Patent ID: 8080136

Claim:
A drying wire comprising: a roll side surface and a surface on a side of a paper web to be dried; a plurality of machine direction longitudinal yarns and a plurality of cross direction transverse yarns that are woven together; a double fabric structure comprising a top fabric and a bottom fabric on top of one another, the top fabric being on the paper web side and the bottom fabric on the roll side; the top fabric and the bottom fabric are independent fabric layers comprising their own longitudinal yarns and cross direction yarns; the bottom fabric is a single-layer structure; the top fabric and the bottom fabric are woven simultaneously in a weaving machine and fastened to one another by a plurality of binding yarns; the bottom fabric only comprises monofilament yarns; the longitudinal yarns of the top fabric are monofilament yarns; and at least some of the cross direction yarns of the top fabric are heat shapeable yarns extending on the paper side of the top fabric substantially to a same level with the longitudinal yarns of the top fabric, thus forming contact points and a contact surface on the paper side.