Including Additional Strand Inserted Within Knit Fabric Patents (Class 442/313)
  • Patent number: 10174445
    Abstract: A jacquard fabric for a mattress ticking to be used for a bedding mattress and a method for knitting this jacquard fabric are provided. The method according to the present invention is a method for producing a jacquard fabric for a mattress ticking using a double-sided needle selection circular knitting machine of a rib gating type, the method by which a suitable pattern is created by means of computer-based needle selection on a cylinder side, a suitable pattern is also created by means of computer-based needle selection on a dial side, and a suitable knitting structure is made in a suitable part by combining the pattern obtained on the cylinder side with the pattern obtained on the dial side. As a result of employing an irregular twill pattern as a background knitting structure serving as a base, a stretchable fabric that has a soft texture, a tight knitting structure, and similar strength to woven fabric is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: MONARCH KNITTING MACHINERY (UK) LTD.
    Inventors: David Brunton, Kimberley Hodgson, Helen Martin
  • Patent number: 9027961
    Abstract: An air belt having mesh webbing sufficiently strong and sufficiently expandable in the circumferential direction of a bag-shaped belt and an air belt apparatus including the air belt are provided. An air belt includes a folded member being a bag-shaped belt folded in a band shape and mesh webbing covering the folded member of the bag-shaped belt. The mesh webbing hardly expands in the longitudinal direction of the air belt, and is flexibly expandable in the circumferential direction of the bag-shaped belt. The mesh webbing is made of a raschel-knitted material. The knitted material is arranged such that the extending direction of knot portions of yarn threads and corresponds to the longitudinal direction of the air belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Takata Corporation
    Inventor: Norio Yamataki
  • Patent number: 9003698
    Abstract: The invention refers to a greenhouse screen comprising strips of film material that are interconnected by a yarn system by means of hosiery, knitting, warp-knitting or weaving process to form a continuous product. At least some of the strips comprise a film material in the form of a multilayer polyester film having a thickness less than 60 ?m and comprising at least two layers, wherein at least one layer is white and at least one layer is black, the at least one white layer comprises polyester and a white pigment in an amount between 5 and 50 weight-% based on the total weight of the white layer, and the at least one black layer comprises polyester and a black opacifying agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: AB Ludvig Svensson
    Inventors: Hans Andersson, Per Holgerson
  • Patent number: 8869706
    Abstract: A bellows is provided as part of a crossway between two vehicles connected to each other in an articulated manner or as a telescopic gangway, with a material web which is provided with a layer of synthetic material. The material web has a top (upper) side made of a textile and a bottom (under) side made of textile (11, 12). The spacer fibers/pile threads (13) are provided between the top side and the bottom side, such that a space between the top side and bottom side results when the material web is in a non-loaded condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Hübner GmbH
    Inventor: Claus-Ekkehard Koukal
  • Patent number: 8461065
    Abstract: A touch-fastening anti-skidding material includes a knitted foundation layer and a plurality of synthetic yarns that is secured together by being collectively knitted in the foundation layer. The foundation layer is formed by knitting of pliable base yarns and synthetic yarns. The synthetic yarns are knitted in U-shaped loops and the base yarns are knitted between adjacent strands of the knitted synthetic yarns to make a large area cloth. The cloth may be in a planar form without hollow opening sections or it includes open sections to facilitate air permeability. The loops of the synthetic yarns have legs extending beyond the foundation layer by a predetermined length and the synthetic yarns show rigidity strength, whereby a flexible, resilient, light-weighted, and low-cost touch-fastening anti-skidding material is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Formosa Saint Jose Corp.
    Inventor: Yang Ming-Shun
  • Patent number: 8367569
    Abstract: A structure may include a plurality of first fiber bundles, a plurality of second fiber bundles, and a plurality of connecting threads. The first fiber bundles may extend substantially parallel to each other. The second fiber bundles may extend substantially parallel to each other and substantially perpendicular to the first fiber bundles. The connecting threads may engage the first fiber bundles and the second fiber bundles such that at least one of the connecting threads is continuously wrapped around each of the first fiber bundles in a helical pattern. The at least one of the connecting threads may extend across a width of each of the second fiber bundles, and may thereby secure the second fiber bundles to each of the first fiber bundles. The first and second fiber bundles may be embedded in a construction material and adapted to reinforce the construction material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Fortress Stabilization Systems
    Inventor: Donald E. Wheatley
  • Publication number: 20100255744
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a reinforcing textile material that comprises a weft-inserted warp knit fabric, in which the warp yarns are configured in a pattern having a majority of successive flat stitches that are used in conjunction with a minority of subsequent successive round stitches. The warp yarn configuration may be represented by the expression x+y, where x is the number of successive needle positions in which a warp yarn is positioned in a flat stitch arrangement and y is the number of subsequent successive needle positions in which the same warp yarn is positioned in a round stitch arrangement. The present weft-inserted warp knit fabrics possess improved dimensional stability, high tensile strength, high tear strength, and a relatively smooth surface, making them well-suited for use as reinforcements in roofing membranes, signs, banners, tents, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2009
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Inventors: Brian Callaway, Randolph S. Kohlman, David W. Martin
  • Patent number: 7696110
    Abstract: A sheet material for a seat characterized in that the stress at 5% elongation (A) is from 40 to 300 N/4 cm width wherein A is a larger value between a stress measured in the longitudinal direction and a stress measured in the lateral direction, that the ratio A/B is from 1.5 to 15.0 wherein B is the smaller value obtained in the above measurement, and that the reduction in width (H) is from 0 to 15% when the sheet material is fixed on a frame at the one end and the opposite end while stretched and pressured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2010
    Assignee: Asahi Kasei Fibers Corporation
    Inventors: Yukihito Taniguchi, Hiroshi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 7682994
    Abstract: A fabric comprising a textile layer comprising yarns, wherein said textile layer is permeable to water vapour and impermeable to liquid water; and disposed on at least part of one side of the textile layer is a wicking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2010
    Assignee: Lightex Limited
    Inventors: Oliver Van Emden, Chris Carr
  • Publication number: 20090240103
    Abstract: An elongation resistant fabric, devices, and methods can include an elongation resistant yam laid in a knit structure of the fabric between knit loops in selected adjacent wales and partially about the loop in one adjacent wale in predetermined courses. In this manner, the fabric can be adapted to resist elongation in a walewise direction along the length of the fabric. The elongation resistant fabric can be a mesh fabric. In a mesh fabric, the size and a shape of pores in the fabric can be maintained when the fabric is pulled in the walewise direction. The elongation resistant yam can have a diameter larger than the individual diameters of other yarns in the fabric. The elongation resistant yarn can be, for example, a monofilament yarn, such as a polypropylene or polyester monofilament yarn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2009
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Inventor: Stephanie Booz Norris
  • Patent number: 7579292
    Abstract: Resin infusion medium and reinforcing composite lamina textile constituted by a warp knit open work structure produced in the form of polygons of which at least some of the edges are defined by knops such as to give prominence to the design to provide for fluidic channels, the knops being knitted to be sufficiently non-compressible in order to resist collapse of the fluid channels during compression of the composite preform under vacuum induced process pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2009
    Assignee: VRAC, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick E. Mack, Matthew Ogden
  • Patent number: 7563497
    Abstract: Biomimetic tendon-reinforced” (BTR) composite structures feature improved properties including a very high strength-to-weight ratio. The basic structure includes plurality of parallel, spaced-apart stuffer members, each with an upper end and a lower end, and a plurality of fiber elements, each having one point connected to the upper end of a stuffer member and another point connected to the lower end of a stuffer member such that the elements form criss-crossing joints between the stuffer members. The stuffer members and fiber elements may optionally be embedded in a matrix material such as an epoxy resin. The fiber elements are preferably carbon fibers, though other materials, including natural or synthetic fibers or metal wires may be used. The stuffer members may be rods, tubes, or spheres, and may be constructed of metal, ceramic or plastic. The stuffer members are preferably spaced apart at equal distances. If the members are tubes, the fiber elements may be dressed through the tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: MKP Structural Design Associates, Inc.
    Inventor: Zheng-Dong Ma
  • Patent number: 7498274
    Abstract: A composite packing material for use with a printing blanket is provided including a substrate such as fabric, scrim, or film which is coated on at least one surface with a polymeric compound to provide the desired gauge to the printing blanket assembly. The resulting composite packing material has a thickness of about 0.010 to about 0.067 inches (0.25 mm to 1.7 mm) and is substantially volume non-compressible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2009
    Assignee: Day International, Inc.
    Inventors: W. Toriran Flint, Joseph L. Byers
  • Patent number: 7465683
    Abstract: An integrally formed stretch warp knit fabric structure formed using at least three guide bars, a fully or partly threaded first front guide bar, a second fully or partly threaded middle guide bar and third fully or partly threaded back guide bar that are knitted to form one single layer fabric having a definitive two-sided qualities; and a method of making the fabric; and articles using said fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Inventor: Brian L. McMurray
  • Patent number: 7344035
    Abstract: A fabric is disclosed which is suitable for use in the manufacture of particulate filters for use in high heat environments, together with a method for making the high heat filter fabric. The filter fabric has a sliver knit pile construction, and may be manufactured on conventional knitting machines. Both the yarn used in the backing of the high heat filter fabric and the fibers used for the pile of the high heat filter fabric are made of aramid materials, and the high heat filter fabric is suitable for use in high temperatures such as those associated with coal-fired power plants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Siny Corp.
    Inventors: Daniel L. Koopmann, Cecil V. Kaylor
  • Patent number: 7285505
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a tape that comprises a weft-inserted warp knit fabric, which utilizes a combination stitch to secure the wales of the fabric. The combination stitch comprises a majority of successive chain stitches that are used with a minority of subsequent successive tricot stitches, such that the stitch follows the expression x+y, where x is the number of successive chain stitches and y is the number of subsequent successive tricot stitches. Contemplated x values are in the range of 5 to 15, and contemplated y values are in the range of 1 to 4. Multiple stitch formations can also be used (e.g., following an x+y/m+n/etc. configuration). The resulting weft-inserted warp knit fabric possesses superior dimensional stability and internal geometry, while maintaining the tearability requisite for a hand-tearable tape product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Brian Callaway, Randolph S Kohlman
  • Patent number: 7235504
    Abstract: A three-dimensional knitted fabric having front and back ground structures and an interconnection yarn uniting the ground structures. At least one of the front and back ground structures of the three-dimensional knitted fabric has an uneven pattern with projections and depressions having a great level difference. Ground yarns of the at least one ground structure are traversed by a predetermined traverse width so that the projections each have a curved shape having a distinct curvature in section, and cast off at predetermined intervals so that the depressions each have an opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: Seiren Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Fumio Shirasaki, Kazunori Yamada, Yukito Kaneko
  • Patent number: 7119037
    Abstract: A camouflage net, in particular for covering persons and articles in the desert against detection in a thermal image, has a knitted fabric with a hole structure. The knitted fabric in this case has condensed and/or sealed-off regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2006
    Assignee: Texplorer GmbH
    Inventor: Gerd Hexels
  • Patent number: 6984596
    Abstract: A wire-reinforced webbing material is disclosed for use in furniture, bedding and the like. The webbing includes a flat knitted fabric comprised of substantially elastic yarns such as polyester. A plurality of reinforcement wires are integrally knitted into the fabric structure in a lengthwise direction. The wires may be thin-gauge titanium or titanium alloy wires. Elastomeric yarns or cards may also be integrally knitted into the fabric structure parallel to the reinforcement wires. The reinforcement wires and elastomeric cords combine with the knitted fabric to yield a webbing material having both a high tensile strength and a resilient responsiveness to applied external loads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2006
    Assignee: Hickory Springs Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Phillip Dickerson
  • Publication number: 20040214494
    Abstract: A laminated elastic fabric includes a first carrier layer of non-elastic, open fabric, and a second layer which is elastic in a direction extending longitudinally of the fabric; a first outer fabric layer and a second outer fabric layer on opposing sides of the first carrier and second elastic layers, and a binder bonding the layers together. The carrier layer can be a warp knit/weft insertion fabric having knit yarns and fill yarns and oriented with the knit yarns thereof extending longitudinally of the fabric, the knit yarns being non-elastic, each of the knit yarns extending longitudinally of the fabric including a plurality of longitudinally-spaced knitted loops, and each of the fill yarns extending transversely of the fabric and through loops of the knit yarns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2003
    Publication date: October 28, 2004
    Applicant: Andover Coated Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas S. Murphy, Stanley J. Piaseczynski
  • Publication number: 20040185734
    Abstract: A fabric substrate for use in reinforcing laminated and coated fabrics. The fabric substrate of the present invention is particularly useful for reinforcing areas along the resulting coated or laminated fabric that may experience local areas of tensile forces, such as areas of attachment. To address these local areas, the fabric substrate includes reinforced weft portions in spaced groups to provide strengthened areas for fastening or attachment of the resulting coated fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Hugh Douglas Gray, Carly Peterson Tebbetts
  • Patent number: 6774067
    Abstract: A mat has fabric layer (4) and a rubber backing (6) bonded to the fabric layer. The fabric layer (4) includes a microknitted plush polyester fabric that is chemically treated to render it hydrophilic. The fabric layer (4) may also have a textured surface that includes raised and/or recessed surface formations (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Roy P. Demott, Kimberly C. Gillis, Ernest G. Stringer, Terence M. Hedley
  • Publication number: 20040132370
    Abstract: The use of textile fabrics which contain at least one textured thread for attachment in front of windows or doors to protect against dusty allergens such as pollen or house dust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2004
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventor: Andreas Schroder
  • Publication number: 20040127124
    Abstract: A thermal camouflage sheet for covering heat sources against identification in a thermal image, having a base textile with a glass filament, has a coating which contains aluminum powder on one side and has a coating which contains color pigments on the other side. The remission values of the color pigments are in a range which allows camouflaging in the visual-optical and near infrared. The coating which contains color pigments is in the form of a polyurethane coating or polyvinylidene fluoride coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventor: Gerd Hexels
  • Publication number: 20040121685
    Abstract: A mat useful for reinforcing composite materials is made up of at least first and second sets of fibers, the first set of fibers laid as a ply in spaced apart parallel relationship in the direction of construction and the second set laid as a ply in spaced apart parallel relationship perpendicular to the direction of construction. These fibers define interstices, into which a continuous filament is knitted to provide stability. The filament has a core portion and a sheath portion, the sheath portion having a lower melting point than the core portion. The sheath portion is thermally fusible to form a plurality of closed loops in which the respective sets of fibers are entrapped. The fibers are glass or glass rovings and the filament is a polyester, the core portion being a high-viscosity poly(ethylene terephthalate) and the sheath portion being a low-viscosity poly(ethylene terephthalate).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2002
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Colin J. Hallam, Derrell M. Winowich, Louis Kevin Horne
  • Publication number: 20040077244
    Abstract: A wire-reinforced webbing material is disclosed for use in furniture, bedding and the like. The webbing includes a flat knitted fabric comprised of substantially elastic yarns such as polyester. A plurality of reinforcement wires are integrally knitted into the fabric structure in a lengthwise direction. The wires may be thin-gauge titanium or titanium alloy wires. Elastomeric yarns or cards may also be integrally knitted into the fabric structure parallel to the reinforcement wires. The reinforcement wires and elastomeric cords combine with the knitted fabric to yield a webbing material having both a high tensile strength and a resilient responsiveness to applied external loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2002
    Publication date: April 22, 2004
    Inventor: Phillip Dickerson
  • Publication number: 20040014387
    Abstract: A sliver-knit material is formed from a base including at least one thread having a first material and a second material. The first material has a melting point lower than the second material. A sliver material is secured to the base. A portion of the sliver material is encapsulated by the first material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2002
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Inventor: Daniel L. Sinykin
  • Publication number: 20030228815
    Abstract: Bi-directional and multi-axial fabrics, fabric composites, ballistically resistant assemblies thereof, and the methods by which they are made. The fabrics are comprised of sets of strong, substantially parallel, unidirectional yarns lying in parallel planes, one above the other, with the direction of the yarns in a given plane rotated at an angle to the direction of the yarns in adjacent planes; and one or more sets of yarns having lower strength and higher elongation interleaved with the strong yarns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Ashok Bhatnagar, Elizabeth Stroud Parrish
  • Patent number: 6632756
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to a fabric composite for disposition across an automotive seating frame and relates more particularly to a laminated fabric incorporating elastomeric yarn which has undergone either flame or adhesive lamination so as to be joined to a knit or woven aesthetic cover by means of foam either with or without adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Anthony R. Waldrop, George C. McLarty, Marc J. Balsa
  • Patent number: 6586350
    Abstract: A net for diffusing light comprising threads of flat yarn, characterized in that the flat yarn has a layer comprising a foamed synthetic resin film capable of diffusing light passing therethrough. Also disclosed is a method for protecting plants from overexposure to sunlight comprising covering the plants with such a net.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: Polysack Plastic Industries (R.A.C.S.) Ltd.
    Inventors: Felix Guberman, Gal Elazar, Maor Segal
  • Patent number: 6559077
    Abstract: A mesh structure is formed from a set of a warp strands and a set of intersecting weft strands. The warp strands are formed of a knitted synthetic material which shrinks when exposed to heat, and the weft strands pass through the weave of the warp strands at the nodes where the strands intersect. Heat is applied to the mesh structure to shrink the weave of the warp strands tightly around the weft strands at the nodes, thereby co-joining the weft and warp strands to form a high-strength mesh.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2003
    Assignee: Polytech Netting, L.P.
    Inventor: Donal Moore
  • Patent number: 6544910
    Abstract: Essentially inelastic backing material for medical purposes, characterized in that the backing material has an addition of high-strength fibers, multi-strand yarns, mixed multistrands or filaments having an ultimate tensile stress strength of at least 60 cN/tex, preferably from 80 to 500 cN/tex, the high-strength fibers, multi-strand yarns, mixed multistrands or filaments having a water absorption of less than 10%, preferably less than 5% and, with particular preference, less than 3% and the high-strength fibers, multi-strand yarns, mixed multistrands or threads giving the backing material an ultimate stress strength of at least 50 N/cm, preferably from 60 to 450 N/cm and, with particular preference, from 65 to 250 N/cm, and in that the backing material is coated at least partially on at least one side with a hotmelt adhesive composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Beiersdorf AG
    Inventors: Peter Himmelsbach, Stefan Bodenschatz
  • Patent number: 6461987
    Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus and a method for the manufacture of continuous micro label strips containing a unique identifier, and the placement of the micro label strips into various articles such as cloth and clothing. Microfilm bearing a plurality of transverse or longitudinal rows, each row including one or more unique like identifiers, is longitudinally severed into continuous micro label strips. The strips, or portions thereof, are then woven, sewn or knitted into or onto cloth or clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Inventors: Mark Leroy Walker, Dale O. Butterfield, Charles W. Gunnell
  • Publication number: 20020127936
    Abstract: A decorative texturized fabric is provided. The fabric is produced from a fabric substrate that includes a yarn nappable from one side of the substrate. For instance, in one embodiment, the fabric substrate is a warp knitted fabric. According to the present invention, the fabric substrate is treated with a size composition according to a particular pattern. The fabric is then napped causing a nap to form on one side of the fabric where the size composition has not been applied. In this manner, a texturized pattern is formed into the fabric. After napping, the size composition can be removed from the fabric and the fabric can be dyed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2001
    Publication date: September 12, 2002
    Applicant: Tietex International, Ltd.
    Inventor: Martin Wildeman
  • Patent number: 6429153
    Abstract: The invention relates to a textile composite material used to stabilize, consolidate or reinforce soils and layers of earth, and which can also be used as a load-carrying drainage or filtering layer and comprises at least one nonwoven fabric (1). The disadvantage of nonwovens, used alone or in textile composites made of various plastic nonwovens, lies in their limited load-carrying capacity. To create a low cost textile composite material comprising at least one nonwoven fabric, having a high tear resistance in a main load direction and the ability to absorb high tensile forces without undue stretching, exclusively parallel, straight, load-carrying plastic filament yarns (2) are knitted, sewed or Raschel-knitted onto the nonwoven (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2002
    Assignee: Huesker Synthetic GmbH & Company
    Inventors: Hans Welkers, Bernhard Büning
  • Publication number: 20020086601
    Abstract: A mattress closing tape formed of a crochet-type warp knitted construction comprises a set of warp yarns knitted in parallel series of lengthwise-extending chain stitches, first and second base filling yarns inlaid widthwise in opposing relation to each other through the chain stitches of the warp yarns to form a base fabric layer, and third and fourth sets of multiple pattern filling yarns inlaid diagonally in opposing relation to one another beneath the underlaps of the warp yarns to form a diamond pattern layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2001
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventor: Marvin Lewis
  • Patent number: 6407016
    Abstract: The invention relates to a single-bed weft-knitted textile structure comprising stainless steel fibre bundles, in which a reinforcing multifilament insert yarn with a titre of less than 180 Tex is incorporated with tuck stitches into the textile structure in a regular pattern. The insert yarn is, for example, a multifilament stainless steel yarn, or a multifilament glass fibre yarn. In addition, the invention relates to the use of such a textile structure for covering moulds and tempering or press rings which are utilized in the process of forming glass plates, or for the covering of transportation means for glass plates during their forming process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2002
    Assignee: N.V. Bekaert S.A.
    Inventors: Wim Van Steenlandt, Guido Heirbaut
  • Publication number: 20020028620
    Abstract: A net for diffusing light comprising threads of flat yarn, characterized in that the flat yarn has a layer comprising a foamed synthetic resin film capable of diffusing light passing therethrough. Also disclosed is a method for protecting plants from overexposure to sunlight comprising covering the plants with such a net.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2001
    Publication date: March 7, 2002
    Inventors: Felix Guberman, Gal Elazar, Maor Segal
  • Patent number: 6342457
    Abstract: The invention concerns a pressing cushion (1, 6) having a textile thread system (2, 3, 7 which is characterized in that the thread system has a knitted material (2) or is made of a knitted material (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2002
    Assignee: Thomas Josef Heimbach Gesellschaft mit Beschrankter Haftung & Co.
    Inventors: Walter Best, Ralf Kaldenhoff
  • Publication number: 20020006758
    Abstract: A looped knitted fabric including a foundation having interlaced chain-stitch threads or wales and connecting threads without a weft, and a first network of loops knitted in the foundation, each having two feet (3) knitted in the foundation, two first strands extending from the first feet (3) and a first crest (4) connecting the two first strands, each first crest (4) being on a given side of the two first feet (3) in the case of all the first loops, it includes a second network of loops knitted in the foundation, each having two second feet (3′) knitted in the foundation, two second strands extending from the two second feet, and a second crest (4′) connecting the two second strands, each second crest (4′) being on the side opposite the said side of the two second feet (3′) in the case of all the second loops, and each second foot (3′) lying on the imaginary line connecting two first feet (3) of a first loop, between and preferably half-way between the two first feet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2001
    Publication date: January 17, 2002
    Inventor: Bernard Desgrand
  • Patent number: 6291375
    Abstract: A textile fabric for dissipating electrostatic charges achieves remarkably low surface resistivity by forming into a fabric ground structure a matrix of electrically conducted yarns wherein electrical connections between the yarns are made by plural successive interconnections of two electrically conductive yarns, e.g., by plating electrically conductive yarns across multiple successive stitches in a knitted fabric ground structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Guilford Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Hilda E. Allen, John H. Beason, Dennis D. Leet
  • Patent number: 6281150
    Abstract: The invention relates to a textile support (1) for reinforcing clothing or pieces of clothing, in the form of a layer of nonwoven textile (2) reinforced by at least one warp knit fabric (3) having floats between the columns (5) of stitches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Lainiere de Picardie
    Inventor: Pierrot Groshens
  • Patent number: 6159877
    Abstract: The present invention provides a unique knit construction having a nonfiberglass yarn for controlling stiffness, i.e., a stiffness-controlling yarn. The knit may optionally have a nonfiberglass microdenier yarn and/or a heat shrinkable yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Matthew T. Scholz, Miroslav Tochacek, Jason L. Edgar
  • Patent number: 6096667
    Abstract: A warp knit, weft inserted lap side loop pile fabric for use as a female connector in a hook and loop fastener in which adjacent loops in each wale alternate from one direction to the other. If desired the back of the fabric can be coated to provide strength and rigidity to the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventor: Werner Rhode
  • Patent number: 6077793
    Abstract: An elastic protective material is disclosed. The protective material comprises a three-dimensional fully fashioned knit structure made by single jersey knitting at a machine gauge of at least 10 needles per inch. This knit layer is completely surrounded on both surfaces by an antiseptic and sterilizable elastomer or polymer. A method of making the elastic protective material is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: Oy OMS Optomedical Systems Ltd.
    Inventors: Leo Hatjasalo, Jarkko Valtanen
  • Patent number: 6057253
    Abstract: The invention concerns a reinforcing base fabric (1) for a shirt collar or an analogous piece, in the form of a weft knit fabric (2) and comprising an insertion of reinforcing and stabilizing yarns (5) extending in the direction of the warp between the wales.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Lainiere de Picardie
    Inventor: Pierre Groshens
  • Patent number: 5826905
    Abstract: A stitch-bonded fabric suitable for use as an airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Miroslav Tochacek, Roger A. Brekken, Paul E. Hansen
  • Patent number: 5795835
    Abstract: Bonded composite knitted structural textiles are formed of knitted polymeric fibers. The textile is formed from at least two, and preferably three or four, polymeric components. The first component, or load bearing member, is a high tenacity, high modulus, low elongation mono- or multifilament yarn. The second component is a fusible polymer in yarn or other form which will encapsulate and bond adjacent load bearing yarns. The third component is an optional effect or bulking yarn. The fourth component is a conventional multifilament warp knit stitch forming yarn to form the ground structure of the knitted textile. Knitted textiles of the present invention may be formed by any conventional knitting technique, i.e., weft insertion warp knitting, warp insertion weft knitting, and warp and weft insertion knitting. At least a portion of the laid-in warp and/or weft yarns are first component load bearing yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: The Tensar Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Bruner, Peter E. Stevenson
  • Patent number: 5655324
    Abstract: Signs which include a sheet including plastic stiff enough to resist fracture and flexible enough to maintain surface flatness in use without being put under tension, and such sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Cooley, Incorporated
    Inventors: Philip R. Siener, Jr., Peter H. Scott