Abstract: An integrated composite structure 100 that uses fasteners 116 or bonds in shear and stitching 104, 106 in tension to assemble the structure and provide for load transfer from one to the other that is assembled by a process of orienting the various structures while tacky and warming same to accept stitching 104, 106 with the structures so joined being thereafter cured.

Abstract: A collapsible receptacle for handling flowable materials in semi-bulk quantities comprises a generally cylindrical container supported by a sling. The container features top loading and bottom discharge. The container can be constructed of a strong weave material. Preferably, the container is constructed of a unique laminate material formed of an inner liner of polybutylene film noncontinuously adhered to an outer layer of woven polypropylene. The sling is constructed of straps of polyester webbing, which are sewn to the container so that support stresses are distributed between the sling and the container. In one embodiment, the sling includes a ring for supporting the bottom of the container and lift straps attached to the ring. The ring surrounds a unique discharge spout in the container bottom. In another embodiment, the lower ends of the lift straps include guide loops for a draw rope. The draw rope surrounds a wire tie which functions to gather and close the bottom of the container.

Abstract: A strip fabric material such as an aircraft arrester tape includes a loop formed by securing the end of the fabric material to the body of the fabric material by a joint which includes an additional layer having a thickness which has a relationship to the thickness of the strip fabric material itself lying in the range of ratios from 2:1 to 1:2. The additional layer may be of fabric material or of a cementing adhesive and there may be one or more additional layers, particularly when a fabric material is used.

Abstract: An insulating, multilayer quilted wallpaper web comprising a non-woven facing sheet having fire-retardant properties, a face side provided with a decorative pattern and a back side, an intermediate insulating layer substantially coextensive with the facing sheet and having one side contiguous to the back side of the facing sheet, and a non-woven backing sheet substantially coextensive with the insulating layer and contiguous to the other side of the insulating layer. The facing sheet and the backing sheet are relatively thinner than the insulating layer and are intermittently secured to the insulating layer to form a quilted unitary web.

Abstract: An electrical structure having a wire conductor secured to a supporting substrate is fabricated by stitching the substrate with a sewing machine using a wire as one sewing filament of the machine. The particular electrical structure described is a parabolic antenna having a wire screen reflector consisting of a plurality of wire screen sections or "squares" secured in checkerboard fashion to a supporting frame with the edges of adjacent squares in electrical contact. Each square is fabricated by utilizing the wire stitching technique of the invention to lock stitch a supporting substrate in a grid pattern consisting of the stitched wires disposed in intersecting parallel rows and electrically joined to one another at their intersections to form a screen square.

Abstract: A textile floor covering consisting of a textile layer, to the carrier layer of which the pile has been applied, and a bottom of thermoplastic foam, wherein the textile layer is directly connected with a thermoplastic foamed sheeting of polymerizates as a bottom, the polymerizates being selected from a group consisting of ethylene polymerizate, ethylene vinylacetate copolymerizate, and a mixture of ethylene polymerizate and ethylene vinylacetate copolymerizate, the foamed sheeting having a thickness of between 1.5 and 10 mm and a density of 0.10 to 0.40 g/cm.sup.3, preferably from 0.15 to 0.20 g/cm.sup.3.A method for producing a textile floor covering consisting of a textile layer, to the carrier layer of which the pile has been applied, and a bottom of thermoplastic foam, wherein the textile layer is applied directly to a foamed sheeting of polymerizates, as defined above, by means of thermolaminating, welding, sewing or stitch-bonding.

Abstract: Disclosed is a textile fabric having a backing material unsuitable for heat transfer printing and a surface material that is suitable for heat transfer printing.