Abstract: A dust-proof fabric is disclosed. The fabric comprises an inner knit fabric layer, an intermediate layer of a moisture absorbent polyurethane film and a high density woven polyester fabric outer layer. The outer layer contains a first set of spaced apart conductive yarns aligned with one another in the warp direction and a second set of spaced apart conductive yarns aligned in the weft direction.

Abstract: The invention provides an ink-oozing plate for a stamp with an ink-impregnated part having stamp-ink impregnable open cells, where the printing face of the stamp comprises a stamp ink-oozing part and a stamp ink-non-oozing part, where the stamp ink-non-oozing part is concave and is 0.01 mm or more lower than the ink-oozing part, the stamp ink-non-oozing part being made of a stamp material-molten part and a penetrating molten-mixing part where a heat-fusing substance penetrating part and a stamp material-molten part are present together.

Abstract: The packaging wrapper consists of a film intended to be closed by at least one twist (22), including, on the internal side, a cold-sealing coating placed along two lengthwise strips (12, 14) on either side of the article to be packaged in order to retain the twists. The film additionally has at least one transverse additional strip (24), (26) of cold-sealing coating placed along one edge of the film (20) perpendicularly to the lengthwise strips (12, 14). The packaging process consists in closing the wrapper by virtue of the transverse strips (24), (26), along a direction parallel to the axis passing through the twists (22).

Abstract: A planar porous composite structure including a plurality of regular textile planar layers formed of continuous yarns. The layers are placed on top of each other to form a structure having two dimensions at right angles to each other and a third dimension perpendicular to them and defining a plane having a direction along the two dimensions. A plurality of openings extends through the layers. Each opening is defined by portions of the continuous yarns extending substantially in the direction of the plane and existing in the regular textile planar layers to make the planar layers regular in structure prior to placing them on top of each other. A plurality of passages extends entirely through the structure in a direction substantially perpendicular to the plane of the structure.

Abstract: A composite textile structure is provided. the composite structure includes a woven base fabric of elastomeric yarns wherein the yarns running in one direction are bicomponent sheath/core elastomeric monofilament yarns wherein the sheath has a melting point below that of the core. The bicomponent yarns are melt bonded to yarns running in a perpendicular direction by melting of the sheath. The woven base fabric is joined to a knit cover fabric by an elastomeric bond preferably formed through the lamination of an elastomeric adhesive web between the cover fabric and the base fabric.

Abstract: A simplified assembly for a multi-colored emblem that includes a non-woven base layer which outlines the emblem. The non-woven base layer extends beyond the embroidered fabric layer and provides an emblem with a non-fraying border.

Abstract: There is provided a laminate material having stretchability and recovery, breathability and barrier properties, and being made from a nonwoven elastomeric web having at least one web of textile material discontinuously adhesively bonded to each side thereof. The laminate material is free of an elastomeric film, the elastomeric web is substantially flat when the laminate is unstretched, and the nonwoven elastomeric web provides recovery to the laminate. The nonwoven elastomeric web is preferably a web of meltblown elastomeric fibers and the other webs may be knits, wovens or scrim materials. These laminates are well suited for infection control products, personal care products and garments.

Abstract: A delamination problem in fabric laminates made of a fabric laminated to a nonporous, hydrophilic organic polymer film, such as a breathable polyurethane film, was found to be caused by the hydrophilic nature of the polymer. A particular adhesive pattern was devised to overcome the delamination problem. More specifically, a wash-durable fabric laminate of a continuous, non-porous hydrophilic polymer, e.g., a breathable polyurethane, layer and a fabric layer were bonded together by a discontinuous, but interconnected pattern of an adhesive layer. The fabric laminate is water-vapor-permeable, air-impermeable and liquid water impermeable.

Abstract: A coated abrasive suitable for fining operations on contoured surfaces is obtained by depositing an abrasive/bond mixture in a discontinuous pattern on the surface of a backing that is stretchable in such a fashion that the finished product remains stretchable.

Abstract: A patterned conductive textile is provided by depositing a conductive polymer film on the fabric to provide a resistivity of 1000 ohms per square or less, coating selected areas of the fabric with a protective film, to protect the conductive polymer from a chemical etching agent, to provide an oxygen barrier and to retain areas of high conductivity, applying a chemical etching agent to the fabric thereby degrading the conductive polymer film on areas of the fabric which have not been coated with the protective film and create areas of low conductivity and rinsing the fabric to remove any residual etching agent.

Abstract: The outer shell consists of a plain weave multifilament fabric derived from aramid, polyimide, polyamide or polybenzimidazole yarns. The inner sheet is a woven, non-woven or knitted material. The two sheets are laminated with an adhesive which enables the two sheets to be laminated in such a manner that the two sheets are non slipping with respect to one another while enabling the laminate to be air permeable with a minimum of ten (10) cubic feet per minute (CFM), when tested in accordance with ASTM D737.

Abstract: A Portable exerciser for stretching or toning muscles of a user is provided. The exerciser has a stretchable elastic anchor loop and a plurality of supplemental elastic loops of different but interchangeable strength and lengths. Accordingly, loops can be interchanged and interconnected in a series by the use of releasable fastening means such as a buckle or the like, for interchangeably combining such loops into a variety of portable exercise devises.

Abstract: A molding obtained by laminating resinous plates of 0.05 to 1 mm thick, prepared by impregnating 20% by volume or more of a reinforcing fiber with a thermoplastic resin, and molding the resultant laminate, wherein sections where deviation or deformation is caused by an external force, or preferably nonjoining parts having an area of 5 to 60% based on the area of the location where impact is absorbed, are provided between the laminated layers constituting the molding, or the laminated layer surface where the impact is absorbed is formed with a shape having a curvature of 5 to 20 mm in radius. The molding absorbs impact force significantly and prevents efficiently human body, etc. from the shock upon striking.

Abstract: The invention relates to a textile for stiffening. It comprises two textile layers (1, 2).According to the invention, the textile layers (1, 2) are bonded together by a hot-sprayed adhesive formed of cross-linkable polymers.

Abstract: To produce a flexible material comprising a carrier with active particles fixed thereon by adhesive points, the adhesive points are applied to the carrier when the carrier is of larger area than in its final condition, whereby the adhesive points with active particles adhering thereto are brought closer together in the final condition of the material than when the adhesive points were initially applied.

Abstract: An electrically conductive textile fabric in which the electrical conductivity may be made to vary in a pattern configuration, and a method for manufacturing such fabric. A textile fabric is coated with an electrically conductive polymeric coating, and the coating is selectively removed in those areas in which a reduced electrical conductivity is desired. The removal may be achieved by means of high velocity water jets, sculpturing, or other means.

Abstract: An electrically conductive textile fabric in which the electrical conductivity may be made to vary in a pattern configuration, and a method for manufacturing such fabric. A textile fabric is coated with an electrically conductive polymeric coating, and the coating is selectively removed in those areas in which a reduced electrical conductivity is desired. The removal may be achieved by means of high velocity water jets, sculpturing, or other means.

Abstract: The invention concerns an interfacing for stiffening outer garments which is formed from a composite of a nonwoven textile (19), a warp knit fabric with synthetic multifilament threads and weft threads (20). The composite according to the invention contains a loosely bonded nonwoven fabric (19 ) of fibre count 1 to 5 dtex and weight class 30 to 150 g/m.sup.2, a warp knit fabric of warp thread count 20 to 80 dtex, set of the warp 40 to 70 threads per 10 cm and fibre count 1 to 3.5 dtex and resilient weft threads (20) incorporated into each stitch course of the warp knit fabric of thread count 300 to 2000 dtex, set of the weft 70 to 130 threads/10 cm and, for a fibre proportion in excess of 50% by weight, a fibre count of 7 to 60 dtex.

Abstract: A fire-resistant composite lining for a garment includes a textile layer of heat-stable fibers and a waterproof and breathable film. The film being spot-bonded onto a face of the textile layer and intended to be on the external surface of the garment. The lining is reinforced non woven material associated with the textile layer by needle-punching and ultimately constitutes the internal surface of the garment.

Abstract: A wiper for use in cleanrooms and other controlled environments is made using a knit fabric tube rather than a fabric sheet. The fabric tube is knit with a diameter approximately equal to the preferred wiper dimension and is presented directly to an apparatus for sealing and cutting. A sequence of spaced strips are fused into the fabric tube perpendicular to its length. Individual two ply wipers are separated from one another along a cut line midway in the strips. The wipers are characterized by lower costs due to fewer fabrication steps and a 50% reduction in the number of wiper edges requiring treatment.

Abstract: The base material for thermobinding interlining is constituted of a woven fabric or of a weft knitted fabric or weft knit. According to the invention, at least the weft of the woven fabric or of the weft knit is in synthetic yarns, for example of 35 to 500 dtex, composed of thin filaments having a unit count less than 1.3 dtex. Preferably, these yarns are textured yarns.The thermobinding interlining is constituted of the woven fabric or of the weft knit, on one face of which dots of thermofusible polymer have been deposited.

Abstract: An improved method for producing a multi-colored emblem which may be bonded to a fabric is disclosed which provides an emblem with an embroidered appearance. The emblem is easily heat sealable onto difficult to adhere fabrics. The method generally involves providing a first woven material blank, providing a barrier layer of thermoplastic material, laminating the barrier layer onto one side of said material blank to form an assembly, cutting said assembly to a specific configuration, sewing a thread about the periphery of the cut assembly, and laminating said assembly onto a second woven material blank having a different color. This second assembly is again cut to a complimentary larger configuration and also provided with a thread about the periphery. The two material blanks are then heat sealed together and an adhesive layer is provided to the exposed barrier layer.

Abstract: A resilient, low modulus, semirigid shell for use as a component of an article of luggage. The shell comprises a first nonwoven batt of thermoplastic resin fibers and an exterior material attached to the first nonwoven batt. The first batt and exterior material are thermally formed to a predetermined shape. The shell may also include one or more additional component layers selected from a second nonwoven, fibrous batt, a layer of backing material, a water impermeable film, and a lining material. In manufacturing the shell, the exterior material is attached to a first portion of a substrate material which is comprised of the nonwoven batt of thermoplastic resin fibers. A second portion of the substrate material is secured to an apparatus for thermal forming and the exterior material and substrate material are thermally formed to a resilient, low modulus, semirigid shell having a predetermined configuration.

Abstract: A cavity floor that includes a profiled sheet material. The sheet material has support feet that are substantially rigid. The surface of the sheet material extending between the support feet is substantially flexible. The thickness of the sheet material and the mutual spacing of the support feet are selected so that the sheet material is sufficiently rigid to support a person and sufficiently flexible to adapt to an uneven floor surface. The deformable surface enables automatic vertical adjustment of the support feet relative to one another when under load.

Abstract: A pharmaceutical preparation, in a chewing gum carrier, possessing an antinitocine effect which comprises a biologically resorbable polymeric vehicle containing a cation-exchange group and modified thereat by an antinicotine-action action alkaloid in the following proportions thereof, percent by mass: antinitocine-action alkaloid 2.5-40.0 polymeric vehicle the balance. The method of producing the preparation comprises reacting a biologically resorbable polymeric vehicle containing a cation-exchange group with an antinicotine-action alkaloid in an aqueo-organic medium at a volume ratio of the aqueous and organic phases of 1-15:1-24 respectively and at a temperature within the range of from 8.degree. to 22.degree. C.

Abstract: The invention provides a fabric for use in the manufacture of protective garments, containers and covers comprising an inner layer of a tear resistant, high tensile fabric and a film layer bonded on at least one surface of said high modulus fabric comprising a meltable polyhalogenated resin.

Abstract: A wallcovering material having a paper backing being color and/or design printed face to which substantially parallel warp and fill yarns are tricot stitched thereto to provide an aesthetic structure through which the color and/or design shows through. The warp and weft yarns are knit to the paper backing material and held firmly in place by the polyethylene film on the face of the paper backing. The warp and weft yarns are openly spaced so that the color and/or design printed on the paper shows through and provides a pleasant view to the area in which the wallcovering is installed.

Abstract: A conductive tape for an electrifiable fence comprising a tape of woven or knitted construction having at least two conducting wires arranged longitudinally and integrally in the woven or knitted structure. A bridging conductor is carried in or on the knitted or woven structure and is directed transversely across the two longitudinal conductors at intervals, so that, if a break occurs in one of the conductors, the current path is capable of continuing via the bridging conductor.

Abstract: A protective web for use in the manufacture of garments to reinforce parts of the garments corresponding to parts of the human body most likely to be exposed to scratching or fleshing of the skin or muscles. This web is characterized in that it comprises a piece of fabric that may be a woven, knitted or non-woven textile or yet be made of synthetic material. A plurality of small rigid platelets capable of resisting wear and abrasion are secured over this piece of fabric. The small platelets are so uniformly distributed and spaced over the piece of fabric as to allow the web to yield under all movements of the body of the garment wearer. According to a preferred embodiment, the rigid platelets are made of polymeric thermoplastic or thermosetting material and are secured to the fabric by gluing, compression molding or yet by welding in the case where the fabric used is made of synthetic material.

Abstract: A composite fusible interlining fabric is provided. The fabric comprises a nonwoven layer and a fibrous layer stitched together. A coating of thermoactive adhesive material is disposed on the outer face of the fibrous layer.

Abstract: A product and a method for its production, wherein the product is adapted to be stuck hot and by pressure to flat articles. The product comprises a flat flexible support having a first heat-fusible layer on its front surface and a second less heat-fusible layer on its back surface. In a preferred embodiment, both layers are discontinuous.

Abstract: The invention relates to a cohesive, self-adhesive, rigid or elastic bandage for fixing, compression and support dressings and permanent elastic compression and support dressings for medical purposes and a process for the manufacture thereof. The bandage comprises a web of warp and weft threads or warp threads in the form of a woven fabric having a porous structure and an amount of ultra fine particles of an adhesive, such as a rubber adhesive, distributed over and bonded to both the exposed surfaces of the warp and weft threads to provide adhesive particles bonded to the threads on both sides of the fabric. The adhesive particles are uniformly distributed over both bandage surfaces without the fiber groups adhering to one another or to the projecting fiber ends of the two surfaces, the particles being of a size distribution and amount sufficient to provide adhesion between overlying bandage surfaces without substantially reducing the porosity and elasticity of the fabric.

Abstract: An iron-on interlining composite of nonwoven and knit material is described, the knit being similar to the nonwoven material as to fiber structure and the knit fibers being tightly welded to the nonwoven fibers.

Abstract: A loosely constructed knit or woven fabric is dimensionally stabilized by causing staple length textile fibers to be entangled about the intersections of the yarns comprising the fabric. The stabilized fabric is formed by covering one or both sides of the loosely constructed base fabric with a light web of the staple length fibers, and subjecting the composite material to hydraulic entanglement while supported on a porous forming belt configured to direct and concentrate the staple length fibers at the intersections of the yarns comprising the base fabric.

Abstract: A tapered fiber and method and apparatus for making is provided in which the fiber has an increasing cross-sectional dimension in one direction along a portion of its length, and a decreasing cross-sectional dimension in the same direction along the same portion of its length.

Abstract: A shielding composition has an electromagnetic wave shielding property and also an injection molding property. The composition comprises at least one kind of embedding material selected from a group consisting of plasticized vinyl chloride and acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene resin, and copper or copper alloy fiber having a diameter of 1-100 .mu.m and a length of 0.5-10 mm embedded in said embedding material. The amount of the fibers is 30-70% by weight of the total composition.

Abstract: The composite fusible interlining fabric is formed of a layer of nonwoven fabric, a layer of fibrous material positioned against the reverse or rear side of the layer of nonwoven fabric, stitch yarn knit through the layer of nonwoven fabric and the layer of fibrous material and securing them together, and a coating of thermoactive adhesive material on the front or face side of the layer of nonwoven fabric. The layer of nonwoven fabric provides a smooth surface for the coating of thermoactive adhesive material. Additionally, the layer of nonwoven fabric of closely compacted fibers provides a barrier or shield to prevent strike back of the adhesive coating material when the composite interlining fabric is fused to the base or garment fabric.

Abstract: This invention provides a waterproof and breathable elastomeric polytetrafluoroethylene layered article for use in, for example, material for protective articles. The waterproof and breathable polytetrafluoroethylene layered article can for example, exhibit elastomeric properties of stretch to break of 275% in the machine direction, and 145% in the transverse direction and a total stretch recovery of at least 39% after being stretched to 75% extension for 100 cycles. This invention further provides a waterproof and breathable elastomeric polytetrafluoroethylene layered article bonded to a stretch fabric. The waterproof and breathable elastomeric polytetrafluoroethylene layered article bonded to a stretch fabric is thus durable and possesses a moisture vapor transmission rate exceeding 1000 gms/m.sup.2 day, and preferably above about 2000 gms/m.sup.2 day.

Abstract: The shield comprised at least one thermally insulating assembly formed by a reflecting layer and a spacing layer in which the latter is a knitted product. Preferably, the knitted product is tulle, for example of polyester or polyimide, produced by using a monofilament thread. The production process consists of preferably simultaneously performing the cutting of the reflecting layer and the spacing layer so as to form the edges for the said layers and the welding together thereof by these edges, the cutting and welding processes being performed hot.Application to the thermal insulation of cryogenic instruments carried on spacecraft.

Abstract: A composite material comprising a polymer matrix containing metallized sheet-form textiles and/or metallized particles, and in addition additives for increasing the ohmic, electrical and/or magnetic losses which are uniformly present in the polymer and/or on the sheet-form textiles and/or particles, has a high shielding effect against electromagnetic radiation both in the short-range field and also in the long-range field over a wide frequency range.

Abstract: A base fabric for polyurethane-coated fabics which comprises a layer of polyurethane prepolymer under half cross-linked conditions partially formed on at least one surface of the water repellent-unfinished fabric. A process for the production of a base fabric for polyurethane-coated fabrics, which comprises partially coating a solution of polyurethane prepolymer containing a cross-linking agent on at least one surface of the water repellent-unfinished fabric, drying and aging until the polyurethane prepolymer is caused to be under half cross-linked conditions. A polyurethane-coated fabric, which comprises a one-pack polyurethane layer with fine air-permeable pores formed on a water repellent-unfinished base fabric having partially formed on at least one surface thereof a layer of a two-pack polyurethane resin, the fabric and one-pack polyurethane layer being adhered to the layer of the two-pack polyurethane resin as a result of a cross-linking reaction of the polyurethane prepolymer.

Abstract: A fusible interlining having enhanced bond strength with resistance to dry cleaning and comprising a support web and a heat activatable adhesive carried by said support web, said adhesive comprising polyethylene having a melt index of at least 60, a density of at least 0.91 and a relatively narrow molecular weight distribution, as expressed by having a MW:MN ratio of no more than 4.

Abstract: An elastic bandage material is disclosed comprising at least 50 percent by weight of an extensible fabric capable of elongation of at least 30 percent without tearing and at least 15 percent of an elastomer impregnated in a fabric but without filling the holes in the fabric. The bandage material is especially suited for use as a backing for adhesive tapes and dressings.

Abstract: A textile material suitable for use as an automotive upholstery fabric is provided, which comprises:(a) a body portion having a face and a back comprised of synthetic, thermoplastic fibers;(b) said body portion being provided with a substantially oil- and water-repellent fluoropolymer substantially evenly distributed on the face thereof in a minor amount sufficient to improve soil resistance characteristics but less than an amount which would cause said material to burn at a rate in excess of about 2 inches per minute or to support such burning for longer than about one minute; and(c) said textile material further having been backcoated with a flame-retardant backcoating in an amount sufficient to improve the flammability characteristics of said textile material.

Abstract: A method of decorating a fabric is disclosed using a decoration material which contains a thin removable layer which is based on a thermoplastic polymeric film which also has elastomeric properties, and which also contains a dye or pigment. The layer is transferred to the fabric under the action of heat and pressure and subsequently heated further to break the layer down so that it does not adversely affect the handle or feel of the fabric being decorated. The decoration material may contain all of the components necessary to secure transfer of the decoration to the fabric and fixation of the dye or pigment in the fabric to a good degree of wash fastness. Simple heating and pressing treatments are the only ones necessary for effecting decoration.

Abstract: An improved composite sheet material product having the appearance, drape, hand and water absorption and retention characteristics of natural chamois leather, comprising, in combination, a reinforcing textile fabric having opposed raised fiber faces, a soft water-absorbent porous polymeric foam layer secured to the opposed raised fibrous faces of the textile fabric, the foam layers having a normal high surface tack characteristic causing sticking and delamination of the layers from the sheet material under pressure contact, and wherein the exposed porous surfaces of the normally tacky foam layers are coated with a non-tacky water insoluble, film-forming polymer, such as a urethane polymer, to minimize tackification and delamination of the foam layers without noticeable loss in water absorption, retention, and appearance of the composite sheet material to that of natural chamois leather.Also disclosed is a method of manufacture of such composite sheet material products.

Abstract: Latch hooked articles are made with a foraminous web having an overlying web laminated thereto, the latter having selected areas depicted thereon marking the placing of strand material to be secured to the backing web and having lines of weakness therein to facilitate the insertion of a latch hook bearing strand material through the openings in the backing web for securement to the backing web.

Abstract: A three-dimensional printed ceiling board facing material is disclosed in which a greige, foam-coated fabric is selectively printed with an expandable print paste or foamable plastisol. Upon heating, the expandable or foamable coating is substantially increased in size and bonded to the coated substrate. Novel and attractive architectural effects and hand are achieved while the facing meets commercial requirements of light fastness, heat stability and flame resistance. The printed fabric is useful as a ceiling board facing when a highly visible three-dimensional appearance is required.

Abstract: A bonded fabric, especially for women's underwear, is formed by coating a binder powder onto the surface of a first polyamide knit layer and fritting the binder powder thereon before applying to it a needled polyester layer which in turn is bonded by a second binder layer to a second knit polyamide. A third binder layer bonds a knitted lace to the second polyamide layer which is identical to the first.

Abstract: Flocked fabric products having a woven corduroy appearance, including method and apparatus for producing such fabrics wherein an indefinite length substrate sheet is transported in a generally horizontal path of travel through a coating apparatus where a mass of viscous adhesive material is applied to the upper surface of the sheet while support means located beneath the sheet prevent displacement of the sheet from its path of travel and provide dimensional stability thereto. Immediately downstream of the support means the upper surface of the sheet and the adhesive material thereon is contacted by the notched edge of a knife blade to dispose the adhesive mass in a plurality of parallel upstanding ribs having upwardly tapered sides in transverse cross-section.