Voith Fabrics Heidenheim Gmbh & Co Kg

Voith Patent Gmbh

David Holden

Mark Adrian Hodson

Bryan Gisbourne

Michael A Gisbourne, Legal Representative

A papermaking fabric includes a system of warp yarns interwoven with a system of weft yarns. The system of weft yarns includes groups of weft yarns, each of the groups being formed by a plurality of adjacent weft yarns weaving in the group side-by-side the same weave path with the warp yarns. A method of manufacturing such a papermaking fabric is also provided.

Papermaking clothing

A seam construction for a woven dryer fabric comprises a helical spiral or array of loops ( ) stitched or woven into the fabric by means of loop engaging yarns ( ) extending the machine direction of the fabric, the neutral plane ( ) of the fabric being displaced towards the paper contacting side of the fabric, by reason of yarns ( ) in the paper contacting side of the fabric being of smaller diameter than the yarns ( ) on the machine side of the fabric, and a pair of cross-machine yarns ( ) of equal diameter being located as terminal yarns adjacent the loops ( ).

Fabric seam

A seam arrangement for connecting the two ends of a fabric so as to form an endless belt, particularly for use in papermaking. The seam arrangement comprises two endless coils (,) which are respectively located at the free ends of the fabric and on interdigitation are brought into union by a pintle wire. Each loop of the coils (,) is secured by a &ldquo;short&rdquo; fabric loop (,) and a &ldquo;long&rdquo; fabric loop (,). The short fabric loop is located at the right hand side of the long fabric loop when looking up the fabric towards the seam.

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