sheets are improved either by imparting cross-machine direction dominant bar-like protrusions to the air side of the tissue by using specially woven transfer fabrics and/or by offsetting recurring surface features of the sheet relative ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7135093 | Pin seamed papermaker's press felt with cross machine direction yarns woven in Dreher weave at seam loops A press felt for a papermaking machine includes: a base fabric comprising a plurality of machine direction (MD) yarns interwoven with a plurality of cross machine direction (CMD) yarns in a predetermined regular weave pattern, the MD yarns being divisible into upper... | 11/14/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7108019 | Industrial two-layer fabric An industrial two-layer fabric comprises an upper layer fabric having upper surface side warps and upper surface side wefts and a lower layer fabric having lower surface side warps and lower surface side wefts. The upper layer fabric and the lower layer fabric are b... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7073539 | Industrial two-layer fabric It is an object of the present invention to provide a fabric having superior surface property, fiber supporting property, wear resistance, water removing property, and rigidity. The fabric according to the present invention comprises an upper layer comprising an upp... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7059361 | Stable forming fabric with high fiber support A papermaker's fabric having first and second layers of machine direction (MD) yarns interwoven with alternating first and second systems of cross-machine-direction (CD) yarns. The first system is comprised of first and second CD yarns while the second system is com... | 06/13/2006 |
| 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 |
| 7022208 | 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)... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7008512 | Fabric with three vertically stacked wefts with twinned forming 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 layer. T... | 03/07/2006 |
| 7005043 | Method of fabrication of a dryer fabric and a dryer fabric with backside venting for improved sheet stability A method of manufacturing and a papermaker's or industrial fabric, such as a dryer fabric for the dryer section of a paper machine, includes the application of a polymeric resin material onto preselected locations on the backside of a base substrate using a piezojet... | 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 |
| 6989080 | Nonwoven neutral line dryer fabric A nonwoven papermaker's fabric, usable in the dryer section of a paper machine, has a spiral wound machine direction (MD) base layer of raw stock which is wound around a pair of parallel rolls or cylinders until the desired length and width is achieved. The spiral w... | 01/24/2006 |
| 6920902 | Multi-layer fabric A fabric having top and bottom layers, with each layer having machine direction (MD) yarns and cross-direction (CD) yarns interwoven together. The fabric includes pairs of binder yarns that bind together the top and bottom layers. The binder pairs are interwoven so ... | 07/26/2005 |
| 6905574 | Multi-layer forming fabric with two warp systems bound together with a triplet of binder yarns A papermaker's fabric, usable in the forming section of a paper machine, has a top layer and a bottom layer of machine-direction (MD) warps and cross-machine direction (CD) wefts and a triplet of CD binder yarns interwoven with the top and bottom fabric layers. The ... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6902652 | Multi-layer papermaker's fabrics with packing yarns A papermaker's fabric, usable in the forming section of a paper machine, having a top layer and a bottom layer of cross-machine direction (CD) wefts. The top (forming) layer and bottom (wear side) layer are woven together to form a multi-layer fabric. CD packing yar... | 06/07/2005 |
| 6883556 | Double cross parallel binder fabric A multi-layer fabric which may be utilized in a papermaking process. Such fabric has a first layer having machine direction (MD) yarns and cross-direction (CD) yarns interwoven therewith and a second layer having machine direction (MD) yarns and cross-direction (CD)... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6860970 | Patterned paper machine clothing A papermaking belt for use in making paper. The papermaking belt may be used in conjunction with a single-wire draw or twin-wire draw of a papermaking machine. The papermaking belt includes a woven reinforcing element and a patterned framework. The framework defines... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6835284 | Monofilament low caliper one-and-a-half layer seamed press fabric A one-and-a-half layer monofilament fabric for use as a low-caliper seamed press fabric on a papermaking machine. The fabric is endless woven with seaming loops formed by adjacent unstacked MD wefts. The seaming loops are oriented perpendicular to the plane of the b... | 12/28/2004 |
| 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 |
| 6821385 | Method of manufacture of tissue products having visually discernable background texture regions bordered by curvilinear decorative elements using fabrics comprising nonwoven elements The present invention is a method of making a tissue product. An aqueous suspension of papermaking fibers is deposited onto a forming fabric thereby forming a wet tissue web. The wet tissue web is transferred to a sculpted fabric having a tissue machine contacting s... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6790314 | Fabric for use in the manufacture of tissue products having visually discernable background texture regions bordered by curvilinear decorative elements and method thereof The present invention is a woven sculpted fabric for the manufacture of a tissue web having a tissue contacting surface. The tissue contacting surface of the woven sculpted fabric includes at least a first group of strands and a second group of strands wherein the f... | 09/14/2004 |
| 6787000 | Fabric comprising nonwoven elements for use in the manufacture of tissue products having visually discernable background texture regions bordered by curvilinear decorative elements and method thereof The present invention is a sculpted fabric for the manufacture of a tissue web, having a tissue machine contacting side and a tissue contacting side. The tissue contacting side includes an upper porous member comprising a base with nonwoven elevated regions thereon.... | 09/07/2004 |
| 6733633 | Pull-on leader A leader which is used to pull a seamable papermaker's fabric onto a paper machine comprising a ravel area for securing pull ropes or cables thereto. ... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6726809 | Industrial process fabric An industrial process fabrics having embossed surfaces to facilitate water removal from the product such as paper and paper products being carried thereon by creating voids through embossing to assist in fluid management. ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6723208 | Method for producing spiral wound paper machine clothing A papermaker's fabric is manufactured by spirally winding a laminated structure in a plurality of turns. The laminated structure has a bottom layer and a top layer, both of which are strips having a common width. The bottom layer and the top layer are laminated to o... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6708732 | Fabrics for web forming equipment A web forming fabric has a machine direction of intended movement on a web forming machine and a cross-machine direction substantially normal to the machine direction. The fabric includes machine direction yarns disposed generally in the machine direction and transv... | 03/23/2004 |
