Abstract: A woven sheeting material and method of making same are provided wherein such sheeting material has warps and wefts and each of the warps is made of a blend of a natural material and a synthetic material and each of the wefts is made substantially entirely of the natural material.

Abstract: Scalloped-oval cross-section for low denier filaments of partially-oriented polyester for new draw-texturing feed yarn, and a new process of draw-texturing to prepare corresponding polyester textured yarns for use in combination spun yarn/textured polyester yarn fabrics, and such combination and other new fabrics.

Abstract: A textile fabric woven or knitted by the use of cored yarns, each of which cored yarns comprises a thread wadding, composed by a bundle of inner fibers having a high water retentivity, and a thread sheath composed of a plurality of outer fibers arranged exteriorly of the thread wadding so as to substantially completely enclose the inner fibers. The outer fibers has a high moisture permeability and a low water retentivity, and the inner fibers are substantially completely encompassed by the outer fibers in a predetermined thickness while permitted to expand upon absorption of water or moisture vapor.

Abstract: A woven sheeting material and method of making same are provided wherein such sheeting material has warps and wefts and each of the warps is made of a blend of a natural material and a synthetic material and each of the wefts is made substantially entirely of the natural material.

Abstract: A fire-resistant fabric is formed by standing warps and wefts of a fire-resistant yarn such as a carbon fibre yarn. Each standing warp is covered by covering warps of a wear-resistant yarn which are cross-woven on the respective standing warps and which are bound on one side of the standing warps by the wefts. The covering warps and the wefts are closely beaten up to the fell of the fabric after each pick so that the covering warps form, on one surface of the fabric, ribs which give the fabric a hard wearing outer surface and which protect the fire-resistant yarns from wear. When subjected to fire, the wear-resistant yarn is removed but the fire-resistant warp and weft yarns form a mesh or grid which prevents the passage of flame.

Abstract: Heat-sterilizable blanket which has good thermal insulation properties, which is particularly suitable for use in hospitals, old people's homes and hostel institutions, and which comprises a regularly interlaced double cloth into which a wadding pick is additionally incorporated in piquelike fashion and floats over wide stretches. The upper and lower warps and upper and lower wefts of this blanket comprise plain-woven high-twist cellulosic fiber yarns, while the wadding pick is made of a low-twist synthetic fiber yarn having a linear density of 100-1,000 tex. The blanket is shrunk to its final dimensions by washing and drying at temperatures of 100.degree. to 135.degree. C., which at the same time bulks up the blanket and increases its pore volume.

Abstract: A high density textile fabric having an excellent water-repellent property comprises a woven fabric having at least one water-repellent surface layer formed by a number of warps and wefts each consisting of a number of extremely fine, water-repellent fibers having a denier of 1.2 or less, the surface layer having a sum of cover factors (CF) in the warp and weft directions thereof, of from 1,400 to 3,400 determined in accordance with the equation: ##EQU1## wherein n represents the number of the warps or wefts per inch of the fabric and de represents a denier of the warps or wefts.

Abstract: Chain-weft fabrics and knitted fabrics, with a crepe effect, are obtained from continuous texturized synthetic yarns, substantially non-twisted, having a high "yarn count/no. of filaments" ratio, and a high shrinkage under hot conditions, and particularly yarns of 30-160 Dtex comprising filaments of between 5 and 19 Dtex.

Abstract: A woven webbing for seat belts has a plurality of longitudinally extending yarn strands interwoven with transverse extending yarn strands. One or more of the edgemost of the longitudinally extending yarn strands is a flocked yarn. The flocked yarn is comprised of a carrier yarn having a multitude of flock fibers adhesively secured thereto and oriented perpendicular to the carrier yarn. The length of the flock fibers is sufficient to extend beyond the longitudinal and transverse extended yarn strands so that the flock fibers effectively soften the edge of the webbing for occupant comfort.

Abstract: The longitudinal marginal regions of a synthetic fabric endless belt-type screen for a paper making machine are formed to permit less wear of the marginal regions due to greater elongation as compared to the central region.

Abstract: A belting fabric having enhanced longitudinal and transverse rigidity includes closely adjacent, substantially uncrimped, warp cords in upper and lower planar arrays, and substantially uncrimped weft cords in upper, lower and middle planar arrays alternating with the arrays of warp cords. The cord to cord spacing in the middle array of weft cords is half that in the upper and lower arrays of weft cords, each upper weft cord is located midway intermediate two adjacent lower weft cords and vice versa, and each middle weft cord is located midway intermediate an upper weft cord and an immediately adjacent lower weft cord.

Abstract: A fancy-type fabric applicable in particular as a coating substrate and of the kind comprising an alternation of warp and filling threads of different colors, the effects being achieved at the interlacing points of two threads of the same color.The fabric is characterized in that the threads forming the effect consist of wrap threads of a stable circular cross-section and which create floats where they cross on the right fabric side.

Abstract: Complex woven material as reinforcement for forming layered resin impregnated articles which are resistant to catastrophic damage from shock or local impact as from a hard object, comprised of woven bands or strips of high modulus fibers such as carbon or graphite fibers, separated in at least one direction of the material, from each other by woven bands or strips of low modulus fibers such as glass fibers, and which in a preferred embodiment are narrower than the strips of high modulus fibers. Superimposed layers of such materials can be formed, wherein the strips of high modulus fibers and low modulus fibers in the respective layers are at different angles. Such woven materials, e.g. in the form of a layered assembly, are impregnated with a suitable thermosetting resin such as an epoxy resin, and cured, to produce a layered resin impregnated article having improved damage tolerant physical and mechanical properties.

Abstract: A flame-retardant woven fabric is composed of a warp interwoven with a weft. The threads of the warp contain substantially exclusively staple fibers, and the threads of the weft contain substantially exclusively flame-retardant matrix fibers. The respective thicknesses and densities of the warp and weft threads can be varied so that the matrix fiber content may be varied from about 50% to about 75%, by volume, of the total.

Abstract: Pneumatic tires are rendered less susceptible to blow or blister defects by providing, in at least one cord reinforcement ply of a tire, a plurality of gas absorbing cords less in number than the reinforcement cords with the reinforcement cords and gas absorbing cords lying in the same general plane and with the gas absorbing cords consisting of staple filaments selected from the group consisting of nylon, rayon, polyester or glass.The foregoing abstract is not to be taken as limiting the invention of this application, and in order to understand the full nature and extent of the technical disclosure of this application, reference must be made to the accompanying drawing and the following detailed description.

Abstract: A woven sheeting fabric is provided with a variety of unusual and visually appealing decorative patterned effects by forming in the fabric open, shear areas of various size and shape having an appearance contrasting with adjacent, substantially heavier areas. The fabric comprises warp and weft yarns of corespun construction interwoven with one another to form a substantially uniform woven fabric construction. Each of the corespun warp and weft yarns has a continuous multifilament core portion and a sheath portion formed of staple fibers helically wrapped about the core portion to substantially surround and encase the same.

Abstract: A dryer felt having a soft, bulky top surface and comprising at least a top surface, which is defined by a plurality of machine direction yarns and a plurality of cross machine direction yarns interwoven according to a desired weave pattern. A preselected number of the yarns of the top surface are encapsulated yarns, the number being chosen to ensure that a major portion of the top surface is soft and bulky. Each of the encapsulated yarns comprises a straight, twistless monofilament core and a close-fitting encapsulating sheath surrounding the full length of the core.

Abstract: A dryer felt comprising a plurality of machine direction and cross machine direction yarns interwoven to provide a multiple-plane fabric having at least a base plane, a top plane and an intermediate plane positioned between the base plane and the top plane. The base plane is defined by a first plurality of cross machine direction yarns, the top plane is defined by a second plurality of the cross machine direction yarns, and the intermediate plane is defined by a third plurality of the cross machine direction yarns. In one embodiment, encapsulated stuffer yarns constituted the third plurality of the cross machine direction yarns. In another embodiment, encapsulated filling yarns constitute the third plurality of the cross machine direction yarns. In all embodiments, each of the encapsulated yarns comprises a straight, twistless monofilament core and a close-fitting encapsulating sheath surrounding the full length of the core.

Abstract: A fabric suitable for use in making sandbags and the method of making the same wherein the fabric is woven from a yarn of twisted staple acrylic fibers having a fiber length of about 7 to 20 cm and a denier per filament of about 5 to 15, preferably 10 to 15, the yarn having a total denier of about 200 to 2650. The yarn is wrapped with a continuous filament yarn of a type which is degraded by ultraviolet light, with the wrapping being done in such a manner that fuzziness of the yarn is reduced to the point where the yarn can be woven into fabric without the use of size and at a weaving efficiency of at least about 70%.

Abstract: A novel woven fabric of triple-weft weave in accordance with this invention comprises a floating first weft and a floating third weft each comprising filamentary or spun yarns consisting mainly of extra fine fibers or filaments having extra fine denier. It further comprises a second weft of heavier denier woven between said first and third wefts and a warp of relatively heavy denier.The fabric of this invention has excellent characteristics such as good crease resistance, permanent pleatability, excellent resiliency, soft touch on both front and back fabric surfaces, usefulness to an apparel without lining and reversible high quality.

Abstract: Webbing is formed by weaving wefts and warps of high extensibility and has warp threads of low or medium extensibility suitably spaced apart in the widthwise direction of the webbing and woven into the webbing to form energy absorbing portions.

Abstract: A tire cord fabric is provided, the weft of which is composed of thermally modified partially oriented polyester filaments overcoated with adhesive rubbery latex. The weft having a break elongation of at least 80%, a birefringence value of at least 0.03 and dry heat shrinkage of at most 5% at 150.degree. C. for 30 minutes. The fabric shows a superior dimensional stability during crazing process, eliminating undesirable displacement of the weft along the lengthwise of the warp. The wefts in the fabric are also able to expand without breakage during tire building step, enabling the warps to distribute evenly in a spaced relationship.

Abstract: A percale sheeting fabric of polyester and cellulosic fiber construction which more effectively utilizes the beneficial properties of the cellulosic fiber as compared to conventional polyester and cotton blend sheeting fabric constructions so as to provide a greatly increased moisture absorbency rate for enhanced comfort, and with enhanced cover, bulk and opacity. The fabric is formed of warp and filling yarns of corespun construction having a yarn count of about 34/1 to 37/1 cotton count, with the yarns being interwoven to form a woven fabric construction of at least about 180 threads per square inch. Each of the corespun warp and filling yarns has a core portion formed of multifilament polyester of a total denier of about 45 to 50, and a sheath portion formed of cellulosic fibers helically wrapped about the multifilament core portion to substantially surround and encase the same.

Abstract: Webbing is formed by weaving wefts and warps of high extensibility and has warp threads of low or medium extensibility suitably spaced apart in the widthwise direction of the webbing and woven into the webbing to form energy absorbing portions.

Abstract: A cord composite suitable for rubber tire reinforcement comprised of a plurality of plies of yarns selectively cabled in a manner so that, upon application of longitudinal stress, at the initial elongation of the cable, the primary load bearing ply is a polyester or a nylon yarn and so that after appreciable elongation of the cable, the primary load bearing yarn is an aramid yarn. The invention further relates to a pneumatic rubber tire, industrial belt or hose having a carcass containing a fabric of such a cord as a reinforcing member.

Abstract: Secondary backing for a tufted carpet comprising a fabric with an open construction having an air permeability preferably of at least about 350 cfm of a synthetic yarn and a conductive spun yarn wherein said spun yarn comprises a conductive core fiber having a denier in the range of about 15 to about 25 and a maximum resistance of about 1 .times. 10.sup.10 ohms/centimeter around which core fiber is spun a nonconductive support fiber having a denier in the range of about 3 to 18. The conductive spun yarn can be in the warp and/or weft direction of said backing at an apparent weight density of conductive fiber as low as 0.6 grams/square meter and still dissipate a static charge to a value in kilovolts below about 4.5.

Abstract: A reinforcing fabric comprising a web of tire cords maintained in spaced relationship with sheath-core weft yarns having a cotton sheath about a core of spin-oriented polyester filaments. The weft yarns have a high initial modulus and a high break elongation which is substantially retained after heat aging the yarn at 450.degree. or 475.degree. F. The fabric is particularly useful as reinforcement in radial tire constructions.

Abstract: Woven rope includes a plurality of warp strands which extend longitudinally and cooperate with at least one weft strand which pulls the warp strands radially inwardly so that the resultant cordage has the appearance and feel of round rope, i.e. a cross-sectional thickness to width ratio of at least 0.75. The resulting woven cordage has greater strength than comparable braided or twisted rope. The woven rope may be made by weaving a plurality of strands with a weft strand which is under tension to pull the warp strands inwardly, or in the case of strand material which shrinks, e.g. nylon, the rope may be woven slightly loosely in a general oval shape and treated in boiling water to bring about shrinking of the assemblage of strands into a generally round shape. In one form, pre-woven or unwoven longitudal strands form the center of the woven rope. Typical materials which may be used to form rope are those presently used, e.g. nylon, polyolefins, hemp. etc.

Abstract: A woven band particularly for use in safety belts for drivers and passengers of transport vehicles.The band is provided with warp yarns with different relative elongation characteristics, and weft yarns interwoven with the warp yarns. The warp yarns with lesser relative elongation is interwoven between the rest of the warp yarns having high elongation and strength so as to form on the band surface at least one distinguishable uniform strip, with the ratio between the relative elongation of the yarns of the strip to the elongation of the rest of the warp yarns being less than the ratio of the ultimate tensile force of the band to its actual breaking force.

Abstract: Flame resistant, thermally stable yarns containing 50 to 80% by weight syndiotactic polyvinyl chloride fibers and 20 to 50% by weight polyester fibers spun together to form said yarns and fabrics made therefrom. The syndiotactic index of the polyvinyl chloride is at least 1.8 and preferably greater than about 2.

Abstract: A woven fabric shade screen comprising substantially even spaced elongated strands in one direction, such as the fill direction, and groups of more closely spaced strands woven so that the two outside strands alternate respectively being over and under successive fill strands while the inside four strands in each group are arranged so that the third and fifth strands are under a fill wire while the second and fourth strands are over, thus providing alternate strands which alternate each fill strand.

Abstract: A fabric comprising warp and woof (weft) has dense and strong boron fibers and boron-compound fibers constituting the weft and utilizes an open warp having a supportive function for the boron weft thereby obtaining high strength in the weft direction.

Abstract: A wall covering having a long dimension and a short dimension and comprising a laminate of a facing matrial bonded to a woven fabric backing material. The backing material is woven with warp and filling yarns with each filling yarn comprising a percentage of thermoplastic fibers. The remaining fibers in each of the filling yarns and the warp yarns are not capable of being autogenously bonded to the facing material. The warp yarns lie in the direction of the long dimension and the filling yarns lie in the directon of the short dimension so the wall covering is rendered more stiff and less flexible in the directon of its short dimension as compred to its long dimension.

Abstract: A radiation shielding phenolic fiber comprising (A) a filamentary phenolic polymer consisting predominantly of a sulfonic acid group-containing cured novolak resin and (B) a metallic atom having a great radiation shielding capacity, the metallic atom being incorporated in the polymer by being chemically bound in the ionic state in the novolak resin; a fibrous material, such as fibers, yarns, knit fabrics, woven fabrics, non-woven fabrics, felt, mat, composed of the aforesaid radiation shielding phenolic fiber; and a method for the production thereof.

Abstract: A fabric in which resin coated glass yarns are interwoven with staple fiber spun synthetic yarns for a cover cloth used upon flatwork ironers. The fabric of the cover cloth has a work engaging surface that is relatively soft so as not to impress its weave upon articles undergoing ironing.

Abstract: A fabric for reinforcing rubber or rubber-like belts, the fabric comprising weft cords interlaced with and extending transversely of warp cords to retain the latter in parallel relation, the warp cords being constituted of synthetic spun yarn having no greater than two single ends plied together. The foregoing abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in the specification, nor is it intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.