Patent ID: 8506759

Claim:
A macroscopically monoplanar secondary belt for manufacturing a cellulosic fibrous structure, and having two mutually orthogonal principal directions, a machine direction and a cross machine direction, the belt comprising: a reinforcing structure; and a framework of protuberances joined to said reinforcing structure and extending outwardly therefrom to define deflection conduits between the protuberances, the framework of protuberances comprising a semicontinuous pattern and the deflection conduits comprising a semicontinuous pattern, the protuberances and the deflection conduits having a substantially linear vector component extending substantially throughout one principal direction of the belt, each protuberance of the pattern being spaced apart from an adjacent protuberance in the pattern; the protuberances comprising primary protuberances having a first width, T, and nodes having a second width, N, wherein a ratio of N to T is from about 1.5 to about 5 and wherein the belt further comprises a node frequency of about 50 per square inch to about 200 per square inch.