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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:
Nov. 20, 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 a type woven from a longitudinal thread system and a transverse thread system wherein a plurality of seam loops are formed at each end of the fabric by the threads of the longitudinal thread system. A seam zone exists at each end of the fabric between the respective seam loops and the last thread of the transverse thread system. Two additional transverse threads are interwoven with the longitudinal thread system in at least one seam zone in complementary weave repeat patterns that combine to provide a paper side repeated pattern of over one, under one across the repeat.