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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2005
Filed:
Dec. 24, 2002
Stewart Lister Hay, Ramsbottom Bury, GB;
Johann Boeck, Neufelden, AT;
Stewart Lister Hay, Ramsbottom Bury, GB;
Johann Boeck, Neufelden, AT;
Voith Fabrics Heidenheim GmbH & Co., KG, Heidenheim, DE;
Abstract
A composite fabric comprising a paper side layer, a machine side layer and a plurality of pairs of first and second intrinsic, interchanging weft yarns having at least two segments in the paper side layer within each repeat of the weave pattern. Each layer comprises warp yarns and weft yarns woven together and having a predetermined repeat of the weave pattern in the cross-machine-direction. The first and second intrinsic, interchanging weft yarns in at least some of the plurality of pairs cooperating with each other to provide a discontinuous weft path in the paper side layer within each repeat of the weave pattern. Each pair of interchanging yarns that provides a discontinuous weft path in the paper side layer is positioned between two adjacent top weft yarns of the paper side layer, and each of the two adjacent top weft yarns cooperates with a different yarn of the interchanging yarn pair between the adjacent top weft yarns to define a continuous weft path within each repeat of the weave pattern of the fabric.