Patent ID: 8480857

Claim:
A papermaking machine for the production of a fibrous web, the papermaking machine, comprising: a plurality of rollers; and a structured fabric moving along said plurality of rollers, said structured fabric including: a plurality of weft yarns; and a plurality of warp yarns woven with said plurality of weft yarns to produce a weave pattern, said plurality of warp yarns being a plurality of paired warp yarn sets, each paired warp yarn set including a first warp yarn and a second warp yarn, within said weave pattern said first warp yarn weaving a plain weave while said second warp yarn floats over a first portion of said plurality of weft yarns, said second warp yarn weaving a plain weave while said first warp yarn floats over a second portion of said plurality of weft yarns in said weave pattern, said plurality of pair warp yarn sets include a first warp yarn set and a second warp yarn set immediately adjacent to said first warp yarn set, said first warp yarn and said second warp yarn of both said first warp yarn set and said second warp yarn set being closer to each other than said second warp yarn of said first warp yarn set is to said first warp yarn of said second warp yarn set.