Abstract: A filter for extracting one's favorite drink constituted of a polyester based monofilament and having a woven fabric construction or a knitted fabric construction, with the polyester based monofilament comprising a polyester based monofilament having a flat sectional shape, and a bag for extracting one's favorite drink using the filter for extracting one's favorite drink.

Abstract: A flat multifilament yarn woven fabric having a low air permeability and excellent vision through-preventing property and water- or perspiration-absorbing property includes, as warp and/or weft yarns, multifilament yarns formed from a plurality of artificial individual filaments having a flat cross-sectional profile in which, on both the sides of a longitudinal center line of the profile, 3 or more projections projecting outward from the longitudinal center line and 2 or more constrictions formed between the projections, per side of the profile are formed approximately in symmetry with respect to the longitudinal center line, and a degree of flatness of the profile represented by a ratio (B/C1) of a largest length B of the profile in the direction of the longitudinal center line to a largest width C1 of the profile in the direction of right angles to the longitudinal center line is 2 to 6, the woven fabric having a cover factor of 800 to 3500.

Abstract: A molded cushioning article is made by stuffing a bulky, tape-form nonwoven web such as sliver in a mold cavity and thereafter heat-treating the thus-formed molded form to fusion-bond intersecting points of fibers. Stuffing of the tape-form nonwoven web is effected by laying and superposing it in to-and-fro movements on a molding surface of a mold permeable to air with a space on a backside of the molding surface being kept under reduced pressure. The apparatus used has (a) means for feeding the tape-form nonwoven web into the mold, (b) a mold permeable to air, (c) a mold-supporting frame, (d) suction means for keeping the backside space under reduced pressure, (e) leans for successively changing a positional correlation between means (a) and the molding surface, and (f) heat-treating means for fibers to be fusion-bonded.

Abstract: A molded cushioning article is made by stuffing a bulky, tape-form nonwoven web such as sliver in a mold cavity and thereafter heat-treating the thus-formed molded form to fusion-bond intersecting points of fibers. Stuffing of the tape-form nonwoven web is effected by laying and superposing it in to-and-fro movements on a molding surface of a mold permeable to air with a space on a backside of the molding surface being kept under reduced pressure. The apparatus used has (a) means for feeding the tape-form nonwoven web into the mold, (b) a mold permeable to air, (c) a mold-supporting frame, (d) suction means for keeping the backside space under reduced pressure, (e) means for successively changing a positional correlation between means (a) and the molding surface, and (f) heat-treating means for fibers to be fusion-bonded.