Terry Patents (Class 139/396)
  • Patent number: 11518140
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a body and hair towel comprising a microfiber interior layer and a silk exterior layer. The novel towel is comprised of a plurality of double layered capsules, wherein each capsule has an interior layer of microfiber material and an exterior layer of silk material. The exterior silk layer on the capsules provides an extremely smooth texture to the towel, thereby making the towel comfortable and convenient to use by people having dry skin, skin conditions or the like, and may also be comfortably used on hair without affecting the health of hair and skin of the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventor: Sherry Anderson
  • Patent number: 11486065
    Abstract: A terry woven fabric includes hygro yarns structures. The hygro yarns are formed with soluble fibers, which are later removed, to define yarn structures with hollow cores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Welspun India Limited
    Inventors: Dipali Goenka, Rajender Sharma
  • Patent number: 11408100
    Abstract: Described is a woven terry fabric article that includes a body having a first end and a second end opposite one another, and a first side edge and a second side edge opposite one another and generally perpendicular to the first and second opposite ends. The article further includes a first terry zone having a pile with a first pile height, a second terry zone having a pile with a second pile height, and a first faux dobby zone intermediate to the first and second terry zones. The first faux dobby zone has a pile with one or more pile heights that are visibly distinct from the pile heights of the first and second terry zones. In embodiments, the one or more pile heights in the faux dobby zone are less than the pile height of the adjacent zones, such as 50% less, 40% less, or 35% less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Standard Textile Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Pinhas Vanunu, Scott D. McCormick, Niv Doron
  • Patent number: 11021816
    Abstract: A terry article includes a ground component including a plurality of ground warp yarns and a plurality of ground weft yarns interwoven with the plurality of ground warp yarns. The ground component includes a second side and a first side opposed to the second side along a vertical direction, as well as a pile component extending away from the ground component along the vertical direction. The pile component includes a plurality of plied yarns, where each of the plied yarns includes 1) a first yarn that has a first yarn count, and 2) a second yarn that has a second yarn count that is greater than the first yarn count. The second yarn includes regenerated cellulose fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Welspun India Limited
    Inventors: Dipali Goenka, Rajender Sharma
  • Patent number: 10655251
    Abstract: Multi-layer woven textiles may include a first outer layer formed entirely from a cotton material, and a second outer layer positioned opposite the first outer layer. The second outer layer may be formed entirely from the cotton material. Additionally, the woven textiles may include at least one inner layer positioned between the first outer layer and the second outer layer. The at least one inner layer may be formed from the cotton material, and a polyester material. The polyester material may be separated from the cotton material within the at least one inner layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Homeport Worldwide LLC
    Inventor: Matthew Dalton
  • Patent number: 9850599
    Abstract: Described is a controlled weight distribution woven terry fabric that includes a body having a first end and a second end, wherein the first and second ends are opposite one another and a first side edge 34 and a second side edge, wherein the first and second side edges are opposite one another and generally perpendicular to the first and second opposite ends. The terry fabric further includes a plurality of zones extending across the fabric between one of the first and second opposite ends or the first and second opposite edges. Each zone of the plurality of zones has a pile with a pile height and the pile height in a zone differs from the pile height in an adjacent zone and the difference between the pile heights in adjacent zones is in a range between about 0.1 mm and about 2 mm. Also described are articles, such as towels, wash cloths, and bath mats, made from the controlled weight distribution woven terry fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Standard Textile Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Stewart
  • Patent number: 9534323
    Abstract: A terry fabric having a plurality of longitudinally oriented ground warp yarns pairs, a plurality of longitudinally oriented pile warp yarns, and a plurality of weft yarns oriented substantially perpendicular to the ground warp yarn pairs. The terry fabric includes a repeated weave sequence comprising first and second interlacing arrangements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: Trident Limited
    Inventors: Manoranjan Kumar Dubey, Abhishek Gupta
  • Patent number: 9476156
    Abstract: Disclosed is a portable terminal including a clothes information input unit, to which at least one of fiber blending ratio information of clothes and laundry care symbol information is input, a display unit to display the information input via the clothes information input unit, a storage unit in which a plurality of clothes treatment methods is stored, the clothes treatment methods being classified based on the at least one of the fiber blending ratio information of clothes and information on a handling method of clothes, and a controller that selects at least one of the clothes treatment methods stored in the storage unit based on the information input via the clothes information input unit, and allows the selected clothes treatment method to be displayed on the display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Mijin Jung, Kyounghoon Ham, Mikyung Ha, Nayoung Youk
  • Publication number: 20150110993
    Abstract: A flame resistant composite fabric includes a first flame resistant fabric layer, a second flame resistant fabric layer, and a barrier layer that bonds the first flame resistant fabric layer to the second flame resistant fabric layer. The barrier layer is capable of withstanding temperature of 500° F. for at least 5 minutes without substantial change in the integrity of the flame resistant composite fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Shawn Flavin, David Costello, Jane Hunter, Michael Batson, Gadalia Vainer, Heidi Carlone
  • Publication number: 20150068639
    Abstract: The present invention provides fabrics with cut loop group and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the core yarn at the section where said loops are being cut is outwardly protruded from the covering yarns, while the rayon yarn, which is a core yarn, is separated into multiple filaments. The fabrics with cut loop group show superior characteristics in polishing properties, sliding properties, water absorption properties, rapid drying properties and feeling of touch since polishing can be performed while easily catching foreign substances such as extremely minute dust particles or human hairs and the like by the rayon yarn, which is a core yarn, functioning as a hook. Thus the fabrics with cut loop group according to the present invention can be used usefully in the products such as various kind of mats, towels, bathroom products, and the like including dishclothes and mops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Hyun Sam Lee, Sung Hoon Choi
  • Publication number: 20140317865
    Abstract: A towel is provided comprising a ground cloth having warp yarns and weft yarns in a flat weave and having first and second sides. Stripes are provided on the first and second sides of the ground cloth that are defined by alternating areas of pile loops and flat weave, the pile loops on the first side being opposed by flat weave on the second side and the flat weave on the first side being opposed by pile loops on the second side. The pile loops have a density of 60 loops per cm2. A method for manufacturing a terry towel is also provided in which the towel has a weight of less than 240 gsm using a combination of open structured 100% cotton pile yarn of finer counts with ground and weft yarns that have a proportion of synthetic fiber of from 10% to 100%; comprising: weaving a striped pattern of 100% of pile yarn on one side alternated with 100% of pile yarn on other side to create double density loop stripes, the stripes having width in the range of 2 mm to 25 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicant: 3E LLC
    Inventor: D. Vikram Krishna
  • Patent number: 8678044
    Abstract: A mostly cotton yarn terry cloth product is provided with borders having high content polyester yarns. The polyester borders are more rugged, and thus aid in preventing fraying and failure along the edges. In addition, reinforcing ribs, also formed from yarns have a high polyester content, may be provided that extend from a border on one side of the terry cloth product to a border on the other side. This feature anchors the borders in place, limiting failure at the juncture of the border and the adjacent cotton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Six Continents Hotels, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney Rabin, Glen Paul Phillips, Dewey Todd
  • Patent number: 8596305
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of weaving, processing and finishing a pile fabric whose pile height (H) after processing and finishing is substantially increased, thus obtaining increased pile height (H) which may be multiple of the original pile height (H) of the woven fabric. Specifically, the pile fabric is manufactured with multiple loop heights combining the original woven pile heights and/or different multiples of the original pile heights. Further, a process results in a fabric having a combination of pile heights, and designs by weaving repeats in the conventional way without soluble yarns (Y) in conjunction with repeats woven with multiple soluble yarns (Y).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Inventor: Kannappan Govindaswamy
  • Publication number: 20130306189
    Abstract: A mostly cotton yarn terry cloth product is provided with borders having high content polyester yarns. The polyester borders are more rugged, and thus aid in preventing fraying and failure along the edges. In addition, reinforcing ribs, also formed from yarns have a high polyester content, may be provided that extend from a border on one side of the terry cloth product to a border on the other side. This feature anchors the borders in place, limiting failure at the juncture of the border and the adjacent cotton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: Six Continents Hotels, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney Rabin, Glen Paul Phillps, Dewey Todd
  • Patent number: 8578972
    Abstract: A fabric having a ground fabric, and a double layer terry or a double layer pile on either or both surfaces of the ground fabric, or a double layer terry on one surface and a double layer pile on the other surface. The double layer terry has an outer terry and an inner terry lower than the outer terry; the double layer pile has an outer pile and an inner pile lower than the outer pile. The outer terry or outer pile is a natural fiber, and the lower terry or lower pile is a microfiber. Methods of manufacturing the fabric are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Inventor: Hongwei Duan
  • Patent number: 8490657
    Abstract: A mostly cotton yarn terry cloth product is provided with borders having high content polyester yarns. The polyester borders are more rugged, and thus aid in preventing fraying and failure along the edges. In addition, reinforcing ribs, also formed from yarns have a high polyester content, may be provided that extend from a border on one side of the terry cloth product to a border on the other side. This feature anchors the borders in place, limiting failure at the juncture of the border and the adjacent cotton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Six Continents Hotels, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney Rabin, Glen Paul Phillips, Dewey Todd
  • Patent number: 8426326
    Abstract: A fiber reinforcing texture woven as a single part for fabricating a composite material part having an inner portion, or core, made by three-dimensional weaving with yarns made up from discontinuous fibers, and a portion adjacent to an outside surface, or skin, made by weaving with yarns made up from continuous filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: Snecma Propulsion Solide
    Inventors: Eric Bouillon, François Charleux, Caroline Louchet-Pouillerie, Rémi Bouvier, Dominique Coupe
  • Publication number: 20120312412
    Abstract: A mostly cotton yarn terry cloth product is provided with borders having high content polyester yarns. The polyester borders are more rugged, and thus aid in preventing fraying and failure along the edges. In addition, reinforcing ribs, also formed from yarns have a high polyester content, may be provided that extend from a border on one side of the terry cloth product to a border on the other side. This feature anchors the borders in place, limiting failure at the juncture of the border and the adjacent cotton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Six Continents Hotels, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney B. Rabin, Glen Paul Phillips, Dewey L. Todd
  • Publication number: 20120255643
    Abstract: A fabric having a ground fabric, and a double layer terry or a double layer pile on either or both surfaces of the ground fabric, or a double layer terry on one surface and a double layer pile on the other surface. The double layer terry has an outer terry and an inner terry lower than the outer terry; the double layer pile has an outer pile and an inner pile lower than the outer pile. The outer terry or outer pile is a natural fiber, and the lower terry or lower pile is a microfiber. Methods of manufacturing the fabric are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventor: Hongwei Duan
  • Publication number: 20120247608
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of weaving, processing and finishing a pile fabric whose pile height (H) after processing and finishing is substantially increased, thus obtaining increased pile height (H) which may be multiple of the original pile height (H) of the woven fabric. Specifically, the pile fabric is manufactured with multiple loop heights combining the original woven pile heights and/or different multiples of the original pile heights. Further, a process results in a fabric having a combination of pile heights, and designs by weaving repeats in the conventional way without soluble yarns (Y) in conjunction with repeats woven with multiple soluble yarns (Y).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventor: Kannappan GOVINDASWAMY
  • Patent number: 8267126
    Abstract: A mostly cotton yarn terry cloth product is provided with borders having high content polyester yarns. The polyester borders are more rugged, and thus aid in preventing fraying and failure along the edges. In addition, reinforcing ribs, also formed from yarns have a high polyester content, may be provided that extend from a border on one side of the terry cloth product to a border on the other side. This feature anchors the borders in place, limiting failure at the juncture of the border and the adjacent cotton.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Six Continents Hotels, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney B. Rabin, Glen Paul Phillips, Dewey L. Todd
  • Patent number: 8236403
    Abstract: A versatile fabric for use as a towel includes multiple surface areas that are formed of different materials. A support web has hydrophilic and hydrophobic materials woven therethrough. The hydrophilic material is interlaced with the web to define loops of material which extend from a first portion of the web surface and loops of material which extend from a second portion of the web surface which is longitudinally spaced from the first portion. Similarly, the hydrophobic material is interlaced with the web to define loops of material which extend from a third portion of the web surface and loops of material which extend from a fourth portion of the web surface which is longitudinally spaced from the third portion. The first and third portions of the support web surface are arranged opposite each other and the second and fourth portions of the support web surface are arranged opposite each other to define four surface portions of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Inventor: Scott H. Silver
  • Publication number: 20120186687
    Abstract: A quick-dry textured towel is disclosed. The quick-dry textured towel comprises a lightweight fabric including a plurality of low-twist pile yarns forming a textured weave design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2012
    Publication date: July 26, 2012
    Applicant: J.C. PENNEY PRIVATE BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Carl Melvin Huffstickler, Karen Wertz
  • Patent number: 8156967
    Abstract: A quick-dry textured towel is disclosed. The quick-dry textured towel comprises a lightweight fabric including a plurality of low-twist pile yarns forming a textured weave design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: JC Penney Private Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Melvin Huffstickler, Karen Wertz
  • Publication number: 20110253248
    Abstract: A quick-dry textured towel is disclosed. The quick-dry textured towel comprises a lightweight fabric including a plurality of low-twist pile yarns forming a textured weave design.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2011
    Publication date: October 20, 2011
    Applicant: J.C. PENNEY PRIVATE BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Carl Melvin Huffstickler, Karen Wertz
  • Publication number: 20110192488
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for manufacturing low-twist towels, wherein pure cotton yarns produced from long-staple cotton are used as terry warps to manufacture low-twist towel by the processes comprising warping, weaving and greige post treatment, and the terry warp has a yarn twist multiplier of 240-270. The method eliminates the step of removing water-soluble filaments during post treatment, thereby reducing post treatment costs, relieving the pressure on sewage treatment and attaining environmental friendly effects. The resulting products have standing loops and a fluffy and soft texture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventor: Yong SUN
  • Publication number: 20100282359
    Abstract: A mostly cotton yarn terry cloth product is provided with borders having high content polyester yarns. The polyester borders are more rugged, and thus aid in preventing fraying and failure along the edges. In addition, reinforcing ribs, also formed from yarns have a high polyester content, may be provided that extend from a border on one side of the terry cloth product to a border on the other side. This feature anchors the borders in place, limiting failure at the juncture of the border and the adjacent cotton.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: November 11, 2010
    Applicant: Six Continents Hotels, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney B. Rabin, Glen Paul Phillips, Dewey L. Todd
  • Patent number: 7762286
    Abstract: A terry fabric includes a plurality of longitudinally-oriented ground warp yarns, a plurality of pile warp yarns in parallel with the ground warp yarns and a plurality of weft yarns oriented substantially laterally to the ground warp yarns. Each weave sequence of the terry fabric includes first and second placements of weft yarns in a first shed of the ground warp yarns, third and fourth placement of weft yarns in a second shed of the ground warp yarns and a fifth placement of weft yarn in a third shed of the ground warp yarns and the pile warp yarns such that the pile warp yarns form a pile loop over the first, second, third and fourth placements of weft yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley T. Speaks, Donald A. Thompson, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7673656
    Abstract: A woven terry fabric (10) includes a non-moisture-transporting synthetic filament yarn (F) in at least one of the fill or the warp. The pile loops (T) comprise natural fibers. The fill yarn, warp yarn, and pile loop yarn are woven together in a three-pick terry-weave pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2010
    Assignee: Standard Textile Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Gary L. Heiman
  • Publication number: 20080230140
    Abstract: A looped fabric having a ground fabric that is made of cotton and provided with loops of bamboo fiber is disclosed. A terry made from the looped fabric and the use of bamboo fiber in a looped fabric is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2005
    Publication date: September 25, 2008
    Inventor: Frederic Santens
  • Patent number: 7111648
    Abstract: A terry fabric comprises a plurality of repeat units of interwoven warp and weft threads. Each of the repeat units comprises a set of ground warp threads, a set of pile warp threads, and a set of weft threads. The ground warp threads are woven tightly with the weft threads to form a substrate, and the pile warp threads are loosely interwoven with the weft threads to form pile loops. At least two adjacent weft threads are interwoven with the ground warp threads and the pile warp threads in an identical pattern (typically in a single machine cycle). In this configuration, fabrics with different properties can be producing in similar manufacturing duration, particularly if weft threads of different thread weight are employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2006
    Assignee: Springs Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul H. Mitchell, John V. Wirth
  • Patent number: 7044173
    Abstract: A terry fabric having increased static and dynamic absorbency includes a ground fabric having opposing first and second surfaces and woven from ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns, each of the ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns consisting of at least one cellulosic fiber; and terry warp yarns interwoven with the ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns to form terry loops extending from opposing surfaces of the ground fabric, the pile yarns consisting of microfiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Inventor: Scott Hugh Silver
  • Publication number: 20040224121
    Abstract: A fabric for decorative towels is disclosed that combines exceptional hand and image-carrying capability with high strength and absorbency. The fabric includes two different pile faces, preferably opposite one another, with one of the faces being formed of synthetic filaments of 0.9 denier or less—i.e., microfibers—for providing strength and absorbency, with the other of the faces of the fabric being formed of cotton for providing desirable hand and decorative design capabilities, and with the synthetic microfiber face being more absorbent on a weight-for weight basis than the cotton face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventor: James Melvin Sheppard
  • Publication number: 20040055659
    Abstract: A terry fabric having increased static and dynamic absorbency includes a ground fabric having opposing first and second surfaces and woven from ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns, each of the ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns consisting of at least one cellulosic fiber; and terry warp yarns interwoven with the ground warp yarns and ground fill yarns to form terry loops extending from opposing surfaces of the ground fabric, the pile yarns consisting of microfiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2002
    Publication date: March 25, 2004
    Inventor: Scott Hugh Silver
  • Patent number: 6666234
    Abstract: A colored institutional towel comprising ground warp, fill, and pile warped yarns, all of said yarns being colored by intimately draw blending a predetermined amount of pre-dyed polyester fiber with cotton fiber when the yarn is spun and twisted to thereby form a predetermined color for the institutional towel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Blair Mills L.P.
    Inventors: David Eugene Hamby, Wilbur Mattison Rice
  • Publication number: 20030084954
    Abstract: A coloured institutional towel comprising ground warp, fill, and pile warped yarns, all of said yarns being coloured by intimately draw blending a predetermined amount of pre-dyed polyester fiber with cotton fiber when the yarn is spun and twisted to thereby form a predetermined colour for the institutional towel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Applicant: Blair Mills, L.P.
    Inventors: David Eugene Hamby, Wilbur Mattison Rice
  • Patent number: 6546965
    Abstract: A coloured institutional towel comprising ground warp, fill, and pile warped yarns, all of said yarns being colored by intimately draw blending a predetermined amount of pre-dyed polyester fiber with cotton fiber when the yarn is spun and twisted to thereby form a predetermined color for the institutional towel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2003
    Assignee: Blair Mills, L.P.
    Inventors: David Eugene Hamby, Wilbur Mattison Rice
  • Publication number: 20020197445
    Abstract: A pile towelling fabric having a ground structure from which a pile projects, the pile being formed from a yarn spun from a blend of staple fibres consisting of a combination of a first blend constituent comprising a moisture absorbent binding fibre and a second blend constituent including natural silk fibres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventors: David Eccles, Rodney D. Finnen
  • Publication number: 20020079014
    Abstract: A colored institutional towel comprising ground warp, fill, and pile warped yarns, all of said yarns being colored by intimately draw blending a predetermined amount of pre-dyed polyester fiber with cotton fiber when the yarn is spun and twisted to thereby form a predetermined color for the institutional towel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2000
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: David Eugene Hamby, Wilbur Mattison Rice
  • Patent number: 6253797
    Abstract: The terry fabric comprises a basic warp, weft threads and a pile warp or loop warp. The terry fabric is based on a float repeat or weft beat-up repeat, which includes a first and a second weft group. Whereas the first weft group in each case contains partially beaten up wefts, the second weft group contains in each case one fully beaten up weft or additionally a smooth weft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Sulzer Rueti AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Vogel, Martin Oeschger
  • Patent number: 6247505
    Abstract: This invention is aimed at providing a terry-cloth or velours fabric, and a predictably economic process for its production, whereby it is possible to optimally adapt the fabric to different purposes. The proposed approach is a process for producing a terry or velours fabric consisting of a carrier web and, anchored in the carrier web, a nap in the form of open or dosed loops, of a warp of cotton loops the cut or uncut loops of which extend from one surface of the carrier web, and of a warp of microfiber loops the cut or uncut loops of which protrude from the opposite surface of the carrier web, the said warp of cotton loops and, respectively, the warp of microfiber loops being interlaced on the respective surface from which they protrude at the time the carrier web is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2001
    Assignee: Frottierweberei Vossen GmbH
    Inventor: Horst Wörman
  • Patent number: 5897933
    Abstract: A method is described for manufacturing an item of terry cloth that incorporates a decorative panel. The item of terry cloth is woven with a panel that is loopless and double-sided. At least one face of the panel is formed of a synthetic fusible fiber. The fusible fiber is at least partially fused by applying heat and pressure to the face of the panel, thereby forming a smooth patterned surface on the face of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Canning Vale Weaving Mills Ltd
    Inventor: Francesco Attilio Prainito
  • Patent number: 5759662
    Abstract: A facing fabric (10) for a reusable incontinent product (40) having a pair of multi-filament ground yarn sets (14, 16) interknitted together with a warp knit third set of yarns (18) which define loops (22) on one face of the fabric (10) in a warp knit three bar construction. The loop-facing yarns (18) are unnapped, multi-filament polyester with a denier of about 150 to 300 denier in a range of about 1 to 5 denier per filament, and advantageously about 48 filaments when the denier is about 150 and about 132 filaments when the denier is about 300. A barrier layer (46) may be added to the fabric (10) to create the reusable incontinent product (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1998
    Assignee: Standard Textile Co., Inc.
    Inventor: Mark J. Heiman
  • Patent number: 5667865
    Abstract: A terry fabric and method of forming a terry fabric are provided in which a ground fabric is formed of ground yarns while terry yarns are interlaced with the ground yarns to form terry loops with a height substantially greater than normal (a terry yarn length greater than 4.25 inches per linear inch of ground fabric), the terry yarns being formed of singles yarns plied together with a ply twist lower than normal (ply twist lower than seven (7) turns per inch) and the singles yarns having a lower than normal twist multiple (less than 3.75). The terry fabric is partially mercerized during finishing to soften the fabric, a softener is applied of no more than about 0.4% by weight and a wetting agent is also applied to increase even further the rate of absorbency thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy James Jackson, Aaron Douglas Owens, Milledge Delonia Ford, Richard Ward Rutland, Charles Henry Shuping
  • Patent number: 5447182
    Abstract: By the use of two picks without weft yarn (5, 6) during the pile change for three-weft pile fabrics, the same tying off is achieved as in a pile change for four-weft pile fabric. A three-weft terry cloth consequently has a fabric appearance which resembles the fabric appearance of a four-weft terry cloth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: Sulzer Ruti AG
    Inventor: Hans-Jorg Gehrig
  • Patent number: 5336543
    Abstract: A towel for wrapping and drying hair on a human head includes a configuration for facilitating wrapping of the towel about the head and also provides for an area of enhanced water absorption for contacting the hair and for facilitating rapid drying thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Inventor: Norman R. Pyle
  • Patent number: 5232759
    Abstract: A fabric web for the erosion protection of earth layers, particularly on embankments, which comprises hard vegetable fibers or mixed fibers with threads crossing one another at right angles, characterized in that individual threads project from the fabric plane at regular or irregular intervals in the form of loops or are tufted and in each case cover at least one crossing thread.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Otto Golze & Sohne GmbH
    Inventor: Otto-Gunter Golze
  • Patent number: 4984606
    Abstract: A woven terry fabric having tucks formed therein for obtaining novel aesthetic effects in the fabric and the method of weaving such fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc.
    Inventors: W. Gerald Moore, Nancy W. Webster
  • Patent number: 4932095
    Abstract: The face washing puff of the invention is constructed in the form of a bag body (2) so that it can be used by inserting fingers in its opening (1). A double-faced pile fabric (3) is used on the working surface and this double-faced pile fabric (3) has a dense cut pile (4) on one surface and a loop pile (5) on the other surface. Since the arrangement is such that the cut pile (4) is positioned on the outer side of the bag body (2), the front end of the cut pile (40 is applied to the skin; thus, it can be used conveniently and provides an effective cleaning effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 12, 1990
    Inventor: Yuichi Kawase
  • Patent number: 4825499
    Abstract: A pair of gloves for showering and bathing, wherein each glove of the pair is provided with an inner surface composed of twisted loops pile. The gloves are fabricated from a two sided twisted loops surface terry cloth fabric, so that when formed, a plurality of twisted loops detail the interior surface and exterior surface of each glove of the pair. The pair of gloves are additionally fabricated so that each twisted loop thereon the inner surface of each glove of the pair is brushed broken to form a mat surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Inventor: Trevor I. Baptiste