Patent ID: 6267150
Filing Date: 2001-07-31
Classification: D21F,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
An open ended papermaker's fabric of a type woven from a longitudinal thread system and a transverse thread system and having a paper side and a machine side, a plurality of seam loops at each end of the fabric formed by the threads of the longitudinal thread system whereby a seam zone is formed at each end of said fabric between the respective seam loops and a respective end thread of said transverse thread system, the fabric characterized by:at least one additional transverse thread interwoven in at least one seam zone with the longitudinal thread system in a repeated pattern of over at least three adjacent paper side longitudinal threads, between at least a first pair of paper side and machine side threads, under at least one machine side longitudinal thread, and between at least a second pair of machine and paper side threads.