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

Claim 16:
17. 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 first and second spaced apart MD oriented protuberances and first and second CD oriented protuberances spaced apart from each other in the MD and intersecting the first and second MD oriented protuberances, the first and second MD oriented protuberances and the first and second CD oriented protuberances defining a discrete parallelogram shaped valley having a depth of 0.5 mm or greater there between.