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Paper machine clothing

US8414742B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Voith Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

Uwe Köckritz · Heidenheim, DE
Hubert Walkenhaus · Kerpen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Apr 14, 2010
Grant date	Apr 9, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Apr 14, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T442/494
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a clothing especially a press felt for a paper, cardboard or tissue machine with a nonwoven structure comprising staple fibers and which provides the paper and running side of the clothing and with a base structure which is embedded into the nonwoven structure, whereby the base structure comprises a warp knit structure which has sewing threads and reinforcing threads extending lengthways parallel to each other and which have a greater flexural strength than the sewing threads, whereby the sewing threads form loops into which the reinforcing threads are tied thereby forming the warp knit structure. The invention is characterized in that an intermediate layer is arranged at the warp knit structure which is connected with the reinforcing threads by way of the sewing threads.

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