Patent ID: 7717141

Claim:
A forming fabric for a papermaking machine, comprising: a machine-side layer including: bottom warp yarns; bottom weft yarns that weave with at least some of the bottom warp yarns; a paper-side layer including: top warp yarns; top weft yarns that weave with at least some of the top warp yarns to create a weave pattern in a repeating pattern area, and at least one of the top weft yarns including at least one paper-side float in the repeating pattern area that passes over a number of consecutive top warp yarns; a set of dual combination binder weft yarns disposed adjacent to a top weft yarn and at least one dual combination binder weft yarn of the set weaving with some of the bottom warp yarns and some of the top warp yarns to create a repeat of the dual combination binder weft yarns, each dual combination binder weft yarn of the set including at least one segment in the repeating pattern area that passes over at least one top warp yarn, the at least one segment disposed adjacent to a segment of another dual combination binder weft yarn of the set, the at least one segment and the adjacent segment combining to form a long weft float that passes over the number of consecutive top warp yarns passed over by the at least one paper-side float to match the weave pattern of the top weft yarns, the long weft float formed by the at least one segment and the adjacent segment of the set of dual combination binder weft yarns occurring at least once in each repeat of the dual combination binder weft yarns.