Abstract: A hot melt adhesive bonded pile fabric is provided which comprises a liquid permeable base layer; a pile forming yarn adjacent to the base layer in pile forming fashion but not tufted through the base layer; the pile forming element having been bonded to the base layer by means of a hot melt adhesive applied to the back of said base layer. A method and apparatus for making fusion bonded, pile fabrics are also provided.

Abstract: Carpets are provided having a pile wherein the individual tufts of the pile are made from a plurality of continuous filament nylon yarns, at least one of which is composed of filaments having crimp (extant or latent) and the other yarn or yarns are composed of filaments having no crimp. Carpets of the invention, particularly velour carpets have improved tuft identity and are free from streaks.

Abstract: Pile textile elements are disclosed in which textile filamentary materials are assembled in a bundle, these materials being held together at one end only, by any suitable means such as adhesive or crepe paper wrapped around the bundle. The other ends of the filamentary textile materials of the bundle are not connected. The pile elements can be fixed to a backing such as a textile backing, furniture, bedding etc., in a conventional manner.

Abstract: A strip material from which portions may be severed to form portions of fasteners, including a flexible bonding layer, U-shaped monofilaments bonded in the bonding layer and having headed projecting portions, a low density foam layer on the side of the bonding layer opposite the headed projections, and a layer of soft tacky pressure sensitive adhesive on the side of the layer of foam opposite the bonding layer.

Abstract: This invention resides in a flame-resistant nonwoven fabric having an upper and a lower surface and comprising dyeable, flame-resistant fibers and base fibers. In one embodiment the upper surface is substantially, completely comprised of polyvinyl chloride fibers and the lower surface is a blend of adhering base fibers and polyvinyl chloride fibers. The fabric is formed by needling base fibers together to form a batt, needling polyvinyl chloride fibers and the batt together, and heating the lower surface of the fabric to adhere the polyvinyl chloride and base fibers together.

Abstract: Fibers, yarns and fabrics are produced from polymers, such as the copolymers of ethylene and vinyl acetate, having an elastic modulus of from 5,000 to 60,000 psi. The fibers are also characterized by an area moment of inertia of from 400.times.10.sup.-14 to 7,000.times.10.sup.-14 in.sup.4 and a stiffness parameter of from 1.times.10.sup.-5 to 1.times.10.sup.-8 lb-in.sup.2. Multiple fibers are spun into yarn, preferably cross-linked either chemically or by irradiation and are formed into pile fabrics for carpeting and similar uses. The pile fabric preferably has a minimum of 4,000 fibers per in.sup.2 of backing and a minimum pile height of 1/8 inch.

Abstract: A weatherstrip has a backing strip on which is attached two longitudinal rows of pile. An air infiltration membrane is secured near one end to the backing strip and is supported in upright position between the two rows of pile. When the weatherstrip is disposed in sealing engagement with a closure member, such as a window or door, it provides controlled air infiltration therethrough without increased stiffness which would make movement of the closure member, as in opening or closing the window or door, difficult.

Abstract: A flexible pile thermal barrier insulator includes a plurality of upstanding pile yarns. A generally planar backing section supports the upstanding pile yarns. The backing section includes a plurality of filler yarns forming a mesh in a first direction. A plurality of warp yarns are looped around said filler yarns and said pile yarns in said backing section and form a mesh in a second direction. A binder prevents separation of the yarns in the backing section.

Abstract: This invention relates to a reinforced fabric composition and to a method of making the same. The fabric composition includes a fabric base, a heat conductive metallic foil secured to the base, and a non-woven batt of fibers over the metallic foil, the batt and the foil being mechanically locked to the base solely by fibers of the batt which have been pushed through the foil and through the base and are locked against the bottom of the base. The preferred method of the present invention involves applying the metallic foil over a web of the fabric base, applying a non-woven batt of fibers over the foil and needle punching the resulting composite with barbed needles while incrementally advancing the composite to force fibers from the batt through the foil and through the fabric base to thereby densify the composite and securely interlock the fabric base, the foil and the batt together.

Abstract: A method for producing carpeting of a type having pile yarns adhesively bonded to a backing which comprises providing a thin flexible core member having longitudinal and transverse axes, winding a continuous yarn around the core member in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis so as to form a plurality of elongated loops conforming to the cross-sectional configuration of the core member, positioning the core member having the yarn wound thereon on a backing sheet so that the longitudinal axis is parallel to the sheet and the transverse axis is perpendicular to the sheet and so that one end of each of the loops contacts the backing sheet, adhering the end of the loops contacting the backing sheet to the backing sheet, cutting the other ends of the loops, and removing the core member. Carpeting characterized by good register between different colors and different heights with a high degree of flexibility in the design pattern is obtained by this method.

Abstract: A metallic velvet material comprising a woven textile pile fabric wherein at least a portion of the woven base fabric and/or the velvet surface-forming pile yarns is metallic. The metallic yarn may comprise a blended yarn formed of staple metal fibers and conventional nonmetallic textile fibers, or may be formed of continuous metal filament material. The metal fibers, or filaments, are preferably formed with rough unmachined, unburnished, fracture-free outer surfaces for improved retention in the velvet pile fabric.