Abstract: A flat yarn of a high strength and a high modulus of elasticity, being excellent in solvent resistance, thermal stability and resistance to bending fatigue is provided. The flat yarn comprises polyoxymethylene copolymer containing 0.5 to 10 moles of specified oxyalkylene units per 100 moles of oxymethylene units in the polymer chain principally comprising repeating oxymethylene units and having a melt index at 190° C. with load of 2160 g of 0.3 to 20 g/10 min.

Abstract: A mesh structure is formed from a set of a warp strands and a set of intersecting weft strands. The warp strands are formed of a knitted synthetic material which shrinks when exposed to heat, and the weft strands pass through the weave of the warp strands at the nodes where the strands intersect. Heat is applied to the mesh structure to shrink the weave of the warp strands tightly around the weft strands at the nodes, thereby co-joining the weft and warp strands to form a high-strength mesh.

Abstract: As subject of the present invention, a woven composite fabric, comprising metal elements (51) and polymer elements (52) is provided. The metal elements (51) being metal wires, bundles of metal wires, metal strands or metal cords. According to the invention, the polymer elements (52) are polymer tapes, having a substantially rectangular cross-section.

Abstract: A filter screen is made of metal or synthetic strands having reinforcing filaments regularly spaced in the cross machine and the machine directions.

Abstract: Tuftable fabrics comprise a plurality of warp and weft tapes in a balanced construction of tapes with balanced dimensions of tapes in the warp and the weft and stabilization of the fabric to impart dimensional stability. The fabrics are useful as backings for tufted carpets and especially patterned carpets and carpet tile owing to a surprising combination of tuftability, resistance to edge curl and stability during tufting.

Abstract: Tuftable fabrics comprise a plurality of warp and weft tapes in a balanced construction of tapes with balanced dimensions of tapes in the warp and the weft and stabilization of the fabric to impart dimensional stability. The fabrics are useful as backings for tufted carpets and especially patterned carpets and carpet tile owing to a surprising combination of tuftability, resistance to edge curl and stability during tufting.

Abstract: A protective drainage wrap comprises a first portion, a second portion and a solid sheet portion. The first portion comprises cross-woven or cross-laminate material in the machine direction and in the transverse direction. The material in the machine direction comprises a polyolefin, polyester, nylon or combinations thereof and has a first thickness The material in the transverse direction comprises a polyolefin, polyester, nylon or combinations thereof and has a second thickness. The second thickness is at least about 2 times greater than the first thickness so as to assist in providing drainage for moisture build-up The second portion is a coating comprising a polyolefin, polyester, nylon or combinations thereof The first and second portions are located adjacent to each other The solid sheet portion comprises a polyolefin, polyester, nylon or combinations thereof The solid sheet portion is attached to at least one of the first portion and the second portion.

Abstract: A fabric comprising elongated metal elements and thermoplastic material, said thermoplastic material being present in a volume of at least 40% of the total volume of said fabric, whereby at least part of the elongated metal elements are metal cords. The invention also relates to a method of manufacturing a reinforced article by applying heat and/or pressure to such a fabric.

Abstract: A Wind and Sun Tolerant Mesh is disclosed which is composed of either natural or synthetic material, the generally vertical directional strands crossed by horizontal strands, some or all of which individual horizontal strands of which broaden out on one side forming as sill which projects outward at an angle away from the plane surface of the mesh in a venetian blind profile, and wind baffling effect, while simultaneously allowing release of any excess pressure from wind gusting into the opposite side due to the semi permeable nature of the mesh and as there is no restricting sill on the inside surface, thus giving better control and protection to either articles or utilities made from, and/or persons or property protected by, commodities of any various sort constructed wholly or partly from the mesh.

Abstract: Tissue products such as facial tissue, bath tissue, paper towels and the like are wet molded and dried using a through-air-drying fabric which has a three dimensional, sculptured, textured background accentuated with decorative signature patterns. The textured background is woven into the fabric. The decorative patterns are created by using a smooth polymeric substance or by yarn stitches. The decorative patterns on the through air drying fabric provide enhanced aesthetics, while the textured background provides improved properties such as absorbent capacity, absorbent rate, stretch, flexibility, drape, bulk, and hand feel when used in tissue making.

Abstract: A scrim of woven polyolefin tapes comprising a plurality of warp tapes in a substantially parallel side-by-side relationship and a plurality of weft tapes in a substantially parallel side-by-side relationship. At least some of each of said warp and said weft tapes being in the form of a tape having at least one of an additional tape and a multifilament yarn superimposed thereon. Each of said tapes is a polyolefin tape. The scrim exhibits improved tear strength properties.

Abstract: An ionizing wiper for removing static charge from an insulative surface. The wiper is made of wiping material with a high density of ionizing points being disposed along the surface of the wiper such that the air between the ionizing points and an object is sufficiently ionized to remove static charge from the object.

Abstract: The textile conveyor belt of the invention is constituted by at least two layers, namely an outer layer designed to come into contact with articles and an inner layer designed to come into contact with a mechanical conveyor system. Cohesion between the layers is provided by binding threads, the outer layer and the binding threads being made of threads that are made up of an intimate mixture of fibers comprising both stainless steel fibers and fibers of a material selected from those which decompose into carbon when raised to high temperature, e.g. para-aramid or polybenzimidazole. In addition, the inner layer is made of threads having good properties concerning both mechanical strength and resistance to temperature.

Abstract: A flame retardant, drapeable screen having long-time UV-stability useful for shading and energy saving, particularly for greenhouses, comprising flexible strips with a thickness less than 100 um, which form a continuous product by means of a crochet or weave process and a yarn system, where the strips comprising at least a part of the surface of the product, and where at least some of the strips comprise light and/or heat reflecting foil strips, e.g. a low emitting metal foil, preferably an AL-foil.

Abstract: A material stock from which seals and packings may be formed is described; the material stock being relatively soft and compressible and cross section having a construction comprising a plurality of interlaced, as hereinbefore defined, flat section tapes having associated therewith a reinforcement. The tapes may include exfoliated graphite, paper, PTFE, mica, vermiculite as appropriate. The seal stock may have any desired cross sectional shape.

Abstract: Disclosed is an adhesive that exhibits desired oil-resistance and processing properties. The adhesive is suitable for use in elastic composites and disposable absorbent products. In one embodiment, the adhesive exhibits the following properties: an Elastic Modulus value that is greater than about 4.times.10.sup.5 dynes per square centimeter at 40.degree. C. across the frequency range of about 0.1 to about 100 radians per second; an Elastic Modulus in Oil value that is greater than about 4.times.10.sup.5 dynes per square centimeter at 40.degree. C. across the frequency range of about 0.1 to about 100 radians per second; a Viscosity value of less than about 40,000 centipoise at a temperature of about 275.degree. F.; and a Viscosity value of greater than about 60,000 centipoise at a temperature of about 250.degree. F.

Abstract: An uncoated fabric for producing airbags, said fabric woven of synthetic monofilaments and having a monofilament denier in the weft which is less than that of the warp.

Abstract: Filler strips made of a solid layer of thermal sealable material, such as separate strips of polyethylene film or other suitable thermal sealable films, are sequentially spaced on one side of a thermal sealable plastic mesh web at equal distance from one another. The pre-prepared web is used on a conventional form, fill and seal machine to form mesh bags having top and bottom fin seals with enhanced strength. The bag is primarily mesh so the product within the bag breathes easily. A thermal sealable print band may be located on the second side of the mesh. Different types of bags can be formed on different types of automatic form, fill and seal machines by modifying the specific configuration of the pre-prepared mesh web for the particular automatic form, fill and seal machine design.

Abstract: A liquid-absorbent sheet containing a liquid-absorbing material capable of absorbing drips of food, wherein a part of the outer surface of the liquid-absorbent sheet is composed of a liquid-permeable film, a part of other outer surface thereof is composed of a liquid-semipermeable film, the liquid-semipermeable film is a liquid-impermeable film having formed therein pores, the diameter of the pore is in the range of from 0.05 mm to 0.5 mm, and the porosity of the pores is in the range of from 0.01% to 0.4%. The liquid-absorbent sheet effectively absorbs drips oozing from a drippy food to prevent deterioration in qualities of the food for a prolonged period of time.

Abstract: An entangled multifilament yarn made from high strength filaments having a tenacity of at least about 7 g/d, a tensile modulus of at least about 150 g/d and an energy-to-break of at least about 8 J/g. The yarn is used to make ballistic resistant articles.

Abstract: A method for manufacturing a papermaker's fabric by spirally winding a woven fabric strip, narrower than the intended width of the fabric, and the papermaker's fabric manufactured in accordance with the method, are disclosed. The fabric strip includes lengthwise and crosswise yarns, and has a lateral fringe along at least one lateral edge thereof, the lateral fringe being unbound ends of the crosswise yarns extending beyond the lateral edge. During the spiral winding of the fringed strip, the lateral fringe of a turn overlies or underlies an adjacent turn of the strip. The lateral edges of adjacent turns abut against one another. The spirally continuous seam so obtained is closed by ultrasonically welding or bonding the overlying or underlying lateral fringe to the fabric strip in an adjacent turn.

Abstract: A prepreg for a sleeve member of fiber reinforced thermoplastic resin available for a tennis racket or a golf club is woven by using ribbon-shaped reinforcing fiber tows/uni-directional commingle yarns and matrix fiber tows, and the ribbon-shaped reinforcing fiber tows/commingle yarns make the prepreg and, accordingly, the sleeve product thin, light, highly dense, economical and large in mechanical strength.