Patent ID: 6953065

Claim:
A papermaker's fabric comprising: a first layer and a second layer of cross-machine direction (CD) yarns; a system of machine-direction (MD) yarns, wherein the MD yarns are grouped into pairs comprising a crossing pair having a first MD yarn and a second MD yarn and a second pair having a third MD yarn and a fourth MD yarn; wherein said crossing pair is interwoven with the first and second layers of CD yarns in such a manner that the first MD yarn and the second MD yarn combine to weave each CD yarn in the first layer and cross between the first layer and the second layer; wherein the yarns in the pairs are aligned in such a way that like adjacent yarns from adjacent pairs have MD cell lengths equal to or less than the MD cell lengths from non-like adjacent yarns from adjacent pairs; and wherein said third MD yarn is interwoven with the first layer of CD yarns and said fourth MD yarn is interwoven with the second layer of CD yarns.