Fourdrinier seam

{
  "publication_number": "US3596858A",
  "country": "US",
  "kind": "A",
  "title": "Fourdrinier seam",
  "abstract": "A seam for a Fourdrinier belt having interwoven warps and shutes in which the warps that terminate along the seam have their ends arranged on the wear side of the belt and positioned under one or more shutes extending across the seam.",
  "claims": [
    "1. In a seam for joining together a length of fabric into a Fourdrinier belt having a papermaking exterior surface and a wear interior surface, which fabric includes warps interwoven with shutes, the improvement: characterized in that the ends of warps terminating along the seam are arranged along the wear surface of the belt, further characterized in that each end of a warp terminating along the seam is arranged under a shute extending across the seam, and still further characterized in that the ends of a warp terminating along the seam are arranged in one of two conditions, the first condition having the ends of the warp longitudinally aligned with and spaced from each other and the second condition having the ends of the warp longitudinally aligned with and butted against each other.",
    "2. A seam according to claim 1 for joining together a length of Fourdrinier fabric having warps interwoven with shutes in a pattern of the type in which each warp has a first knuckle passing under a plurality of shutes and an adjacent knuckle passing over at least the next shute, which pattern is repeated along the warp, characterized in that one warp end terminating along the seam is arranged under one of shutes under which said first knuckle of the warp passes, and the other end is arranged under another shute under which said first knuckle of the warp passes.",
    "3. A seam according to clam 1 for joining together a length of Fourdrinier fabric having warps interwoven with shutes in a pattern of the type in which each warp has a first knuckle passing under a plurality of shutes and a adjacent knuckle passing over at least the next shute, which pattern is repeated along the warp, characterized in that each end of a warp terminating along the seam is arranged under one of shutes under which said first knuckle of the warp passes."
  ],
  "cpc": [
    "B01D 29/093",
    "B21F 33/007",
    "F16G 1/18"
  ],
  "assignees": [
    "APPLETON WIRE WORKS CORP"
  ],
  "filing_date": "1969-05-02",
  "publication_date": "1971-08-03",
  "grant_date": "1971-08-03",
  "priority_date": "1969-05-02",
  "application_number": "US-3596858D-A",
  "family_id": "25233154",
  "citations": [
    "DE1107355B",
    "US2212796A",
    "US3335986A",
    "US3366355A"
  ]
}