Abstract: A tubular stuffer element for a plurality of coiled monofilaments interweaved and interconnected with pintels and having open spaces therebetween to form a fabric which is heat set. Tubular stuffer elements are inserted in the space between the coiled monofilaments. The glass transition temperature Tg of the material for the tubular stuffer elements is selected to be at approximately the heat set temperature for the coiled monofilaments so that the stuffer elements are deformed to fill the central portions of the coiled monofilaments.

Abstract: Papermachine clothing having machine direction (MD) yarns and cross-machine direction (CD) yarns interwoven in a repeat pattern, wherein the CD yarns are provided in two systems. The first CD yarn system has upper and lower yarns. The second CD yarn system has a single yarn. The first and second CD systems are provided alternatively throughout the fabric. The MD yarns are also provided in two systems, the first MD yarn system extending in between the upper and lower yarns of the first CD yarn system and over the single yarn of the second CD yarn system. Individual yarns of the second MD yarn system extend over one of the upper of lower yarns of the first CD yarn system and the single yarn of the second CD yarn system. Two adjacent machine direction yarns from different MD yarn systems extend as a pair over the same CD yarn of the second CD yarn system with one of the pair of MD yarns extending above the other of the pair such that the other yarn is protected from abrasion.