Patent ID: 7229531

Claim:
A method of seaming an on-machine-seamable multiaxial papermakerts fabric, the fabric being in the form of an endless loop flattened into two layers along a first fold and a second fold; comprising the steps of: removing yarns in the cross-machine direction (CD) from the first and second folds to create ravel areas; yams in the machine direction (MD) being unbound in the ravel areas; forming seam loops from the unbound MD yams at the first and second folds; attaching a thin porous material to the fabric in a continuous fashion to both out-side surfaces on CD edges of the fabric at each fold; the porous material binding the yarns along the CD edges of the ravel areas while passing the seam loops through the material, wherein the thin porous material wraps from a first outside surface of the fabric to a second outside surface of the fabric and wherein the yarns bound by the thin porous material include CD yarn segments; and seaming the fabric by interdigitating the seam loops from the first and second folds and inserting a pintle therethrough.