DOUBLE CROSS PARALLEL BINDER FABRIC

摘要

A multi-layer fabric (100) which may be utilized in a papermaking process. Such fabric has a first layer (14) having machine direction (MD) yarns and cross-direction (CD) yarns interwoven therewith and a second layer (16) havi ng machine direction (MD) yarns and cross-direction (CD) yarns interwoven therewith. In such fabric, a plurality of pairs of first type of binders (8) each having a first binder (10) and a second binder (12) are interwoven with the first (14) and second (16) layers. The first and second binders (10, 12) of at least one pair are interwoven with the first and second layers so as t o pass over at least one same yarn on an outer surface of the first layer.