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Web transfer belt and production process for the same

US6331231A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 31, 2000
Grant dateDec 18, 2001
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Expiry dateAug 31, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T442/3325
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention provides a web transfer belt, having good paper releasability, that can be produced with ease and at a low cost without increasing either its hardness or its weight, and a production process therefor. In one embodiment, the web transfer belt includes a high-molecular weight elastic member formed using a resin material mixed with microcapsules (alternatively, closed bubbles or closed bubbles created by a foaming agent), and having a web-receiving face for receiving a web P thereon to transfer, at whose web-receiving face there are provided a multitude of recesses having cut-openings of the microcapsules, such that a water film W easy to be formed between the web-receiving face and the web P can be broken by a large number of recesses.

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