COIL SEAM FOR SINGLE LAYER INDUSTRIAL FABRICS HAVING AN UNEVEN SHED PATTERN

摘要

A seam construction for joining the ends of an industrial fabric. The fabric having machine direction and cross machine direction yarns interwoven in an uneven shed pattern that defines a single layer fabric body. The machine direction yarns at each end define a series of loops that secure a respective coil seam member to each end thereof. The machine direction yarns of the fabric are woven in a repeated pattern having "n" yarns, wherein "n" is an uneven number and "(n-1)~2" machine direction yarns are woven back into the body of the fabric in a shed pattern defined by another machine direction yarn and the "nth" yarn is woven back into the body of the fabric in its identical shed pattern.