Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
139383000 | Drier felts | 29 |
20090038706 | STRETCHABLE STRAP WITH GRIPPER AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - A stretchable strap includes a side containing regions woven with frictionally enhancing material. Warp threads of both frictionally enhancing and non-frictionally enhancing material are woven to form a two-layer strap. Internal elastomeric threads provide a connection between the two layers as well as allow the strap to stretch. A method of making the strap is also provided wherein all elements are simultaneously woven on a loom. | 02-12-2009 |
20090165883 | Light Diffusing Yarn and Surface-Form Structure - Four light-transmitting mono filaments ( | 07-02-2009 |
20090288731 | 3D FABRIC AND PREPARING THEREOF - A three-dimensional multilayer fabric is provided. The fabric comprises a surface layer, a backing layer, and an intermediate layer connecting the surface layer and the backing layer. The surface layer includes sequential unstitched surface portions and sequential stitched surface portions formed in an alternating and repeating pattern. The unstitched surface portions of the surface layer are essentially composed of surface warp threads only, and the stitched surface portions of the surface layer are composed of the surface warp threads and intermediate warp threads. The backing layer includes sequential unstitched backing portions and sequential stitched backing portions formed in an alternating and repeating pattern. The unstitched backing portions of the backing layer are essentially composed of backing warp threads only, and the stitched backing portions of the backing layer are composed of the backing warp threads and the intermediate warp threads. The intermediate warp threads are woven without interlacing with weft threads on the surfaces of the unstitched backing portions. The intermediate layer includes sequential intermediate portions composed of the intermediate warp threads only. Each of the intermediate portions consists of a first intermediate portion and a second intermediate portion connected to the stitched surface portions and the stitched backing portions in an alternating and repeating pattern. The connecting warp threads of the intermediate layer exposed to the outside of the backing layer are sheared. Further provided is a method for the production of the fabric. | 11-26-2009 |
20100126619 | Sailcloth - A woven cloth is provided in which war yarns are relatively uncrimped compared to fill yarns. In some embodiments, the cloth includes flat filament warp yarns and textured fill yarns. In some embodiments, the woven cloth is sailcloth. | 05-27-2010 |
20100186847 | METHOD FOR OPENING FABRIC, FABRIC, AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL - According to the present invention there is provided a method for opening a fabric, in which warp and weft yarns can be uniformly opened using a simple method without having to alter the fabric weaving procedure. The method is a method for opening a fabric ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100236656 | Heat- and Corrosion-Resistant Fabric - A fabric for supporting a fibrous web is disclosed. The fabric has a layer that includes a plurality of weft yarns and a plurality of warp yarns interwoven with the plurality of weft yarns. The warp and weft yarns define a web-facing side and an opposite machine-facing side. The warp yarns include at least one of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) and polyetheretherketone (PEEK). In addition, a yarn count, weave pattern, and yarn shape of the fabric are configured such that molten polymer drops are scrapable from the web-facing side leaving an upper support surface that does not blemish a fibrous web supported by the fabric. | 09-23-2010 |
20110005632 | FABRIC MADE UP OF AT LEAST TWO LAPS INTERWOVEN ALONG A COMMON STRETCH AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION - A fabric is made up of at least two laps ( | 01-13-2011 |
20110017341 | Non-skid protective cloth or pad - A two-layer, non-skid protective cloth or pad for use as a painter's drop cloth or as a protective pad for surfaces such as boat decks, airplane wings or other surfaces where a non-skid pad is essential. The pad has a woven upper member, typically of a cotton canvas-like material, and a lower, resilient member. The two layers are typically stitched together. The lower, resilient member typically comprises downward-projecting dimples, often of two or more different sizes. The dimples are joined by a grid of resilient material. In alternate embodiments, an impervious member may be inserted between the upper and lower members. | 01-27-2011 |
20110180175 | Tissue With an Insert Edge and Use of Said Tissue - A woven fabric, especially a jeans fabric, with a ground fabric ( | 07-28-2011 |
20120037262 | RETRACTABLE ENERGY ABSORBING WEBBING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Energy absorbing webbings that are generally flat and that have a controllable elongation distance are provided. The webbings are comprised of elongation yarns, such as partially oriented yarns (POY), and ground yarns. In certain embodiments, because they are generally flat, the energy absorbing webbings are suitable for use in retractors. Also provided are processes of manufacturing generally flat, energy absorbing webbings. In certain embodiments, the webbings are subjected to heat using first and second set of rollers with various feed ratios. | 02-16-2012 |
20120125473 | DUAL LAYER TWILL FABRIC FOR CONVEYOR BELT APPLICATIONS - A composite fabric has a first weft sheet and a second weft sheet, each of individual weft yarns, a top warp yarn, a bottom warp yarn, and a binder yarn. The first and second weft sheet yarns each have an outer side and adjacent inner sides. Part of the top warp yarn extends between the first and second weft sheet, and part is woven around at least one first weft sheet yarn outer side. Part of the bottom warp yarn extends between the first and second weft sheet, and part is woven around at least one second weft sheet yarn outer side. The top warp yarn does not weave around any second weft sheet yarns. The bottom warp yarn does not weave around any first weft sheet yarns. The binder yarn weaves alternately around a first weft sheet yarn outer side, and a second weft sheet yarn outer side. | 05-24-2012 |
20120192988 | Seat Belt Webbing and Method for manufacturing the Same - The invention relates to a seat belt webbing having a plurality of warp threads ( | 08-02-2012 |
20130008552 | FELT FOR FORMING FIBER CEMENT ARTICLES AND RELATED METHODS - A fiber cement felt includes: a base fabric layer including MD and CMD yarns interwoven with each other, wherein the CMD yarns comprise twisted monofilaments; and at least one batt layer overlying the base fabric layer. | 01-10-2013 |
20130105031 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SOLID PART | 05-02-2013 |
20140150920 | WEAVING WITH RETRACTABLE FINGERS - A method of weaving a spiral-shaped textile includes inserting in the vicinity of the fell of the textile a finger adjacent to a first intermediate warp fiber between a first edge and a second edge; forming a loop around the finger with the weft fiber; wrapping weft fiber around the first intermediate warp fiber between the first edge and the second edge of the textile to secure the weft fiber in a radial direction between the first edge and the second edge of the textile; extending the weft fiber to the first edge of the textile; securing the weft fiber using a knitting system on the first edge of the textile; and removing the finger from the textile. | 06-05-2014 |
20150114512 | DECORATIVE ENGINEERED SELF HEM - A decorative engineered self-hem and a method to prepare the decorative engineered self-hem in a single fabric is disclosed herein. It is prepared without having any additional cut and sew, with various weave patterns designed in a design area 10-20 inches from a selvedge area and the rest of the fabric is woven in conventional weave pattern such as satin/twill. The method of preparation includes cutting the fabric parallel to a selvedge area; folding the fabric overlapping the selvedge area; and folding the full fabric horizontally and, at the same time, hemming of edge of the selvedge area to finish. | 04-30-2015 |
20080196784 | WEAR SIDE WEAVE PATTERN OF A COMPOSITE FORMING FABRIC - A fabric for papermaking including a first layer side, a second layer side and at least one binder warp yarn pair. The first side layer, having a plurality of first weft yarns and a plurality of first warp yarns. The second side layer having a plurality of second weft yarns and a plurality of second warp yarns. The at least one binder warp yarn pair including a first binder warp yarn pair having a first binder warp yarn and a second binder warp yarn, the first side layer and the second side layer being bound by the first binder warp yarn pair. The first binder warp yarn and the second binder warp yarn exchanging the layer to which they are woven at exchange points. A knuckle is formed with the first binder warp yarn and an adjacent first warp yarn, a subsequent adjacent knuckle only being formed with the first binder warp yarn and an opposite adjacent first warp yarn. | 08-21-2008 |
20080236699 | Through air drying fabric - A through-air-drying (TAD) fabric for producing tissue paper and related products on a papermaking machine comprising a plurality of warp yarns interwoven with a plurality of weft yarns to produce warp and weft knuckles on a paper-side surface of the fabric, preferably to form an L-shaped knuckle pattern. | 10-02-2008 |
20080264511 | FORMING MESH - A paper machine mesh, in particular forming mesh, includes an upper and a lower fabric layer and with binder threads to join the two fabric layers, whereby the lower fabric layer is formed by the binder threads, lower transverse threads and, woven therewith and extending transverse thereto, lower longitudinal threads, whereby the lower fabric layer has a weaving pattern which is repeated in lower repeats, whereby the binder threads are arranged in pairs and the binder threads of each pair are interchangingly woven with upper and with lower longitudinal threads, whereby each binder thread pair is flanked on both sides respectively by one lower transverse thread and each of the two flanking lower transverse threads is woven in periodic sequence with lower longitudinal threads as follows: i) the flanking lower transverse thread continually crosses several directly consecutive lower longitudinal threads on the outer side of the lower fabric layer; and ii) the flanking lower transverse thread continually crosses a lower longitudinal thread between the upper and the lower fabric layer and forms a thread knuckle. Within the lower repeat:
| 10-30-2008 |
20080289716 | LOW TENSILE CREEP BELT - An endless fabric belt subjected to a substantial running tension. The belt has an endless woven fabric formed from a plurality of MD (machine direction) ultra high molecular weight polymer strands approaching zero creep at high tensile loads. A plurality of CMD (cross machine direction) strands are interwoven with the MD strands. The plurality of MD strands have first and second ends spliced to one another to form an endless belt, the splices forming a significant linear MD overlap of about 30 cm with each other. | 11-27-2008 |
20080308171 | Paper Machine Fabric - The invention relates to a paper machine fabric comprising at least two separate layers made of at least four warp yarn systems ( | 12-18-2008 |
20090007981 | Woven Material Comprising Tape-Like Warp and Weft, and an Apparatus and Method for Weaving Thereof - Novel woven materials, producible by a new weaving method, are described that comprise single or doubled warps and wefts in the form of tapes that are preferably partially stabilized type of fibrous tape. These fibres are caused to occur in a non-linear arrangement during the weaving process. The non-linear fibres can be subsequently straightened by pulling the tape longitudinally. The doubled warps and wefts comprise disconnected tapes. Such separateness of constituent tapes of doubled warp and weft tapes enables them to be slid/slipped relative to each other by pulling longitudinally and laterally without causing any alteration in the woven structure. These novel fabrics solve the problem of uneven fibre distribution and orientation arising from crumples/wrinkles due to compression and stretches due to extension, at the inner and outer sides respectively, when tape-woven fabrics are curved into shapes. Further, by using doubled warps and wefts fabrics with relatively flat/planar sections and thicker/raised wide rib sections can be also created that resemble a bit like a profiled material in its cross-section. Other fabrics like those comprising slant/oblique weft tapes, shaped warp and weft tapes, formed shape within its body are also producible. | 01-08-2009 |
20090032132 | Dyeing Process on a Woven Product for the Purpose of Faded Effects Comprising an Application of Mordant Before Weaving, the Dyeing Being Deferred Until After Weaving - The invention relates to a dyeing or mordant process preferably for the purpose of obtaining faded effects on woven products or garments, characterized in that the mordant is applied to the warp yarn (or conversely the weft yarn) before the weaving, while the weft yarn (or conversely the warp yarn) constitutes the resist, and in that the dyeing is deferred until after the weaving. | 02-05-2009 |
20090050231 | WARP-TIED FORMING FABRIC WITH SELECTIVE WARP PAIR ORDERING - A double layer forming fabric for a papermaking machine is warp-tied, all the warp yarns comprising binder pairs which forming a single combined path in the paper side surface. The pair members exchange positions at an exchange point between successive path segments and are laterally displaced in relation to each other at and between each exchange point. For each successive pair, an order of insertion of the first and second members in relation to each other into the weave is inverted in relation to the order of insertion for members of the immediately preceding pair, such that each first member is adjacent to the first member of the adjacent pair at the closest exchange point, and each second member is adjacent to the second member of the adjacent pair at the closest exchange point. The fabric has improved drainage uniformity leading to improved paper formation and reduced sheet marking. | 02-26-2009 |
20090107574 | Fabric belt having ends of reduced thickness - A fabric belt unit for manufacturing corrugated board in a corrugator machine includes a belt ( | 04-30-2009 |
20090120525 | PAPER WEAVING KIT - A paper weaving kit ( | 05-14-2009 |
20090308482 | Upper Side, in Particular Paper Side, and Papermaking-Machine Fabric - The invention relates to an upper side, in particular a paper side for a multiple-layer sheet-forming fabric, in particular provided for use in a wet end of a papermaking machine, which comprises a multiplicity of longitudinal threads ( | 12-17-2009 |
20100024912 | Structured Forming Fabric, Papermaking Machine, and Method - The present invention provides a fabric for a papermaking machine. The fabric includes a machine facing side and a web facing side having pockets formed by warp and weft yarns. Each pocket is defined by four sides on the web facing side, three of the four sides each being formed by a knuckle of a single yarn, and one of the sides being formed by a knuckle of a weft and of a warp yarn, wherein the weft yarn also defines a bottom surface of the pocket. | 02-04-2010 |
20100108175 | MULTI-LAYER PAPERMAKER'S FORMING FABRIC WITH ALTERNATING PAIRED AND SINGLE TOP CMD YARNS - A papermaker's fabric comprises a series of repeat units. Each of the repeat units comprises: a set of top MD yarns; a set of top CMD yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns to form a top fabric layer; a set of bottom MD yarns; a set of bottom CMD yarns interwoven with the bottom MD yarns to form a bottom fabric layer; and a set of CMD stitching yarns interwoven with the top and bottom CMD yarns to bind the top and bottom fabric layers together. The stitching yarns are arranged in pairs. The top CMD yarns are arranged in an alternating pattern in which first (a) a single top CMD yarn is positioned between adjacent pairs of stitching yarns, then (b) two top CMD yarns are positioned between adjacent pairs of stitching yarns. | 05-06-2010 |
20110011485 | INDUSTRIAL TWO-LAYER FABRIC - The industrial two-layer fabric has at least warp binding yarn pairs having an upper side warp and a warp binding yarn arranged vertically. On the upper side, between knuckles that two adjacent upper side warps have formed by passing over one or two upper side wefts, a warp binding yarn passes over one upper side weft to form a knuckle, whereby knuckles of the upper side warp, the warp binding yarn, and the upper side warp are formed in the mention of order over the one upper side weft. In the industrial two-layer fabric thus formed, the knuckle of the warp binding yarn does not protrude further than the knuckle of the upper side warps. | 01-20-2011 |
20110023993 | FORMING FABRIC FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A FIBROUS WEB MATERIAL - A forming fabric for the forming of a fibrous web thereon, the fabric including a plurality of cross machine direction (CD) yarns and a plurality of machine direction (MD) yarns woven in a repeating pattern. The plurality of CD yarns includes a set of top CD yarns and a set of bottom CD yarns and a set of binder CD yarns. The plurality of MD yarns includes a set of top MD yarns and a set of bottom MD yarns. The top MD yarns being on a paper side of the fabric. The bottom MD yarns being on a wear side of the fabric. The repeating pattern of the CD yarns and the MD yarns include an arrangement of the bottom CD yarns each floating under only six adjacent bottom MD yarns and then between some of said top MD yarns and only two adjacent bottom MD yarns. | 02-03-2011 |
20130098497 | WOVEN PAPERMAKER FABRIC, IN PARTICULAR A FORMING FABRIC - A woven papermaker fabric having a first woven fabric layer made of first threads and having a second woven fabric layer made of second threads, the two woven fabric layers being connected by binder threads formed by structural second threads at binder points and having knuckles having peaks constituting a peak plane parallel to a paper side plane, and the first threads forming knuckles with concave inner bends, the points of which lying nearest to the paper side plane constituting an inner plane, wherein the tension of the first threads extending transversely to the binder threads is such that the peak plane is nearer to the paper side plane than the inner plane thereby causing lateral deflections of at least one of the first threads. | 04-25-2013 |
20130105030 | SHEET FORMING SCREEN | 05-02-2013 |
20130220475 | FABRIC FOR FORMING A PAPER WEB HAVING AN EMBOSSED SURFACE - The invention relates to a fabric for forming a fibrous paper web having an embossed surface. The fabric comprises longitudinal and transverse threads interwoven with one another in a weave repeat defining a machine side and a paper side. Some of the longitudinal threads form embossing threads having projecting paper side floats on the paper side of the fabric passing over more than one transverse thread. The fabric comprises a first woven fabric layer forming the paper side on its outside and having longitudinal and transverse first threads interwoven with one another and a second woven fabric layer forming the machine side on its outside and having longitudinal and transverse second threads interwoven with one another. At least some of the longitudinal second threads form embossing threads, which penetrate the first woven fabric layer for forming the paper side floats and connect the two woven fabric layers. | 08-29-2013 |
20130333792 | STABILIZED FABRIC SEAM FOR FLAT-WOVEN CONTINUOUS FABRIC BELTS - A continuous fabric belt with intersecting threads and a method to produce the belt, so that within fabric seam region at least two strip-shaped regions which extend over the entire width of fabric seam and contain meeting points are arranged between strip-shaped fabric regions in which there are crossovers between warp- or machine directional threads and weft or cross-machine directional threads. The crossovers are materially connected by transmission welding. | 12-19-2013 |
20080230139 | Dryer fabric and dryer fabric seam area - A dryer fabric and a seam area of a dryer fabric. The basic structure of the dryer fabric comprises at least two superposed machine direction yarn systems. Some yarns of a paper side machine direction yarn system form seam loops at connecting ends and some of the paper side machine direction yarns form an edge of the seam area. All the machine direction yarns of the paper side system make a backward turn at the connecting end and they are fastened off on the backside. The paper side machine direction yarns are cut at a cutting point. Cutting points form a fasten-off row. Yarns that form seam loops are fastened off in a first fasten-off row and yarns that form an edge of the seam area are fastened off in one or more second fasten-off row. One fasten-off row is situated at the beginning line of the seam area. | 09-25-2008 |
20080283140 | SEAM FABRIC FOR A MACHINE FOR PRODUCING WEB MATERIAL, IN PARTICULAR PAPER OR PAPERBOARD - Seam fabric for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper or paperboard, includes a basic structure constructed as seam cloth with weft threads running in a belt longitudinal direction and warp threads running in a belt transverse direction. At the belt longitudinal ends the weft threads form seam loops for joining the belt longitudinal ends. At least two weft thread layers are formed in the seam cloth, and weft thread pairs include respectively one weft thread of a first of the weft thread layers and one weft thread of a second of the weft thread layers. Two different types of groups of weft thread pairs are formed. In a first type of groups of weft thread pairs one respective weft thread of the first of the weft thread layers lies offset in a first direction in relation to the pair-wise assigned weft thread of the second of the weft thread layers. In the second type of groups of weft thread pairs one respective weft thread of the first of the weft thread layers lies offset in a second direction inverse to the first direction in relation to the pair-wise assigned weft thread of the second of the weft thread layers. | 11-20-2008 |
20090014083 | Papermaker's Press Felt With Long Machine Direction Floats in Base Fabric - A papermaker's press felt includes: a base fabric comprising: a set of top machine direction (MD) yarns; a set of bottom MD yarns; and a set of cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns and the bottom MD yarns. The top MD yarns, bottom MD yarns, and CMD yarns are interwoven in a series of repeat units in which each top MD yarn forms a long MD paper side float above certain consecutive ones of the set of CMD yarns. The press felt further comprises at least one batt layer attached to the base fabric. In this configuration, the long paper side floats of the base fabric can provide a desirable balance of properties. | 01-15-2009 |
20090090425 | Flat woven full width on-machine-seamable fabric - A laminated on-machine-seamable industrial fabric made from a flat woven full width base fabric layer wherein the base fabric layer is folded inwardly and flattened to produce a fabric with seaming loops disposed at the two widthwise edges. | 04-09-2009 |
20090133774 | Seam Felt for Papermaking and Manufacturing Method Thereof - A seam felt | 05-28-2009 |
20090139599 | Process for producing papermaker's and industrial fabric seam and seam produced by that method - The invention disclosed herein relates to the use of laser energy to weld or melt selected locations in papermachine clothing (“PMC”) and other industrial and engineered fabrics. The invention also relates to an improved seam for a papermaker or other industrial fabric that has properties such as strength, durability, openness, adequate number of support points, and fiber support index (FSI) essentially the same as the fabric body. The invention also relates to a fabric having a durable seam, wherein the seam width as measured in the MD is a fraction of the width of a normal seam or a seam that is formed using a conventional technique of equal strength. | 06-04-2009 |
20090139600 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MACHINE FELT, AND MACHINE FELT - A method for manufacturing a machine felt. Firstly a tube having a longitudinal yarn layer is manufactured with a peripheral length double the length of the machine felt, and a width that corresponds to the width of the machine felt. The tube is compressed into a flattened tube with the formation of longitudinal yarn loops which are exposed by the removal of fibers of a fiber batt layer. An auxiliary substrate web is manufactured with a width that is less than that of the machine felt; for the longitudinal yarns and/or for the auxiliary substrate web, a material is used that absorbs laser energy; the longitudinal yarns are brought together with the auxiliary substrate web and connected by a laser beam; the auxiliary substrate web is helically wound until the tube is formed; and upon exposure of the longitudinal yarn loops, the auxiliary substrate web(s) are also removed. | 06-04-2009 |
20090159148 | DRYING WIRE - A drying wire provided with an independent top fabric and bottom fabric. The bottom fabric is woven from longitudinal and cross direction monofilament yarns. The top fabric is woven from longitudinal yarns and shapeable cross direction yarns. The shapeable yarns make the structure of the top fabric denser and increase the contact surface area and the number of contact points. On the other hand, the bottom fabric is also smooth, wherefore it has good aerodynamic properties. | 06-25-2009 |
20100059135 | FELT WITH SEAM FOR PAPER MANUFACTURE - In a seam felt for paper manufacture, seam loops formed at opposite ends of a length of ground fabric to which layers of batt fiber are integrated by needle punching, are formed as groups of loops composed of machine direction yarns. When the opposite ends of the ground fabric are brought together, the groups of loops are intermeshed in an alternating arrangement to form a common bore for receiving a seam thread by which the intermeshed groups of loops are secured together. The loops of each group can be held together by adhesive bonding, or by heat adhesion if the machine direction yarns are core-in-sheath composite fibers wherein the sheath has a lower melting point than that of the core. | 03-11-2010 |
20130206276 | JOINING LOOP STRUCTURE OF INDUSTRIAL MULTILAYER FABRIC - A multilayer fabric is joined by engaging joining loops formed at both ends of a disjoined industrial multilayer fabric having wefts and warps in layers. The joining loops are formed by folding back some or all the end portions of warps. The both ends of the fabric are joined by engaging the loops to form a common hole and inserting a core wire into the common hole. At least one upper side weft remains while a lower side weft below the remaining upper side weft is removed at the both ends of the fabric. The common hole and the core wire inserted therein are located below the remaining upper side weft. The folded portions of the warps are interwoven with wefts of a normal portion of the fabric. | 08-15-2013 |
139383000 | Joint structure | 10 |
20090038706 | STRETCHABLE STRAP WITH GRIPPER AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME - A stretchable strap includes a side containing regions woven with frictionally enhancing material. Warp threads of both frictionally enhancing and non-frictionally enhancing material are woven to form a two-layer strap. Internal elastomeric threads provide a connection between the two layers as well as allow the strap to stretch. A method of making the strap is also provided wherein all elements are simultaneously woven on a loom. | 02-12-2009 |
20090165883 | Light Diffusing Yarn and Surface-Form Structure - Four light-transmitting mono filaments ( | 07-02-2009 |
20090288731 | 3D FABRIC AND PREPARING THEREOF - A three-dimensional multilayer fabric is provided. The fabric comprises a surface layer, a backing layer, and an intermediate layer connecting the surface layer and the backing layer. The surface layer includes sequential unstitched surface portions and sequential stitched surface portions formed in an alternating and repeating pattern. The unstitched surface portions of the surface layer are essentially composed of surface warp threads only, and the stitched surface portions of the surface layer are composed of the surface warp threads and intermediate warp threads. The backing layer includes sequential unstitched backing portions and sequential stitched backing portions formed in an alternating and repeating pattern. The unstitched backing portions of the backing layer are essentially composed of backing warp threads only, and the stitched backing portions of the backing layer are composed of the backing warp threads and the intermediate warp threads. The intermediate warp threads are woven without interlacing with weft threads on the surfaces of the unstitched backing portions. The intermediate layer includes sequential intermediate portions composed of the intermediate warp threads only. Each of the intermediate portions consists of a first intermediate portion and a second intermediate portion connected to the stitched surface portions and the stitched backing portions in an alternating and repeating pattern. The connecting warp threads of the intermediate layer exposed to the outside of the backing layer are sheared. Further provided is a method for the production of the fabric. | 11-26-2009 |
20100126619 | Sailcloth - A woven cloth is provided in which war yarns are relatively uncrimped compared to fill yarns. In some embodiments, the cloth includes flat filament warp yarns and textured fill yarns. In some embodiments, the woven cloth is sailcloth. | 05-27-2010 |
20100186847 | METHOD FOR OPENING FABRIC, FABRIC, AND COMPOSITE MATERIAL - According to the present invention there is provided a method for opening a fabric, in which warp and weft yarns can be uniformly opened using a simple method without having to alter the fabric weaving procedure. The method is a method for opening a fabric ( | 07-29-2010 |
20100236656 | Heat- and Corrosion-Resistant Fabric - A fabric for supporting a fibrous web is disclosed. The fabric has a layer that includes a plurality of weft yarns and a plurality of warp yarns interwoven with the plurality of weft yarns. The warp and weft yarns define a web-facing side and an opposite machine-facing side. The warp yarns include at least one of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) and polyetheretherketone (PEEK). In addition, a yarn count, weave pattern, and yarn shape of the fabric are configured such that molten polymer drops are scrapable from the web-facing side leaving an upper support surface that does not blemish a fibrous web supported by the fabric. | 09-23-2010 |
20110005632 | FABRIC MADE UP OF AT LEAST TWO LAPS INTERWOVEN ALONG A COMMON STRETCH AND METHOD FOR ITS PRODUCTION - A fabric is made up of at least two laps ( | 01-13-2011 |
20110017341 | Non-skid protective cloth or pad - A two-layer, non-skid protective cloth or pad for use as a painter's drop cloth or as a protective pad for surfaces such as boat decks, airplane wings or other surfaces where a non-skid pad is essential. The pad has a woven upper member, typically of a cotton canvas-like material, and a lower, resilient member. The two layers are typically stitched together. The lower, resilient member typically comprises downward-projecting dimples, often of two or more different sizes. The dimples are joined by a grid of resilient material. In alternate embodiments, an impervious member may be inserted between the upper and lower members. | 01-27-2011 |
20110180175 | Tissue With an Insert Edge and Use of Said Tissue - A woven fabric, especially a jeans fabric, with a ground fabric ( | 07-28-2011 |
20120037262 | RETRACTABLE ENERGY ABSORBING WEBBING AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Energy absorbing webbings that are generally flat and that have a controllable elongation distance are provided. The webbings are comprised of elongation yarns, such as partially oriented yarns (POY), and ground yarns. In certain embodiments, because they are generally flat, the energy absorbing webbings are suitable for use in retractors. Also provided are processes of manufacturing generally flat, energy absorbing webbings. In certain embodiments, the webbings are subjected to heat using first and second set of rollers with various feed ratios. | 02-16-2012 |
20120125473 | DUAL LAYER TWILL FABRIC FOR CONVEYOR BELT APPLICATIONS - A composite fabric has a first weft sheet and a second weft sheet, each of individual weft yarns, a top warp yarn, a bottom warp yarn, and a binder yarn. The first and second weft sheet yarns each have an outer side and adjacent inner sides. Part of the top warp yarn extends between the first and second weft sheet, and part is woven around at least one first weft sheet yarn outer side. Part of the bottom warp yarn extends between the first and second weft sheet, and part is woven around at least one second weft sheet yarn outer side. The top warp yarn does not weave around any second weft sheet yarns. The bottom warp yarn does not weave around any first weft sheet yarns. The binder yarn weaves alternately around a first weft sheet yarn outer side, and a second weft sheet yarn outer side. | 05-24-2012 |
20120192988 | Seat Belt Webbing and Method for manufacturing the Same - The invention relates to a seat belt webbing having a plurality of warp threads ( | 08-02-2012 |
20130008552 | FELT FOR FORMING FIBER CEMENT ARTICLES AND RELATED METHODS - A fiber cement felt includes: a base fabric layer including MD and CMD yarns interwoven with each other, wherein the CMD yarns comprise twisted monofilaments; and at least one batt layer overlying the base fabric layer. | 01-10-2013 |
20130105031 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A SOLID PART | 05-02-2013 |
20140150920 | WEAVING WITH RETRACTABLE FINGERS - A method of weaving a spiral-shaped textile includes inserting in the vicinity of the fell of the textile a finger adjacent to a first intermediate warp fiber between a first edge and a second edge; forming a loop around the finger with the weft fiber; wrapping weft fiber around the first intermediate warp fiber between the first edge and the second edge of the textile to secure the weft fiber in a radial direction between the first edge and the second edge of the textile; extending the weft fiber to the first edge of the textile; securing the weft fiber using a knitting system on the first edge of the textile; and removing the finger from the textile. | 06-05-2014 |
20150114512 | DECORATIVE ENGINEERED SELF HEM - A decorative engineered self-hem and a method to prepare the decorative engineered self-hem in a single fabric is disclosed herein. It is prepared without having any additional cut and sew, with various weave patterns designed in a design area 10-20 inches from a selvedge area and the rest of the fabric is woven in conventional weave pattern such as satin/twill. The method of preparation includes cutting the fabric parallel to a selvedge area; folding the fabric overlapping the selvedge area; and folding the full fabric horizontally and, at the same time, hemming of edge of the selvedge area to finish. | 04-30-2015 |
20080196784 | WEAR SIDE WEAVE PATTERN OF A COMPOSITE FORMING FABRIC - A fabric for papermaking including a first layer side, a second layer side and at least one binder warp yarn pair. The first side layer, having a plurality of first weft yarns and a plurality of first warp yarns. The second side layer having a plurality of second weft yarns and a plurality of second warp yarns. The at least one binder warp yarn pair including a first binder warp yarn pair having a first binder warp yarn and a second binder warp yarn, the first side layer and the second side layer being bound by the first binder warp yarn pair. The first binder warp yarn and the second binder warp yarn exchanging the layer to which they are woven at exchange points. A knuckle is formed with the first binder warp yarn and an adjacent first warp yarn, a subsequent adjacent knuckle only being formed with the first binder warp yarn and an opposite adjacent first warp yarn. | 08-21-2008 |
20080236699 | Through air drying fabric - A through-air-drying (TAD) fabric for producing tissue paper and related products on a papermaking machine comprising a plurality of warp yarns interwoven with a plurality of weft yarns to produce warp and weft knuckles on a paper-side surface of the fabric, preferably to form an L-shaped knuckle pattern. | 10-02-2008 |
20080264511 | FORMING MESH - A paper machine mesh, in particular forming mesh, includes an upper and a lower fabric layer and with binder threads to join the two fabric layers, whereby the lower fabric layer is formed by the binder threads, lower transverse threads and, woven therewith and extending transverse thereto, lower longitudinal threads, whereby the lower fabric layer has a weaving pattern which is repeated in lower repeats, whereby the binder threads are arranged in pairs and the binder threads of each pair are interchangingly woven with upper and with lower longitudinal threads, whereby each binder thread pair is flanked on both sides respectively by one lower transverse thread and each of the two flanking lower transverse threads is woven in periodic sequence with lower longitudinal threads as follows: i) the flanking lower transverse thread continually crosses several directly consecutive lower longitudinal threads on the outer side of the lower fabric layer; and ii) the flanking lower transverse thread continually crosses a lower longitudinal thread between the upper and the lower fabric layer and forms a thread knuckle. Within the lower repeat:
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20080289716 | LOW TENSILE CREEP BELT - An endless fabric belt subjected to a substantial running tension. The belt has an endless woven fabric formed from a plurality of MD (machine direction) ultra high molecular weight polymer strands approaching zero creep at high tensile loads. A plurality of CMD (cross machine direction) strands are interwoven with the MD strands. The plurality of MD strands have first and second ends spliced to one another to form an endless belt, the splices forming a significant linear MD overlap of about 30 cm with each other. | 11-27-2008 |
20080308171 | Paper Machine Fabric - The invention relates to a paper machine fabric comprising at least two separate layers made of at least four warp yarn systems ( | 12-18-2008 |
20090007981 | Woven Material Comprising Tape-Like Warp and Weft, and an Apparatus and Method for Weaving Thereof - Novel woven materials, producible by a new weaving method, are described that comprise single or doubled warps and wefts in the form of tapes that are preferably partially stabilized type of fibrous tape. These fibres are caused to occur in a non-linear arrangement during the weaving process. The non-linear fibres can be subsequently straightened by pulling the tape longitudinally. The doubled warps and wefts comprise disconnected tapes. Such separateness of constituent tapes of doubled warp and weft tapes enables them to be slid/slipped relative to each other by pulling longitudinally and laterally without causing any alteration in the woven structure. These novel fabrics solve the problem of uneven fibre distribution and orientation arising from crumples/wrinkles due to compression and stretches due to extension, at the inner and outer sides respectively, when tape-woven fabrics are curved into shapes. Further, by using doubled warps and wefts fabrics with relatively flat/planar sections and thicker/raised wide rib sections can be also created that resemble a bit like a profiled material in its cross-section. Other fabrics like those comprising slant/oblique weft tapes, shaped warp and weft tapes, formed shape within its body are also producible. | 01-08-2009 |
20090032132 | Dyeing Process on a Woven Product for the Purpose of Faded Effects Comprising an Application of Mordant Before Weaving, the Dyeing Being Deferred Until After Weaving - The invention relates to a dyeing or mordant process preferably for the purpose of obtaining faded effects on woven products or garments, characterized in that the mordant is applied to the warp yarn (or conversely the weft yarn) before the weaving, while the weft yarn (or conversely the warp yarn) constitutes the resist, and in that the dyeing is deferred until after the weaving. | 02-05-2009 |
20090050231 | WARP-TIED FORMING FABRIC WITH SELECTIVE WARP PAIR ORDERING - A double layer forming fabric for a papermaking machine is warp-tied, all the warp yarns comprising binder pairs which forming a single combined path in the paper side surface. The pair members exchange positions at an exchange point between successive path segments and are laterally displaced in relation to each other at and between each exchange point. For each successive pair, an order of insertion of the first and second members in relation to each other into the weave is inverted in relation to the order of insertion for members of the immediately preceding pair, such that each first member is adjacent to the first member of the adjacent pair at the closest exchange point, and each second member is adjacent to the second member of the adjacent pair at the closest exchange point. The fabric has improved drainage uniformity leading to improved paper formation and reduced sheet marking. | 02-26-2009 |
20090107574 | Fabric belt having ends of reduced thickness - A fabric belt unit for manufacturing corrugated board in a corrugator machine includes a belt ( | 04-30-2009 |
20090120525 | PAPER WEAVING KIT - A paper weaving kit ( | 05-14-2009 |
20090308482 | Upper Side, in Particular Paper Side, and Papermaking-Machine Fabric - The invention relates to an upper side, in particular a paper side for a multiple-layer sheet-forming fabric, in particular provided for use in a wet end of a papermaking machine, which comprises a multiplicity of longitudinal threads ( | 12-17-2009 |
20100024912 | Structured Forming Fabric, Papermaking Machine, and Method - The present invention provides a fabric for a papermaking machine. The fabric includes a machine facing side and a web facing side having pockets formed by warp and weft yarns. Each pocket is defined by four sides on the web facing side, three of the four sides each being formed by a knuckle of a single yarn, and one of the sides being formed by a knuckle of a weft and of a warp yarn, wherein the weft yarn also defines a bottom surface of the pocket. | 02-04-2010 |
20100108175 | MULTI-LAYER PAPERMAKER'S FORMING FABRIC WITH ALTERNATING PAIRED AND SINGLE TOP CMD YARNS - A papermaker's fabric comprises a series of repeat units. Each of the repeat units comprises: a set of top MD yarns; a set of top CMD yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns to form a top fabric layer; a set of bottom MD yarns; a set of bottom CMD yarns interwoven with the bottom MD yarns to form a bottom fabric layer; and a set of CMD stitching yarns interwoven with the top and bottom CMD yarns to bind the top and bottom fabric layers together. The stitching yarns are arranged in pairs. The top CMD yarns are arranged in an alternating pattern in which first (a) a single top CMD yarn is positioned between adjacent pairs of stitching yarns, then (b) two top CMD yarns are positioned between adjacent pairs of stitching yarns. | 05-06-2010 |
20110011485 | INDUSTRIAL TWO-LAYER FABRIC - The industrial two-layer fabric has at least warp binding yarn pairs having an upper side warp and a warp binding yarn arranged vertically. On the upper side, between knuckles that two adjacent upper side warps have formed by passing over one or two upper side wefts, a warp binding yarn passes over one upper side weft to form a knuckle, whereby knuckles of the upper side warp, the warp binding yarn, and the upper side warp are formed in the mention of order over the one upper side weft. In the industrial two-layer fabric thus formed, the knuckle of the warp binding yarn does not protrude further than the knuckle of the upper side warps. | 01-20-2011 |
20110023993 | FORMING FABRIC FOR THE PRODUCTION OF A FIBROUS WEB MATERIAL - A forming fabric for the forming of a fibrous web thereon, the fabric including a plurality of cross machine direction (CD) yarns and a plurality of machine direction (MD) yarns woven in a repeating pattern. The plurality of CD yarns includes a set of top CD yarns and a set of bottom CD yarns and a set of binder CD yarns. The plurality of MD yarns includes a set of top MD yarns and a set of bottom MD yarns. The top MD yarns being on a paper side of the fabric. The bottom MD yarns being on a wear side of the fabric. The repeating pattern of the CD yarns and the MD yarns include an arrangement of the bottom CD yarns each floating under only six adjacent bottom MD yarns and then between some of said top MD yarns and only two adjacent bottom MD yarns. | 02-03-2011 |
20130098497 | WOVEN PAPERMAKER FABRIC, IN PARTICULAR A FORMING FABRIC - A woven papermaker fabric having a first woven fabric layer made of first threads and having a second woven fabric layer made of second threads, the two woven fabric layers being connected by binder threads formed by structural second threads at binder points and having knuckles having peaks constituting a peak plane parallel to a paper side plane, and the first threads forming knuckles with concave inner bends, the points of which lying nearest to the paper side plane constituting an inner plane, wherein the tension of the first threads extending transversely to the binder threads is such that the peak plane is nearer to the paper side plane than the inner plane thereby causing lateral deflections of at least one of the first threads. | 04-25-2013 |
20130105030 | SHEET FORMING SCREEN | 05-02-2013 |
20130220475 | FABRIC FOR FORMING A PAPER WEB HAVING AN EMBOSSED SURFACE - The invention relates to a fabric for forming a fibrous paper web having an embossed surface. The fabric comprises longitudinal and transverse threads interwoven with one another in a weave repeat defining a machine side and a paper side. Some of the longitudinal threads form embossing threads having projecting paper side floats on the paper side of the fabric passing over more than one transverse thread. The fabric comprises a first woven fabric layer forming the paper side on its outside and having longitudinal and transverse first threads interwoven with one another and a second woven fabric layer forming the machine side on its outside and having longitudinal and transverse second threads interwoven with one another. At least some of the longitudinal second threads form embossing threads, which penetrate the first woven fabric layer for forming the paper side floats and connect the two woven fabric layers. | 08-29-2013 |
20130333792 | STABILIZED FABRIC SEAM FOR FLAT-WOVEN CONTINUOUS FABRIC BELTS - A continuous fabric belt with intersecting threads and a method to produce the belt, so that within fabric seam region at least two strip-shaped regions which extend over the entire width of fabric seam and contain meeting points are arranged between strip-shaped fabric regions in which there are crossovers between warp- or machine directional threads and weft or cross-machine directional threads. The crossovers are materially connected by transmission welding. | 12-19-2013 |
20080230139 | Dryer fabric and dryer fabric seam area - A dryer fabric and a seam area of a dryer fabric. The basic structure of the dryer fabric comprises at least two superposed machine direction yarn systems. Some yarns of a paper side machine direction yarn system form seam loops at connecting ends and some of the paper side machine direction yarns form an edge of the seam area. All the machine direction yarns of the paper side system make a backward turn at the connecting end and they are fastened off on the backside. The paper side machine direction yarns are cut at a cutting point. Cutting points form a fasten-off row. Yarns that form seam loops are fastened off in a first fasten-off row and yarns that form an edge of the seam area are fastened off in one or more second fasten-off row. One fasten-off row is situated at the beginning line of the seam area. | 09-25-2008 |
20080283140 | SEAM FABRIC FOR A MACHINE FOR PRODUCING WEB MATERIAL, IN PARTICULAR PAPER OR PAPERBOARD - Seam fabric for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper or paperboard, includes a basic structure constructed as seam cloth with weft threads running in a belt longitudinal direction and warp threads running in a belt transverse direction. At the belt longitudinal ends the weft threads form seam loops for joining the belt longitudinal ends. At least two weft thread layers are formed in the seam cloth, and weft thread pairs include respectively one weft thread of a first of the weft thread layers and one weft thread of a second of the weft thread layers. Two different types of groups of weft thread pairs are formed. In a first type of groups of weft thread pairs one respective weft thread of the first of the weft thread layers lies offset in a first direction in relation to the pair-wise assigned weft thread of the second of the weft thread layers. In the second type of groups of weft thread pairs one respective weft thread of the first of the weft thread layers lies offset in a second direction inverse to the first direction in relation to the pair-wise assigned weft thread of the second of the weft thread layers. | 11-20-2008 |
20090014083 | Papermaker's Press Felt With Long Machine Direction Floats in Base Fabric - A papermaker's press felt includes: a base fabric comprising: a set of top machine direction (MD) yarns; a set of bottom MD yarns; and a set of cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns and the bottom MD yarns. The top MD yarns, bottom MD yarns, and CMD yarns are interwoven in a series of repeat units in which each top MD yarn forms a long MD paper side float above certain consecutive ones of the set of CMD yarns. The press felt further comprises at least one batt layer attached to the base fabric. In this configuration, the long paper side floats of the base fabric can provide a desirable balance of properties. | 01-15-2009 |
20090090425 | Flat woven full width on-machine-seamable fabric - A laminated on-machine-seamable industrial fabric made from a flat woven full width base fabric layer wherein the base fabric layer is folded inwardly and flattened to produce a fabric with seaming loops disposed at the two widthwise edges. | 04-09-2009 |
20090133774 | Seam Felt for Papermaking and Manufacturing Method Thereof - A seam felt | 05-28-2009 |
20090139599 | Process for producing papermaker's and industrial fabric seam and seam produced by that method - The invention disclosed herein relates to the use of laser energy to weld or melt selected locations in papermachine clothing (“PMC”) and other industrial and engineered fabrics. The invention also relates to an improved seam for a papermaker or other industrial fabric that has properties such as strength, durability, openness, adequate number of support points, and fiber support index (FSI) essentially the same as the fabric body. The invention also relates to a fabric having a durable seam, wherein the seam width as measured in the MD is a fraction of the width of a normal seam or a seam that is formed using a conventional technique of equal strength. | 06-04-2009 |
20090139600 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A MACHINE FELT, AND MACHINE FELT - A method for manufacturing a machine felt. Firstly a tube having a longitudinal yarn layer is manufactured with a peripheral length double the length of the machine felt, and a width that corresponds to the width of the machine felt. The tube is compressed into a flattened tube with the formation of longitudinal yarn loops which are exposed by the removal of fibers of a fiber batt layer. An auxiliary substrate web is manufactured with a width that is less than that of the machine felt; for the longitudinal yarns and/or for the auxiliary substrate web, a material is used that absorbs laser energy; the longitudinal yarns are brought together with the auxiliary substrate web and connected by a laser beam; the auxiliary substrate web is helically wound until the tube is formed; and upon exposure of the longitudinal yarn loops, the auxiliary substrate web(s) are also removed. | 06-04-2009 |
20090159148 | DRYING WIRE - A drying wire provided with an independent top fabric and bottom fabric. The bottom fabric is woven from longitudinal and cross direction monofilament yarns. The top fabric is woven from longitudinal yarns and shapeable cross direction yarns. The shapeable yarns make the structure of the top fabric denser and increase the contact surface area and the number of contact points. On the other hand, the bottom fabric is also smooth, wherefore it has good aerodynamic properties. | 06-25-2009 |
20100059135 | FELT WITH SEAM FOR PAPER MANUFACTURE - In a seam felt for paper manufacture, seam loops formed at opposite ends of a length of ground fabric to which layers of batt fiber are integrated by needle punching, are formed as groups of loops composed of machine direction yarns. When the opposite ends of the ground fabric are brought together, the groups of loops are intermeshed in an alternating arrangement to form a common bore for receiving a seam thread by which the intermeshed groups of loops are secured together. The loops of each group can be held together by adhesive bonding, or by heat adhesion if the machine direction yarns are core-in-sheath composite fibers wherein the sheath has a lower melting point than that of the core. | 03-11-2010 |
20130206276 | JOINING LOOP STRUCTURE OF INDUSTRIAL MULTILAYER FABRIC - A multilayer fabric is joined by engaging joining loops formed at both ends of a disjoined industrial multilayer fabric having wefts and warps in layers. The joining loops are formed by folding back some or all the end portions of warps. The both ends of the fabric are joined by engaging the loops to form a common hole and inserting a core wire into the common hole. At least one upper side weft remains while a lower side weft below the remaining upper side weft is removed at the both ends of the fabric. The common hole and the core wire inserted therein are located below the remaining upper side weft. The folded portions of the warps are interwoven with wefts of a normal portion of the fabric. | 08-15-2013 |