Patent ID: 7093621
Filing Date: 2006-08-22
Classification: D03D,D21F

Abstract:
1. A woven fabric comprising a fabric body having a weave pattern made from a plurality of cross-machine direction (CD) yarns, and plurality of machine direction (MD) yarns extending between two opposite ends of the fabric, the MD yarns being looped around three or more CD pins or pintles in a seam area, the woven fabric comprising: a first row of MD yarns being looped around a first of said pintles adjacent to a third row of MD yarns from the opposite fabric end being looped around the first of said pintles, a second row of MD yarns being looped around a second of said pintles adjacent to a second row of MD yarns from the opposite fabric end being looped around the second of said pintles, a third row of MD yarns being looped around a third of said pintles adjacent to a first row of MD yarns from the opposite fabric end being looped around the third of said pintles, so as to create a seam such that a weave pattern in said seam area conforms more closely to that of the weave pattern in the fabric body.