Patent ID: 7585394

Claim:
A papermaking wire cloth, comprising: an upper fabric layer of upper making direction wires and upper cross direction wires; a lower fabric layer of lower making direction wires and lower cross direction wires, the number of upper making direction wires is identical to the number of lower making direction wires, the number of upper cross direction wires is greater than the number of lower cross direction wires; and wire bridges connecting said fabric layers without binding to other wires over a definable path extension within a pattern repeat, said wire bridges of said upper cross direction wires extending within a pattern repeat at least over nine of said making direction wires and at most under one of said making direction wires, said wire bridges of said lower cross direction wires within a pattern repeat extending under at least six of said making direction wires and over at least two of said making direction wires, at least one other of the making direction wires extending under a same one of said cross direction wires between two of said making direction wires extending over one of said cross direction wires.