Patent ID: 7357156

Claim:
An industrial two-layer fabric which comprises, in a repeating unit, eight pairs of warps obtained by vertically stacking eight upper side warps and eight lower side warps, a plurality of upper side wefts and lower side wefts, wherein at least one of the eight upper side warps and eight lower side warps being a warp binding yarn for binding an upper side layer and a lower side layer, wherein: in the upper side layer of the fabric, a first upper side warp disposed above a first lower side warp has a repetition of a design in which the first upper side warp passes over an upper side weft, passes under four successive upper side wefts, passes over an upper side weft, and passes under two upper side wefts, and a first upper side weft has a repetition of a design in which the first upper side weft passes over three upper side warps and then passes under one upper side warp to form a weft long crimp corresponding to three warps on the upper side.