Patent ID: 6929718
Filing Date: 2005-08-16
Classification: D21F,Y10S,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A shoe press belt comprising a base B, a wet paper web side layer 20 on one side of the base, and a shoe side layer S on the opposite side of the base, in which: said wet paper web side layer said land section has a surface sublayer; the concave water-holding section of said outer surface has a portion, separate from said surface sublayer, that has an abrupt change of direction; and the hardness of said surface sublayer of the land section is relatively low compared to the hardness of all of said high molecular weight elastic material of said wet paper web side layer other than said surface sublayer; whereby said shoe press belt is resistant to the formation of cracks both in the land section and in said portion of the concave water-holding section that has an abrupt chance of direction.