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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20110296875 | PILE KNITTED FABRIC AND SEWN PRODUCT EMPLOYING PILE KNITTED FABRIC Disclosed is a pile knitted fabric containing a ground structure and a pile fiber napped from the ground structure. The pile knitted fabric includes a pile fiber that is knitted into a stitch of the ground structure and napped therefrom; and a stitch composed only of th... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110177282 | WOOL BLEND VELOUR FABRIC A wool blend velour fabric article (12) is formed of yarns (14, 16) consisting of wool fibers (17a, 17b) in a blend with manufactured fibers (19a, 19b) (i.e., synthetic and/or regenerated fibers). The... | 07/21/2011 |
| 20110081517 | MULTI-LAYER FLAME RETARDANT FABRIC A composite velour fabric garment includes a laminate consisting of an outer woven shell layer, an inner thermal layer of knit construction, and an intermediate layer disposed between and laminated to each of the shell layer and the thermal layer. The outer woven shell ... | 04/07/2011 |
| 20100132412 | LOOP TAPE FOR HOOK-AND-LOOP FASTENER A loop element for a hook-and-loop fastener has a substrate layer of a nonwoven having an outer face, a fleece cover layer on the outer face of the substrate layer, and an adhesive layer on the outer face securing the cover layer to the substrate layer. A multiplicity o... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100037658 | VEHICULAR UPHOLSTERY POLYPROPYLENETEREPHTHALATE FIBER FABRIC AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING OF FABRIC A vehicular upholstery fabric is made from a raw tricot fabric which is knitted by using a PPT-multifilament yarn whose single fiber fineness is about 0.5˜6.0 dtex and whose total fineness is about 30˜180 dtex for the ground yarn and the pile yarn. The raw tricot fabr... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100000623 | Pile fabric It is aimed to provide a pile fabric that is favorable in anticurling and pile-raising performance and in curbing of coming off of the piles. To this end, yarns forming the ground part are core-in-sheath yarns having sheaths of low-melting resin; knitting or weaving pat... | 01/07/2010 |
| 20090170677 | TUBULAR KNIT FABRIC HAVING ALTERNATING COURSES OF SLIVER FIBER PILE AND CUT-PILE FOR PAINT ROLLER COVERS A tubular knit fabric is disclosed that is manufactured with a pile extending from the outer side thereof and in an extended length, small diameter configuration, the tubular knit pile fabric subsequently being separable into shorter tubular segments that may be secured... | 07/02/2009 |
| 20080163650 | Spacer fabric with integral, exposed loops and method of making A three dimensional spacer fabric including a unitary, integral spacer fabric formed from interknitted layers, including a first layer of fabric, a second interconnecting layer and a third layer of fabric, wherein the third layer further includes loops of yarn protrudin... | 07/10/2008 |
| 20080113145 | DOUBLE-FACE VELOUR FABRIC ARTICLES HAVING IMPROVED DYNAMIC INSULATION PERFORMANCE A double-face velour fabric article consists of a fabric body having a technical face formed by a filament stitch yarn and a technical back formed by a filament loop yarn. The filament stitch yarn includes a heat sensitive material, e.g. a hot melt material or a heat sh... | 05/15/2008 |
| 20050274152 | HIGH HEAT FILTER FABRIC AND METHOD A fabric is disclosed which is suitable for use in the manufacture of particulate filters for use in high heat environments having a high airflow requirement, together with a method for making the high heat filter fabric. The filter fabric has a sliver knit pile constru... | 12/15/2005 |
| 20050160770 | Multicolor fiber pile fabric and multicolor fiber pile fabric with concave-convex design The multi-colored fiber pile fabric of the present invention has at least one cut pile layer comprising a plurality of cut piles extending from at least one surface side of a knit or weave structure formed from organic fiber yarns, the cut pile layer comprises non-crimp... | 07/28/2005 |
| 20050022563 | Yarn having differentiated shrinkage segments and fabrics formed therefrom A multi-filament yarn including interlace nodes disposed along the length of the yarn. The yarn has variable retained heat shrinkage potential at segments along its length such that segments of said yarn containing the interlace nodes have a retained heat shrinkage pote... | 02/03/2005 |
| 20050003139 | Loop pile fabric having randomly arranged loops of variable height A loop pile fabric wherein the pile portion has a first group of yarn loops projecting outwardly from the base portion to a first height and at least a second group of yarn loops projecting outwardly from the base portion to a second height lower than the first height. ... | 01/06/2005 |