Patent ID: 11920301
Assignee: nan
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D | IPC D

Claim 8:
9. A papermaking fabric woven from a plurality of interwoven shute and warp filaments and having a machine contacting surface and an opposite web contacting surface, the web contacting surface comprising a plurality of MD oriented protuberances woven in a twill pattern from two or more directly adjacent warp filaments, wherein each warp filament has a float length from 4 to 50 and the two or more directly adjacent warp filaments have a paired portion having a float length from 2 to 8 and a plurality of CD oriented protuberances woven in a twill pattern from two or more directly adjacent shute filaments, wherein each shute filament has a float length from 4 to 50 and the two or more directly adjacent shute filaments have a paired portion having a float length from 2 to 8 wherein the plurality of MD oriented protuberances are intersected by the plurality of CD oriented protuberances and define a plurality of discrete valleys having a depth of 0.5 mm or greater there between.