Method for Manufacturing an Industrial Clothing

Abstract

An industrial clothing, in particular a clothing for a machine for manufacturing a fibrous web, such as a paper, cardboard, or tissue web, or a non-woven product, is manufactured by: i) forming a planar structure from yarn in the form of a woven fabric, a cross-laid structure, a knitted fabric, a warp-knitted fabric; or from interconnected helical elements; ii) applying polymer material in the form of at least one group of beads to at least one surface of the planar structure, the application of the polymer commencing at starting points and terminating at terminal points remote from the starting points; iii) repeating step ii), wherein terminating points of the group of beads are spaced apart from starting points of at least one further group of beads, which generates regions with a void between the groups on the surface of the planar structure.

1 . A method for manufacturing an industrial clothing, the method comprising the following method steps:
 i) manufacturing a planar structure from yarn in the form of a woven fabric, a cross-laid structure, a knitted fabric, a warp-knitted fabric, or from interconnected helical elements;   ii) applying at least one polymer material in the form of at least one group of beads to at least one surface of the planar structure, thereby commencing at starting points and terminating at terminal points that are remote from the starting points;   iii) repeating step ii) and generating on the surface of the planar structure regions with a void between the groups of beads by spacing apart terminating points of the at least one group of beads from the starting points of at least one further group of beads.   
     
     
         2 . The method according to  claim 1 , wherein a length of individual beads is at least twice a maximum width thereof. 
     
     
         3 . The method according to  claim 1 , which comprises applying the polymer with at least one application nozzle. 
     
     
         4 . The method according to  claim 3 , which comprises applying the polymer with a multiplicity of application nozzles. 
     
     
         5 . The method according to  claim 4 , which comprises actuating the application nozzles individually or in sets, and applying the polymer of the individual application nozzles or of the sets of application nozzles with individual activation or deactivation, wherein the sets comprise between 2 and 50 application nozzles. 
     
     
         6 . The method according to  claim 1 , which comprises manufacturing a clothing for a machine for manufacturing a fibrous web selected from the group consisting of paper, cardboard, tissue web, and a non-woven product. 
     
     
         7 . The method according to  claim 1 , which comprises applying beads of the groups of beads along tracks in a machine running direction with individual tracks thereof running uniformly and with adjacent individual tracks having a constant spacing between one another in a cross direction to the machine running direction.