Patent ID: 7448416
Filing Date: 2008-11-11
Classification: D21F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A woven industrial fabric, having a machine direction (MD) and a cross-machine direction (CD) and comprising a fabric body with opposing first and second fabric ends each oriented in the CD and each comprising a seaming area, the fabric further having opposing first and second lateral edges each oriented in the MD, an upper surface and a lower surface which together form the fabric body and comprising CD oriented weft yarns and MD oriented warp yarns interwoven with the weft yarns in a weave pattern in which: (a) in the fabric body, all of the warp yarns comprise vertically stacked pairs of upper and lower warp yarns, the upper warp yarns each following an upper body path, and the lower warp yarns each following a lower body path; and (b) in each of the seaming areas, each of the upper warp yarns follows an upper seaming path in the upper surface which passes from the upper surface to the lower surface to form a yarn loop, passes under at least one weft yarn and thereafter follows a lower seaming path in the lower surface, wherein