US 12,077,913 B2
Paper machine clothing
Isabel Prause, Ulm (DE); Robert Eberhardt, Ellwangen (DE); Hubert Walkenhaus, Kerpen (DE); Torsten Wich, Appleton, WI (US); Cedric Fitzer, Weissenhorn (DE); Uwe Koeckritz, Heidenheim (DE); Thomas Hensler, Cincinnati, OH (US); and Reinhard Holl, Lauingen (DE)
Assigned to Voith Patent GmbH, Heidenheim (DE)
Appl. No. 17/798,655
Filed by VOITH PATENT GMBH, Heidenheim (DE)
PCT Filed Feb. 4, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/052629
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 10, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/170361, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 2, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/982,393, filed on Feb. 27, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2020 108 511.7 (DE), filed on Mar. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0079374 A1, Mar. 16, 2023
Int. Cl. D21F 1/00 (2006.01); D21F 11/00 (2006.01)
CPC D21F 1/0036 (2013.01) [D21F 11/006 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A clothing for a machine for producing or processing a fibrous material web, the clothing comprising:
a base clothing having a web-contacting upper side and a bottom side opposite said upper side, said base clothing having a batt layer providing said web-contacting upper side of said base clothing, said batt layer being composed of a polymer which is completely or largely transparent to light within the near infrared;
a plurality of uniaxially drawn polymer elements welded onto said upper side;
at least some of said polymer elements being selected from the group consisting of yarn-shaped polymer elements and tape-shaped polymer elements having a width of less than 15 mm; and
said base clothing being transparent to light within a near-infrared range between 780 nm and 1300 nm, and said polymer elements being absorbent for light of a wavelength within the near-infrared range between 780 nm and 1300 nm.