Paper making and fiber liberation – Processes and products – Non-uniform – irregular or configured web or sheet
Reexamination Certificate
2000-07-31
2004-08-10
Chin, Peter (Department: 1731)
Paper making and fiber liberation
Processes and products
Non-uniform, irregular or configured web or sheet
C162S117000, C162S296000, C162S321000, C162S323000, C162S361000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06773548
ABSTRACT:
The present invention concerns a paper having an embossed pattern on one of its faces. This pattern is made up of the combination of at least one ground and one inlaid area, the wefts of the ground and of the inlaid area having different slants and shapes so as to give the effect seen on damask fabrics.
Damask fabrics are made up of a ground which has a weft slanting one way and an area inlaid in that ground which has a particular shape and a weft slanting in a different way from that of the ground. The wefts may be such that they make an embossed pattern with dots or an embossed pattern with dashes. The dots may be distributed in a particular grain and the dashes may have particular slants and lengths. Many variants of such damask fabrics are available on the market providing an almost unlimited choice of patterns.
The invention therefore aims at supplying a new paper which comprises an embossed pattern having the appearance of a damask fabric
Papers are known which have grains. These papers of the prior art have grains which are more or less round and are spread evenly over the surface of the paper. This kind of grained paper does not give a damask effect at all. The papers are made on a paper making machine in a traditional manner, then the paper is embossed by means of a graining felt or a graining roller, so that indentations are created on the surface of the paper. The graining felt is wrapped on one of the wet presses. The graining roller is put at the end of the machine or off the paper machine and embosses a finished paper.
Also, papers are known which are made on a cylinder paper machine. These papers are generally of better quality than papers made on a Foudrinier machine and generally have a higher grammage. The cylinder machine includes a pick-up felt, which is placed at the exit of the bath of cellulosic fibers and is designed to pick up the sheet of cellulosic fibers being formed and to carry it to the rollers compressing the sheet to extract the water from it.
In summary, known grained papers made by the prior art are papers with grains spread evenly over the surface.
The invention aims at supplying a paper, made on a Foudrinier machine or a cylinder machine, which has an embossed pattern on at least one of its sides. This pattern is made up of the combination of at least one ground and one inlaid area, in which the wefts of the ground and the inlaid have different slants and shapes, so as to produce an effect of the type of the effect which can be seen on damask fabrics.
Such a paper with a damask effect is new and to the knowledge of its inventors has never before been manufactured or offered for sale.
The invention also aims at providing a process for making such a paper with a damask effect.
The invention also aims at providing means for implementing the process for making a paper with a damask effect.
In the first place, a more specific explanation of what is meant by a paper with a damask effect follows.
FIG. 1
shows a damask fabric with a pattern.
FIG. 2
shows a damask fabric with another pattern.
The damask fabric shown in these Figures is not part of the invention, but helps to understand the aim at which the invention is directed.
In
FIG. 1
, it can be seen that fabric
1
has patterns formed by ground
2
and areas
3
,
4
and
5
inlaid in ground
2
. Ground
2
is such that it has parallel rows
6
of dots
7
which are equidistant one from another and rows
8
of dots
7
, the rows
6
forming an angle a with the rows
8
. Dots
7
are more particularly short dashes formed by the threads of the weft passing over the threads in the warp. Areas
3
,
4
,
5
have various, different contours. Areas
3
,
4
,
5
are inlaid in ground
2
. The term “inlaid area” used in the present description and in the claims means an area lying in the ground, with a particular shape at its contour P, and with its upper surface in the same plane as the upper surface of ground
2
. The term “upper surface” means the surface adjacent to the upper part of the weft threads. Indeed, the weft threads lie above the warp threads on the right side of the fabric, and are therefore in a plane above the plane of the warp threads. An embossed shape is therefore formed by the weft threads. Area
3
has parallel rows
9
of dashes
10
forming an angle &bgr; with the rows
6
of dots
7
in ground
2
. Angle &bgr; is different from angle a. Likewise, zone
4
has parallel rows
11
of dashes
12
forming an angle &ggr; with the rows
6
of dots
7
in ground
2
. Angles &agr;, &bgr; and &ggr; are different one from another. The dashes
10
,
12
are formed by the weft threads which pass over several warp threads. We see therefore that the fabric is made up of a ground
2
comprising dots spread evenly over the surface, these dots being aligned in rows, and of one or several inlaid areas comprising dashes aligned in parallel rows, the rows of the dots of ground
2
lying in a different direction from the rows of dashes in the inlaid areas, and the inlaid areas having different contours P. Moreover, the dots and dashes are raised in relation to the general plane of ground
2
.
FIG. 2
shows another form of damask fabric which has a ground
11
comprising dashes
12
and not dots.
FIG. 3
shows a ground
13
made up of dots
14
which are aligned in rows
15
and rows
16
, the angle a between rows
15
and
16
being 45°. In
FIG. 4
we have shown a ground
17
made up of dashes
18
. In a fabric, the dots
14
and dashes
18
are formed by the weft threads of the fabric. That is why the term “weft” will be used hereinafter to refer to the dots and dashes of a pattern on a paper, by analogy with the fabrics.
FIG. 5
shows an inlaid area
19
which has a contour P
1
and an inlaid area
20
which has a contour P
2
. The contours P
1
and P
2
have different shapes. The inlaid area
19
comprises rows of dashes
21
which form an angle p with the rows of dots
14
in the ground
13
and an angle &ggr; with the rows of dashes
18
in the ground
17
. Likewise, area
20
has rows of dashes
22
which have a different slant from the rows of dots
14
in the ground
13
and the rows of dots
18
in the ground
17
. It will be understood that if it is desired to achieve a damask effect, areas
19
and
20
must be inlaid, or inset or inserted in ground
13
or
17
, in such a way that the upper surface of the inlaid area is on the same level as the upper level of the ground. A different visual effect will be obtained by inlaying areas
19
and
20
in ground
13
or in ground
17
.
The paper according to the invention comprises such a damask pattern.
The paper according to the invention is therefore a paper characterized in that it comprises an embossed pattern on at least one of its faces, the said pattern being made by the combination of at least one ground and at least one inlaid area, with the wefts of at least one of the grounds and at least one of the inlaid areas having different slants and shapes.
According to one embodiment of the invention, the ground does not have a weft whereas at least two areas have wefts with different slants and shapes.
According to another embodiment of the invention, the ground has dots aligned in a first series of parallel rows and in a second series of parallel rows, the first series forming a given angle a with the second series.
According to yet another embodiment of the invention, the ground comprises a series of parallel rows of dashes.
According to another embodiment of the invention, the inlaid areas each have series of parallel rows of dashes, the series of dashes in one area slanting in relation to the series of dashes in another area.
The paper according to the, invention is preferably a paper with grammage above 100 gsm, preferably above 160 gsm.
The paper according to the invention may also be inked to accentuate the embossed shape of at least one of the inlaid areas.
The present invention also aims at providing a process for making the above-mentioned paper.
According to a first embodiment of the process of the invention, the pattern is
Loeillot Jean-Francois
Thibierge Emeric
Chin Peter
Thibierge et Comar
Westerman Hattori Daniels & Adrian LLP
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