Patent ID: 8535484

Claim:
A compressible resilient industrial fabric comprising: one or more layers of a nonwoven extruded film or sheet, wherein the nonwoven extruded film or sheet is elastic, resilient, and compressible in a thickness direction, and extensible, bendable and resilient in its length and transverse directions; and two or more layers of a plurality of substantially parallel machine direction (MD) yarns, wherein the fabric comprises: a first layer of the parallel yarns running in MD; a second layer of the elastic nonwoven extruded film or sheet on one side of the first layer; a third layer of the parallel yarns on the opposite of the second layer as the first layer and running in the same direction as those of the first layer, and wherein the parallel yarns of the third layer are aligned such that they nest between the spaces created between the parallel yarns of the first layer.