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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2000
Filed:
Oct. 23, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Gale Shipley, Mauldin, SC (US);
Assignee:
Asten, Inc., Charleston, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D12F / ; D03D / ; D03D / ; D03D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
1623581 ; 162348 ; 162D / ; 1393 / ; 139413 ; 1394 / ; 442319 ; 442320 ;
Abstract
A woven papermakers fabric having a first system of yarns interwoven with a second system of yarns. The second system of yarns having a repeat which defines three successive knuckles on the paper carrying side of the fabric while maintaining vertical alignment of the first system yarns in the respective first and second layers of the first system by defining a single knuckle on the machine side of the fabric in each repeat. Preferably, the first system yarns are cross machine direction (CMD) yarns which repeat with respect to eight pairs of stacked machine direction (MD) yarns.