Abstract: An on-machine-seamable (OMS.RTM.) papermakers' fabric produced by modified endless weaving includes machine-direction (MD) and cross-machine direction (CD) yarns. The MD yarns are plied/twisted yarns, and weave continuously back-and-forth between the two widthwise edges of the fabric, each time forming a seaming loop at one of the two widthwise edges. A seaming spiral, a monofilament spiral preferably extruded from a polyamide resin, is attached to the seaming loops at each of the two widthwise edges. The two seaming spirals are used to join the fabric into endless form with a pin seam. In this way, an OMS.RTM. papermakers' fabric, having plied/twisted yarns in the machine direction is provided with monofilament joining means which maintain proper orientation and shape for the ready pin seaming of the fabric on a papermachine.

Abstract: A mechanical belt fastener for joining the open ends of a conveyor belt has a first row and a second row of legs arranged parallel to one another with a distance between the rows on both sides of a folding area. The legs are bendable in the folding area to form loops and have bent tips that penetrate material of the belt. Legs of the two rows extending lengthwise on both sides of the folding area and the legs in the first row in a first section extend up to a continuous first strip that extends transversely with respect to lengths of the legs. The legs of the first section are attached to the first strip, and the legs adjacent to one another in each row are of different lengths relative to the folding area. Each two legs of the second row are connected through a second strip with one another to form leg pairs and the second strip is interrupted in a direction of immediately adjacent leg pairs of the second row.

Abstract: A belt joint is formed by a pair of U-shaped clips joined to respective belt ends and has interleaved bights and a rod extending along an axis through the interleaved bights of the clips to connect the belt ends together. The clips are provided inside the bights in contact with the rod with a lining of a low-friction material. This lining can be a metal alloy, for instance one containing copper such as bronze. Alternately it can be a plastic, for instance polytetrafluorethylene.

Abstract: A papermakers fabric comprises a felt made up of a base cloth and a batt of fibres needled to the base cloth. The papermakers fabric is woven from machine direction yarns and cross machine direction yarns. The machine direction yarns form a series of loops at each of the fabric ends, the two sets of loops being interdigitable and capable of union by a pintle wire. The machine direction yarns comprise a core of cabled monofilaments surrounded by a sheath of multifilaments.

Abstract: A method of splicing a belt in a round baler having a bale forming chamber defined by at least one elongated belt having opposing ends spliced together to form a continuous band. The splice includes a first and a second series of similar side-by-side loops connected to and extending from the respective opposing ends of the belt, and an attaching element extending through both series of loops to maintain the opposing ends of the belt in alignment and close proximity to each other. Retention components affixed to the attaching element retain it in operative relationship to the loops and are disposed outwardly of the outer loops.

Abstract: A round baler having a bale forming chamber including one or more transversely mounted rolls and at least one elongated belt having opposing ends spliced together to form a continuous band. The splice includes a first and a second series of similar side-by-side loops connected to and extending from the respective opposing ends of the belt, and an attaching element extending through the first and second series of loops to maintain the opposing ends of the belt in alignment and close proximity to each other. Retention components affixed to the attaching element retain it in operative relationship to the first and second series of loops and are disposed outwardly of the outer loops.

Abstract: A wire belt fastener is formed from a piece of wire to have a wire body having a pair of arms joined by a U-shaped hinge pin section. The ends of the wire are flattened to form wide areas having grooves to receive the head and the bent ends of a staple. The fasteners are aligned in a juxtaposed array by a connector wire or rod extending normal to the arms and spanning across a series of belt fasteners to space them evenly to receive interdigitated hinge loops of another array of belt fasteners. A belt stop comprising a projecting piece of wire is secured to an inner surface of one arm of the wire belt fastener to be abutted by the cut belt end to limits its insertion into the gap between the arms of the wire belt fastener. To reduce the lateral width of the belt fasteners and to place more metal in the splice, the wire cross-section at the hinge loop is substantially oblong with flat faces of adjacent, intermeshed fasteners being side by side.

Abstract: A mechanically strong, airtight, watertight seam provides for joining two panels of industrial strength fabric or material. The inventive seam has two connection systems. One system is a mechanically strong structural connection which is used to make the seam as strong as the fabric panel material. A second system is an all plastic slide closure in the form of a zipper connection which overlies the structural connection, joins the panels into a single cover, and makes the seam airtight, watertight and maintenance free.

Abstract: Wire netting belt, more particularly for conveyors, screen belt presses or the like, which is closed at its belt ends by an insert-type join to constitute an endless belt and is strengthened in its plane in its end regions with reinforcing strips consisting of a solidifying composition, to obviate arching of the belt at its central zone in the end regions.

Abstract: A fastener and fastener assembly for coupling the ends of a conveyor belt to form a continuous belt where the preferred embodiment is a belt fastener having an upper and lower arm connected by a loop, and having a belt stop positioned to limit insertion of a conveyor belt end. The assembly utilizes a first and second set of fasteners mounted on opposite belt ends which intermesh to define a hinge passage for a hinge pin to couple the belt ends together. The reach-back of the belt ends into the belt fasteners is maximized as the belt stops are aligned with their belt loops and positioned to abut the belt end at a location where the exterior surface of a belt loop of the opposite belt fasteners is engaging or nearly engaging the belt end.

Abstract: An anti-sifting arrangement for plate and wire-type belt fasteners with hinge loops. A block of flexible material, such as an open-cell reticulated foam, is disposed in the hinge loop area and spans adjacent belt fasteners. A hinge pin inserted into the meshed hinge loops compresses the foam block which also expands to fill the voids between the belt ends, hinge loops and hinge pin to prevent sifting of particulate matter through the splice. The foam block is retained in position by the belt stops or the end of the belt and may be readily inserted or removed from the belt fastener assembly.

Abstract: A pin-seam type of wet papermaker's felt of the kind in which the seam includes a series of interfitted and transversely aligned pin-receiving loops, and in which alternate loops are associated with either one or the other of the felt ends. At least one of the series of loops is provided with a surface impression in the form of a distinctive color, which color is distinguished or different from the color of the loops associated with the other end of the felt so that when the loops are properly aligned, an alternating visual pattern is presented to indicate such proper alignment and to facilitate the threading of the pin therethrough.

Abstract: A pintle unit and method of closing a seam in a papermakers felt which provides a tight closure along the full length of the seam. The seam is closed with a pintle unit made up of a plurality of pintle elements which are tapered and pulled into the seam to interact in a wedging fashion. The pintle elements are tapered for a length at least as long as the width of the seam so that when wedged in the seam a pintle unit of substantially uniform size across the full width of the felt is provided.

Abstract: An improved fabric seam for flat woven fabric is disclosed. The improved seam utilizes polyaryetherketones and preferably polyetheretherketones in forming the seaming elements, comprising coil elements and a joining element.

Abstract: A fastener having pointed ends for penetrating a belt. The preferred fastener is a wire hook fastener for joining the ends of belting and it is formed with pointed wedge-shaped ends defined by inclined top surfaces and flat bottom surfaces and inwardly inclined sidewalls extending between the top and bottom surfaces. The pointed wedge-shaped ends penetrate the belting and in a plane which coincides with the surface of the belting to limit deflection to form a uniform and strong joint between the wire hook fastener and the belting.

Abstract: A mechanically strong, airtight, watertight seam provides for joining two panels of industrial strength fabric or material. The inventive seam has two connection systems. One system is a mechanically strong structural connection which is used to make the seam as strong as the fabric panel material. A second system is an all plastic slide closure in the form of a zipper connection which overlies the structural connection, joins the panels into a single cover, and makes the seam airtight, watertight and maintenance free.

Abstract: A hook keeper is provided to protect and reinforce belt lacings of the type having a plurality of hooks clenched in opposite ends of a belt, with the loop ends of the hooks meshed together and interconnected by a pin. The hook keeper has a rigid body with at least two side-by-side slots therethrough. The hook keeper is positioned between the connecting pin and an associated end of the belt, and preferably reinforces one of the two outermost hooks in the lacing. The selected outermost lacing hook is closely received in one of the keeper slots, and another one of the lacing hooks is closely received in the second keeper slot. Forces acting on the outermost hook are transmitted to and resisted at least partially by the second hook to improve the strength and longevity of the lacing.

Abstract: The use of a spiral seam construction to join together the ends of a flat woven papermaker's felt having flat monofilament lengthwise yarns of a synthetic, polymeric resin improves the resistance of the seam to flex fatigue.

Abstract: An in-line pintle seam for use with a pintle to join adjacent ends of a papermakers belt or the like and a method for producing such a seam. Basically, the seam comprises a spiral and a stuffer pick which are held in place by sewing the face ends of the papermakers belt around the spiral and stuffer pick and then between the center and back layers of the fabric in the case of a three-layer fabric. Once this part of the seaming is completed, the back ends are brought around the spiral and stuffer pick and sewn between the face and center layers of the fabric in much the same way as the face ends. Thus, the spiral and stuffer pick are held to the edge of the fabric by all of the warp yarns. In the case of a two-layer fabric, the ends are sewn back into the fabric between the face and back layers and are pulled through the fabric so that they appear on the back surface of the fabric.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a seam construction for multilayered corrugator belts. The construction comprises woven complementary seam-halves joined by pintles and in which each seam-half comprises 2 connectors, each being a single and a double layer zone mechanically bound by the nature of the weave and in which the crosswise yarns of each connector form alternately displaced loops on one edge thereof which can be intermeshed with like loops formed on the edge of the opposite connector. The connectors are attached to a step in each end of the multilayered corrugator belt.

Abstract: A woven textile fabric and seam is disclosed for joining dryer fabrics and the like papermaking clothing constructed of multiply woven fabric belting wherein each of the ends of the belting is separated into continuous woven superposed plys permitting insertion and securing of seam webbing between the plys at each end of the belting. The seam webbing is illustrated sandwiched between the separated plys and completely enclosed therein when the plys and webbing are secured together so that interruption of the otherwise continuous belting is minimized. Having affixed the webbing at ends of the woven fabric in this manner, pintle loops may be interlaced and fastened securely together by the insertion of pintle material. One of the separated plys may be advantageously woven to provide pintle loops when folded upon itself.

Abstract: A clipper seam for use with a pintle or lacing unit to join adjacent ends of a papermakers belt or the like. The clipper seam comprises two seam webbings, each of which is woven as a one-piece unit to form a pocket for receiving one of the ends of the papermakers belt. As woven, the pocket is defined by first and second flaps, each of the flaps having an inner surface and an outer surface, the inner surfaces being in a spaced relationship to define the pocket, which is adapted to receive one of the ends of the papermakers belt. Each of the outer surfaces define a stepped, tapered construction. A tongue portion also forms part of the seam webbing. Recessed margins are provided on both the top and bottom surfaces of the tongue, near the distal end or selvage of the tongue. A plurality of clipper hooks adapted to receive one or more pintles are secured to the tongue within the recessed margin.

Abstract: A connector strip for conveyor belts includes a plurality of preshaped inidual connector elements (1) which are held together by a wire (2) secured to the inside of a leg of each connector element (1). The wire has a wave form shape whereby the bendability of the connector is maintained.

Abstract: A multi-layer papermarker's fabric is proposed wherein a helical coil is engaged individually with each of the plies of the fabric to define side-by-side loops protruding from the fabric end for interdigitation with corresponding loops at an opposed fabric end to receive a pintle wire, the arrangement being such that, in use, one ply of the fabric protects the helical coil and its connection with another ply of the fabric against wear and damage.

Abstract: Connector components for flexibly connecting and/or disconnecting parts herein specifically illustrated as connecting the ends of paper makers felts comprising spaced panels of concatenated crossing textile elements wherein the panels are connected at regularly spaced intervals longitudinally of the component by elements extending transversely of the panels across the gap therebetween, said components being foldable at the gap to provide substantially U-shaped loops such that the loops of two such folded components may be interengaged to receive a pintle element and said panels being adapted to be fixed to the parts to be flexibly connected.