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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2014
The Proctor & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Anja Werth, Highland Park, NJ (US);
John Allen Manifold, Sunman, IN (US);
Andre Mellin, Amberley Village, OH (US);
Douglas Jay Barkey, Salem Township, OH (US);
The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Abstract
A papermaking belt. The papermaking belt has a reinforcing element comprising a surface and a plurality of irregularly shaped, discrete raised portions extending from portions of the surface of the reinforcing element. The discrete raised portions are situated in an irregular pattern, wherein each of the discrete raised portions has a major axis, A, and a minor axis, B, and wherein the length of the major axis, A, is greater than or equal to the length of the minor axis, B; and a substantially continuous deflection conduit defines at least some of the discrete raised portions.