Patent ID: 8388811

Claim:
A press felt for a machine for at least one of the production and processing of a fibrous material web, said press felt comprising: a continuous carrier structure configured to fundamentally influence dimensional stability of the press felt and configured to be seamable in a paper machine, said carrier structure including a flat manufactured textile fabric formed of a plurality of longitudinal threads, a plurality of transverse threads crossing said longitudinal threads at crossing points and a plurality of sewing threads connecting said longitudinal threads and said transverse threads to each other at said crossing points, each of said cross threads having a diameter and being positioned at a distance from each other, said distance between said cross threads adjacent to each other being at least said diameter of said cross threads, said carrier structure having a first length and said textile fabric having a second length longer than said first length and said textile fabric being laid onto itself in sections forming a plurality of layers of said carrier structure and extending along said entire length of said carrier structure, said layers of the textile fabric being laid onto each other so that said cross threads of one of said layers are arranged between said adjacent cross threads of another of said layers and said layers being connected with each other in at least sections of said layers, wherein said configuration of said sections of said textile fabric on top of each other forms turned over edges extending transversely to a longitudinal direction of said carrier structure and defines one transverse end of said carrier structure and one other transverse end of said carrier structure, wherein in an area of said turned over edges said longitudinal threads have a curved progression forming seam loops on each of said transverse ends of said carrier structure, said two transverse ends being brought together and said seam loops meshing with each other to form a connecting channel extending in a cross direction of said carrier structure; and a pintle wire positioned through said connecting channel of said carrier structure.