Abstract: A method of producing a particulate-solid-bearing air-permeable sheet of material of other than woven and knitted material selected from non-woven fabrics and open cell foam materials includes the following steps: entraining a particulate solid in a gaseous carrier in the substantial absence of fibrous material; disposing one face of a preformed air-permeable sheet material, which material has a density at or below 0.25 g/cm.sup.3, in the path of a stream of the gaseous carrier and entrained particulate solid, whilst maintaining a pressure drop across the thickness of the preformed air-permeable sheet material from the one face to the other face of the air-permeable sheet material, whereby to entrap some or all of the entrained particulate solid on or on and in the air-permeable material; and fixing the retained particulate solid on or on and in the air-permeable material with a binder. The mean pore size of the preformed sheet material is greater than the mean particle size of the particulate solid.

Abstract: Air permeable wear-resistant insoles comprising a web or matt layer of fibres, bonded with active carbon and bonded thereto a wear-resistant fabric which is different from and has greater wear-resistance than said web or matt layer, in which the ply bond strength of the said bond between the wear-resistant fabric and the said matt or web layer is greater than the ply bond strength of the matt or web layer itself, said insoles being produced by forming a web or matt of fibres loaded with active carbon by an air-laying method onto a wear-resistant fabric, impregnating the web or matt of fibres with a latex binder and effecting migration of the binder from the interior of the web or matt to the surfaces thereof and curing the binder to form an air permeable insole.

Abstract: Air permeable wear-resistant insoles are produced by forming a web or matt of fibres loaded with active carbon onto a wear-resistant fabric, impregnating the web or matt of fibres with a latex binder and effecting migration of the binder from the interior of the web or matt to the surfaces thereof and curing the binder to form an air permeable insole. The web or matt is then further impregnated by coating the outer surface of the wear-resistant fabric section of the insole with latex binder which contains sufficient wetting agent to effect penetration of the latex binder through the wear-resistant fabric and into the surface of the web or matt attached thereto and the binder is cured.