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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2008
Arved Westerkamp, Dettingen/Erms, DE;
Robert Crook, Wilson, NC (US);
Robert Eberhardt, Ellwangen, DE;
Arved Westerkamp, Dettingen/Erms, DE;
Robert Crook, Wilson, NC (US);
Robert Eberhardt, Ellwangen, DE;
Voith Patent GmbH, Heidenheim, DE;
Abstract
A press fabric for a machine for the production of web material, especially paper or cardboard, includes a carrying structure and at least one layer of fibrous material on one web material contact side of the carrying structure, whereby at least some of the fibers of the at least one layer of fibrous material are coated at least partially with a film of a first polymeric material and whereby a permeable composite structure is formed by a second polymeric material in the at least one fibrous layer, in that the hollow spaces which are formed between fibers of the at least one fibrous layer are filled partially with the second polymeric material.