Abstract: A cable wrap which swells upon contact with water is made by coating one side of a nonwoven fabric support with a polyvinyl alcohol binding agent and then with a superabsorber powder, drying the coated fabric between contact surfaces, printing a polyacrylate binding agent plaste onto the superabsorber surface, and then drying the coated fabric. Alternatively, the cable wrap can be made by printing a polyacrylate binding agent paste onto a nonwoven fabric support, applying a polyvinyl alcohol binding agent onto the polyacrylate binding agent paste, sprinkling superabsorber powder onto the polyvinyl alcohol binding agent, and drying the coated fabric between contact surfaces.

Abstract: A cleaning cloth for household and industrial use comprising a soft resilient needled nonwoven fabric having a plurality of rubber strips surmounting its top surface in the manner of relief, the height of the rubber strips being about 0.2 to 0.4 times their width but not more than about 0.5 times the thickness of the nonwoven fabric, the nonwoven fabric on its underside carrying a continuous layer of an open-pore latex foam which projects above the bottom surface and penetrates into the nonwoven to the extent of about 10 to 40 percent of the thickness of the nonwoven fabric.