Abstract: The present invention uses, as a base material, a multi-layer film comprising more than two layers and formed from thermoplastic resins different in melting point from one another. A sectional construction of the multi-layer film or a tape obtained from the multi-layer film is applied to a sectional construction of a fibre without modification, the multi-layer film or tape being formed into the fibre. The invention provides a composite fibre which is much more excellent as compared to a conventional heat adhesive composite fibre by melt spinning, a water-absorbing material using the composite fibre as a base material and a method for the production of the same by the stated simple means.

Abstract: This invention relates to a fiber comprising a major amount of a continuous phase comprising one or more melt processible polyesters of fiber forming molecular weight, and a minor amount of one or more polyolefins non-uniformly dispersed in said continuous phase such that the concentration of polyolefins at or near the surface of said fiber is greater than the concentration of polyesters at or near the surface of said fiber, and a process for preparing said fiber.

Abstract: A nonwoven fabric formed of highly spinnable heat bonded continuous filaments which is strong and soft and is superior in hand. The nonwoven fabric is formed by heat-bonding filaments of linear low density polyethylene so that the number of defects is not more than 0.01/kg, the weight is 10-100 g/m.sup.2, the percentage bond area is 7-20% and the total hand value is 4-300 g. The nonwoven fabric is produced by melt-extruding the above-mentioned linear low density polyethylene to form filaments which are drawn by air guns at a high speed so that they are deposited on a moving collection belt to form a web which is then heat treated at a temperature 15.degree.-30.degree. C. lower than the melting point of the filaments. The nonwoven fabric an be formed of filaments of hollow or flat cross section. It is also possible to utilize bicomponent filaments having a sheath component made of linear low density polyethylene and a core component made of polyethylene terephthalate.

Abstract: A cemented carbide contains a binder phase of 4 to 35% by weight of at least one of cobalt and nickel, 1 to 50 ppm by weight of impurities and a hard dispersed phase of balance tungsten carbide. The tungsten carbide has an average crystal grain size ranging from 0.2 to 1.5 .mu.m. The grain size of the impurities is not larger than 10 .mu.m. The binder phase has an average crystal grain size of 5 to 400 .mu.m. The cemented carbide may contain a binder phase of 4 to 35% by weight of at least one of cobalt and nickel, 1 to 50 ppm by weight of impurities, and a hard dispersed phase of 0.1 to 40% by weight of at least one compound and balance tungsten carbide. The compound may be carbides of metals in Groups IV.sub.A, V.sub.A and VI.sub.A of the Periodic Table other than tungsten, nitrides of metals in Groups IV.sub.A and V.sub.A of the Periodic Table or solid solution of at least two of the carbides and nitrides.

Abstract: High performance, metallic coated staple fibers and nonwoven insulating webs made up of such fibers are produced. The process includes providing a nonwoven substantially two-dimensional web of fibers wherein at least a portion of 50 percent of the fibers are exposed to one or the other side of the web. This web is metallized with a low emissivity metal(s) and/or alloy(s) to produce a coated web wherein at least 50 percent of the surface area of the web fibers are coated with metal and or alloy. The coated web is shredded into individual, staple fibers which are thereafter united to produce a nonwoven, lofty three-dimensional insulating web having a density of between about 0.02 to 2 pounds per cubic foot.

Abstract: Extruded shaped structures of amorphous polyarylate copolymers, having a tensile elongation at break of at least 80% at 25.degree. C., are made by drawing a molten extrudate of the copolymer at a temperature at least 100.degree. C. above the glass transition temperature of the copolymer.

Abstract: A textured, continuous, multi-filament polyester yarn or fabric has a plasticizer incorporated onto the surface thereof and/or into the interfilamentary structure thereof either during the texturizing process or after the yarn has been made into a gauze-like fabric substrate. Because of the plasticizer, the gauze is enabled to be laminated to a vinyl sheet as it is formed. The platicizer is characterized in that it is compatible with both the vinyl and the polyester, it softens the vinyl to receive the polyester gauze, it has a viscosity in the range of 25-105 centistokes (cs), and it swells or plasticizes the vinyl to such an extent that the polyester gauze becomes imbedded therein and affixed thereto to effectively bond the gauze to the vinyl. The gauze fabric substrate, when laminated to the vinyl sheet material, gives the vinyl sheet both enhanced strength and stability.

Abstract: A silicon carbide fibre, which may have a mean crystallite size of greater than 500A, in which the silicon carbide constitutes greater than 90% by weight of the fibre, and in which the fibre is substantially homogeneous across a transverse section of the fibre. The fibre may be produced by a process which comprises forming a fibre from a homogeneous mixture comprising particulate silicon carbide dispersed in a solution of an organic polymeric material in a liquid medium, and heating the fibre at elevated temperature in order to decompose the organic polymeric material and to sinter the particles of silicon carbide.

Abstract: A yarn article comprising a tetrafluoroethylene polymer is disclosed which has a specific bulk density, a specific orientation degree in an axial direction and a specific crystallinity and exhibits specific peaks in the thermogram of differential scanning calorimetry. The yarn article has excellent tensile strength at break and excellent tensile modulus of elasticity as well as inertness to chemicals. Therefore, the yarn article of the present invention can advantageously be used as a material for producing a woven fabric, a knit, a rope and the like, particularly in the field where not only chemical resistance but also high tensile strength and high tensile modulus of elasticity are required.

Abstract: Provided is a composite fiber comprising an ethylenevinyl alcohol copolymer (component A) and a polyester (component B) heterogeneously blended with each other. In the cross section of the fiber, component A is distributed in islands form locally, and the region of component B where component A is not present containing a component B zone containing a circular area having a diameter at least 1/20 that of the fiber. By assuming the above structure, the fiber has good bulk, touch and silhouette, and a feeling similar to that of natural fibers, having solved the problems inherent to polyester fibers, such as oil soiling, soil redeposition by washing and soiling by sublimation and migration of disperse dye, while making use of superior features of polyester fiber, such as high strength, modulus, abrasion resistance, chemical resistance, weather resistance and dimensional stability.

Abstract: Shaped articles of cross-linked polymers comprising a first component having little or no cross-linking and high elongation, and a second component having a relatively high level of cross-linking and low elongation. Such articles are particularly useful in the form of electrical insulation, the first component being adjacent to a wire or other conductor. Preferably each of the components comprises a crystalline fluorocarbon polymer, especially an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer. Such articles can be prepared by (1) melt-extruding a first polymeric composition which contains little or no cross-linking agent, and a second polymeric composition which contains a greater amount of cross-linking agent, (2) maintaining the two extrudates under conditions such that cross-linking agent migrates from the second to the first composition, and (3) cross-linking both compositions, preferably by radiation.

Abstract: A trilobal or quadrilobal fiber formed from thermoplastic polymers, said fiber having a cross-section comprised of a central core having three or four T-shaped lobes, the legs of each intersecting at the center of said core such that the angle between the legs of adjacent lobes is from about 80.degree. to about 130.degree..

Abstract: A refractory fiber spacial structure having a porous structure and constituted by refractory fiber-like materials comprising a core portion constituted by a refractory crystalline compound B and a skin portion constituted substantially by a refractory crystalline compound A, and both compounds A and B are in a sintered state in the refractory fiber spacial structure and a portion of the refractory crystalline compound A is impregnated in the sintered state into the core portion, so that a rigid form having a strong compression strength is provided for the refractory fiber spacial structure.

Abstract: Novel coating compositions for coating optical fibers are provided which utilize ultraviolet radiation-curable epoxy-functional or vinyl-functional diorganopolysiloxanes to form flexible, loosely adherent, and environmentally stable primary coatings. Such coatings assist in preventing attenuation of light impulses transmitted through the core fiber or reduce the level of signal "noise". Use of the particular coating compositions allows high-speed production of such optical fibers.

Abstract: Fibers having effective selective absorption of solar energy properties with a minimum loss of heat radiation is useful for clothings, such as sports and leisures, or interior goods, such as curtains, or outdoor leasure goods, such as tents, spun from a mixture of transition metal carbide powder with a thermoplastic synthetic linear polymer, optionally also containing an aluminum powder. Alternatively, a sheath/core compound filament is obtained by compound spinning wherein a synthetic linear polymer forms the sheath and a mixture of a transition metal powder with a thermoplastic synthetic linear polymer, optimally also containing aluminum powder, forms the core.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fiber-reinforced belts, such as timing belts or conveyor belts, which are manufactured from a hydrogenated nitrile rubber having oxazoline functionality. Thus, the hydrogenated nitrile rubber contains less than 10 mole percent carbon-carbon double bond unsaturation and a functional group which may be identified using infrared spectroscopy by a characteristic peak between 1552 cm.sup.-1 and 1668 cm.sup.-1. The present belts are further characterized by having excellent adhesion between the fiber reinforcement and the oxazoline functionalized hydrogenated nitrile rubber.

Abstract: A high-elongation composite cord used for reinforcing a rubber composite such as a wheel tire and a conveyor belt. It is made by twisting a plurality of strands each made by twisting a plurality of brass-plated steel filaments and monofilaments of organic fiber. Before twisting the cord, monofilaments of organic fiber are put in the gaps formed between the adjacent strands so as to prevent fluidized rubber from penetrating into a center core formed in the cord after the cord has been covered with rubber. The monofilaments should have a diameter small enough not to protrude from a circle circumscribing the cord and large enough to close the gaps between the adjacent strands.

Abstract: Disclosed is a polyethylene terephthalate untwisted multifilament which satisfies the following requirements (A), (B), (C) and (D);(A) the intrinsic viscosity [IV] is 0.97 to 1.15;(B) the amorphous orientation function [fa] is not larger than 0.55;(C) the tenacity [T] (g/d), the shrinkage [.DELTA.S] (%) as measured after standing in dry air at 150.degree. C. for 30 minutes, the medium elongation [ME] (%) under a load of 4.5 g/d, and the dimensional stability index [Y] expressed by the formula: Y=ME.sup.0.81 +.DELTA.S+1.32 are within ranges defined by the following formulae (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e):0.33Y+5.55.ltoreq.T.ltoreq.0.33Y+6.50 (a),8.0.ltoreq.T.ltoreq.9.5 (b),8.5.ltoreq.Y.ltoreq.10.5 (c),5.ltoreq.ME.ltoreq.10 (d),and2.ltoreq..DELTA.S.ltoreq.g (e);and (d) the elongation at break is at least 11% and the product of the tenacity and elongation, which is defined by: ##EQU1## is 30 to 36.

Abstract: A fiber composite material has individual reinforcing fibers embedded in a bonding matrix material. The bonding of the fibers to the embedding matrix material is controlled along the length of the fibers by axially spaced fiber surface bonding zones having a high bonding ability and alternating with further fiber surface low bonding or non-bonding zones having a low or no bonding ability relative to the matrix material. The bonding zones having a high or maximal bonding ability are distributed optimally as to size, location and spacing along the length of a fiber so that loads or forces including the breaking load are transmitted from one bonding zone to the next bonding zone which are preferably formed as ring zones. The low-bonding or non-bonding zones are so dimensioned that bonding zones of fibers located adjacent to one another do not overlap in a direction across the length of the fibers.

Abstract: A heat-resistant alumina fiber mat contains an accumulated mass of alumina staple fibers and continuous alumina filaments. The accumulated mass is sewn with the continuous alumina filaments. A process for producing a heat-resistant alumina fiber mat comprises accumulating a precursor of alumina staple fibers to obtain an accumulated mass, sewing the accumulated mass with continuous filaments to give a sewn mass and then sintering the sewn mass. The continuous filaments may be continuous alumina filaments or a precursor thereof.