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Topix SRS Pro-Ceramide Barrier Repair is comparable to the now-discontinued Remergent's Barrier Repair Formula, which used a delivery system called aerospheres with lipids that surround a chemical called ursolic acid.

This Topix moisturizer's formula includes rosemary extract, which provides a liposome delivery of ursolic acid. The repair formula helps the cells of the epidermis produce ceramides to retain moisture and other chemicals that firm up collagen. This dual action makes barrier repair formulas good for moisturizing and reducing wrinkles.

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Hey beautifuls!
Today I am going to share one of my favorite and a truly life changing makeup hack!
We all makeupholics love wearing eyeshadows. But before that, it is a good eye shadow base or primer which can make or break your eyeshadow game. Getting a good budget eyeshadow base is really difficult. And sometimes, we just do not feel like splurging on an expensive brand …
But ladies, do you know a good nude matte lipstick could be as good as any eyeshadow base? Yes you heard me right!
Actually any color of matte lipstick will do the trick. But if it is nude, then it will not alter the original eyeshadow color. Also, it will help neutralizing the lids, if you have veins showing through or any sort of unevenness!
A layer of matte lipstick will give the powder shadow some sort of base to stick to the skin, resulting in better staying power! Additionally , the matte formula will prevent producing excess oil (if you have oily lids) which means less creasing and fading of shadows.
I have been using Lakme 9 to 5 lipcolor 'Coffee Command' for this purpose, which happens to be my favorite MLBB shade! Read my full review on it HERE !!
|I have used this lipstick hack in this metallic blue eye makeup look! Will do a tutorial post soon :)
Will you try this trick? Do you follow any such easy hacks? Share in comments below !!


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|Nov 22, 2011
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This application claims priority benefits of U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 60/967,489 filed Sep. 5, 2007, the disclosure of which is hereby incorporated by reference.
The invention disclosed herein relates to the use of laser energy to weld or fuse selected locations in papermachine clothing ("PMC") and other industrial and engineered fabrics.
All patents, patent applications, documents and/or references referred to herein are incorporated by reference, and may be employed in the practice of the invention.
The present invention relates to the papermaking arts including fabrics and belts used in the forming, pressing, and drying sections of a paper machine, and to industrial process fabrics and belts, TAD fabrics, engineered fabrics and belts, along with corrugator belts generally.
The fabrics and belts referred to herein may include those also used in the production of, among other things, wetlaid products such as paper and paper board, and sanitary tissue and towel products made by through-air drying processes; corrugator belts used to manufacture corrugated paper board and engineered fabrics used in the production of wetlaid and drylaid pulp; in processes related to papermaking such as those using sludge filters and chemiwashers; and in the production of nonwovens produced by hydroentangling (wet process), meltblowing, spunbonding, airlaid or needle punching. Such fabrics and belts include, but are not limited to: embossing, conveying, and support fabrics and belts used in processes for producing nonwovens; filtration fabrics and filtration cloths; and fabrics and belts used for textile finishing processes such as calendering and hide tanning.
Such belts and fabrics are subject to a wide variety of conditions for which functional characteristics need to be accounted. For example, during the papermaking process, a cellulosic fibrous web is formed by depositing a fibrous slurry, that is, an aqueous dispersion of cellulose fibers, onto a moving forming fabric in the forming section of a paper machine. A large amount of water is drained from the slurry through the forming fabric, leaving the cellulosic fibrous web on the surface of the forming fabric.
It should be appreciated that these industrial fabrics such as paper machine clothing (PMC) such as the forming fabrics, press fabrics, and dryer fabrics, all take the form of endless loops on the paper machine and function in the manner of conveyers.
Such fabric structures are typically constructed from synthetic fibers and monofilaments by conventional textile processing methods such as weaving, for example. It is often desirable to selectively tailor the fabric structure to affect or enhance a performance characteristic important to, for example, the papermaker, such as fabric life, sheet formation, runnability or paper properties.
For fabrics such as those used for the forming of paper and tissue products, or for the production of tissue/towel or through-air drying "TAD" fabrics, such fabrics are often times joined by a seam. In this instance, the fabric is usually flat woven from yarns, usually monofilaments. Each fabric edge has a "fringe" of machine direction ("MD") yarns. This fringe is rewoven with cross machine direction ("CD") yarns in the same basic pattern as the fabric body. This process of seaming to make endless is known to those skilled in the art. The seam area therefore contains MD yarn ends. The strength of the seam is dependent upon the MD yarn strength, the number of MD and CD yarns used, and the crimp in the MD yarns themselves that physically "lock" themselves around CD yarns to an extent. However, when the fabric is under operating tension on, for example, a papermaking or tissue/towel making machine, these MD yarn ends can literally slip past one another and pull out. The "ends" themselves can protrude above the fabric plane causing small holes in the paper/tissue product or can eventually slip enough so that ultimately, the fabric seam fails and the fabric pulls apart. Typically, the width of the seam area, as measure in MD, formed using conventional techniques range, for example, anywhere between three and one half to twenty inches or even more.
To minimize this, the yarns in the seam are usually sprayed or coated with an adhesive. Unfortunately, this can alter the fluid handling properties of the seam area, and the adhesive can also be abraded and wear off.
While the application of heat to partially weld or fuse yarns to each other in the seam area has been contemplated, the use of heat generally may cause unacceptable change to the fluid handling properties of the seam area since all yarns are affected and the seam may, for example, have a resultant air permeability different than the fabric body.
Other shortcomings of the prior attempts are that either because of the number of yarns used in the MD, or the size of the yarns used, sufficient seam strength cannot be obtained by conventional seaming methods, even with the additional use of glues/adhesives.
It is known in the paper machine clothing and/or industrial fabric arts to utilize thermal energy to fuse yarns together to form a seam in for example, a flat woven fabric of machine direction (MD) and cross machine (CD) yarns.
The need to maintain yarn properties as well as fabric properties in the seam area is paramount. Yarns used in PMC and other industrial fabrics are made from oriented polymers such as polyester, and have a desired shape and size. It is necessary to maintain essentially the yarn size, shape and characteristics after application of thermal energy. However, heat can affect these materials in a variety of adverse ways. For example, heat can cause (a) softening above the glass transition point of a thermoplastic material which effects dimensional changes, or (b) flow by melting above the melt transition point.
Seam openness should be maintained by not causing major distortion of the yarns in the seam area. Also, high yarn tensile strength, especially in the MD yarns should be maintained or resultant seam strength will be unacceptable.
While some "melt flow" is required to have at least portions of two adjacent yarns bond to each other and/or bond to CD yarns that they crossover, no major distortion of the yarn should occur. So there is a need to balance the desired yarn, seam and fabric properties compared to the amount and location of the absorbed thermal energy as exemplified in
Thermal welding of polymers is achieved by either overlapping of the two MD yarns, for example, to be welded together by some distance, or end to end welding of two yarns, or either of these in conjunction with fusion to a yarn oriented in another direction in the fabric, for example, at least one CD yarn. Welding can also occur with just one MD yarn welded to a CD yarn at a crossover.
There have been attempts to use lasers to weld thermoplastic materials together, but "weld quality" and over-fusing of the material was suspect. Such "over-fusing" would be unacceptable for the yarns used in the fabric applications envisioned.
Laser technology has advanced, producing laser types that would better control and focus the thermal energy.
A further development based upon the principles of transmission (some laser wavelengths are transparent to polymeric materials, such as polyester for example polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyamide (PA)) and absorption is to use a radiation absorbing material within a polymer matrix or applying it to for example, a polymeric yarn surface in a discrete location where thermal fusion or welding is desired. US Patent Application US2004/0056006A1 assigned to The Welding Institute, exemplifies such technology. However, nothing in this application addresses the needs of using a similar approach on adjacent yarns for example in the seam of a forming or other industrial fabric.
Another example of using laser energy and an energy absorbing material is taught in PCT Application WO02/057353A2 assigned to EI Dupont De Numours and Company. Again however, the teachings are for bonding materials shaped by injection molding and do not address the requirements of producing fabrics and improved seams in such fabrics when using oriented polymeric yarns.
Canadian patent application 2,552,009, assigned to Heimbach GMBH & Co., KG relates to a forming fabric for use in a sheet forming section of a papermachine, having or comprising a textile planar structure in which, in order to enhance inherent stability, intersecting yarns are engaged into one another at intersection points and in which yarns additionally are fused to one another, which is characterized in that the planar structure comprises intersecting first and second yarns, the first yarns having the property that they absorb laser energy and can be brought by absorbed laser energy, to melting temperatures at least at the surface; and that first and second yarns are fused to one another at least at some of their intersection points.
The application teaches that one of the two yarns contains a laser energy absorbing material. Further, when addressing the seam area of a woven fabric, the application teaches that in the seam region, first yarns (that contain the laser energy absorbing material) should be present that extend in the transverse direction and are welded to second yarns extending in the longitudinal direction. In order to achieve particularly high seam strength there, the first yarns should be present in a higher concentration in the seam region than in the remaining region of the forming fabric, and the first and second fabrics (sic) should be welded to one another at as many intersection points as possible. The longitudinal yarns inserted in correctly woven fashion into the respectively opposite end during the stitching process are then fused to the first yarns. This creates the possibility of shortening the seam region without thereby impairing the strength of the seam. In this fashion the seam region can be reduced from a usual extension of, for example, 100 mm in the longitudinal region to, for example, 60 mm, i.e. the seam region can be shortened by 20-60% in the machine direction.
However, an apparent major shortcoming of this approach is that the other properties of the seam such as its permeability, number of sheet support points, and Fiber Support Index (FSI) will be different from the main fabric body as the end counts in the CD will be different.
Thus, the fusing or welding of synthetic polymeric yarns by focused laser energy, especially those in the seam area of woven fabrics, without causing appreciable loss of yarn properties; major alteration of size and/or shape of the yarns; having a seam that has properties like the body of the fabric; that the seam has, if the seam is the same length in the MD as normally used, higher durability, and strength equal to or higher than an unfused or unwelded seam; and if the seam is shorter in the MD than normally used, strength sufficient to allow the fabric to run a useful life when installed and used on a paper or other industrial machine, is the subject of the present invention.
Surprisingly, the deficiencies of the art are overcome by the objects of the invention which are described below:
One object of the invention is to provide an improved seam for a papermaker or other industrial fabric or belt.
Another object is to provide an improved seam for a papermaker or other industrial fabric or belt that has properties such as strength, durability, openness, adequate number of support points, and FSI essentially the same as the fabric body.
Another object of the invention is to provide an improved seam in a fabric that has minimal terminal yarn end pullback and seam end termination wear.
Another object of the invention is to provide a seam for woven structures from yarns which allows creation of said woven structure and seam which would not have adequate strength using conventional seaming methods.
Another object of the invention is to enable fabric designs that have not been commercialized due to the inability to make seams with adequate strength using conventional seaming technology.
Another object of the invention is to provide appropriate materials in desired locations which will act as laser energy absorbers.
Another object of the invention is to provide a process for applying the appropriate laser energy absorbing materials in the desired locations.
Another object of the invention is to form a fabric having a durable seam, wherein the seam width as measured in the MD is a fraction of the width of a normal seam or a seam that is formed using a conventional technique of equal strength. This fraction can be 0.7 or lower, preferably 0.5 or lower, and most preferably 0.3 or lower. For example, if "X" is the width of a seam in MD according to prior practice, or a conventional seaming method, then the width of the seam formed according to the instant invention is, for example, 0.7× or lower, preferably 0.5× or lower, and most preferably 0.3× or lower whilst being of equal strength.
Another object of the invention is to provide seams which contain yarns which are grooved to further improve fusion/bonding for increased seam strength.
The present invention will now be described in more complete detail with references being made to the figures wherein like reference numerals denote like elements and parts, which are identified below:
The present invention relates to improving seams in paper machine and other industrial fabrics by utilizing laser energy. The present invention, specifically, relates to belts used in the forming, pressing, and drying sections of a paper machine, and to industrial process fabrics and belts, TAD fabrics, engineered fabrics and corrugator belts. In one aspect of the invention there is a need to make a stronger and/or more durable seam. In another aspect, there is a need to provide seams with adequate strength that are shorter in the MD than would commonly be used. Another aspect is to be able to provide woven fabric structures that heretofore could not be produced due to the inability to provide adequate seam strength using conventional seaming technology.
The present invention also relates to the fabric produced using such an improved seam.
The present invention also relates to a process for producing such an improved seam and fabric.
While most of the discussion will be for seams for flat woven fabrics, other types of seams, such as for example the commonly known pin seam or inline spiral seam, which also requires reweaving of MD yarns into the fabric body and has the potential therefore to fail due to yarn slippage and pull out, can also be improved by the laser welding technique described herein. In such seams, the MD yarns which form the seam loops themselves can be welded or fused to the CD yarns to prevent them from pulling out under operating tensions in use.
Various different methods are envisioned to produce these seams. One method is to focus the laser in discrete locations such as at seam termination points in the fabric seam. The presence of an absorbing material at each location may be necessary as most polymeric materials do not absorb laser energy. Otherwise, the laser energy may cause over-melting and/or loss of molecular orientation where the laser energy is focused on the yarns in the fabric.
One method to incorporate the absorber is to have it be part of the polymer resin used during extrusion of the yarn itself. Then the laser can be focused at each desired discrete location causing local fusion and welding.
Another method to incorporate the absorber is to coat the yarns with the absorbing material prior to weaving them into the fabric. In this case, the laser energy absorbing material, for example a particular dye, is applied by dye coating on the yarns before being woven into the fabric or sprayed on in a controlled precise pattern after the fabric is woven and seamed. In a subsequent operation, the laser is focused at each desired location, thus, causing local fusion.
Another method to incorporate the absorbing material is to apply it to the desired discrete locations in the fabric. A method for applying resin material in discrete locations is taught in commonly assigned U.S. Publication No. 2004/0126569, wherein the laser energy absorbing material can be deposited onto the fabric in a controlled manner so as to create a predetermined pattern of deposits.
Another method is to spray the absorbing material in CD bands in desired locations, for example, the seam area, of a woven, seamed fabric.
The basic principle of the use of a laser energy absorbing material is to provide a means for the energy source to heat the surfaces of the yarns in desired locations without appreciable heating of the yarn core. In this way it is possible to heat the yarn surfaces such that the surfaces can be fused to another yarn without melting the entire yarn cross-section. Two neighboring yarns in a seam area 10 of a woven, seamed fabric, for example a CD yarn 14 and an MD yarn 20, as shown in
In one embodiment of the invention, this technique was applied to a braided structure 100 comprised of grooved PET monofilament 50. The braided structure 100 was formed on a piece of polyolefin tubing measuring 6 mm in diameter. The cross section of the grooved PET monofilament 50 is shown in
This grooved PET monofilament has a nominal diameter of 9.27 mm. The grooves in the monofilament allow laser dye to access the area between two monofilaments that are crossed over one another in the braided structure 100. This crossover is very much like the crossover that occurs in woven fabrics. In common textile structures made from monofilaments, the monofilaments are typically round or rectangular in cross section without any grooves (smooth surfaced). Grooved monofilaments are used as a means to capture laser energy absorbing material. Smooth surfaced monofilaments have less area and surface volume to capture coatings. In addition, when smooth surface monofilaments are used in a crossover textile design, for example a woven fabric, there is little or no free space between two smooth surfaced monofilaments and it is unlikely that the laser energy absorbing material, for example a particular dye, will penetrate the area between the monofilaments. By contrast, any dye applied to the crossover between two grooved monofilaments, or a grooved monofilament and a smooth surfaced monofilament, is likely to penetrate the area between the monofilaments due to flow of the coating along the grooves occupying the space between the monofilaments. Thus, using grooved monofilaments one is able to place laser dye in the space between two crossing over monofilaments.
As noted above, this technique was applied to a braided structure 100 comprised of grooved monofilaments 50 as shown in
The types of micro-welding described above can also be used to increase the strength and/or durability of, for example, forming fabric seams. Conventional seams rely on fiber/yarn crimp and friction to hold the seam together. By welding together machine direction and cross machine direction monofilaments in such seams, it is possible to increase the strength and/or durability of the seams.
This type of micro-welding can also enable new fabric designs to be commercialized. In the past, fabric weave designs having so-called "straight warps" have been considered. Designs that have straight warps are problematic as the MD yarns in the seam lack sufficient crimp and friction that are needed to hold the seam together. Otherwise straight warp designs are very attractive as they enable fabric designs that have improved tensile modulus relative to conventional forming fabric designs that have crimped machine direction monofilaments with sufficient crimp to form a strong seam. Another example is the "straight line" concept that involves straight warps residing in the middle of a multi-layer fabric. The warps have insufficient crimp and friction for making a seam. By utilizing the micro-welds described herein, one can enable seams to be made with straight warp fabric designs. Micro-welds between machine direction and cross machine direction monofilaments enable stresses to be transferred around and across a termination in the seam of the fabric structure. Other designs utilizing very fine yarns in either the MD or CD, or designs that use yarn counts that are relatively low (meaning coarse fabrics), may not have adequate seam strength unless the seam is enhanced by laser micro-welds.
As stated above, another approach to making micro-welds also utilizes a laser dye or laser pigment. In this case the laser dye or laser pigment is dispersed in the material comprising the monofilament. Typically, the concentration of the laser dye or laser pigment is less than 0.4%. The presence of the laser dye or laser pigment allows one to make an "energy absorbing" monofilament at the frequency of the energy source. Preferably, a laser energy source is used as lasers are designed to deliver precise amounts of energy to specific locations.
In another case a CD PET monofilament 14 containing 0.4% of a laser absorber was woven into a fabric as a wear side monofilament. All of the other monofilaments in the fabric were comprised of "non-absorbing" PET monofilaments 20. A 300 micron diameter area of the fabric was exposed for 1 millisecond to a YAG laser operating at 225 volts. The area that was exposed was the crossover between the CD monofilament and two machine direction monofilaments. As shown in
If any of the techniques herein described above are utilized in the seam area of a woven fabric, problems such as seam terminal end pull back and/or holes in the seam area are virtually eliminated.
Many choices exist for laser energy absorbing materials. The earliest example was carbon black. The choice of material, the quantity of material, and the location of the material, all determine the resultant characteristic of the fused bond.
As mentioned above, the melting of the yarn occurs on any surface that has been coated with a laser energy absorbing material and then exposed to the appropriate laser energy source.
In order to control the area or extent of the melting, it has been found beneficial to use certain dyes that are water soluble.
When such a dye is applied to a fabric from an aqueous solution and allowed to dry, the dye migrates to the interstices between monofilaments in contact with each other. This is in contrast to other laser dyes which are only soluble in organic solvents. These non-aqueous dyes deposit on the entire surface of the monofilament and cause melting of the entire surface of the monofilament.
However, it is a matter of choice which type of dye to use. For example, filled crossover points between MD and CD yarns are advocated for, for example, forming and TAD fabrics, as the filled crossovers caused by material flow during fusion, reduce the amount of water that would normally reside there due to capillary forces. Reduced water carrying reduces energy cost in paper production. Filled crossovers are also advocated to reduce the accumulation of dirt in the pinch point between the crossovers formed by the MD and CD yarns.
Clearly, a laser welded seam is superior in strength and dimensional stability to a conventional production seam. While this technology enables stronger seams, this technology also enables new features to be produced with conventional forming fabric patterns. This is accomplished by the impact of welded seam technology on standard heatsetting practices. Conventional practices of heatsetting are limited due to a trade-off between dimensional stability and seam strength. If one uses harsh heatsetting conditions that result in a large amount of fabric stretch (crimp removal in the MD mono filaments), the resulting product will have low seam strength, but high dimensional stability. Typically harsh heatsetting conditions are not used as they result in a seam strength that is too low. With laser welded seam technology, heatsetting conditions that are harsher can be used, as the normally low seam strength is compensated for by the welded seam strength. This means that the resulting structure will have better dimensional stability than conventional fabrics. This also means that more plane difference will result between the MD and CD monofilaments. This is an advantage in the wear side as this allows one to increase resistance to fabric wear characteristics without resorting to the use of large diameter monofilaments. In turn this keeps the fabric caliper low and for example, reduces water carrying by the forming fabric.
As mentioned above, various methods have been considered to microweld either crossover points in woven structures, or contacting points between adjacent yarns in woven structures via laser welding or fusing.
Welds make it possible to transfer machine direction stress around or across the terminations in the seam area without the integrity of the seam being dependent only upon yarn friction and crimp in the seam area. Welds have been made in various patterns including complete (100%) welding of the entire seam area, regular arrays of spot welds, and groups of CD weld stripes. A combination of these welds can also be formed e.g., a combination of spot welds and a group of CD weld stripes. The mechanical properties of, for example, a forming fabric seam area must allow for skew due to misaligned rolls on a paper machine. In this respect the seam must be capable of handling shear forces in the plane of the fabric without causing problems such as buckling or wrinkling of the fabric during use in the papermaking process. Seam areas which are welded in their entirety (100% welded in the seam) are stiff and highly resistant to in-plane shear deformation.
An ideal welding pattern for, as an example, a forming fabric seam accomplishes two goals. First, the pattern ensures that each and every terminal warp monofilament terminal end in the fabric seam is welded to a shute monofilament such that machine direction stress can be transferred via welds and continuous monofilament around matching or corresponding terminal warp ends in the seam. As an alternative, multiple welds can be produced along the length of a single yarn, such as a warp or weft with the wefts and warps crossing over, respectively, thereby sharing the same load with a number of wefts or warps at the crossover points, thus eliminating any distortion in the fabric. These welds produce a seam that is very durable on a paper machine. Second, the pattern ensures that there are contiguous paths of unwelded warps and shutes extending from one side of the seam to the other side of the seam in the machine direction. These contiguous paths of unwelded fabric enable the in-plane shear properties of the seam to be similar to the in-plane shear properties of the body of the fabric. This feature enables the fabric including the seam to successfully manage a maldistribution of stresses that can arise from misaligned rolls on a paper machine. If the fabric cannot manage a maldistribution in stresses, the fabric will buckle or wrinkle on the paper machine.
Preferably the contiguous paths of unwelded warps are symmetric with respect to the machine direction. This feature ensures that the in-plane shear properties are symmetric with respect to the machine direction.
The following is intended to explain the pattern in greater detail. Stress transfer in welded seams assumes that every terminal end must be welded at some place along its length (preferably at or near each termination) in order for machine direction stress to be transferred around each termination via welds and continuous monofilament in the fabric. While stress transfer in a conventional woven seam makes use of monofilament crimp and friction between warp and shute monofilaments, this type of stress transfer is ignored.
An alternative to the location of the spot welds shown in
Alternatively, a termination can consist of two warp ends 14 that pass by each other as illustrated in
According to one embodiment of the invention,
In the seam of
The next figure,
Accordingly, the basic process steps for a fabric with the laser energy absorbing materials in several CD bands are:
Although an order of steps involved in a process for forming a fabric with a laser energy absorbing material in CD bands has been listed above, the order therein is purely exemplary, and does not limit the scope of the invention.
As mentioned previously, however, spot welding of individual locations can be utilized. The next figure,
While spot welding can be achieved by just laser energy itself, a preferred method is to use an absorber for laser energy deposited at the required precise locations which would minimize yarn distortion and loss of molecular orientation of the polymer making up the yarn.
Therefore, a summary of advantages of the present invention can be enlisted as follows:
Therefore, the result of the use of laser welding is a stronger and/or more durable seam for the same length seam in the MD. As an alternative, preferably, the seam width as measured in the MD is a fraction of the width of a normal seam or a seam that is formed using a conventional technique of equal strength. This fraction can be 0.7 or lower, preferably 0.5 or lower, and most preferably 0.3 or lower. For example, if "X" is the width of a seam in MD according to prior practice, of a conventional seaming method, then the width of the seam formed according to the instant invention is, for example, 0.7× or lower, preferably 0.5× or lower, and most preferably 0.3× or lower whilst being of equal strength to the "X" length seam. Although seams for flat woven fabrics have been discussed, the present laser welding technique can be applied to other types of seams, such as for example a pin seam or inline seam, wherein the MD yarns which form the seam loops themselves and are woven back into the fabric body can be welded or fused to the CD yarns to prevent them from pulling out under operating tensions in use, thus improving the seam strength and uniformity in stress or load distribution.
A double layer fabric was woven and seamed with yarns containing a laser energy absorbing material. The fabric seam was exposed to the laser energy source in one area, and left unfused in another area. Samples were then removed of the corresponding seam areas, and breaking strength was measured. A 53% increase in breaking strength was reported.
Triple layer SSB fabrics of various designs were woven, and the seams had laser energy absorbing material present in desired locations. After exposure to a laser in one area of the seam, samples were removed of unfused and fused seam areas. Seam strength increases of up to 129% were reported.
In another experiment, a triple layer SSB fabric with a shorter (in the MD) seam that contained laser energy absorbing materials in the yarns was exposed to laser energy in a portion of the seam. Samples of the fused and unfused areas of the seam were tested, and a 47% increase in breaking strength was reported.
An SSB fabric was woven and seamed that had laser energy absorbing materials present in desired locations in the seam area. The seam was exposed to the appropriate laser energy source. The fabric was then run on a pilot machine on the conveying position of a gap forming machine making 45 gsm newsprint at 800 mpm. Trial conditions such as fabric tension, counter blade loading, and vacuum levels were varied. No sheet drainage mark from the seam was detected under the entire range of conditions employed.
Thus the present invention, its objects, and advantages, are realized and although preferred embodiments have been disclosed and described in detail herein, its scope and objects should not be limited thereby; rather its scope should be determined by that of the appended claims.
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Opening night is 6pm on Friday 4th October (there did not seem much point in having an opening night midweek!).
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About 20 years ago I came out to my parents, and I have to say that they surprised me. I had prepared myself for the possibility that they might disown me and want nothing to do with me, but that could not have been further from the truth. They told me that they loved me and that all that mattered to them was my happiness. Were things perfect from the very beginning? Not at all, but over time we all worked on our relationships, and I can proudly say that my relationship with my parents was strongest after I came out of the closet.
I honestly feel that being in the closet prevented me from connecting with my parents as I got older and started realizing that I'm gay. I wish that I had told them from the very beginning, when I was confused, for lack of a better word. Doing that could have prevented me from allowing someone else to convince me that my parents would react poorly to who I am. But that's in the past now, and all we can do is learn and move forward.
Sadly, though, I forgot that lesson until this past weekend, when I finally told my family that my husband is a drag queen and has been for the last three years. When Vivian was first created, I think I was once again afraid of how my parents would react. For the seven years before Vivian, my relationship with my parents had been amazing, and I was afraid to lose that.
Then the unthinkable happened: My dad passed away unexpectedly from complications from prostate cancer. After my dad's death I didn't feel that it would be fair to tell my mom about Vivian; my dad's death hit us all quite hard, but it hit my mom the hardest, so I really didn't want to add anything else for her to deal with.
Well, three years later, I started blogging here on The Huffington Post, which made me start thinking to myself, "What happens if one of these blog posts gets picked up and goes viral and is all over the news?" I know exactly how my mom would react: She would be furious that I hadn't told her myself and that she'd found out that way.
So I made the decision to tell my mom about Vivian, and once again my mom was completely amazing. After I told her, she said, "OK. I can't say I understand it, but OK." I was shocked. I wasn't expecting her to be so nonchalant about it, but I was relieved that she was. I made sure that I explained to my mom that this doesn't change who Jeff is as a person, that it doesn't mean he wants to be a woman (a widely believed myth), and that it is just a hobby for him. Her response: "As long as he enjoys it, that is what matters." My 66-year-old mother was being so cool about her son-in-law the drag queen. I couldn't believe it.
After I told her about Vivian, I told her about my personal blog and the HuffPost blog posts and and explained why I'd felt the need to tell her. It turned out that I'd been 100-percent right about my mom: She told me that she would have been furious if she'd only learned about Vivian and my blogging through the news. I do know my mom!
My mom's reaction made me realize that I should have told my parents about Vivian from the very beginning. That way, my dad would have known, and maybe they would have been able to see Jeff perform. As they say, hindsight is 20/20.
I have some amazing parents, and I'm extremely grateful for them. I read the horror stories about how some parents treat their LGBTQ children, and I can't comprehend it. There is nothing that my parents wouldn't do for their children, and I believe that that would even mean going to see their son's husband perform in drag if they had the chance.
So I guess the House of Von Brokenhymen has grown over this past weekend, and I couldn't be happier about it.
Here's to all the amazing parents like mine who support and love their LGBTQ children. It is because of your love and support that we are changing this world for the better.
This blog post originally appeared on Diary of a Drag Queen's Husband.


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Liberia's leader-to-be will not pursue anyone for war crimes but instead wants a general amnesty to exorcise the ghosts of nearly 14 years of bloodshed.
Hours after he was picked by warring factions, Gyude Bryant announced there was a role for everyone in the new Liberia, except the country's exiled former president, Charles Taylor, who started Liberia's civil war in 1989.
The low-profile businessman has been set the task of reuniting his faction-riven country and preparing for elections by 2005.
While neighbouring Sierra Leone has set up a UN-backed war crimes tribunal to try the ringleaders of its own civil war - one of whom is Taylor - Mr Bryant ruled out any such tribunal for Liberia.
"It will do more damage than good," he said. "We need to grant a general amnesty and move our country forward."
More than 200,000 people died in the 1990s during Liberia's civil war. Many had hoped the election of Taylor, one of the country's chief warlords, to the presidency in 1997 would end the misery but his foes took up arms again soon after and the killing continued.
Last week, Taylor capitulated under massive pressure from rebel groups and the international community, and handed over power to his deputy, Moses Blah, paving the way for the new interim government in October.
Mr Bryant said there might be a role for Mr Blah in the new Liberia, but not for Taylor, who is now living in a set of elegant villas in Nigeria's south-eastern town of Calabar after accepting an asylum offer.
Since Taylor's departure from Liberia, the warring factions have moved with uncharacteristic speed and co-operation to agree to a peace deal and then to pick Mr Bryant to head the transition government.
Mr Bryant, who will be barred from contesting the 2005 election, said he was chosen because of his neutrality. "I don't see myself as being a contentious person, or a threat to the many persons who have personal ambitions," he said.
"The warring parties are too inflamed. There is too much anger among too many people. We need a cooling-off period.
"I side with no group. I'll strive to bring the opposing factions together. We need to heal our country, to end the retribution, and to see that the basic rights of the people are ensured."
Mr Bryant is so little known that his biography at the US Embassy in Monrovia consists of one sentence: chairman of the Liberian Action Party, a minor political group.
But the 54-year-old also has few known enemies, and that alone makes him a highly unusual man in Liberia.
Charles Gyude Bryant (whose middle name is pronounced you-deh) was born in Monrovia and is commonly known by his middle name. His family has roots in Maryland County, Liberia, one of the many places with a name that harks back to the nation's founding by freed American slaves in 1847.
Unlike much of Liberia's elite, he is not descended from American ancestors, but from the indigenous Grebo group.
He runs a heavy-equipment company that has supplied much of the machinery that lies in ruins at Liberia's war-shattered port.
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This week's guest post is Andrea Bava, a Vancouver resident that just returned from an extended trip through Central America.
The Corn Islands: Nicaragua's Caribbean Paradise
I just returned from an amazing, adventurous 10 week Central American adventure. Now I realize not everyone can just take off for 2 months, but before you book your next vacation I want to suggest an alternative that will take you off the beaten path and give you that beach paradise you've been looking for.
The Corn Islands are located on the Caribbean side of Nicaragua. It is the tropical island where we spent the final 7 days of our 10 week backpacking adventure through Central America. We hadn't heard of the secluded little island until arriving in Nicaragua and listening to other travellers' experiences. We were easily convinced and quickly hit up an internet cafe to book our flights.
How to get there?
From the capital city Managua, a 90 minute flight lands you on Big Corn Island. You'll want to get on the local Panga pretty quick as Big Corn can be a bit dodgy.
A quick 15 minute boat takes you to the dock of Little Corn Island, where you are welcomed by long stretches of white sand beach that wraps the entirety of the island (which you can walk around in 45 minutes).
Where to stay?
We stayed at what I think is the best accommodation option in town, Little Corn Beach and Bungalow. For $56 a night you get a clean, rustic and environmentally sustainable cabin that overlooks the ocean and boasts the best hammocks on the entire beach!
You can snack on banana bread, coconut bread or chicken pies that the locals sell on the beach for about $0.50 each. For something a bit more substantial, you can get an entire lobster dinner cooked to perfection for the equivalent of $10 Canadian.
Want a little more adventure?
Take a deep sea fishing trip with a local guide for about $40 for the afternoon and then grill up your daily catch on a beach fire pit.
Your days on Little Corn can be spent snorkelling, deep sea fishing or wandering the spectacular beaches and lush jungle that surrounds the island. We spent about 5 of our 7 days lying on the beach and swinging in hammocks, doing absolutely nothing and loving every minute.
The best part of Little Corn Island?
Electricity is only available from 5pm to 5am daily. If you have trouble "turning off" on vacation or are a blackberry addict, Little Corn Island's lack of electricity is the cure you've been looking for!
I know it is cliché to refer to a travel destination as "a little piece of paradise" but I'm at a loss for a better way to describe Little Corn Island.
It tops my travel list as one of the most beautiful places in the world!
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The government of Venezuela has confirmed that it is ceasing the sales of its vast oil reserve in the US Dollar.
"In an address to a new legislative superbody, Maduro said:
"I am announcing that Venezuela intends to introduce a new international payment system and to create a currency basket for the liberation from the dollar and, [we intend] to free ourselves from the clutches of the dollar, the currency that is strangling our country."
"If they pursue us with the dollar, we'll use the Russian rouble, the yuan, yen, the Indian rupee, the euro," Maduro said.
On August 25, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing financial sanctions on the Venezuelan government. The White House said the measures were "carefully calibrated" to put financial pressure on Maduro's government.
It's important to note that Venezuela sits on the largest amount of oil reserves in the world:
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The United States previously threatened to sanction anyone involved with the Constituent Assembly, which was elected on July 30.
The Constituent Assembly is a legislative body, which has the power to amend Venezuela's constitution. The election of the assembly took place amid mass, deadly protests across the country. Venezuelan opposition, as well as the European Union and the United States, have refused to recognize the body's legitimacy.
Maduro says this is part of an "economic war" waged by the opposition and Washington, aimed at his ouster. This move, in effect, will hence help the oil rich South American country dodge the unilateral sanctions recently passed by the US. US sanctions and threats of military action against Venezuela have been roundly condemned by both Russia and China.
"This is the fight against the economic blockade of the imperial sanctions of (U.S. President Donald) Trump," said Maduro.
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