Abstract: A fabric consisting of or incorporating a yarn, itself resistant to dyeing, and treated to color the yarn prior to forming the fabric by means of a continuous pigment pad-dyeing or coating process. The yarn is impregnated with a mixture of pigment and a binder and is drawn continuously through a roller nip to remove excess mixture. The yarn is next dried and thereafter wound. By using a continuous pad-dyeing process to treat the yarn prior to forming the fabric, the possibility is realized of increasing the color/color pattern choice for fire-resistant materials which are extremely difficult to dye and widening the choice of coloring process for the more generally used materials with practical and/or economic advantage for specials and/or smaller batches.

Abstract: A fire-resistant fabric is formed by standing warps and wefts of a fire-resistant yarn such as a carbon fibre yarn. Each standing warp is covered by covering warps of a wear-resistant yarn which are cross-woven on the respective standing warps and which are bound on one side of the standing warps by the wefts. The covering warps and the wefts are closely beaten up to the fell of the fabric after each pick so that the covering warps form, on one surface of the fabric, ribs which give the fabric a hard wearing outer surface and which protect the fire-resistant yarns from wear. When subjected to fire, the wear-resistant yarn is removed but the fire-resistant warp and weft yarns form a mesh or grid which prevents the passage of flame.