Abstract: A patch covers a hole created on a fabric when a wire of an underwire bra breaks through, poking the delicate skin around the breast of a woman. The patch includes an outer layer made of a laminate material, an inner layer made of a high strength material.. The outer layer may completely encase the inner layer.

Abstract: A geotextile for sediment dewatering and containment has a pattern of oriented warp fibers positioned substantially parallel to each other, a pattern of oriented weft inserted fibers positioned substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to the oriented warp fibers, a nonwoven fleece, and oriented knitting fibers that interconnect the warp fibers, the weft fibers, and the nonwoven fleece as a knitted structure. Because of the knitted configuration, the load bearing warp fibers and weft fibers remain substantially straight rather than interlaced as in a woven product. Consequently, the load bearing warp fibers and weft fibers take up stress immediately, thereby giving higher performance at lower strain. Because the load bearing warp fibers and weft fibers are substantially straight, they also retain their permeability under loading.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a flame-retardant leather-like sheet having a soft hand, excellent surface touch and excellent appearance, which includes an entangled nonwoven fabric of microfine polyester fibers having an average single-fiber fineness of 0.5 dtex or less, and an elastic polymer contained inside the nonwoven fabric, wherein a flame-retardant is exhausted into the elastic polymer and wherein a flame retarder solution containing bubbles forcibly formed is applied to a back surface of the leather-like sheet so that the flame retarder is present in a region extending from the back surface to an inside of the leather-like sheet but is not present on side of a front surface of the leather-like sheet.

Abstract: A method of making a high-temperature and fire-resistant fabric is described in which staple carbon fiber yarns are woven into a unified multi-layer woven fabric. The warp ends and filling picks of the unified multi-layer woven structure are positioned such that they prevent penetration of fire flames, welding sparks and molten metal spatter from penetrating through the unified multi-layer fabric.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of a multilobal cellulosic staple fiber as a filling fiber. Furthermore, the invention relates to a cellulosic staple fiber which is characterized in that the cross-section of the fiber has three or more lobes the titer of the fiber is 1.0 to 30 dtex, preferably more than 3.0 dtex, especially more than 5.0 dtex, preferably 5.6 to 10 dtex, especially preferred more than 6.0 dtex, especially 6.3 to 10 dtex the wet modulus of the fiber fulfils the following formula: Wet modulus (cN/tex)?0.5*?IT wherein T is the titer of the fiber in dtex the breaking strength of the fiber in the conditioned state fulfils the following formula: Breaking Strength (cNitex)?1.3*?T+2*T wherein T is the titer of the fiber in dtex.

Abstract: A wool blend velour fabric article (12) is formed of yarns (14, 16) consisting of wool fibers (17a, 17b) in a blend with manufactured fibers (19a, 19b) (i.e., synthetic and/or regenerated fibers). The wool and manufactured fibers are blended, i.e. spun, together in a manner to control the distribution of the wool fibers and of the manufactured fibers, across the cross-section of the yarn such that each of the wool fibers is generally surrounded by manufactured fibers, and thus shielded from interaction with other ones of the wool fibers. The resulting velour fabric article exhibits reduced shrinkage and felting.

Abstract: An anti-skidding structure is provided for an automobile foot mat, including an upper surface layer and an anti-skidding material bonded to a bottom. The surface layer can be made versatile by being formed of various substances, including a foaming substance, a carpet, thermoplastic elastomer, anti-skidding thermoplastic rubber, or polyvinylchloride to enhance the adaptability thereof. The bottom anti-skidding material includes a plurality of minute synthetic yarns. The layers are bonded together through application of adhesives or employing thermal fusion molding techniques. The structure provides an effect of touch-fastening to any type of carpet for resistance against relative skidding therebetween and does not cause any damage to the carpet when being separated. Thus, the foot mat is provided with excellent effect of anti-skidding and driving safety for automobiles in which the foot mat including the touch-fastening anti-skidding structure is placed can be improved.

Abstract: A cationic finished textile material, in particular in the form of a cloth, rag or the like, includes a textile fabric composed of textile fibers, wherein the fibers having a permanent cationic finish, wherein the textile material is at least partly raised. The cationic finished textile material is particularly useful for preventing discolorations and/or graying of textiles in the wash or for preventing depositions of dyes on textiles in the wash.

Abstract: A sanitary napkin comprising a topsheet having a body-facing side and comprising a plurality of discrete tufts of fibrous material. The topsheet has a lotion composition applied to at least a portion of the body-facing side thereof. An absorbent core is in fluid communication with the topsheet, the absorbent core having an average thickness of less than about 10 mm, and a free absorbent capacity of from about 4 to about 125 grams per gram.

Abstract: Polyester yarns are knit on a warp knitting machine to make a base greige fabric. In a subsequent step, mechanical napping or brushing applied to both sides of the greige fabric.

Abstract: A double-face velour fabric article consists of a fabric body having a technical face formed by a filament stitch yarn and a technical back formed by a filament loop yarn. The filament stitch yarn includes a heat sensitive material, e.g. a hot melt material or a heat shrinkable material, and/or an elastomeric material, such as spandex. The fabric body has a velour surface formed at both the technical back and the technical face. Raised fibers of at least one of the technical face and the technical back may be entangled, including in and/or through interstices of the fabric body, toward the other of the technical face and the technical back, e.g., by a hydroentanglement process applied after finishing. The fabric body has permeability of about 80 ft3/ft2/min, or less, under a pressure difference of ½ inch of water across the fabric body.

Abstract: This invention provides a leather-like sheet excellent in hand softness and appearance durability, as a composite sheet consisting of a nonwoven fabric composed of ultrafine long fibers in which ultrafine fibers with a fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 dtex are entangled with each other, and a woven or knitted fabric, characterized in that at least some of the aforementioned ultrafine fibers pass through the woven or knitted fabric, that the appearance is grade 3 or higher while the abrasion loss is 10 mg or less in the evaluation of abrasion resistance, and that the sheet is substantially composed of only a fiber material of a non-elastic polymer.

Abstract: A substrate for artificial leather comprising a nonwoven fabric of bundles of microfine filaments. The substrate for artificial leather simultaneously satisfies the following requirements 1 to 4: (1) the bundle of microfine filaments comprises 8 to 70 microfine filaments having a cross-sectional shape of nearly circle; (2) the bundle of microfine filaments has a cross-sectional area of 170 to 700 ?m2 and a flatness of 4.0 or less; (3) on a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the nonwoven fabric body, cross sections of the microfine fiber bundles exist in a density of 1500 to 3000/mm2; and (4) on a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the nonwoven fabric body, gaps between the microfine fiber bundles have a size of 70 ?m or less. By satisfying the requirements, the substrate for artificial leather combines high level of sensuous qualities and high level of physical properties which have been considered to be mutually exclusive.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention is a split leather product provided with a base material comprising split leather, and a skin layer laminated on a surface of the base material. The skin layer comprises a composite body of an entangled nonwoven fabric formed from microfine fibers, and a polymeric elastomer that impregnates the gaps in the entangled nonwoven fabric. The entangled nonwoven fabric in such a split leather product has the effect of increasing physical strength without detracting from a leather-like texture, in the same way as the longitudinally and transversally crisscrossing collagen fibers in the reticular layer. It is thus possible to obtain a split leather product that resembles leather not only in outward appearance but also in the feel derived from wrinkles and the like resulting when the leather is bent.

Abstract: Multi-layer composite materials comprising a plastic or metal foil, corresponding method of production and use thereof Multilayered composite materials comprising as components: (A) a plastics or metal foil, (B) optionally at least one bonding layer and (C) a polyurethane layer with capillaries passing through the entire thickness of the polyurethane layer.

Abstract: Multi-layer composite materials comprising a cellulose-containing layer, corresponding method of production and use thereof Multilayered composite materials comprising as components: (A) a layer of cellulosic material, (B) optionally at least one bonding layer and (C) a polyurethane layer with capillaries passing through the entire thickness of the polyurethane layer.

Abstract: A double-face velour fabric article consists of a fabric body having a technical face formed by a filament stitch yarn and a technical back formed by a filament loop yarn. The filament stitch yarn includes a heat sensitive material, e.g. a hot melt material or a heat shrinkable material, and/or an elastomeric material, such as spandex. The fabric body has a velour surface formed at both the technical back and the technical face. Raised fibers of at least one of the technical face and the technical back may be entangled, including in and/or through interstices of the fabric body, toward the other of the technical face and the technical back, e.g., by a hydroentanglement process applied after finishing. The fabric body has permeability of about 80 ft3/ft2/min, or less, under a pressure difference of ½ inch of water across the fabric body.

Abstract: A leather-like sheet excellent in repulsive feeling is provided by a leather-like sheet substantially including a fibrous material which is a leather-like sheet in which a staple fiber nonwoven fabric (A) in which ultra-fine fibers of an average single fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 dtex and an average fiber length of 1 to 10 cm are entangled with each other and a woven or knitted fabric (B) including a conjugate fiber in which two or more polyesters are disposed in side-by-side or eccentric sheath-core relationship are laminated.

Abstract: A leather decorative plate comprises a leather layer that is provided with a thermoplastic PU layer on its inner surface. The thermoplastic PU layer is bent to form a space. A method for manufacturing the leather decorative plate comprises the steps of attaching a thermoplastic PU layer to the inner surface of a leather layer, placing the two layers into a mold for proceeding with heating and pressing procedures and softening the thermoplastic PU layer to shape simultaneously the leather layer and the thermoplastic PU layer, forming a space defined by the inner surface of the thermoplastic PU layer for covering directly the surface of a 3C product. In practice, the thermoplastic layer and the leather layer can be heated in advance and then are put into the mold to be pressed to form a faceplate.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a flame-retardant leather-like sheet having a soft hand, excellent surface touch and excellent appearance, which includes an entangled nonwoven fabric of microfine polyester fibers having an average single-fiber fineness of 0.5 dtex or less, and an elastic polymer contained inside the nonwoven fabric, wherein a flame-retardant is exhausted into the elastic polymer and wherein a flame retarder solution containing bubbles forcibly formed is applied to a back surface of the leather-like sheet so that the flame retarder is present in a region extending from the back surface to an inside of the leather-like sheet but is not present on side of a front surface of the leather-like sheet.

Abstract: A pliable reinforcement carrier membrane for use in a coated membrane composite includes a pliable non-woven fibrous mat of entangled polymeric fibers and a hydrophobic binder. The membrane is made so that a first surface of the mat has portions of a portion of the polymeric fibers of the mat protruding therefrom in extent and in sufficient amounts to give the first surface of the mat a fuzzy characteristic to facilitate adhesion of a coating material and a second surface of the fibrous mat has a generally smooth, non-fuzzy surface. A pliable waterproof composite, including the membrane, has a bottom surface formed by a filled asphalt, modified bitumen, or non-asphaltic polymeric coating that overlies and is adhered to the first surface of the mat to provide a barrier against liquid water transmission through the composite and a top surface formed by the second surface of the mat.

Abstract: Vector-directional polymers and polymer systems are disclosed. In accordance with the embodiments of the invention, the polymer has aromatic moieties that are restrained or fixed through conformational linkage units bonding nearest neighbor aromatic moieties together to form the polymer backbone. The conformational linkage units preferably include conformational ring structures which exhibit hydrogen bonding or other Lewis acid-Lewis base type of interactions. The conformational ring structures can include hetero-atoms and cationic metal atoms. The chemical groups and bonding features of the polymer backbone constrain bond movement and bond rotation along the polymer backbone. Accordingly, the vector-directional polymers of the present invention can assemble into or form extended three dimensional structures or arrays.

Abstract: A composite velour fabric garment includes a laminate consisting of an outer woven shell layer, an inner thermal layer of knit construction, and an intermediate layer disposed between and laminated to each of the shell layer and the thermal layer. The outer woven shell layer contains spandex in at least a weft direction for stretch and recovery in a width direction. The knit construction of the inner thermal layer provides stretch in at least a width direction, in harmony with the shell layer, and the inner thermal layer has a raised surface facing inwardly, away from the shell layer. The intermediate layer has controlled air permeability, including zero air permeability.

Abstract: A laminate web comprising a first and second precursor webs, at least the first precursor web being a nonwoven web, the laminate web having a first side, the first side comprising the second precursor web and at least one discrete tuft, each of the discrete tufts having a linear orientation defining a longitudinal axis and comprising a plurality of tufted fibers being integral extensions of the first precursor web and extending through the second precursor web; and a second side, the second side comprising the first precursor web.

Abstract: Fibrous structures comprising a tuft. More particularly, the present invention relates to fibrous structures comprising at least two chemically different compositions wherein less than all of the chemically different compositions present in the fibrous structures forms a tuft, and processes for making such fibrous structures are provided.

Abstract: A sanitary napkin comprising a topsheet having a body-facing side and comprising a plurality of discrete tufts of fibrous material. The topsheet has a lotion composition applied to at least a portion of the body-facing side thereof. An absorbent core is in fluid communication with the topsheet, the absorbent core having an average thickness of less than about 10 mm, and a free absorbent capacity of from about 4 to about 125 grams per gram.

Abstract: The polishing cloth of the present invention is a polishing cloth, having ultrafine fibers on its surface, of which number average single fiber fineness is 1×10?8 to 1.4×10?3 dtex, and a ratio of fibers in the range of single fiber fineness of 1×10?8 to 1.4×10?3 dtex is 60% or more, characterized in that, intersections between ultrafine fibers of a single fiber fineness of 1×10?8 to 1.4×10?3 dtex exposed on the surface are present at 500 positions or more in average, in 50 positions of 0.01 mm2 range observed by using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) at 2000× magnification.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing nonwoven and nonwoven obtainable by said method. Particularly, the invention relates to a nonwoven provided with improved tactile and absorbent characteristics, which make it suitable for use in the field of surface cleaning, personal hygiene, or formation of garments. The method is based on the use of lobed spunbonded filaments which have been treated by means of thickening means.

Abstract: The object of the invention is an aroma-therapeutic bedding set comprising a filling consisting of fibre fleece layers, made of natural or synthetic fibres or a mixture thereof, or fibres placed in an outside ticking, and containing preferably evenly distributed dried and cut herbs embedded in the fibres, or between the layers and embedded in the fibres of the layers.

Abstract: A fabricated microstructure includes a substrate, a primary fiber, and a plurality of base fibers. The primary fiber has a width less than about 5 microns. Each base fiber of the plurality of base fibers has a first end attached to the primary fiber and a second end attached to the substrate. Each base fiber has a width less than the width of the primary fiber.

Abstract: A sheet material consisting of a three-dimensional knitted fabric is disclosed. The three-dimensional knitted fabric includes: a surface ground weave having a napped open-lap knit texture; a backside ground weave having an open-lap knit texture; and a connecting yarn connecting the surface ground weave to the backside ground weave.

Abstract: An absorbent article having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The topsheet has a first side and a second side, the first side being a body-facing side. The topsheet defines a CD-MD plane and includes a fibrous nonwoven web and tufts, the tufts having fibers of the fibrous nonwoven web. The topsheet further includes first, second and third zones, each zone being characterized in a Z-direction by the zone fiber orientation, wherein the first and third zones are displaced relative to each other and each include fibers having portions orientated substantially parallel to said CD-MD plane of the topsheet. The second zone is intermediate and adjacent to the first and third zones, the second zone including substantially reoriented fibers that are substantially vertically oriented with respect to the CD-MD plane of said topsheet.

Abstract: A union fabric comprising 6 to 60% by weight of a polyester fiber (A), 35 to 85% by weight of a halogen-containing fiber (B), and 5 to 55% by weight of a cellulose fiber (C) in which fabric the warp comprises weaving yarn containing the polyester fiber and the weft comprises flameproof chenille yarn and other weaving yarn, with the chenille yarn containing 10 to 70% by weight of halogen and 1 to 35% by weight of a flame retardant consisting of a metal compound, and in which fabric the content of the warp-constituting weaving yarn containing the polyester fiber is 20 to 40% by weight and those of the weft-constituting flameproof chenille yarn and the weft-constituting other weaving yarn are 35 to 70% by weight and 10 to 45% by weight respectively. This union fabric is excellent in design, texture, comfortableness in use.

Abstract: An absorbent article having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core between the topsheet and backsheet. The topsheet has a central region, a first end intermediate region, a first end region, a second end intermediate region, a second end region, an edge region, and an intermediate edge region. The central region, first end intermediate region, first end region, second end intermediate region, and second end region are disposed on a line generally parallel to the longitudinal centerline. The central region, intermediate edge region, and edge region are disposed on a line generally parallel to the transverse centerline. The central region texture, first end intermediate region texture, first end region texture, second end intermediate region texture, and second end region texture differ from one another. The central region texture, intermediate edge region texture, and edge region texture differ from one another.

Abstract: A laminated body for a vehicle includes a surface material, a cushion material, and a backing cloth that are stacked. The backing cloth is formed by stacking a plurality of short fibers so that the short fibers are oriented in different directions that cross each other, and then, three-dimensionally interlacing the short fibers with each other.

Abstract: Conventional cleaning sheets having brush parts provided on a surface of substratum sheet have been satisfactory in the trapping of dirt or dust at the brush parts but unsatisfactory in the trapping of dirt or dust at areas between brush parts where no brush is present. It is intended to provide a cleaning sheet with which any dirt or dust having sneaked through areas between brush parts and remaining untrapped can be trapped by brush parts provided in alternately positioning relationship adjacent to the brush parts, thereby attaining effective cleaning. The cleaning sheet comprises a sheet substratum and, disposed on at least one major surface thereof, multiple brush part lines each provided with multiple brush parts arranged intermittently along one direction of the sheet substratum, the multiple brush part lines arranged in a direction intersecting with the one direction, and that mutually adjacent brush part lines are provided so that the respective brush parts are alternately positioned.

Abstract: Methods to modify an engaging surface of a fibrous landing layer of a mechanical fastener are generally disclosed, along with products made from the same. For instance, the engaging surface of the landing layer can be mechanically modified to increase the fuzziness of the layer, which allows more fibers to engage the other surface of the mechanical fastener. For example, the improved engaging surface of the landing layer can increase the shear resistance of a mechanical fastener comprising a foam layer and a landing layer.

Abstract: The invention relates to a sealing membrane which is useful for closing out liquids and comprises moisture-absorbing, swellable fibres capable of generating a high swell pressure. The sealing membrane is constructed as a textile layer and may be disposed on the back of a moisture-impermeable layer of material of construction.

Abstract: A sheet of an artificial leather substrate contains an upper-layer nonwoven fabric A (1) and a base nonwoven fabric B (2). The upper-layer nonwoven fabric A (1) is a wet-laid nonwoven fabric having a density of 0.30 to 0.50 g/cm3 and being produced with synthetic fibers in which the component fibers have a fineness of 0.005 to 1.1 dtex, a fiber length of 3 to 10 mm and a weight per unit area of 20 to 150 g/m2, and the base nonwoven fabric B (2) is a layer of a nonwoven fabric having a density of 0.15 g/cm3 or more and less than 0.28 g/cm3 and being produced with synthetic fibers in which the component fibers have a fineness greater than that of the component fibers of the upper-layer nonwoven fabric A and 4.5 dtex or less, a fiber length of 2 to 15 mm and a weight per unit area of 50 to 400 g/m2. The upper-layer nonwoven fabric A (1) and the base nonwoven fabric B (2) are layered, made into a single body by entanglement of the component fibers of both layers and impregnated with an elastic polymer.

Abstract: A leather-like sheet composed of a microfine-fiber entangled body made of bundles of microfine fibers and an elastic polymer impregnated therein. The bundles of microfine fibers are composed of microfine monofibers having an average cross-sectional area of 0.1 to 30 ?m2 and have an average cross-sectional area of 40 to 400 ?m2. The bundles of microfine fibers exist in a density of 600 to 4000/mm2 on a cross section taken along the thickness direction of the microfine-fiber entangled body. The elastic polymer contains 30 to 100% by mass of a polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomer. The polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomer is composed of a soft component having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of less than ?5° C., a crosslinkable component, and optionally a hard component having a glass transition temperature (Tg) of higher than 50° C. and another component. The polymer of ethylenically unsaturated monomer is bonded to the microfine fibers in the bundles of microfine fibers.

Abstract: A woven or knitted fabric, formed from two types of yarns different in self-elongating property upon absorbing water and capable of facilitating the air-permeability when wetted with water, is constituted so that a ratio A/B of a mean length A of high water-absorbing, self-elongating yarns (1) to a mean length B of lower water-absorbing, self-elongating yarns (2) arranged in the same direction as that of the yarn (1) property is adjusted to 0.9 or less, the wetted fabric exhibits a change in roughness of 5% or more.

Abstract: A laminate usable as a diaper closure has a pair of generally contiguous outer fleece layers having longitudinally extending and parallel outer edges and a core layer of foil of LP or LLP polyethylene extending between the outer layers substantially a full width of the outer layers between the edges. The foil has a thickness between 5 ?m and 20 ?m. Bonds are provided between the core layer and each of the outer layers. The laminate has regions activated by stretching and in which the laminate is semielastric, and unactivated regions in which the laminate is not stretchy.

Abstract: It is intended to provide a novel artificial sueded leather having flame retardance, which is excellent inflame retardance, light resistance and abrasion resistance, suffers from no water spot and is free from any halogenated chemical (i.e., one having been treated with a so-called non-halogenated flame retardant), and a method of producing the same. The above artificial sueded leather comprises a thermoplastic synthetic fiber cloth made of a woven fabric, a knitted web or a nonwoven fabric, which has a raised-fiber or napped-fiber surface and has been impregnated with a polyurethane resin, and a flame retardant which contains at least a phosphate compound A having a solubility in water of 1% or less, a vinyl group-containing resin C capable of forming a carbonization skeleton in burning and a water-insoluble thickener D and is imparted to one face of the thermoplastic synthetic fiber cloth.

Abstract: A leather-like sheet excellent in stretchability which is obtained by integrating by entanglement of a woven or knitted fabric and an ultrafine fiber of 0.0001 to 0.5 dtex, wherein at least one face of the leather-like sheet is substantially composed of said ultrafine fibers, and said woven or knitted fabric consists of a conjugate fiber in which two or more kinds of polyester-based polymers, at least one of which consists essentially of polytrimethylene terephthalate, are stuck along the fiber length direction side-by-side, or a conjugate fiber in which two or more kinds of polyester-based polymers, at least one of which consists essentially of polytrimethylene terephthalate, forms an eccentric sheath-core type conjugate structure, and the fiber constituting the woven or knitted fabric has a twist coefficient of 20000 or below.

Abstract: A simplified manufacturing technique to directly form a unitized composite structure with at least one relatively flat surface and at least one sinuous element in an internally-bonded unitized composite is provided. A matrix of fibrous and or other materials is deposited in layers which are subsequently formed into corrugated or wave-like shapes and exposed to an activation step. At least one element is composed of a contractive material which shrinks when activated, such as by heating in an oven, to become relatively flat and optionally bonded to at least one other non-contractive layer which remains in a sinuous shape after the activation step.

Abstract: A composite fabric garment includes a first garment portion disposed in one or more upper regions of the fabric garment, i.e. those regions relatively more likely in use to be exposed to wind and rain, and a second garment portion disposed in one or more lower regions of the fabric garment, i.e. those regions relatively less likely in use to be exposed to wind and rain. The first garment portion is formed of a first composite fabric having first inner and outer fabric layers and a first intermediate barrier layer disposed between and bonded to at least one of the first inner and outer fabric layers, the first intermediate barrier layer being breathable and substantially impermeable to wind and liquid water. The second garment portion is formed of a second composite fabric formed of second inner and outer fabric layers and having predetermined air permeability.

Abstract: A leather-like sheet excellent in repulsive feeling is provided by a leather-like sheet substantially including a fibrous material which is a leather-like sheet in which a staple fiber nonwoven fabric (A) in which ultra-fine fibers of an average single fiber fineness of 0.0001 to 0.5 dtex and an average fiber length of 1 to 10 cm are entangled with each other and a woven or knitted fabric (B) including a conjugate fiber in which two or more polyesters are disposed in side-by-side or eccentric sheath-core relationship are laminated.

Abstract: A colored polyamide fiber composed of a polyamide resin, a pigment, a coupling agent and a compound represented by the following formula I: R?—CO—NH—R—NH—CO—R???(I) wherein R is an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and R? and R? are each independently an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 9 to 18 carbon atoms. The colored polyamide fibers are produced without causing bending and fiber break during the melt spinning even when the raw composition contains the pigment in a high concentration. Since the pigment is uniformly dispersed throughout the colored polyamide fibers, the coloration is deep and the strength is high. The colored polyamide fibers are suitable for the production of artificial leathers.

Abstract: The invention is intended to provide a simple and economical method for producing a ductile tufted product, particularly a tufted upper carpet layer that is particularly ductile, in particular for the automotive interior area. For this purpose, a melt-blown non-woven fabric is placed on a ductile polyester tufted backing and the melt-blown non-woven fabric and the polyester tufted backing are tufted together.

Abstract: A velour fabric article consists of a fabric body having a technical face formed by a filament stitch yarn and a technical back formed by a loop yarn. The filament stitch yarn includes a heat sensitive material, e.g. a hot melt material or a heat shrinkable material, and/or an elastomeric material, such as spandex. The loop yarn includes flame retardant material, such as M-Aramide fiber. The fabric body has a velour surface formed at one or both of the technical back and the technical face. Raised fibers of at least one of the technical face and the technical back may be entangled, including in and/or through interstices of the fabric body, toward the other of the technical face and the technical back, e.g., by a hydroentanglement process applied after finishing. The fabric body has permeability of about 90 ft3/ft2/min, or less, under a pressure difference of ½ inch of water across the fabric body.