Patent ID: 6878238

Claim:
An endless non-woven tissue making fabric having a three-dimensional texture suitable for use as a fabric for producing three-dimensional fibrous webs, comprising a plurality of substantially parallel adjoining sections of non-woven material, each section of non-woven material being joined to at least one other adjoining section of non-woven material by an attachment means selected from the group consisiting of thermal bonding, ultrasonic bonding, adhesives and mechanical needling, the non-woven tissue making fabric having a machine direction, a cross-machine direction, a tissue contacting surface and a tissue machine contacting surface, the tissue machine contacting surface comprising solid matter at a plurality of heights such that the tissue contacting surface of the non-woven tissue making fabric has an Overall Surface Depth of at least 0.2 mm in regions of solid matter on the tissue contacting surface.