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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:
Aug. 14, 2001
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Samuel H. Herring, Simpsonville, SC (US);
Assignee:
AstenJohnson, Inc., Charleston, SC (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D03D 1/300 ; D21F 1/00 ; D21F 7/10 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D03D 1/300 ; D21F 1/00 ; D21F 7/10 ;
Abstract
An open ended papermaker's fabric of the type woven from longitudinal and transverse thread systems including a plurality of seam loops at each end of the fabric. A seam zone exists at each end of the fabric between the respective seam loops and the last thread of the transverse thread system. At least one additional transverse thread is interwoven in at least one seam zone in a repeat pattern having a ratio of interlacings with longitudinal machine side threads to paper side longitudinal threads greater than zero and less than or equal to 1 in 6.