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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7866137 | Recyclable chenille yarn A recyclable chenille yarn has a core yarn or core yarns, and effect yarns, of natural fiber materials. The core yarn or yarns hold the effect yarns by twisting the yarns together, so that no binder is necessary or used. Accordingly, the chenille yarn is biodegradab... | 01/11/2011 |
| 6811870 | Method for forming chenille yarns and the chenille yarns produced thereby A warp knit fabric having a plurality of stitches formed by overlaps arranged in adjacent, longitudinally extending wales with transverse underlaps connecting the overlaps of adjacent wales and with a binder material extending along the wales is used to produce a ch... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6588192 | Methods of making new chenille yarns for high speed weaving applications and improved product wear performance The present invention is directed to new chenille yarns and methods of making the same. The present invention is further directed to new chenille yarns having a spun core containing low-melting staple-length binder fibers and methods of making the same. T... | 07/08/2003 |
| 6401442 | Dubbing assembly in fly hook production A machine for dubbing assembly in fly hook production includes a base having a vertical dowel mounted to one end of the base, and a housing mounted to the other end. A work platform is pivotally mounted to one side of the base so that the platform may be ... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6289700 | Method of making multi-segmented chenille yarns on a crochet knitting machine Chenille yarns having a spaced dyed appearance of made by crochet knitting a chenille fabric having a plurality of parallel spaced warp yarns with which chain stitches are formed for securing weft yarns laid transverse to the warp yarns as each stitch is ... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6119444 | Apparatus for the formation of yarn in a chenille machine Apparatus for driving interweaving threads in a yarn-forming unit of a chenille machine comprising, for each of the two sides of a gauge (1) on which the fuzzy thread is wound and sized, a pair of rollers (3, 30) forming a calender for driving two interwe... | 09/19/2000 |
| 5906877 | Moisture stable tuftstring carpet This invention provides moisture stable tuftstring carpet assemblies. The pile surface structure comprises a moisture stable backing substrate, a plurality of elongated pile articles each comprising an elongated, moisture stable support strand having bond... | 05/25/1999 |
| 5487941 | Continuous/discontinuous filament yarn or tow A yarn/tow composed of continuous thermoplastic filaments and discontinuous structural filaments wherein the discontinuous structural filaments are intermingled with the continuous thermoplastic filaments. Groups of discontinuous structural filaments have... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5470629 | Method and apparatus for making a pile article and the products thereof An elongated pile article having a support strand for attachment to a plurality of yarn bundles, the yarn bundles including a dense portion with the filaments bonded to each other and bonded to the support strand, pile surface structure comprised of a plu... | 11/28/1995 |
| 5358767 | Textile structure useful as reinforcements in the manufacture of composite materials, and technical yarns for such structures Textile structure useful as a reinforcement in the manufacture of composite materials is produced using technical yarns. At least some of the yarns are formed from three constituents, namely a substantially straight core, a relief yarn, and an independent... | 10/25/1994 |
| 5194063 | Garland maker A garland making device which comprises an arm rotatable about an axis formed by a stand securable to a work surface, the arm being rotatable by a crank. There is associated with and rotates simultaneously with the arm, a spool to feed a core cord or wire... | 03/16/1993 |
| 5091226 | Decorative garland A decorative garland. A product and method of manufacture of garland includes a web having transversely cut center and border sections, and the center section has widely spaced transverse cuts and the border sections have narrower spaced transverse cuts. ... | 02/25/1992 |
| 5027594 | Equipment for producing a yarn having loosened fibers and binding threads Loosened fibers are engaged by means of twisted or knitted binding yarns (FL); a feed roller (210) for the fibers of a roving or fiber top is tangent to a card (206) placed in a housing (212) opening onto a cavity (214) which is essentially tangential to ... | 07/02/1991 |
| 5009946 | Composite sheet for automotive use There is described a composite sheet includes a textile layer containing an electrically conductive fiber with an electric resistance of 105 to 109 ohms/cm as disposed at spaced intervals not exceeding 30 mm and a semiconductive laye... | 04/23/1991 |
| 4963411 | Decorative ribbon garland and method of manufacturing same A decorative ribbon is disclosed having a web portion comprising two flexible wires enclosed within its crimped hemmed edges. The flexible wires allow the substantially flat decorative ribbon to be formed into numerous shapes for numerous decorative purpo... | 10/16/1990 |
| 4789571 | Decorative garland The present invention is directed to a garland comprising a core portion and a decorative portion surrounding the core portions, the decorative portion including a first component comprising a non-fibrous material and a second component comprising a fibro... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4609576 | Artificial Christmas trees Artificial Christmas trees have been formed by sandwiching one or more thin strips of plastics sheeting, whose side edges have been severed by a very large number of closely spaced transverse cuts so as to give transverse elements simulating the pine need... | 09/02/1986 |
| 4542446 | Decorative ornament having garland and a light string The present invention provides a decorative ornament that includes a garland, having a center wire and a tinsel strip wound around the center wire. The tinsel strip is divided into a plurality of narrow strands. The invention further includes light string... | 09/17/1985 |
| 4528809 | Loop chenille type yarn Apparatus and method for making loop chenille type yarns and yarns produced thereby are disclosed. An elongated spindle having a tapered needle surface at one end thereof is provided. The spindle has a passage therein in communication with the needle surf... | 07/16/1985 |
| 4517715 | Chenille woven or knitted fabric and process for producing the same An improved chenille woven or knitted fabric utilizing at least a chenille yarn composed of synthetic fibers, wherein raised fibers forming a raised fiber portion of the chenille yarn are composed of ultra-fine fibers having a fineness smaller than 0.9 de... | 05/21/1985 |
| 4513564 | Yarn A yarn comprised of a number of threads twisted with each other is provided with a plurality of feathers, the quill portions of which are tightly inserted into twisted threads and the feather portions of which project outwardly from the twisted threads to... | 04/30/1985 |
| 4288973 | Machine for producing chenille yarn A machine for producing chenille yarn has a winding member on which turns of effect yarn are formed. A rotating disc-shaped cutter can be moved into an operative position to cut the turns on the winding member into individual lengths of effect yarn for fo... | 09/15/1981 |