Patent ID: 8337670

Claim:
A felt for papermaking comprising a base and a batt fiber layer, wherein said batt fiber layer consists of batt fibers contained in and integrally combined with a high-polymer elastic material, and said batt fiber layer includes 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, and wherein said batt fiber layer contained in said high-polymer elastic material includes 5 g/m 2 to 100 g/m 2 of the 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, and wherein said high-polymer elastic material comprises an emulsion resin including one or more of a urethane emulsion, a vinyl acetate emulsion, a styrene-butadiene emulsion and, an acrylic emulsion, so that water penetrates said felts in short periods of time, and said felts have an ability to squeeze water out of a wet paper web and an ability to sustain the ability to squeeze water out of said wet paper web, and said felts are wetted with water quickly.