Patent ID: 7059360

Claim:
A papermaker's fabric comprising: a first layer and a second layer of cross-machine direction (CD) yarns; sets of machine-direction (MD) yarns, wherein each set has four pairs of MD yarns with each pair comprising a first MD yarn and a second MD yarn; wherein the first MD yarn and the second MD yarn each cross between and weave with both the first and second layers of CD yarns; the first MD yarn binding a single CD yarn in the second layer; wherein in the MD, each pair effectively produces a four-shed contour in the first layer and a two-shed contour in the second layer; wherein each pair is shifted in the CD, such that 4 pairs of MD yarns combine to effectively produce a four-shed contour in the CD in the first layer; wherein 2 pairs of MD yarns combine to effectively produce parallel two-shed contours in the MD in the second layer.