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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6546605 | Napped fabric and process A fabric having at least one hydraulically napped surface comprised of tangled fibers is disclosed. Because the fiber tangles are created from intact, undamaged fibers, fabric strength is not adversely affected by treatment. In addition, laundering enhanc... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6509979 | Printing method using inter-pixel blending on an absorbent substrate A method for printing an image on an absorbent substrate using liquid colorants. The colorants are assigned to pixel groups on the substrate surface that define the image. Some colorants are applied to pixels in quantities that exceed the absorption capac... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6494484 | Polygon-shaped air bag A polygon-shaped air bag comprised of fabric for use in vehicle restraint systems is disclosed. The air bag is constructed from fabric panels in the shape of congruent, n-sided equiangular polygons, where n may be between five and eleven, but is preferabl... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6381870 | Bag for home dry cleaning process A flexible container in the form of a bag is described for use in a non-immersion dry cleaning process. Bag walls that are appropriately stiff and slick are preferred (preferred Kawabata Evaluation System stiffness and surface friction values are given), ... | 05/07/2002 |
| 6181816 | Processing of pixel-based images for use in patterned substrates This invention relates to an image processing method whereby large scale patterning artifacts in a pattern comprised of a large number of pattern repeats can be detected by processing a single pattern repeat and, if desired, the method can be used to modi... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6120560 | Process and apparatus for pattern dyeing of textile substrates A method and apparatus for pattern dyeing of textile substrates in which the dyeing is done in two stages. In the first stage, a dye is uniformly applied in a manner that allows the dye to fix on contact. The uniformly dyed substrate is then moved under a... | 09/19/2000 |
| 6024818 | Rigid fiber composite A method for manufacturing a rigid fiber composite material and the product thereof created by needling a composite of a non-woven blend of first fibers with a initial melting point with one or more other fibers with higher melting points that are interpo... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6019799 | Method to space dye yarn This invention relates to a method and apparatus for space-dyeing yarns. A yarn sheet passes over a yarn-driven roll equipped with a digital sensor that tracks the position of the sheet as it then passes through a dyeing apparatus. A computer precisely co... | 02/01/2000 |
| 5993586 | Rigid fiber composite A method for manufacturing a rigid fiber composite material and the product thereof created by needling a composite of a non-woven blend of first fibers with a initial melting point with one or more other fibers with higher melting points that are interpo... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5916273 | Warp knitted plush fabric A warp-knitted fabric of at least three-bar construction, which is comprised of multifilament synthetic pile yarns on the technical back which are raised or broken to produce a plush surface and monofilament synthetic ground yarns on the technical face, t... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5912816 | Method and apparatus to align knitting needles and guides An apparatus and method for knitting needle and guide alignment for consistently and accurately aligning knitting needles and other knitting elements on warp knitting machines. This includes checking for needle spacing, needle height, guide spacing, guide... | 06/15/1999 |
| 5865933 | Method for selectively carving color contrasting patterns in textile fabric An apparatus and method for creation of a textile fabric that has been patterned with a selective application of heat, which provides a carved portion in registry with a color change. The textile fabric includes a blend of fibers of a first polymer having... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5861044 | Method to selectively carve textile fabrics An apparatus and method for selectively carving textile fabric by selectively applying chemicals containing a liquid repellent either alone or with other chemicals such as dye to a textile fabric and subsequently finishing said fabric. The textile fabric ... | 01/19/1999 |
| 5832802 | Apparatus for cutting piled fabric An apparatus and method for cutting piled fabric sections such as carpet tiles is provided. The apparatus comprises a frame, a bending assembly for bending pile elements away from the normal substantially vertical orientation with respect to the base of t... | 11/10/1998 |
| 5793493 | System for maintaining the cutting condition of double ground knife blades A system for estimating the cutting condition of a double ground knife blade in which the width of each of the two adjacent bevels comprising the cutting edge are compared. The two bevels may be pictured on a monitor and compared visually, or may be proce... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5774177 | Textile fabric inspection system A method and apparatus for inspecting textile fabric which automatically detects defects within the field of view of a video camera. A frame of video information is captured and a digital image array is generated. A mask or operator is then used to genera... | 06/30/1998 |
| 5752300 | Method and apparatus to loosen and cut the wrapper fibers of spun yarns in woven fabric A method and apparatus for loosening, cutting, and abrading a web of textile fabric having spun yarns containing wrapper fibers. The textile fabric web is directed under high tension around a rotatable, small diameter tube coated with abrasive particles. ... | 05/19/1998 |
| 5674581 | Textile fabric having a thermally modified narrow channel to facilitate separation A method and apparatus for treatment of relatively moving substrate materials and the novel products produced thereby created by precise application of high temperature pressurized streams of fluid against the surface of the materials to melt and remove m... | 10/07/1997 |
