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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 papermaking fabric comprised of interwoven longitudinal and transverse thread systems which define a paper side, a machine side and a plurality of seaming loops at each open end of the fabric. The seaming loops are formed by the longitudinal thread system and the transverse threads define a seaming zone at each end. The fabric is characterized by at least one additional transverse thread interwoven with the longitudinal threads in the seam zone in a repeat pattern that includes a mid-plane float of at least two threads in the longitudinal yarn system.