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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2004
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Scott Sheldon Smith, Appleton, WI (US);
Paul Allen Zimmerman, Portland, TN (US);
Mark Joseph Levine, Hendersonville, TN (US);
Assignee:
Albany International Corp., Albany, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D03D 1/500 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D03D 1/500 ;
Abstract
An industrial fabric used in the form of an endless fabric belt to form and convey a nonwoven fiber web during the manufacture of a nonwoven fabric has a web-supporting surface which includes rough-surface yarns which inhibit movement, namely, slippage, of the nonwoven fiber web relative to the web-supporting surface. Preferably, the rough-surface yarns make long floats in one or both directions, that is, lengthwise and/or crosswise, on the web-supporting surface.