Albany International Corporation

Cary P Johnson

Jonas B Karlsson

Bo-Christer Aberg

John J Lafond

Francis L Davenport

Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid

Jonas Karlsson

Jean-Louis Monnerie

Ola Thomasson

Pierre Riviere

Ingvar B Klerelid

Magnus Hultcrantz

Jerry G Sokaris

Ingvar Klerelid

Bo-Christer ÅBerg

A fabric structure used to make textured tissue or towel or nonwovens, the structure being permeable to air and water, comprising a sheet contact surface having a pattern including a series of raised land areas and corresponding depressions adapted to impart a texture to the tissue or towel or nonwoven, and a series of through voids adapted to allow passage of both water and/or air from the fabric surface into and/or through the structure.

Permeable belt for the manufacture of tissue, towel and nonwovens

A fabric structure used to make textured nonwoven products, the structure being permeable to air and water, comprising a web contact surface having a pattern including a series of raised land areas and corresponding depressions adapted to impart a texture to the nonwoven product produced thereon, and a series of through voids adapted to allow passage of both water and/or air from the fabric surface into and/or through the structure.

Permeable belt for nonwovens production

A structuring layer of a structuring belt for structuring a wet fibrous web in a press section of a tissue papermaking machine for manufacturing high bulk tissue paper, the structuring layer having a web-carrying side with a surface for cooperating with the fibrous web, the surface having depressions distributed over the web-carrying side and forming a three-dimensional structure of the surface. The depressions altogether constitute 20-80% of the surface. Each depression has a dimension l of 0.25-2.5 mm in a first direction in the plane of the top surface area, a dimension b of 0.25-2.0 mm in a second direction in the plane of the top surface area, such directions being at right angles to each other, a mean depth d of 0.05-0.6 mm, and an area a as measured in the plane of the top surface area of 0.063-5.0 mm.

Structuring belt, press section and tissue papermaking machine for manufacturing a high bulk creped tissue paper web and method therefor

A clothing for structuring a wet fibre web (') in a press section of a tissue papermaking machine is described which has a three-dimensional woven structure forming elevations () and depressions (), said elevations, like the depressions, are repeated and distributed to form a pattern of polygonal, geometrically similar smallest unitary surfaces (), each of said unitary surfaces having an area a and covering a plurality of depressions with the mean depth d. According to the invention, the area a and the mean depth d of each unitary surface () are adapted in relation to each other in such a way that, calculated by the length unit mm, their ratio is equal to or greater than 30 mm, wherein a is selected within the range of 1.0-3.0 mmand d is selected within the range of 0.03-0.09 mm. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing a creped tissue paper web by using said structuring clothing.

Structural clothing and method of manufacturing a tissue paper web

The disclosure is of a papermakers wet-press felt fabric, felts made therefrom and their use, as wet press felts on papermaking machines.

Resole treated papermakers felt and method of fabrication

The disclosure is of a new wet press felt for use on papermaking machines. The wet press felt of the invention comprises a conventional felt fabric having needled thereto a plurality of non-woven layers of synthetic, textile fibers. Interposed between the layers of synthetic textile fibers are mesh fabrics (4 to 32 mesh) which support the individual non-woven layers and retard compaction of the overall construction.

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Clifton Park, NY, United States of America

Cary P Johnson