Patent ID: 7866350

Claim:
A forming fabric for the forming of a fibrous web thereon, the fabric comprising: a plurality of cross machine direction (CD) yarns including a set of top CD yarns, a set of bottom CD yarns and a set of binder CD yarns; and a plurality of machine direction (MD) yarns including a set of top MD yarns and a set of bottom MD yarns, said top MD yarns being on a paper side of the fabric, said bottom MD yarns being on a wear side of the fabric; a repeating pattern of said CD yarns and said MD yarns, said pattern including an arrangement of said bottom CD yarns each floating under only six adjacent bottom MD yarns and then between some of said top MD yarns and only two adjacent bottom MD yarns, said set of top MD yarns and said set of bottom MD yarns total 20 in each said repeating pattern, every bottom MD yarn is paired with a top MD yarn defining paired MD yarns, some of said top MD yarns not being paired with a bottom MD yarn to define an unpaired top MD yarn, in said pattern half of said bottom CD yarns pass only between paired MD yarns and the other half of said bottom CD yarns pass between two paired MD yarns and past an unpaired top MD yarn.