Abstract: A method of forming an electrically conductive weavable multifilament graphite element which comprises wrapping around a multifilament graphite element at least one electrically conductive filament.

Abstract: A unitary woven jacket electrical transmission cable and method are disclosed which include weaving a continuous length of cable structure (10) which includes jacketed sections (A), non-jacketed sections (B), and cut-line sections (C). In the jacketed section (A), the cable structure includes a woven transmission cable (14) which is surrounded by a woven cover (12) which is made integral with the cable by weaving. In the non-jacketed section (B), the woven cover, which is tubular in the jacketed section, is closed and woven in a flat weave (32) with the electrical conductors (16a, 16b) being unwoven and floated on the outside of the flat weave structure. The cut-line section C is woven in the form of a short length of jacket section (A). In the method, the conductors and cable structure is cut across the cut-line sections (C) to make a number of individual woven jacketed electrical transmission cables.

Abstract: A directional electrostatic dissipating fabric and method of making such fabric constructed of a woven or knitted base fabric having an integrally woven or knitted grid structure which is raised above only one surface of the base fabric forming a fabric with a raised grid on one side and a smooth or substantially smooth grid on the other side thereby resulting in increased, directional electrostatic dissipation performance from the side having the raised grid. The grid is formed from an electroconductive yarn plied to a carrier yarn which is then integrally woven or knitted into the fabric in the warp direction, the fill direction or both, thereby producing a fabric which exhibits the rapid, yet controlled, directional dissipation of static electricity into the air.

Abstract: The invention provides antistatic clothing suitable for wear in a room which is kept clean. The clothing, such as working clothes, work shoes, etc., manufactured from a cloth having parallel electroconductive fibers woven therein, features the incorporation of an electroconductive material at overlapped or butt-joined seams between the pieces of cloth forming the clothing to ensure a perfect electrostatic connection of all the pieces of the clothing to minimize static charging on both the clothing and the wearer's body while preventing dust from gathering on the clothing to avoid dust from becoming a cause of problems such as electrostatic breakdown of circuit elements in a semiconductor integrated circuit production plant.

Abstract: A balanced-line transmission cable is disclosed for use in a communications system of the type having a differential driver which transmits a differential output in the form of two output voltage signals which are transmitted to two corresponding inputs of a differential receiver which produces an output proportional to the difference between the two input voltage signals. A woven balanced line transmission cable includes a plurality of balanced-line signal conductor pairs each pair consisting of first and second signal transmission wires laterally spaced closely adjacent one another and lying generally parallel with one another in the cable. The first and second signal transmission wires transmit one each of the two voltages for input into the differential receiver. A plurality of fiber warp and weft yarns are interwoven in the cable with the signal conductor wire pairs fixing the lateral spacing and parallel alignment of the first and second signal transmission wires.

Abstract: A woven fabric is generally comprised of metallic warp cords and non-metallic weft cords. The weft cords are comprised of a plurality of glass filaments encapsulated in a resorcinol-formaldehyde-latex adhesive.

Abstract: A screen (10) for separating particles according to size, being made up of a plurality of first straight wires (14) extending in one direction, and a plurality of alternating crimped second wires (12) extending in the same direction. A plurality of third straight wires (16) extend in the other direction, and are interwoven with each of the first and second wires. The first wires are 11/2 to 21/2 times the diameter of the second and third wires, which are of the same diameter.

Abstract: A woven electrical transmission cable A is illustrated which includes a plurality of warp elements (12, 12, 14) interwoven with a weft element (16). A number of the warp elements are ground conductors (10) and a number are signal conductors (12). The ground and signal conductors are arranged in clusters (D, E) which include signal conductor pairs (12a, 12b and 12c, 12d) isolated by ground conductors (10a-10c and 10d-10f), respectively. An input signal is split at the input (20, 24) of the cluster between the signal conductor pair which is then combined at the output to provide a single output signal (28, 30). The location of the ground conductors relative to the signal conductors is fixed in the cable by interweaving of the weft (16) and warp binder yarns (14) together with the warp conductors (10, 12) whereby the characteristic impedance is controlled.

Abstract: A woven jacket (A) and woven transmission cable (B) are woven together as one-piece. A common weft element (18) is interwoven between the cover (A) and cable (B) which are woven simultaneously on a loom. Weft pick (18a) is woven in the cover exclusive of the cable while weft pick (18b) is broken out of the cover and woven in the cable to physically attach these together.

Abstract: A fabric formed from fiber-like strands of hollow, transparent filaments which have been woven or otherwise joined together is disclosed. The hollow strands contain a liquid in which color-coded micromagnets are dispersed. The micromagnets are free to rotate within the filament, the fabric thereby being capable of changing colors, either selectively or totally, when an activating magnetic force causes the micromagnets therein to rotate. The fabric may incorporate, in place of color-coded micromagnets, other orientable bodies which are also capable of being oriented, as for example by an electromagnetic or electrostatic force field, to produce a visual display. Further, the fabric may comprise a material having one or more liquid filled veins, the liquid again containing color-coded micromagnets or orientable bodies dispersed therein.

Abstract: A woven shielded cable assembly includes a woven cable (A) having a base weave pattern defined by warp and weft elements (14) and (16). A plurality of drain wires (B) are interwoven with and floated out of the base weave pattern at locations along the cable on both sides thereof to provide instantaneous and continuous draining of a conductive shield (C).

Abstract: A fabric having anti-static properties being formed from a first woven layer of polymeric fabric, a second woven layer of polymeric fabric which contains spaced threads of staple metal fibres and an intermediate layer positioned between the first and second layers to form a moisture barrier. In its most preferred form the woven polymeric fabric is formed of woven polypropylene and the spaced threads of staple metal fibres are formed of staple stainless steel fibres carried on a central core of a synthetic material. The fabric is of particular use in the manufacture of intermediate bulk containers where it is believed is advantageous in permitting corona discharge at a very low voltage of static electricity thereby preventing any dangerous build-up of voltage which subsequently is discharged by a spark.

Abstract: A woven wire fanout in which a large plurality of wires of high density are split into several fanout sections to decrease the wire density for purposes of providing more readily solderable connections.

Abstract: Protective gloves and the like and a yarn comprising a core of a flexible wire alongside an aramid fiber strand or strands and a covering of aramid fiber such as that manufactured and sold under the trademark "Kevlar" by the DuPont Company of Wilmington, Del. in which the aramid fiber is either spun or filament. Two aramid fiber strands, either spun or filament, are wrapped around the core with one strand wrapped in a clockwise direction and the other strand wrapped in a counter-clockwise direction with the opposite spiral wrapping of the strands serving to secure the strands in position on the core without any other securing means. The yarn having a flexible core with aramid fiber strands wrapped thereon is used to make protective gloves on conventional glove knitting or weaving machinery and is capable of movement in relation to needle eyes and the like without jamming in the same manner as various natural and synthetic fiber yarns.

Abstract: Weavable yarns whose fibers are metallic or have a heat conducting, metallized coating are woven together with a plurality of yarn layers using, say, an angle weave to produce an interlocked, multilayer fabric. The fabric provides heat conduction paths for the efficient transferring of heat from a substrate.Typical coated or metallic fibers which may be employed in the yarn include glass, graphite, ceramic, polyester, nylon, rayon, cotton, wool, acrylonitrile, etc.; metallic fibers such as copper, aluminum and steel are also suitable. A preferred heat conductive coating comprises an aluminum, aluminum alloy or other suitable metal which can be applied to a glass fiber.

Abstract: Protective fabrics having a reflective surface are made of textile yarns, for example of wool, intermeshed with strands of reflective material, for example a metallized plastics film, a major proportion of the textile yarns being present in one face of the fabric and a major proportion of the reflective strands in the other. The fabric may be woven, for example on a double beam loom, or knitted, as on a double jersey machine. ,he preferred reflective strand is a laminate of aluminium between two polyester films, split into widths between 0.3 and 0.8 mm.

Abstract: A woven fabric cell plate for alkaline cell accumulators, which alternates in at least one of the warp and weft directions between areas of double layer and areas of combined single layer. The active mass of the accumulator is retained between the layers of the double layer areas. At least one of the warp and weft may be formed of metal wire, or one of the layers of the double layer areas may be formed of metal wire while the other layer is formed of a second material.

Abstract: The ablative response at predetermined locations in a carbon-carbon reinforced composite material are selectively modified by one or more implants of a compatible, non-carbon material disposed at selected sites in the material. The implants of non-carbon material, which should have a melting point below the sublimation temperature of the surrounding carbon matrix and thermal expansibility having a force below the strength of the surrounding carbon matrix, preferably are arranged essentially parallel to one another at selected axial sites in the direction of expected thermal flux.

Abstract: An electric woven switching matrix comprises an insulating field fabric made by interweaving insulating fibers, conducting wires interwoven into the insulating field fabric, and sections for installation of circuit elements over the matrix area. The conducting wires, passing through these sections and intended for forming, by cutting, matrix contact terminals to be electrically connected with the lead-outs of the circuit elements installed on the matrix, extend out from the insulating field fabric, extend over the surface of a respective section and extend back into the insulating field fabric. Exit points from the insulating field fabric and entrance points into the insulating field fabric for odd sets of conducting wires are staggered with respect to exit points from the insulating field fabric and entrance points into the insulating field fabric for even sets of conducting wires.

Abstract: Secondary backing for a tufted carpet comprising a fabric with an open construction having an air permeability preferably of at least about 350 cfm of a synthetic yarn and a conductive spun yarn wherein said spun yarn comprises a conductive core fiber having a denier in the range of about 15 to about 25 and a maximum resistance of about 1 .times. 10.sup.10 ohms/centimeter around which core fiber is spun a nonconductive support fiber having a denier in the range of about 3 to 18. The conductive spun yarn can be in the warp and/or weft direction of said backing at an apparent weight density of conductive fiber as low as 0.6 grams/square meter and still dissipate a static charge to a value in kilovolts below about 4.5.

Abstract: A composite battery plate grid and processes for making the same are disclosed. The novel grid is a composite of a flexible electrically non-conductive web material with a plurality of electrically conductive threads interlaced therein. The web material provides structural support for the grid while the electrically conductive threads form electrical connections for collecting current from an active material on the grid. The electrically conductive threads are incorporated within the web material as warp threads in one embodiment and as weft or filler threads in another. A third embodiment discloses the electrically conductive threads integrated as a pattern within the web material in a combination of the warp and weft directions.

Abstract: The ablative response at predetermined locations in a carbon-carbon reinforced composite material are selectively modified by one or more implants of a compatible, non-carbon material disposed at selected sites in the material. The implants of non-carbon material, which should have a melting point below the sublimation temperature of the surrounding carbon matrix and thermal expansibility having a force below the strength of the surrounding carbon matrix, preferably are arranged essentially parallel to one another at selected axial sites in the direction of expected thermal flux.

Abstract: The disclosure is of a seam construction for joining the ends of woven forming wire wet felts and dryer felt materials. The forming wires wet felts, and dryer felts are used on papermaking machines in the manufacture of paper, paperboard and the like. The seam comprises a plurality of metal and/or plastic eyepins, having body crimps adapted to permit interweaving of the pins with the crosswise yarns of the forming wire wet felt or dryer felt material ends. The pins are so interwoven and are spaced to interleaf with the pins of the opposite end. A seam pin is threaded through the eyes of the eyepins to join the ends of the forming wire, wet felt or dryer felt material together.

Abstract: Water repellant fabrics and methods of making them from yarns which have been given a water repellant treatment prior to incorporation into the fabric. A typical fabric is woven from a repellant treated polyester and polypropylene.

Abstract: A woven fabric for reinforcing a resilient material, such as a tire casing, wherein the warp of the fabric consists of substantially unstranded wires held together in spaced groups by the weft of the fabric with at least some of the wires being formed with a set so as to have undulations along their length to thereby improve the adhesion between the wires and resilient material as well as to improve the tensile and compression stress characteristics of the wires. The amplitude of the undulations may be perpendicular to the direction in which the groups are spaced from each other. The undulations may also be periodic with the phase of such undulations being either the same or different between adjacent groups.

Abstract: A metallic velvet material comprising a woven textile pile fabric wherein at least a portion of the woven base fabric and/or the velvet surface-forming pile yarns is metallic. The metallic yarn may comprise a blended yarn formed of staple metal fibers and conventional nonmetallic textile fibers, or may be formed of continuous metal filament material. The metal fibers, or filaments, are preferably formed with rough unmachined, unburnished, fracture-free outer surfaces for improved retention in the velvet pile fabric.

Abstract: A woven fabric shade screen comprising substantially even spaced elongated strands in one direction, such as the fill direction, and groups of more closely spaced strands woven so that the two outside strands alternate respectively being over and under successive fill strands while the inside four strands in each group are arranged so that the third and fifth strands are under a fill wire while the second and fourth strands are over, thus providing alternate strands which alternate each fill strand.

Abstract: A monofil fabric for use as a perpendicular trickle wall in exchange columns wherein gas and liquid are contacted with one another, which comprises wires disposed in the same horizontal plane which wires are positioned contiguously to one another in groups, the spacing between a group of contiguously positioned wires and the next wire running in the same general direction being at least equivalent to the diameter of a wire of said group.

Abstract: A knitted or woven cloth having antistatic properties which is suitable for use in the preparation of filter bags and garments, which is characterized in that said cloth contains an electrically conductive thread composed of 10 to 90 weight % of electroless metal plated staple fibers, and 90 to 10 weight % of metallic filaments, in an amount of 0.1 to 1.0 thread per cm width of the cloth.

Abstract: A woven fabric for reinforcing a resilient material such as rubber or a suitable synthetic material wherein the warp of the fabric consists of individual steel filaments held together in warps by the weft of the fabric.

Abstract: A metallic velvet material comprising a woven textile pile fabric wherein at least a portion of the woven base fabric and/or the velvet surface-forming pile yarns is metallic. The metallic yarn may comprise a blended yarn formed of staple metal fibers and conventional nonmetallic textile fibers, or may be formed of continuous metal filament material. The metal fibers, or filaments, are preferably formed with rough unmachined, unburnished, fracture-free outer surfaces for improved retention in the velvet pile fabric.

Abstract: A woven fabric comprising a laminate that consists of a warp comprising metallic fibers with or without non-metallic fibers, and a weft that comprises non-metallic resilient fibers, adjacent portions of the weft being offset in opposite directions to have a wave form, the fabric thus formed being coated with an elastomer and has non-setting elasticity as a wrapper around objects such as poles, tubes, and the like.