Patent ID: 8893894

Claim:
A screen comprising a plurality of flattened wires arranged longitudinally in a first direction only, and having a first flattened wire and a second flattened wire positioned in an alignment coordinator to maintain (a) a specific distance from each other for a desired spacing that does not appear to ever contact each other, and/or (b) contact or a second specific distance with each other at spaced intervals along the first and second flattened wires to form a polygonic spacing between the first flattened wire and the second flattened wire where the first and second flattened wires do not contact or appear to contact each other, to form a desired screen spacing; a deviation from the desired screen spacing is equal to or less than the standard industry tolerance as established by ASTM E2016-11, table 8; a first polymeric support member encasing a first limited selected portion of the plurality of flattened wires wherein the first polymeric support member is (a) transverse to the first direction and (b) applied onto the first limited selected portion of the plurality of flattened wires; a second polymeric support member encasing a second limited selected portion of the plurality of flattened wires wherein the second polymeric support member and the first polymeric member are spaced apart, and wherein the second polymeric support member is transverse to the first direction; and there is no additional metal material in, within, or on the first or second polymeric support members, and the desired screen spacing having a standard industry tolerance is maintained even when the first and second polymeric support members are applied and cured.