Patent ID: 7455078

Claim:
A method of making a pin seam in a multilayer papermakers fabric to be closed by a single pintle to form for an endless woven multilayer papermakers fabric, wherein the fabric comprises a fabric body having a first and second lateral edge, the method comprising selecting a repeating weave pattern including a continuous weft yarn, a plurality of warp yarns, a first forming wire at the first lateral edge and a second forming wire at the second lateral edge, weaving the fabric such that a body portion woven as a double layer to forms the fabric body; making a shed change for the warp yarns adjacent to the warp yarns of the body portion to provide a first seaming portion at the first lateral edge and a second seaming portion at the second lateral edge, and in each seaming portion (A) separating the warp yarns into a group of upper layer warp yarns and a group of lower layer warp yarns; and (B) interweaving the continuous weft yarn with each group consecutively, in sequence interweaving with the upper layer warp yarns to provide an upper layer of the seaming portion, forming a seaming loop about the forming wire and interweaving with the lower layer warp yarns to provide a lower layer of the seaming portion.