Patent ID: 8241464
Filing Date: 2012-08-14
Classification: D21F,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A papermaking clothing configured to support a wet paper web for dewatering, said clothing comprising: an endless web-carrying fabric formed only from a woven material so as to have a single, substantially consistent, permeability, the web-carrying fabric defining a machine direction and having opposed lateral edges; and a pair of laterally spaced apart strip portions extending along the web-carrying fabric in the machine direction and covering said opposed lateral edges, each strip portion being substantially and consistently impermeable to air and having a substantially and consistently smooth surface adapted to not retain water, wherein the width of the impermeable strip portions is 10-60 cm, the strip portions defining a permeable portion of the web-carrying fabric therebetween, the permeable portion being adapted such that the wet paper web supported thereby extends over an entire width thereof, whereby the permeable portion is configured to allow air directed thereat to flow therethrough, exclusively of the impermeable strip portions, such that the wet paper web supported only by the permeable portion is dewatered, the width of the permeable portion between the impermeable strip portions thereby defining a width of the wet paper web being dewatered.