Patent ID: 7431802

Claim:
A compound paper making fabric comprising: a paper side fabric having paper side threads, a wear side fabric having wear side threads and superimposed onto the paper side fabric, the wear side fabric and the paper side fabric connected by a plurality of binding threads which are arranged in a plurality of pairs of the binding threads, wherein the binding threads are woven with the paper side threads and with the wear side threads both extending in a cross direction relative to the binding threads, each of the binding threads forming a part of a weave pattern of the paper side fabric and forming a part of a weave pattern of the wear side fabric, wherein the binding threads alternate from weaving with the paper side fabric and the wear side fabric such that each said pair together weaves a full weave path on the paper side fabric and on the wear side fabric, thereby crossing each other by forming a plurality of crossing points, wherein the weave pattern of the wear side fabric has a predetermined wear side weave repeat unit formed by the interweaving of the pairs of binding threads with the wear side threads, wherein the paper side fabric is formed by the paper side threads weaving only with the binding threads and the wear side fabric is formed by the wear side threads weaving only with the binding threads, wherein the binding threads alternate such that the average number of crossing points is less than 1 per wear side weave repeat unit and that the ratio of the paper side threads to the wear side threads is ≧1, and wherein the weave pattern of the paper side fabric is a linen binding weave pattern.