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Papermaking fabric seam with seam flap anchor

US5799709A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 29, 1997
Grant dateSep 1, 1998
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Expiry dateAug 29, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T428/192
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

An open ended papermaker's fabric woven from a longitudinal thread system and a transverse thread system and having a plurality of seam loops at each end of the fabric formed by the threads of the longitudinal thread system. At least one additional transverse thread is interwoven with the longitudinal thread system in at least one seam zone in a repeat pattern that passes over at least two adjacent paper side longitudinal threads and under at least one machine side longitudinal thread.

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