Patent ID: 8597468
Filing Date: 2013-12-03
Classification: D21F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A joining process for an endless press or seamed fabric, the joining process comprising the steps of: providing a woven base fabric having a plurality of yarns including warp yarns extending in a machine direction and weft yarns extending in a cross machine direction, said woven base fabric being cut along one of said weft yarns and having two opposing ends and two side edges; removing a predetermined number of said weft yarns along each of said two opposing ends to free a plurality of cut ends of said warp yarns; interdigitating said plurality of free cut ends of said two opposing ends with each other; and temporarily one of heat bonding and chemical bonding said plurality of cut ends opposing and adjoining one another to define a joint area, wherein said joint area has a caliper between approximately 80 and 98% of a remaining portion of said woven base fabric outside of said joint area.