Abstract: A self-coating stabilizing yarn for use with conventional effect yarns in the construction of outdoor fabrics. The self-coating yarn includes a low melt constituent and a high melt constituent. After being woven with the effect yarns and exposed to a pre-selected heating temperature, the low melt constituent melts, flows through the fibers or filaments of the stabilizing yarns and onto the adjacent effect yarn, thus firming bonds and stabilizing and strengthening both the stabilizing yarns, the effect yarns, and the resulting fabric.

Abstract: A decorative outdoor fabric including a woven structure formed of acrylic warp yarns and at least some of the fill yarns comprising self-coating yarns formed of high melt and low melt yarn constituents. When the fabric is tentered, the low melt constituents melt and cross-flow to the other fibers in the fill and warp yarns. The warp yarns have deniers of at least 150 d and the fill yarns have deniers of at least 400 d. Because of the cross-flow of the low melt constituents, the resulting fabric achieves acceptable abrasion resistance, stability, and load recovery and hand without the need for a latex backing.

Abstract: An apparatus for producing a novel teased yarn having teased, hairy, fluffy, fuzzed character without loops resembling angora, alpaca and the like yarns from multifiber spun yarns of short to medium staple, and the resulting yarn produced thereby, wherein the yarn supplied has a yarn twist in a predetermined twist direction and is fed along a feed path through a yarn feed bore to a fluid vortex station and turbulence chamber station defined within a surrounding housing.

Abstract: A method for producing a novel teased yarn having teased, hairy, fluffy, fuzzed character without loops resembling angora, alpaca and the like yarns from multifiber spun yarns of short to medium staple, wherein the yarn supplied has a yarn twist in a predetermined twist direction and is fed along a feed path through a yarn feed bore of a jet nozzle member to a fluid vortex station and turbulence chamber station defined within a surrounding housing.

Abstract: An apparatus for interlacing or entangling continuous multifilament synthetic yarn wherein the yarn to be interlaced is fed along a feed path through a yarn feed bore to a jet nozzle member defining with a surrounding housing and an outlet tube member a shaped turbulence chamber within the housing at the exit of the yarn feed bore in the nozzle member. The jet nozzle member has one or more jet passages directing fluid from a pressurized air chamber into the turbulence chamber along jet axes inclined to the yarn feed axis and offset sidewise in nonintersecting relation thereto to produce interlocking entanglements of filaments of the yarn during passage therethrough.

Abstract: A method for interlacing or entangling continuous multifilament synthetic yarn wherein the yarn to be interlaced is fed along a feed path through a yarn feed bore to a jet nozzle member defining with a surrounding housing and an outlet tube member a shaped turbulence chamber within the housing at the exit of the yarn feed bore in the nozzle member. The jet nozzle member has one or more jet passages directing fluid from a pressurized air chamber into the turbulence chamber along jet axes inclined to the yarn feed axis and offset sidewise in non-intersecting relation thereto to produce interlocking entanglements of filaments of the yarn during passage therethrough.