Patent ID: 7624766

Claim:
A papermaker's fabric comprising a plurality of repeat units of interwoven yarns, each repeat unit comprising: a set of top machine direction (MD) yarns; a set of top cross machine direction (CMD) yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns; a set of bottom MD yarns; a set of bottom CMD yarns interwoven with the bottom MD yarns; wherein, in interweaving with the top CMD yarns, some of the top MD yarns include a segment in which the top MD yarn passes below a subset of three consecutive top CMD yarns; and wherein each of the bottom MD yarns forms a knuckle over one of the three top CMD yarns of the subset that a top MD yarn located immediately thereabove passes below; and wherein, in interweaving with the bottom CMD yarn, the bottom MD yarns form machine side knuckles thereunder and the top CMD yarn that each bottom MD yarn passes over to form a knuckle is substantially centered between two machine side knuckles; and wherein at least four bottom CMD yarns are positioned between the two machine side knuckles.