Patent ID: 7360560

Claim:
A single layer papermakers fabric having a paper side surface and a machine side surface and comprising machine direction (MD) warp yarns interwoven with cross-machine direction (CD) weft yarns to a repeating weave pattern requiring N sheds in the loom, wherein N is an integer and is at least 4, and wherein the warp yarns follow paths in the paper side surface comprising in each repeat for each warp yarn a first, second, third and fourth segment, wherein (i) in each of the first and third segments, the warp yarn interweaves with a first and second group of weft yarns each comprising three consecutive weft yarns at respective first and second interweaving locations to form a double warp knuckle; and (ii) in the second and fourth segments, the warp yarn forms respectively a first and second MD float having unequal float lengths wherein at least one of the MD floats is over at least N consecutive weft yarns.