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(11) EP 0 473 430 A3

(12) EUROPEAN PATENT APPLICATION

(88) Date of publication A3:
20.01.1993 Bulletin 1993/03

(43) Date of publication A2:
04.03.1992 Bulletin 1992/10

(21) Application number: 91307912.5

(22) Date of filing: 29.08.1991
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC)5D01F 6/66, D21F 7/08
(84) Designated Contracting States:
AT BE CH DE DK ES FR GB GR IT LI LU NL SE

(30) Priority: 31.08.1990 GB 9018987

(71) Applicant: ALBANY INTERNATIONAL CORP.
Albany, New York 12204 (US)

(72) Inventors:
  • Davis, Robert Bernard
    Framingham, Massachusetts 01701 (US)
  • Kenney, Maryann C.
    Foxboro, Massachusetts 02035 (US)
  • Kramer, Charles Edwin
    Walpole, Massachusetts 02081 (US)
  • Barlow, Sandra Krohto
    Blackstone, Massachusetts 01504 (US)
  • Davenport, Francis L.
    Ballston Lane, New York 12019 (US)

(74) Representative: Lowther, Deborah Jane 
Abel & Imray, Northumberland House, 303-306 High Holborn
London WC1V 7LH
London WC1V 7LH (GB)


(56) References cited: : 
   
       


    (54) PEEK hot press felts and fabrics


    (57) The present invention relates to a fabric for a paper making machine which fabric comprises a woven substrate carrying batt fibre on the surface thereof characterised in that at least one of the batt fibre and the substrate comprises a polyetherketone.





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