ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,781,434, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Voith Patent GmbH (Heidenheim, Germany).
"Clothing and method" was invented by Robert Eberhardt (Ellwangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clothing or seamed felt for use in a pressing part of a machine for producing a fibrous web includes at least one base structure and at least one staple fiber layer on the base structure. The at least one staple fiber layer is disposed on a side facing the fibrous web. At least one seam zone has seam loops connected to one another by at least one pintle to make the clothing endless. The at least one staple fiber layer is divided in the region of the ...