摘要 |
<p>A pin-seamable papermaker's fabric, designed for use on the press section of a papermachine, is woven from systems of yarns which align in the machine and cross-machine directions of the papermachine when the fabric is operating thereon. The machine-direction yarns have a composite structure, including braided monofilament strands as the load-bearing components of the fabric. The fabric is produced in open-ended form, and has loops at each end formed by the machine-direction yarns. It is made endless during installation on the papermachine by bringing the two ends together, by interdigitating the loops of the two ends, and by directing a pin, or pintle, through the passage formed by the interdigitated loops. The loops themselves, being formed by the machine-direction yarns, likewise include braided monofilament strands.</p> |