Abstract: A textile fabric employs a corrugated synthetic flat yarn having a plurality of filaments arranged in side-by-side relationship and being integral with adjacent filaments. The tape is corrugated tape woven or knitted with other yarns in a flat, substantially untwisted attitude. The tape is fabricated without fibrillation but controlled splitting may occur during subsequent fabric sewing or stitching operations. The fabric is particularly suited for use as geotextiles, woven intermediate bulk containers, woven explosive bags, and strapping (webbing).

Abstract: Paper machine clothing comprising interwoven machine direction and cross-machine direction yarns are provided, wherein the machine direction yarns are monofilaments having a cross-sectional configuration such that the center is thinner than the lateral edges. The woven fabrics, after heat-setting, exhibit exceptional dimensional stability in the diagonal direction.

Abstract: A webbing suitable for use in a vehicle seat belt system includes wefts, each of which is composed in combination of a first weft thread having low bending stiffness and a second weft thread having high bending stiffness. Owing to the inclusion of the second weft threads, the webbing of this invention is resistant to lateral, i.e., widthwise flexure. Accordingly, there is a smaller danger for the webbing of this invention to develop jamming or turning-over when caused to extend through its associated through-anchor.

Abstract: A high density textile fabric having an excellent water-repellent property comprises a woven fabric having at least one water-repellent surface layer formed by a number of warps and wefts each consisting of a number of extremely fine, water-repellent fibers having a denier of 1.2 or less, the surface layer having a sum of cover factors (CF) in the warp and weft directions thereof, of from 1,400 to 3,400 determined in accordance with the equation: ##EQU1## wherein n represents the number of the warps or wefts per inch of the fabric and de represents a denier of the warps or wefts.

Abstract: A backing for tufted carpets, having improved tufting properties such as a small penetration resistance to tufting needles, a uniform distribution of values of penetration resistance and yet superior intrinsic properties, and a tufted carpet produced from the backing are provided, which backing is produced by weaving polypropylene tape yarns oriented by stretching, these polypropylene tape yarns comprising foamed polypropylene tape yarns having a foam content of 1.0 to 20%.

Abstract: Oriented woven furniture support materials made in part from elastomer monofilament and in part from yarn have been found to possess a unique combination of properties including high strength, low creep and good flexibility. These furniture support materials can be made by weaving of the elastomer in a first direction and the yarn in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction followed by heat-setting of the woven material.

Abstract: A method for making a perfluoroolefin polymer filament belt is disclosed. The belt is substantially free of stretching under typical conditions of use including application of heat and force to the belt. This characteristic is produced by the process which includes the steps of weaving a belt and thermally fixing the woven belt by heating to the filaments to their white point while applying a force to the load bearing filaments.

Abstract: A multifilament yarn of an aromatic polyamide, in particular poly-p-phenylene terephthalamide, having a tenacity of at least 15 cN/dtex and an initial modulus of at least 400 cN/dtex is provided with a water-soluble size, the filaments of the yarn having a cohesion corresponding to a Manra number not higher than 40. The yarn is made by subjecting a non-sized yarn having a moisture content which is lower than its equilibrium moisture content, while under a tension of at most 0.25 cN/dtex, to a continuous wetting treatment with an aqueous solution of a size and subsequently winding the treated yarn into a yarn package. The yarn package contains a single continuous length of the sized yarn. The sized yarn is suitable as warp and weft yarn in the weaving industry.

Abstract: A three dimensional woven composite is constructed of strands of graphite composite forming a basic geometric structure comprising a combination of regular octahedron and tetrahedron prisms alternately and regularly spaced. The framework of the geometric structure has one central intersection made up of twelve arms of strands and adjacent incomplete intersections of four or seven arms or strands.

Abstract: A heat set paper machine fabric having at least a portion of its wear resisting surface composed of cross-linked high density high molecular weight polyethylene.

Abstract: A bulked extensible yarn of entangled convoluted undrawn synthetic continuous nylon filaments having a plurality of crunodal filament loops randomly spaced along its surface and a greige break elongation of at least 150% performs effectively as an extensible weft yarn in tire cord fabrics for single ply radial tires.

Abstract: Polyamide monofilaments containing molybdenum disulfides exhibit outstanding resistance to abrasive forces applied transversely to the longitudinal dimension of the monofilament, making the monofilaments particularly suitable for use in woven papermaking belts.

Abstract: An industrial fabric of woven monofilament threads comprised of a melt extrudable polyaryletherketone having hydrolysis resistance at elevated temperatures, such fabric exhibiting a high modulus of elongation making it suitable for conveying applications in various industrial processing.

Abstract: A thermally improved polyester weft yarn is provided by melt-spinning a blend of a polyethylene terephthalate polymer and a small amount of polymer having a glass transition temperature of at least 10.degree. C. higher than that of the polyethylene terephthalate polymer. The yarn has a break elongation of 70% to 200% and a dry heat shrinkage of +5% to -2%, and is capable of withstanding a severe heat-treatment, for example, at 245.degree. C. for 2 minutes during dipping and curing process of a tire cord fabric comprising the same. Even after such heat-treatment, the yarn shows a residual break elongation of more than 60%. Thus, the weft yarn extends uniformly, without breakage, to a toroidal shape during a tire building process, keeping warp cords at a equi-distance relation. A tire cord fabric comprising the weft yarn of the invention finds its use as the carcass in the form of single ply in a radial tire.

Abstract: A heat resistant fabric is provided, preferably woven, and with an optional aluminized backing, the fabric being made from yarns having a core of flame and high heat resistant non-melting heat stabilized polyacrylonitrile fibers covered by a layer of aramid fibers or other heat resisting fibers with or without blending with other fibers, the covering layer providing a cushion to provide increased abrasion resistance of the core while also providing a heat resistant covering for the core.

Abstract: An improved dryer fabric, woven entirely from monofilament plastic polymeric warp and weft strands, having a lower permeability to air flow and lower modulus of elasticity than normal fabrics, wherein at least the warp strands are flattened in cross-section, with the long axis of the flattened section extending parallel to the plane of the fabric and wherein the weft strands may be shaped so as to more or less conform to the horizontally directed passages of the mesh naturally formed by the woven warp strands and may also be relatively more malleable than the warp strands so that under stress they can adapt to conform to the shape of mesh interstices thereby to restrict these and still further reduce the permeability.

Abstract: The warp and/or the weft of a woven papermakers fabric is made from a combination of polyester monofilament yarns and separate yarns of a different material preferably a more wear-resistant material so that the polyester yarns give adequate dimensional stability while the other yarns impart a different property, preferably, improved wear resistance.

Abstract: A woven fabric consisting of warp and filling yarns made from fibers or filaments having a low modulus of elasticity and a large diameter. The fibers can be of any cross-sectional shape but have a moment of inertia of from 400.times.10.sup.-14 in..sup.4 to 7.8.times.10.sup.-9 in..sup.4 and an elastic modulus of from 2,000 to 80,000 p.s.i. These values correspond to a range of circular diameters of from 0.003 to 0.020 in. The fibers can be loaded with high amounts of fillers, such as pigments, color agents, flame retardants, antistatic agents, antisoiling agents, or antioxidants.