Patent attributes
A forming fabric for a papermaking machine that includes a machine-side layer and a paper-side layer. The machine-side layer includes bottom warp yarns and bottom weft yarns that weave with at least some of the bottom warp yarns. The paper-side layer includes top warp yarns and 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 includes a paper-side float in the repeating pattern area that passes over a number of consecutive top warp yarns. The forming fabric further includes a set of dual combination binder weft yarns disposed adjacent a top weft yarn. At least one dual combination binder weft yarn of the set weaves with some of the bottom warp yarns and some of the top warp yarns. Each dual combination binder weft yarn of the set includes at least one segment in the repeating pattern area that passes over at least one top warp yarn. The at least one segment is disposed adjacent to a segment of another dual combination binder weft yarn of the set. The at least one segment and the adjacent segment combine to form a long weft float that passes over the number of consecutive top warp yarns passed over by the paper-side float to match the weave pattern of the top weft yarns. The long weft float occurs at least once in each repeat of the dual combination binder weft yarns.
