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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Applicant:
Inventor:
Henry J Lee, Summerville, SC (US);
Assignee:
Asten, Inc., Charleston, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D03D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1393 / ; 442270 ; 428193 ; 428 58 ;
Abstract
An open ended papermaker's fabric having first and second layers of machine direction (MD) yarns interwoven with a plurality of cross machine direction (CMD) yarns. Additional CMD yarns are interwoven with both MD layers at each end of the fabric between the last CMD yarn and the seam loops in a balancing weave that establishes vertical and horizontal alignment for the seam loops.