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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 21, 1989
Filed:
Oct. 14, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Patrick Penven, Clinton, SC (US);
Assignee:
Asten Group, Inc., Charleston, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D06H / ; F16G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
162199 ; 24 3 / ; 24 3 / ; 1393 / ; 162D / ; 245 10 ;
Abstract
A pintle unit and method of closing a seam in a papermakers felt which provides a tight closure along the full length of the seam. The seam is closed with a pintle unit made up of a plurality of pintle elements which are tapered and pulled into the seam to interact in a wedging fashion. The pintle elements are tapered for a length at least as long as the width of the seam so that when wedged in the seam a pintle unit of substantially uniform size across the full width of the felt is provided.