Abstract: A heating element for textiles is disclosed, which comprises a plane textile element and, combined with this, metal conductors, which can be connected to a source of electrical current and which oppose the electrical current flowing through them with a heat-producing resistance. As resistance elements, the conductors have metallic fibers or filaments with a denier like that of natural or synthetic textile fibers. The metallic fibers or filaments have an average cross sectional thickness of about 8 to about 24 microns.

Abstract: A double plush weaving operation is conducted to form a two-ply material with pile yarns connecting the two plies together. Each ply comprises an outer woven layer and an inner pile-carrying layer. The two layers are tied together by warp yarns but the pile yarns are tied in only to the pile-carrying layer so that the tying-in points are not visible on the outer visible surface of the woven layer. The connecting pile yarns are cut to form two lengths of double-sided fabric with the plush side having satisfactory pile strength and the woven side having the appearance of a flat weaving machine product.

Abstract: A process for the washing or rinsing of dyed or printed, continuously advancing width of textile materials, whereby a foam is uniformly applied to one side of the textile material. The foam is produced from a liquid containing one or several surface active agents, together with a compound soluble in the liquid, and having no affinity to the fibers of the textile material to be treated, but displaying a high adsorption capacity for the substances to be washed from the textile material. Immediately following the application of the foam, the widths of the textile material are exposed to a steam treatment and then rinsed. A two-stage embodiment of the process in which immediately preceding the application of the foam a similar foam is applied and removed together with a part of the substances to be washed or rinsed from the textile material. The second stage, which includes the steam treatment, then merely removes the residual substances to be washed or rinsed out.

Abstract: For separating oil from aqueous or solvent dispersions the dispersion is passed through a porous flat-shaped textile article which comprises at least partly of oleophilic fibres each having a titer below 1 dtex. The flat-shaped textile article is preferably a three dimensional article, and can have a pile and possibly also a substrate comprising of extremely fine oleophilic artificial fibres. The pile threads and eventually also the threads of the substrate are split by means of a swelling agent into many extremely fine oleophilic fibres having a low titer. The small and very small oil drops in the dispersion are withheld on the extremely fine oleophilic fibres and coalesce to larger oil droplets or oil drops which rise to the surface of the liquid due to their lower density than the liquid. The oil can be easily removed from the surface of the liquid.

Abstract: Disclosed is a process for washing dyed or printed textile material to remove unwanted substances from the dying or printing process, comprising the steps of applying to the textile material a foam which is produced from a liquid and contains at least one surface active agent and a component which is soluble in the liquid, has substantially no affinity for the fibers of the textile material and possesses a substantial adsorption capacity for the substances to be removed; working the foam into the textile material; and removing the foam. Also disclosed is a liquid composition for carrying out the disclosed process.

Abstract: Apparatus for separating a cloth web, produced in a double plush weaving machine, into two pile cloth webs. Cutters move transversely of the cloth web in adaptation to the beating strokes of the reed of the weaving machine, with the cutters being arranged at fixed distances from one another on an endless holder running over non-displaceably mounted lateral reversing rollers. The cutters are guided in the cutting plane by a stationary guide.

Abstract: A method of producing colored patterns on the nap of nap fabrics, in which the nap is subjected briefly to pressure and heat to modify the absorption capacity of synthetic filaments or fibers wholly or partly making up the nap, after which the fabric is dyed in a conventional manner.

Abstract: Process for printing long-piled material, particularly for imitating the hides of animals. In the process, in a continuous passage and in one or more steps, varying quantities of a coloring paste, according to a predetermined design, are imprinted at least on the back of the pile material while it is held under tension. After imprinting, the coloring paste is pressed into the pile material by mechanical force applied by pressure rollers. If both the front and the back of the material are to be printed, color paste is first imprinted on the front and the material then pressed, after which color paste is imprinted on the back of the material and the material pressed again.Apparatus for performing the process comprises printing units through which the material passes under tension, and a pressing unit is provided between each two successive printing units.

Abstract: A method is provided for decorating or treating the pile side of pile fabrics to imitate naturally occurring designs and/or configurations such as animal skins and hides, for example. The pile surface is first color printed by a tinted printing paste and then relief-printed, in a manner related to the color printing, using a printing paste containing a shrinking or carbonizing agent in the proportion of within the range of between about 60-400g. per kilogram of printing paste. The agent used, which is non-volatile or substantially so, can contain O-phenyl-phenol or diphenyl ether, and also dyestuffs. The twice-printed fabric is then steamed.