Patent ID: 9371602
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: D03D,D21F

Claim Text:
1. An industrial two-layer fabric of 16 or more shafts comprising an upper side fabric having upper side warps and upper side wefts and a lower side fabric having lower side warps and lower side wefts, the upper side fabric and the lower side fabric are bound by binding yarns, comprising: a first warp pair consisting of a binding yarn and one of an adjacent upper side warp, an adjacent lower side warp and an adjacent binding yarn; a second warp pair consisting of an upper side warp and an adjacent lower side warp; wherein, in a complete design, two or more of the first warp pairs are placed adjacent to each other, and two or more of the second warp pairs are placed adjacent to each other, wherein: a first binding yarn of one of the first warp pairs forms consecutive knuckles on the upper side fabric with a first group of upper side wefts, the first group includes a center upper side weft located at a center of the first group, a second binding yarn of another one of the first warp pairs adjacent to the one of the first warp pairs forms consecutive knuckles on the upper side fabric with a second group of upper side wefts, the second group includes an end upper side weft located at an end of the second group, wherein the end upper side weft is the center upper side weft or an upper side weft of the first group adjacent to the center upper side weft.