Abstract: Cushioned strap including a continuously woven or knitted fabric having two flat portions separated by a tubular portion, and a plurality of length of yarn positioned in the tubular portion and extending substantially freely through the tubular portion between the end portions thereof. The cushioned strap provides good appearance and comfort and can be manufactured economically.

Abstract: A fitted sheet is disclosed having an edge elastic sewn to the lower edge of the open bottom. Elastics sewn in the corner seams extend from the top of the sheet to the edge. The sheet may be applied to mattresses of different thicknesses in the same nominal size without bunching or excessive tucking.

Abstract: An anti-siphoning device including a fill tube having a plurality of axially and radially spaced restriction elements extending across the interior thereof and an elastomeric annulus compressed between a pair of plates, one of which is mounted to the fill tube for securing the anti-siphoning device to the interior of a fill pipe. A plurality of apertures in the fill tube will allow rapid dispension of the fill liquid. A nozzle support retains an automatic fill nozzle above the restriction elements to prevent premature cut off.

Abstract: Thermoplastic compositions are disclosed which are useful as backings for automotive carpets. The thermoplastic compositions contain a high filler content of at least 60 percent by weight, about 5 to 25 percent by weight of an ethylene homopolymer or copolymer, about 1 to 10 percent by weight of a non-vulcanized elastomeric resin and about 1 to 15 percent by weight of a plasticizer. Preferably a low viscosity precoat of polyethylene or ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer is applied to the carpet prior to the application of the thermoplastic backing. The backed automotive carpet is moldable, withstands both high and low temperatures, possesses outstanding sound absorbing properties and can be produced economically.

Abstract: A narrow woven stretch fabric is formed from bare elastomeric warp threads separated by high shrink warp threads and from a high shrink weft thread. The edge elastomeric warp threads are loosely wrapped with heat set yarn. These edge threads, which are under the same tension as the other elastomeric warp threads, are wrapped between the supply and the loom. The weft thread is interwoven at a low weft per inch and the fabric is heat treated to shrink the non-elastic high shrink threads and corrugate the elastomeric threads without heat setting. The wrapping device and the surface feed rollers for the elastomeric threads are driven by the loom drive at appropriate speeds.

Abstract: Thermoplastic compositions are disclosed which are useful as backings for automotive carpets. The thermoplastic compositions contain a high filler content of at least 60 percent by weight, about 5 to 25 percent by weight of an ethylene homopolymer or copolymer, about 1 to 10 percent by weight of a non-vulcanized elastomeric resin and about 1 to 15 percent by weight of a plasticizer. Preferably a low viscosity precoat of polyethylene or ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer is applied to the carpet prior to the application of the thermoplastic backing. The backet automotive carpet is moldable, withstands both high and low temperatures, possesses outstanding sound absorbing properties and can be produced economically.

Abstract: Yarn is treated in air entangelemnt jet having a main passageway in which one or more multifilament yarns are entangled, a second passageway which intercepts the bottom of the main passageway at an acute angle and slants downward therefrom in the upstream direction and an air inlet which intercepts the bottom of the main passageway so that its axis intersects the axis of the main passageway at an angle of about 86.degree.-88.5.degree. with the point of intersection being not more than 0.20 inches from the downstream end of the main passageway. The air inlet duct slants downward from the main passageway in the downstream direction. A lip is provided which begins at or close to the bottom of the downstream end of the main passageway and extends in the downstream direction. A jet of air is introduced into the main passageway through the air inlet duct and strikes the upper wall thereof forming a plural vortex turbulent zone which entalges the yarns.

Abstract: This invention is directed to an improved apparatus in which a fluid jet texturing device is used to produce a composite novelty yarn having slubs of selectively varied size distributed with selectively varied spacing along the linear length of the yarn. The apparatus includes at least two feed rolls to serve to feed yarn to the texturing jet, one of said rolls being operable to feed yarn at a higher speed than the other roll or rolls. An actuator arm is provided having an idler roll at one end. The first yarn is directed into contact with a slower feed roll while a second yarn is directed into contact with the idler roll. The actuator arm is selectively moved so as to first press the second yarn against the relatively fast roll and then press this yarn into contact with a slower feed roll to thereby vary the speed at which the second yarn is fed into the texturing jet.

Abstract: An article of clothing having at least one layer of a fabric or a fabric having an aramid yarn knitted or woven with a heat settable yarn. The fabric is heated to set the heat settable yarn thereby dimensionally stabilizing the fabric without bonding. The fabric may be a scrim or a lining having a facing material laminated thereon.

Abstract: A plurality of synthetic fibrous textile materials such as polymeric yarns and staple fibers are textured by a procedure which imparts a variety of spaced deformations in a random sequence. The fibrous textile materials are fed between two opposed pressure surfaces, one of which has a raised pattern of closely spaced pyramids while the other is made of a resilient material having a meshing pattern of pyramid shaped depressions. The textile material is maintained at an elevated temperature during its passage between the pressure surfaces and is then cooled to give a permanently textured product.

Abstract: Durable antistatic properties are imparted to fabrics of synthetic polymers such as nylon and polyester by forming on said fabric a water insoluble reaction product of a melamine formaldehyde resin with certain ethoxylated quaternary ammonium salts and amine compounds. A urea formaldehyde resin can optionally be included as a third component of the reaction product. In a preferred embodiment, the fabric having the reaction product thereon is washed with a solution containing an anionic surfactant.

Abstract: A plate having a plurality of diagonal grooves adjacent opposed lateral edges of the card cylinder for directing air current of a carding machine from the lateral edges towards the center of the leading edge of the main cylinder screen.

Abstract: A double catch thread weaving apparatus including two double index dobbies, the first of which controls the basic weave of the fabric and the second of which controls a pair of slackner heddles for the two catch threads. The timing of the second dobby is offset with respect to the timing of the first dobby and the shuttle cycle to pay a sufficient amount of catch thread to obtain an edge pattern using the shuttle thread and one of the catch threads at a time.

Abstract: A fabric has a first catch thread being woven in a main warp and forming exterior loops about a first edge warp and a shuttle thread looping around the first catch thread and forming exterior loops about a second edge warp opposite said first catch thread exterior loops. The shuttle thread is further woven into the main warp and forms exterior loops about the first edge warp. A second catch thread is woven in the main warp, looped around the shuttle thread, and forms exterior loops about a second edge warp opposite said shuttle threads exterior loops about the first edge warp.

Abstract: A device for dispensing and applying stickers by intermittently engaging and advancing a continuous strip carrying said stickers along a path having an abrupt change of direction which causes the stickers to separate from the strip. A mobile clamp intermittently engages the strip and travels a reciprocal path for incrementally advancing the continuous strip to dispense a sticker.

Abstract: The method of treating a textile fabric comprising cellulosic fibers to produce a modified fabric intermediate from which permanently shaped wearing apparel having an improved dry crease recovery can be made, comprising the steps of: (1) impregnating the material with a cellulose cross-linking reagent selected from the groups consisting of: (a) reaction products of formaldehyde with carboxamides wherein said reaction products contain 2 or 3 N-methylol groups and methyl ethers thereof; (b) compounds having the following generic formula:R.sub.1 OCH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 SO.sub.2 (QSO.sub.2).sub.n CH.sub.2 CH.sub.2 OR.sub.2where R.sub.1 and R.sub.

Abstract: This invention is directed to the use as coupling agents or bonding agents for fibrous glass substrates of compounds of the formula ##STR1## wherein R at each occurrence is independently an alkyl group of 1 to 5 carbon atoms,X is chlorine or bromine,R.sub.1 is hydrogen, alkyl of 1 to 5 carbon atoms or ##STR2## and Z is selected from the group consisting of ##STR3## WHERE R.sub.2 at each occurrence is independently hydrogen or alkyl of 1 to 5 carbon atoms andP is an integer of 1 to 4, and ##STR4## WHERE M AND R ARE INTEGERS OF 1 TO 3,R.sub.2 has the meaning given above, andY is --S-- or --O--Laminates having excellent resistance to water exposure are obtained when glass substrates treated with the above coupling agents are impregnated with a thermosetting resin such as epoxy and polyester resins.

Abstract: Dye receptive rubber articles are prepared by mixing about 2 to 15 parts by weight of powdered dimethyl terephthalate with 100 parts by weight of rubber and then curing the resulting material. This invention is particularly useful in the preparation of elastic threads which can be incorporated into textile products and then dyed along with the other threads and yarns present in these products.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for improving the soil release and wetting properties of a polyester textile material by applying thereto a limited amount of an aqueous solution containing about 0.5 to 2.5% by weight of sodium hydroxide and then contacting the textile material with steam while maintaining a moisture content of at least 35% to remove 0.4 to 2.5% by weight of the polyester. By using this procedure the amount of polyester removed is controlled by the limited amount of sodium hydroxide present while at the same time a substantially uniform product is obtained.

Abstract: A method of weaving a fabric using, one at a time, two catch threads adjacent respectively a first edge warp and a second edge warp which are separated from the main weft by a pair of warp wires. The catch threads, edge warp and warp wires are moved or shedded in time sequence to cause one catch thread to be woven in the main warp and form exterior loops about its respective edge warp and the shuttle to form exterior loops about the opposite edge warp. The process is then reversed forming exterior loops using the second catch thread and the shuttle thread.