Patent ID: 11920302
Assignee: nan
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D | IPC D

Claim 0:
1. A woven papermaking fabric having a machine direction axis and a cross-machine direction axis, the fabric comprising: a plurality of machine direction (MD) oriented warp filaments and a plurality of cross-machine direction (CD) oriented shute filaments, the shute filaments being interwoven with warp filaments to provide a machine contacting fabric side and opposed web contacting fabric side, the web contacting fabric side having a plurality of MD oriented protuberances formed from two or more warp filaments woven above their corresponding shute filaments, each of the plurality of MD oriented protuberances spaced apart from one another to define valleys having a depth of 0.5 mm or greater there between, and a plurality of discrete CD oriented protuberances formed from at least one shute filament woven about a corresponding warp filament.