Metal cloth

The metal cloth (also sieve cloth ) is woven from metal wire (e.g. steel , brass , bronze ) and is mainly used for sieves in the paper industry as well as for filters and press drainage sieves of various types ( wire filters ).

A special form is the use of creped and multiply folded metal cloth as a damping intermediate layer in all-metal vibration dampers .

The person who weaves the metal cloth is called the metal cloth weaver. A well-known production site was Reutlingen , where until the 1970s metal cloths up to 12 meters wide were woven on looms made on site .

Typical paper machine screens (also called wet or forming screens) are now made of plastic instead of metal wires, e.g. B. made of polyamide or polyester . Reutlingen is still the most important location for the production of such screens in Germany.

literature

• The sieve / [Hermann Wangner, Metalltuch- u. Machine factory], Reutlingen 1935.