Patent ID: 6854488

Claim:
A composite fabric comprising a paper side layer having a paper side surface, a machine side layer having a bottom wear side surface, said paper side layer and said machine side layer comprising warp yarns and weft yarns woven together, each having a predetermined repeat of the weave pattern in the cross-machine-direction, and a plurality of pairs of first and second intrinsic, interchanging yarns having at least two segments in the paper side layer within each repeat of the weave pattern, wherein: said first and second intrinsic, interchanging yarns in at least some of said plurality of pairs of first and second intrinsic, interchanging yarns cooperating to provide a discontinuous weft path in the paper side layer within each repeat of the weave pattern; each pair of interchanging yarns that provides a discontinuous weft path in the paper side layer being positioned between two adjacent top weft yarns of said paper side layer, said two adjacent top weft yarns having a weave pattern with the top warp yarns of the paper side layer such that one of the two adjacent top weft yarns cooperates with said first intrinsic, interchanging yarn of the adjacent pair of interchanging binder yarns that provides a discontinuous weft path to define a continuous weft path within each repeat of the weave pattern of the fabric, and the other of the two adjacent top weft yarns being located on the other side of the adjacent pair of interchanging yarns that provides a discontinuous weft path and cooperating with the second interchanging yarn of that adjacent pair of interchanging yarns to define a continuous weft path within each repeat of the weave pattern.