Abstract: A forming fabric has a paperside warp layer and a machine side warp layer. The fabric comprises at least one set of machine side wefts and at least one set of weft triplets, the weft triplets together forming two continuous weft paths on the paperside. All of the weft triplets interweave with at least some paperside warps and at least some machine side warps.

Abstract: A multilayer, woven fabric for use in a papermaking machine includes a self-sustaining top layer including a plurality of top machine direction yarns interwoven with a plurality of top cross-machine-direction yarns and a bottom layer including a plurality of bottom pairs of machine direction yarns interwoven with a plurality of bottom cross-machine-direction yarns. Each of the bottom cross-machine-direction yarns substantially vertically underlies a respective top cross-machine-direction yarn and each of the bottom pairs of machine direction yarns substantially vertically underlies a respective top machine direction yarn, with at least one of the machine direction yarns in at least some of the bottom pairs of machine direction yarns interweaving the bottom cross-machine-direction yarns to each other and to the top cross-machine-direction yarns of the top layer.

Abstract: A forming fabric has a paperside warp layer and a machine side warp layer. The fabric comprises at least one set of machine side wefts and at least one set of weft triplets, the weft triplets together forming two continuous weft paths on the paperside. All of the weft triplets interweave with at least some paperside warps and at least some machine side warps.

Abstract: A multilayer, woven fabric for use in a papermaking machine includes a self-sustaining top layer including a plurality of top machine direction yarns interwoven with a plurality of top cross-machine-direction yarns and a bottom layer including a plurality of bottom pairs of machine direction yarns interwoven with a plurality of bottom cross-machine-direction yarns. Each of the bottom cross-machine-direction yarns substantially vertically underlies a respective top cross-machine-direction yarn and each of the bottom pairs of machine direction yarns substantially vertically underlies a respective top machine direction yarn, with at least one of the machine direction yarns in at least some of the bottom pairs of machine direction yarns interweaving the bottom cross-machine-direction yarns to each other and to the top cross-machine-direction yarns of the top layer.

Abstract: Multilayer woven fabrics include first and second machine direction layers, each machine direction layer including machine direction yarns extending in the machine direction of movement of the fabric through a section of a papermaking machine. One of the machine direction layers includes a plurality of pairs of contiguous machine direction yarns; each pair being spaced apart in the cross-machine-direction of the fabric from an adjacent pair and being in substantially vertically stacked alignment with a single machine direction yarn, or a pair of machine direction yarns in the other machine direction layer.

Abstract: A fabric employed in a web forming apparatus to form a patterned fibrous web includes at least one layer of yarns oriented in first and second directions and being woven to provide a lattice that separates a plurality of systematically distributed woven areas of a predetermined configuration that is defined by the pattern of the continuous lattice and with the systematically distributed woven areas including at least three yarns oriented in each of the first and second directions.