Patent ID: 6978809

Claim:
A composite papermaking fabric having an upper support fabric including upper warp and weft yarns and a lower contact fabric including lower warp and weft yarns, said upper fabric being woven in a first weave pattern forming a support surface and said lower fabric being woven in a broken twill weave pattern forming a contact surface, said composite fabric including paired binder yarns weaving in alternating sequences with said upper fabric in said first weave pattern and in said lower fabric in said broken twill weave pattern binding said upper and lower fabrics together: said contact surface including a plurality of at least paired cross-machine direction yarns forming a plurality of floats passing outwardly of a plurality of adjacent machine direction yarns across the broken twill weave pattern, certain of said at least paired cross-machine direction yarn floats include at least one of said lower weft yarns and one of said binder yarns whereby; in said paired floats formed by said at least one of said lower weft yarns and one of said binder yarns, said float formed by said one binder yarn is shielded along its entire length by said float formed by said one lower weft yarn.