Abstract: Provided is a tubular fabric that has a homogeneous structure along its outer circumference and excellent shape-stability and that is useful as hoses for transferring a fluid or powder or for protecting linear materials such as a wire, a cable, and a conduit, tubular filters, and medical base materials such as an artificial blood vessel. The tubular fabric includes a wall part that is woven by interlacing a warp yarn and a weft yarn and that has a double weave structure, a weft yarn in an outer layer and a weft yarn in an inner layer being not intersected with each other. The tubular fabric preferably has a circularity c of 0.8 or more and 1.2 or less, the circularity c being represented by the following equation of an outer diameter b perpendicular to an outer diameter a with respect to the outer diameter a, the outer diameter a being obtained by measuring a location corresponding to a fabric width A in weaving of the tubular fabric. Circularity c=a/b.

Abstract: A helmet having an energy absorbing layer (2) and a sliding facilitator (5) is provided. The sliding facilitator is provided inside of the energy absorbing (2). A method of manufacturing a helmet having a sliding facilitator is farther provided. The method having the steps of: providing an energy absorbing layer in the mould, and providing a sliding facilitator for contacting the energy absorbing layer.

Abstract: A woven textile fabric that is lightweight, soft, smooth, supple and durable has a composition including a regenerated cellulosic fiber, cotton and an elastane fiber such as spandex. The fabric includes warp yarn and weft yarn, and the weft yarn is a core spun yarn made of an elastane fiber core surrounded by a sheath of blended regenerated cellulosic fiber and cotton. The fabric construction may range from about 44 ends/inch to about 300 ends/inch and from about 30 picks/inch to about 600 picks/inch. The warp count may range from 2 s count to 140 s count, and the weft count ranges from 2 s count to 170 s count. The fabric, which can be made using a series of innovative process steps, is particularly useful as a bed linen.

Abstract: A method for producing durable fluffy and soft loop fabric having embedded weft floats, including: 1) yarn selection; 2) winding; 3) warping; 4) sizing; 5) weaving; and 6) dyeing and finishing. During the weaving process, low-twist or zero-twist yarns or filament long floats are embedded into loops. During the dyeing and finishing process, due to weft-wise shrinkage, the embedded weft floats shrink and expand, thereby supporting the loops upright without lodging. In addition, the fluffy zero-twist yarns and interlaced yarn floats form a stacked stereoscopic structure with other weft yarns fixedly connected to the loops, thereby facilitating the extension of the loops and enlarging moisture diffusion surfaces of the loops during baking and air-drying processes to create a rapid drying condition for towels. Therefore, a loop fabric which has a special style and a fluffy and soft hand feeling and is still fluffy and soft after being washed is obtained.

Abstract: Implementations described herein include surgical helmet assemblies that have a helmet enclosure shaped to encircle a head of a user. The helmet enclosure retains a fan and includes a brow bar portion at a front of the helmet enclosure that is shaped to extend along a brow or a forehead of the user and having a light positioned therein. The helmet enclosure also includes a stabilizer extending downward from the helmet enclosure in front of the ears of a user, a face shield that is transparent and coupleable to at least the brow bar portion, a headband shaped to extend across an occiput region of the user's head, and a surgical garment for covering at least the head and shoulders of a user in use. The brow bar portion includes vents disposed therein to direct airflow pushed through the helmet enclosure from the fan onto the user.

Abstract: An industrial two-layer fabric includes an upper surface side fabric constituted by upper surface side warps and upper surface side wefts, one a lower surface side fabric constituted by lower surface side warps and lower surface side wefts, the upper surface side warps include a warp binding yarn, wherein two adjacent upper surface side warps that includes a upper surface side warp that weaves only the upper surface side wefts and the warp binding yarn form a pair, the warp binding yarn of the pair passes below three of the adjacent upper surface side wefts where the warp binding yarn passes below the one of the lower surface side wefts, a ratio of the number of the upper surface side warps to the number of the lower surface side is 2:1.

Abstract: A bib assembly is configured with a hanging portion and first and second ends with attachment features for releasable engagement. The hanging portion may, in some variants, include one or more exposed bights configured to engage a pacifier, toy, or other infant care appliance.

Abstract: An upper torso garment has a torso section extending from a waist region to a neck region, the torso section including a front region and a back region, where the front region is positioned adjacent a chest of a wearer of the garment and the back region is positioned adjacent a back of the wearer. The torso section includes a left torso region and a right torso region, where the left torso region is positioned on a lateral left side of the torso section and the right torso region is positioned on a lateral right side of the torso section. The garment includes quick-draw pockets in the front region proximate to the waist region, where each quick-draw pocket includes a first pocket chamber and a holster pocket chamber in a stacked configuration.

Abstract: Elastic trims and articles incorporating the same, and also methods of manufacturing and processing elastic trims and articles incorporating the same, are provided. An elastic trim may include a base textile that is knitted or woven, and may further include cables that are movably positioned in tunnel structures located within the base textile, the cables having a lower stretch characteristic than the base textile. The cables may be secured and removed at certain locations, thereby imparting a variable stretch characteristic to the elastic trim. The elastic trims may be incorporated into various articles, including waistbands, apparel, footwear, and bags.

Abstract: An eyewear apparatus is configured to be fitted around a face of a user such that a first earpiece is supported by a first ear of the user, a second earpiece is supported by a second ear of the user, and a bridge portion of the frame is supported by a nose of the user. When the eyewear apparatus is fitted around the face of the user, a first eyepiece is aligned with a first eye of the user to allow the user to see through a first lens disposed within an aperture of the first eyepiece. An additional structure is coupled to the frame and covers a portion of a forehead of the user when the eyewear apparatus is fitted around the face of the user. The additional structure depicts a portion a character. A three-dimensional piece affixed to the additional structure provides additional depth to the character.

Abstract: An article and method of manufacturing an authenticatable finished fabric and article comprising the steps of: obtaining an original fabric article comprising authentic fiber, the original fabric article being possessed at some time by at least one person; breaking the original fabric article into authentic fiber components; blending the authentic fiber components with virgin fiber to make a authentic fiber blend; generating a authentic fiber blend yarn; weaving or knitting a finished fabric that is configured to form a binary code from a mixture of the authentic fiber blend yarn and a filling yarn; and creating a first level authentication and an second level authentication of the finished fabric with the first and second level authentication being non-interacting or independent.

Abstract: A ribbon needle weaving loom including an electromechanic actuator for driving the weft thread insertion needle. A control device is provided and the actuator is configured—in co-operation with the control unit—in such manner as to allow preselection of the end position of the weft thread insertion needle at weft-insertion and of the position with retracted weft-insertion needle, and/or the starting time point of the motion of the weft-insertion needle and/or—the instantaneous speed of the motion of the weft-insertion needle, at least within a certain range. The electromechanic actuator is configured as rotary actuator or a linear actuator.

Abstract: A convertible garment comprising a jacket portion with an inner and outer surface; and a pouch on the inner surface of the jacket portion; wherein the pouch is open ended on one side and includes a drawstring.

Abstract: A towel assembly is including a plurality of layers including a first layer and a fourth layer constructed of a textile terry cloth. A second layer and a third layer are constructed of a fabric, each of the first layer, the second layer, the third layer, and the fourth layer are retained to one another such that the first layer and the fourth layer are arranged to interact with a surface. The second layer and the third layer are retained between the first layer and the fourth layer. The towel assembly is arranged to reduce friction when interacting with the surface.

Abstract: A method includes forming a multi-pick yarn package through winding multiple oriented yarns onto a spool. The multiple oriented yarns serve as weft yarns forming adjacent substantially parallel yarns wound together, and each of the multiple oriented yarns is formed through drawing each of multiple synthetic yarns from a corresponding supply package. The method also includes simultaneously inserting the weft yarns in a single pick insertion event of a pick insertion apparatus of a loom apparatus in which the simultaneously inserted weft yarns are to be conveyed through a set of warp yarns to produce an incremental length of a woven textile fabric.

Abstract: There are provided firefighter protective pants including an inner liner, an outer shell and two pant legs. The outer shell is made of a flame-resistant material and extends over at least a portion of the inner liner. Each of the two pant legs includes a knee sleeve affixed to the inner liner at a knee height inside the corresponding pant leg and a knee pad held on the knee sleeve and extending across a front knee portion of the corresponding pants leg.

Abstract: A papermaker's fabric includes a series of repeat units, wherein each of the repeat units includes: a set of top machine direction MD yarns having a first diameter; a set of bottom MD yarns having a second diameter larger than the first diameter; a set of auxiliary bottom MD yarns having the first diameter; a set of top cross machine direction CMD yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns to form a top fabric layer; a set of bottom CMD yarns interwoven with the bottom MD yarns and the auxiliary bottom MD yarns to form a bottom fabric layer; and a set of stitching yarns arranged in pairs, wherein at least one of the stitching yarns of the pair interweaves with the top and bottom fabric layers.

Abstract: A papermaker's fabric includes a series of repeat units, wherein each of the repeat units includes: a set of top machine direction MD yarns having a first diameter; a set of bottom MD yarns having a second diameter larger than the first diameter; a set of auxiliary bottom MD yarns having the first diameter; a set of top cross machine direction CMD yarns interwoven with the top MD yarns to form a top fabric layer; a set of bottom CMD yarns interwoven with the bottom MD yarns and the auxiliary bottom MD yarns to form a bottom fabric layer; and a set of stitching yarns arranged in pairs, wherein at least one of the stitching yarns of the pair interweaves with the top and bottom fabric layers.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are face shields, eyewear, and kits which provide a user the ability to protect their face from solids or liquids while simultaneously providing the ability to manipulate any eyewear the user may desire to wear.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are face shields, eyewear, and kits which provide a user the ability to protect their face from solids or liquids while simultaneously providing the ability to manipulate any eyewear the user may desire to wear.