Patent ID: 7721769

Claim:
A fabric for use on a paper machine, comprising: a plurality of filaments woven together, at least a portion of said filaments having a machine side base, a web side face, and a pair of side walls extending between said base and said face, said base having a first width and said face having a second width less than said first width, said portion of said filaments having a generally trapezoidal shaped cross section defined by said face and said pair of side walls, wherein the fabric is a through air drying (TAD) fabric having an air permeability of between approximately 400 cfm and 1000 cfm and said bases of said filaments having a generally trapezoidal shaped cross section lie in a single plane, said side walls of said trapezoidal filaments adjacent to one another defining a diverging flow path between said adjacent trapezoidal filaments through the fabric from said machine side base to said web side face.