Abstract: A carpet tile includes a textile top member and a cushion mat that is coupled with the textile top member via a thermoplastic material. The textile top member includes carpet yarns and a backing that is coupled with the carpet yarns so that the backing structurally supports the carpet yarns. The cushion mat includes a polymeric material component having polymer fibers that are randomly oriented and entangled together and a scrim reinforcement that is disposed within the polymeric material component. The scrim reinforcement reinforces and stabilizes the polymeric material component and is entirely covered and concealed by the intermeshed polymer fibers.

Abstract: A carpet tile includes a textile top member and a cushion mat that is coupled with the textile top member via a thermoplastic material. The textile top member includes carpet yarns and a backing that is coupled with the carpet yarns so that the backing structurally supports the carpet yarns. The cushion mat includes a polymeric material component having polymer fibers that are randomly oriented and entangled together and a scrim reinforcement that is disposed within the polymeric material component. The scrim reinforcement reinforces and stabilizes the polymeric material component and is entirely covered and concealed by the intermeshed polymer fibers.

Abstract: The invention pertains to a drywall tape having a nonwoven fabric and a reinforcing scrim, wherein the nonwoven fabric has chopped glass fibers laid flat in the nonwoven fabric, the fibers being substantially straight, random laid and bonded to one another to resist forces exerted in random directions, and the reinforcement scrim has elongated reinforcing strands of low profile thickness joined against a side of the nonwoven fabric, such that the scrim and the nonwoven fabric reinforce each other, and reinforce a joint compound in which the drywall tape is imbedded.

Abstract: An impact resistant membrane and methods of preparing and utilizing the membrane are disclosed. The membrane comprises a loft layer, a first polymeric layer bonded to a first surface of the loft layer, and a second polymeric layer bonded to a second surface of the loft layer. The membrane can be fabricated by providing a loft layer and applying a polymeric layer on a first surface and on a second surface of the loft layer. The membrane has a higher resistance to failure due to impact and thus protects the underlying structure membrane for a longer time. A method of facilitating protecting a structure comprises providing a single ply membrane having a loft layer and a polymeric layer disposed on at least two surfaces of the loft layer.

Abstract: A floor covering having a double rollable reinforcement, of the type comprising on the front a calendered sheet of predefined thickness, a first reinforcement, a layer of foam and a second reinforcement, made from polyester material comprising a grid and a non-woven layer on the back, is characterized in that the first reinforcement comprises a single glass grid.

Abstract: A multiple layer fiber reinforced material and method of constructing the same including the provision of a first layer of a roll lofted glass material. Optional variants include the pre-application of plywood, OSB or fiber reinforced cement board materials prior to the first glass layer. A layer of a rolled fiber reinforced material is applied over the rolled glass material, with or without backing board material, and at least a second layer of the roll lofted glass material is applied over the rolled fiber reinforced material. A layer of a second rolled glass material is applied over the subsequent layer of the first glass material and a urethane resin syrup is intermixed with said layers of glass material and the fiber reinforced material. An application of heat and pressure results in the formation of the reinforced material. A flexural, closed cell foam material may also be applied to provide acoustical insulating properties to the multi-layer fiber material.

Abstract: Cement wallboards and methods for their preparation are disclosed. The wallboards comprise two scrim layers and one mat layer. The wallboards have a smooth surface, are strong, lightweight, and easy to score and snap. Tiles can be readily adhered to the boards. The wallboards can be used in general commercial and residential construction, and are particularly attractive for use in high water/moisture areas such as bathrooms and shower enclosures.

Abstract: A method of insulating ducts is described including laminating a reinforcement fabric to a fibrous insulation board, lifting at least a portion of the reinforcement fabric from the fibrous insulation board, applying a first layer of a mastic coating to the fibrous insulation board, embedding the reinforcement fabric into the first layer of mastic coating, and applying a second layer of the mastic coating to the outside surface of the reinforcement fabric. The reinforcement fabric is laminated to the fibrous insulation board using an adhesive material.

Abstract: A novel gypsum wallboard having a textile reinforcing material embedded within a gypsum core together with randomly oriented chopped glass fibers, as well as a novel process for constructing such gypsum wallboards.

Abstract: A web or fleece of synthetic resin strand collected on a sieve belt is discharged from the sieve belt into further processing equipment over a rerouting roller at the discharge end of the sieve belt. The rerouting roller is perforated and air or another fluid medium is passed through the belt at the rerouting roller to reduce adhesion forces between the belt and the web and lift the web from the belt without damage to the belt.

Abstract: A composite fabric for use in reinforcement of cementitious boards and similar prefabricated building wall panels. The fabric includes an open mesh first component of continuously coated, high modulus of elasticity strands and a nonwoven second component fabricated from alkali resistant thermoplastic material. The high modulus strands of the first component are preferably bundled glass fibers encapsulated by alkali and water resistant thermoplastic material. The composite fabric also has suitable physical characteristics for embedment within the cement matrix of the panels or boards closely adjacent the opposed faces thereof. The reinforcement provides long-lasting, high strength tensile reinforcement and impact resistance for the panels or boards. The reinforcement also enables the boards to have smooth outer faces suitable for painting, papering, tiling or other finishing treatment.

Abstract: A resin-impregnated endless belt for a long nip press or calender of the shoe type, or for other papermaking and paper-processing applications, has a base support structure which includes coated elements, such as yarns, having a coating of a first polymeric resin material. The base support structure is in the form of an endless loop, at least one of the inner and outer surfaces of which is coated with a second polymeric resin material. The second polymeric resin material impregnates the structure of the base support structure, rendering it impermeable to oil and water. The first and second polymeric resin materials have an affinity for one another, so that the coating of second polymeric resin material on the base support structure as a whole establishes a chemical, as well as a mechanical, interlock with the coated yarns having the coating of first polymeric resin material.

Abstract: This invention relates to a grid structure (1) for reinforcement in road building, with crossing strands of warp and woof. The openings of the grid are traversed by longitudinal-laminar belts of textile material, leaving free passage openings.

Abstract: A cementitious panel having a basalt fiber-containing reinforcing web embedded in at least one major surface, preferably both major surfaces, of the panel. The basalt fibers-containing reinforcing webs preferably are in the form of a mesh or scrim comprising spaced basalt fiber strands in both the warp and fill directions, each strand made from a plurality of aligned, continuous basalt fibers. The basalt fiber reinforcing webs also can be in the form of woven or non-woven fabrics of basalt fibers, having aligned or randomly oriented staple and/or micro fibers, so long as the fabrics have sufficient void area to permit a cementitious core material to penetrate the fabric when the fabric is embedded in one or both major surfaces of the cementitious panel before the cementitious core material hardens.

Abstract: Dual glass fibers can be processed into coherent webs and felts by first blending the dual glass fibers with an equal or greater amount of uncrimped fibers. Optionally, other crimped fibers can be added without significant impact on processibility.

Abstract: Disclosed is a unidirectional fiber sheet comprising an arranged fiber layer, a multi axial scrim, and a release paper having 3 to 80% of its surface area coated with an adhesive. The adhesive is applied to the release paper in the form of stripes which may be positioned parallel, perpendicular or oblique to the filaments of the arranged fiber layer. The unidirectional fiber sheet according to the present invention is prepared by partially coating a release paper with an adhesive, and heat-pressing together an arranged fiber layer prepared from filament tows, a multi axial scrim having a net structure to support the arranged fiber layer, and the release paper so as to bind the three together.

Abstract: A reinforced composite matting is disclosed, to provide a foundation for the development of vegetation to stabilize the channel surface, as a cost effective and environmentally friendly alternative to rip rap or concrete channel lining. The reinforced composite matting is formed of a bottom netting, a cuspated netting having ridges and troughs extending across the width of the cuspated netting, with the troughs substantially adacent to the bottom netting, and a top netting substantially adacent to the ridges of the cuspated netting. A fiber matrix, preferably of strands of coconut fibers is disbursed between the bottom netting and the cuspated netting, and the bottom netting, fiber matrix, cuspated netting and top netting are secured together, preferably with thread, to form the reinforced composite matting of this invention.

Abstract: A method for generating a waterproof, vapor-permeable fabric, wherein a coating liquid is applied to a fabric. The coating liquid comprises a solvent medium and a polyvinylacetal which is an acid-catalyzed reaction product of polyvinyl alcohol and one or more aldehydes, ketones or combinations thereof, wherein each aldehyde contains 1 to 18 carbon atoms and each ketone contains 3 to 16 carbon atoms, and wherein about 1% to about 40% of hydroxyl groups on the polyvinyl alcohol are converted to acetal structures. Once the coating liquid is applied, the solvent medium is removed to form the coated fabric.

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 process for the production of a two-layer textile reinforcement for the production of bituminous sealing sheets for roofing consists first, from a first layer based on nonwoven cloth, in consolidating this nonwoven cloth by mechanical or hydraulic bonding and in thermostabilizing it. This first consolidated and thermostabilized layer is then assembled with a second mineral fiber layer, either by counter-gluing, or by needling, or by seam knitting. These two latter assembly methods are used only when the second mineral fiber layer is in the form of a grid or cloth of continuous or discontinuous mineral filaments. The first assembly method by counter-gluing is itself used no matter what the structure of the second mineral filament layer, whether it be in the form of a grid or a cloth of continuous or discontinuous mineral fibers or in the form of a scrim of mineral fibers.