Abstract: Provided is a papermaking felt base member comprises: an ended woven fabric comprising machine direction yarns reciprocating in a machine direction, and cross machine direction yarns; a plurality of pintle wire insertion loops formed by folding back the machine direction yarns at both ends of the woven fabric in the machine direction; and a plurality of filling yarns arranged along the cross machine direction at least one end of the woven fabric between the cross machine direction yarns disposed at the outermost end of the woven fabric and the pintle wire insertion loops, wherein, among the plurality of filling yarns, the fineness of a first filling yarn that is disposed closest to the pintle wire insertion loops is smaller than the fineness of a second filling yarn that is disposed on the cross machine direction yarn side of the first filling yarn.

Abstract: A base fabric forms a warp-weft double woven structure. In the base fabric, the base fabric is made of an MD yarn in a MD direction and a CD yarn in a CD direction, and the base fabric includes a weave repeat. In the weave repeat, the CD yarn includes an upper CD yarn and a lower CD yarn, the MD yarn is woven into both of the upper CD yarn and the lower CD yarn, the MD yarn includes at least one combination of a first MD yarn and a second MD yarn adjacent to the first MD yarn in the CD direction, the weave repeat includes first to fourth structural units, and the weave repeat includes a location at which the first and the second structural units are formed in pairs on both surfaces of the base fabric.

Abstract: Provided are a papermaking device having an excellent strength in which the unevenness in strength between its parts is suppressed, and a method for producing the papermaking device. Also provided is a papermaking device for use in papermaking machine, the papermaking device comprising at least one resin layer comprising a polyurethane resin, wherein the polyurethane resin comprises as a component a polyether polycarbonate diol comprising one or more unit(s) A expressed by the following formula (1).

Abstract: A papermaking device may have excellent strength and suppressed unevenness in strength between its parts. Such a papermaking device may be used in papermaking machine and may include at least one resin layer comprising polyurethane resin. The polyurethane resin may be obtained by reacting a urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group with a curing agent having an active hydrogen group. The urethane prepolymer may be obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate compound including 2,4-tolylene-diisocyanate and/or 2,6-tolylene-diisocyanate with a polyol compound including one or more polyether polycarbonate diol(s).

Abstract: A papermaking belt may suppress resin fallings from the resin layer during its use. Such a papermaking belt may be used in a papermaking machine and may include at least one resin layer including a resin, wherein the total number of swellings whose height is equal to or higher than 50 ?m and cracks whose length is equal to or longer than 10 mm on at least one surface of the resin layer is equal to or less than 1.0/m2. Such a papermaking belt may be used in a papermaking machine and may include at least one resin layer including a resin. The resin layer may be formed using a resin composition including an aqueous dispersion of a urethane resin. The resin composition may include an organic solvent whose boiling point at 1 atm is equal to or higher than 100° C.

Abstract: A papermaking felt includes at least one base fabric composed of a MD yam material in the felt running direction (MD) and a CD yarn material in the felt crossing direction (CD) and having MD end regions and CD end regions, at least one of the MD end regions and the CD end regions are overlapped with each other, the entire overlapped portion is welded without removing a part or all of the MD yarn material or the CD yarn material in the overlapped portion, and when the average thickness of the welded portion of each base fabric is x (mm) and the average thickness of the material portion of each base fabric is y (mm), the relationship between x and y of the at least one base fabric satisfies the following formula (1): 0.5?x/y?0.95.

Abstract: Provided is a papermaking belt that is used in a papermaking machine and that comprises a first plane on which a wet paper web is placed and a second plane on the opposite side to the first plane, wherein the papermaking belt comprises a reinforcing fibrous substrate layer comprising at least one layer of a woven fabric, at least one layer of said woven fabric comprises a double or more combination weave pattern, said combination weave pattern comprises first yarns and second yarns that are placed in parallel; said first yarns are placed closer to the first plane-side than said second yarns and said second yarns are placed closer to the second plane-side than said first yarns; and said second yarns comprise a polyester yarn.

Abstract: Provided is a papermaking belt that is used in a papermaking machine and that comprises a first plane on which a wet paper web is placed and a second plane on the opposite side to the first plane, wherein the papermaking belt comprises a reinforcing fibrous substrate layer comprising at least one layer of a woven fabric, at least one layer of said woven fabric comprises a double or more combination weave pattern, said combination weave pattern comprises first yarns and second yarns that are placed in parallel; said first yarns are placed closer to the first plane-side than said second yarns, and said second yarns are placed closer to the second plane-side than said first yarns, and the fineness of said first yarns are greater than the fineness of said second yarns.

Abstract: A papermaking belt in which changes in surface properties of the resin layer upon use is suppressed, and a method for making the papermaking belt. Provided is a papermaking belt for use in a papermaking machine, including at least one resin layer including a resin, wherein the surface roughness after contacting the surface of the resin layer with a metal plate having a surface roughness equal to or less than 0.10 ?m at a pressure of 100±3 kg/cm2 for 20 hours in warm water bathing at 70±5° C. is equal to or higher than 40% relative to the surface roughness of the surface of the resin layer in a wet state before the contact.

Abstract: A papermaking felt with two or more plain weave base fabrics that can be bonded to each other. The joint portions do not open when a batt fiber layer is attached or when the felt is used. The papermaking felt can be made from an MD yarn material in the felt running direction (MD direction) and a CD yarn material in the felt cross-direction (CD direction), including a combination with two or more base fabrics directly overlapped with each other, which have a joint portion wherein the MD direction end portions are joined which include a first MD direction end portion and a second MD direction end portion wherein, with regard to the base fabrics having all included joint portions. The equations (1) and (2) below are satisfied when the maximum distance in the MD direction between the joint portions of the base fabrics is x (cm) and the minimum distance thereof is y (cm): x?750 (1); and 51?y (2).

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a shoe press belt which has an excellent strength while the variation in strength among its parts being suppressed, and to provide a method for producing such a shoe press belt. Provided is a shoe press belt for use in a papermaking machine comprising at least one resin layer, wherein the resin layer comprises a polyurethane resin formed by curing an urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group with a curing agent having an active hydrogen group, wherein the curing agent comprises one or more polycarbonate diol(s) expressed by the following formulae (1) and (2).

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a shoe press belt which has an excellent strength while the variation in strength among its parts being suppressed, and to provide a method for producing such a shoe press belt.

Abstract: A shoe press belt for use in a papermaking machine including at least one resin layer, where the resin layer contains a polyurethane resin formed by curing an urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group with a curing agent having an active hydrogen group, where the urethane prepolymer is obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate compound containing 4,4?-methylene bis(phenylisocyanate) with a polyol compound containing polytetramethylene ether glycol, and the curing agent contains polycarbonate diol(s).

Abstract: Provided are a papermaking device having an excellent strength in which the unevenness in strength between its parts is suppressed, and a method for producing the papermaking device. Also provided is a papermaking device for use in papermaking machine comprising at least one resin layer comprising polyurethane resin, wherein the polyurethane resin is obtainable by reacting a urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group with a curing agent having an active hydrogen group, wherein the urethane prepolymer is obtainable by reacting a polyisocyanate compound comprising 2,4-tolylene-diisocyanate and/or 2,6-tolylene-diisocyanate with a polyol compound comprising one or more polyether polycarbonate diol(s).

Abstract: Provided are a papermaking device having an excellent strength in which the unevenness in strength between its parts is suppressed, and a method for producing the papermaking device. Also provided is a papermaking device for use in papermaking machine, the papermaking device comprising at least one resin layer comprising a polyurethane resin, wherein the polyurethane resin comprises as a component a polyether polycarbonate diol comprising one or more unit(s) A expressed by the following formula (1).

Abstract: A papermaking belt in which changes in surface properties of the resin layer upon use is suppressed, and a method for making the papermaking belt. Provided is a papermaking belt for use in a papermaking machine, including at least one resin layer including a resin, wherein the surface roughness after contacting the surface of the resin layer with a metal plate having a surface roughness equal to or less than 0.10 ?m at a pressure of 100±3 kg/cm2 for 20 hours in warm water bathing at 70±5° C. is equal to or higher than 40% relative to the surface roughness of the surface of the resin layer in a wet state before the contact.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to provide a papermaking felt having good productivity and a laminated structure using 2 or more plain weave base fabrics that can be bonded to each other, wherein the joint portions do not open when a batt fiber layer is attached or when the felt is used, and to provide a method for producing the same.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a shoe press belt which has an excellent strength while the variation in strength among its parts being suppressed, and to provide a method for producing such a shoe press belt. Provided is a shoe press belt for use in a papermaking machine comprising at least one resin layer, wherein the resin layer comprises a polyurethane resin formed by curing a polyurethane prepolymer with a curing agent, wherein the polyurethane prepolymer is obtained by reacting a polyol comprising one or more polycarbonate diol(s) expressed by the following formulae (1) and (2) with aliphatic polyisocyanate.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a shoe press belt which has an excellent strength while the variation in strength among its parts being suppressed, and to provide a method for producing such a shoe press belt.

Abstract: The object of the invention is to provide a shoe press belt which has an excellent strength while the variation in strength among its parts being suppressed, and to provide a method for producing such a shoe press belt. Provided is a shoe press belt for use in a papermaking machine comprising at least one resin layer, wherein the resin layer comprises a polyurethane resin formed by curing an urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group with a curing agent having an active hydrogen group, wherein the curing agent comprises one or more polycarbonate diol(s) expressed by the following formulae (1) and (2).