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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7416782 | Glass fiber roving A strand based on glass fibers with a τ/μ2 ratio greater than 9, where τ is the yardage of the strand in tex and μ is the filament diameter in μm. The strand has at least 6000 filaments with a yardage greater than 1200 tex and a filament diameter gre... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7309667 | Woven fabric and a method for the production thereof A fabric includes mutually transverse thread systems, with at least one of the thread systems including a differential shrinkage yarn C. The shrinkage yarn C has at least one effect component A that irreversibly elongates itself upon heat treatment, and at least one... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7127784 | Treatment of filament yarns to provide spun-like characteristics and yarns and fabrics produced thereby A process for forming a continuous filament yarn having the surface tactile character of a spun yarn. The process includes passing the cohesive yarn structure through the interior of a rotating sleeve member disposed in surrounding relation to the cohesive yarn stru... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7122248 | Security articles This invention provides security articles comprising fibers, threads and fiber sections (“dots”) possessing multiple verification characteristics. The fibers possess unique and difficulty duplicated combinations of complex cross-sections, components, and multipl... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7013542 | Process and apparatus for the transformation of yarns and a yarn thus produced Process for the mechanical transformation of a thread (F) of vegetable, animal or artificial or synthetic origin, characterized in that it includes abrading the thread (F) when the latter is supported in the air between two supports (55, 56). ... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7000375 | Polyester false-twist yarn and method of manufacturing the yarn A polyester false-twist textured yarn, useful as a yarn for woven or knitted fabrics having excellent water-absorbing and quick drying properties, satisfies all of the requirements (1) to (3) shown below: (1) the cross-sectional pr... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6705069 | Self-setting yarn A self-set yarn made from bicomponent fibers forms helical crimps that lock in twist and form bulk. ... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6440555 | Package for taking up false twist yarns The present invention provides a package, of a false twist yarn composed of polytrimethylene terephthalate fibers, characterized in that a hardness and a winding density of the package and the number of crimps of the false twist yarn thus taken up simulta... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6408607 | Method of false twist texturing a synthetic yarn to a crimped yarn A method for false twist texturing a synthetic yarn, as well as the thus-produced crimped yarn, wherein a false twist is produced on the yarn at a speed of a false twist unit, which exceeds 2.2 times of the yarn speed and is above a saturation limit for a... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6158204 | Self-setting yarn A self-set yarn made from bicomponent fibers forms helical crimps that lock in twist and form bulk.... | 12/12/2000 |
| 5856005 | Permanently anti-microbial and flame-retardant yarn and fabric made therefrom A permanently flame-retardant and anti-microbial air-textured yarn is formed of a plurality of substantially longitudinally extending, permanently flame-retardant filaments defining a core, and a plurality of substantially randomly extending, permanently ... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5644906 | Hot feed draw texturing for dark dyeing polyester A method is disclosed for increasing the dyeability of polyester yarn and comprises heating the partially oriented yarn to a temperature between its crystallization temperature and its melting point while preventing the partially oriented yarn from shrink... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5640745 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of a mixed yarn using multifilament yarn and fibers An apparatus and method for the manufacture of a mixed yarn consisting of two components, continuous filament yarn and staple fibers. The mixed yarn is manufactured by an air jet texturing process. It has been possible to bind the staple fibers undisplace... | 06/24/1997 |
| 5462790 | Combined and multi-component false-twist textured filament yarn, production method thereof, and knitted/woven fabric using the yarn In a polyester multi-filament yarn consisting of at least two kinds of false twisted filament yarns having different sectional shapes, the present invention relates to a combined and multi-component false twisted filament yarn which comprises at least one... | 10/31/1995 |
| 5414987 | Pre-stuffer box conditioning of ply-twisted carpet yarn A process for treating a ply-twisted crimped multifilament yarn. The process involves adjusting the temperature and moisture content of the yarn prior to passing the yarn through a stuffer box which is essentially free of steam. Excess hot fluid is remove... | 05/16/1995 |
| 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 |
| 5341632 | Yarn with the appearance of a spun yarn, made from polyamide-based fibres A yarn with the appearance of a spun yarn, made from polyamide-based filaments. The yarn has crimped bulked parts, and parts which are both tight and interlaced, has a cohesion factor lying between 90 and 140 knots/meter, a Young's modulus lying between 1... | 08/30/1994 |
| 5336562 | Polyolefin yarns with good performance for rugs and carpets and method of producing the same The invention relates to a novel type of polyolefine yarns with good performance in the manufacture of rugs and carpets, made-up by admixing polypropylene filaments with polyethylene filaments, and by subjecting said filaments mixture to a temperature of ... | 08/09/1994 |
| 5069958 | Printer's blanket A printing blanket having a printing face, a compressible body of material below the printing face and at least one body or reinforcing layer adjacent the compressible layer. The reinforcing layer is a woven fabric having air textured polyester warp and f... | 12/03/1991 |
| 5035110 | Nub yarn A substantially twist-free, crimped, continuous, multifilament yarn containing randomly-spaced, tightly entangled nubs and the process and apparatus used for making such yarns is disclosed. The nub yarn is made by feeding a substantially entanglement-free... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4993218 | Textured yarns and fabrics made therefrom A novel yarn is a bundle of multifiliment supply yarns, preferably at least two, with two alternating lengths in a selected ratio. The first length has alternating sections of entangled filaments forming nodes and unentangled, crimped filaments alternatin... | 02/19/1991 |
| 4976097 | Level-dyeable mix-spun false-twisted yarn Disclosed is a level-dyeable mixed false-twisted filament yarn composed of larger denier multifilaments (1) having a denier of 1 to 2.5 and smaller denier multifilaments (2) having a denier of 0.6 or less, which is characterized in that (a) the yarn compr... | 12/11/1990 |
| 4969322 | Ultra-soft and flat multifilament yarn and process for the production thereof A flat multifilament yarn having a very soft unique touch is obtained by arranging two or more types of multifilament yarns having different drawings properties in parallel, and applying a false twisting procedure which includes a twist applying and twist... | 11/13/1990 |
| 4955189 | Worsted yarn-like false-twisted yarn Disclosed is a worsted yarn-like false-twisted yarn composed of large-denier multifilaments having a thickness of at least 4 de and small-denier multifilaments having a thickness of 0.7 to 2 de, which comprises (a) alternately twisted yarn-like wrapped po... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4829757 | Apparatus for forming a composite yarn from elastic and inelastic yarns An apparatus for the production of a yarn has a joining group provided with a frame carrying a pneumatic-joining assembly, a unit for conditioning substantially inelastic yarns and feeding them to the pneumatic-joining assembly and a unit for feeding an e... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4802331 | Glass fiber bulk strand roving A glass fiber bulk strand roving that is made up of a multiplicity of strands, each of which is made up of a plurality of individual fibers, for example, 200 of such fibers. Each strand of the roving has a multiplicity of rather long, axially extending lo... | 02/07/1989 |
| 4790136 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of glass fiber strand roving A glass fiber bulk strand roving that is made up of a multiplicity of strands, each of which is made up of a plurality of individual fibers, for example, 200 of such fibers. Each strand of the roving has a multiplicity of rather long, axially extending lo... | 12/13/1988 |
| 4788816 | Texturized synthetic yarns Method to produce a spun-like textured yarn comprised of one yarn which is substantially fully oriented and the other yarn is partially oriented. The method involves plying the yarns in the draw zone before being pre-textured. The ply point of the plied y... | 12/06/1988 |
| 4776162 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of glass fiber bulk strand roving A method and apparatus for the manufacture of a glass fiber bulk strand roving which is made up of a multiplicity of strands, each of which is made up of a plurality of individual fibers, for example, 200 of such fibers. Each strand of the roving has a mu... | 10/11/1988 |
| 4741151 | Method and apparatus for the manufacture of glass fiber bulk strand roving A glass fiber bulk strand roving that is made up of a multiplicity of strands, each of which is made up of a plurality of individual fibers, for example, 200 of such fibers. Each strand of the roving has a multiplicity of rather long, axially extending lo... | 05/03/1988 |
| 4736578 | Method for forming a slub yarn A method for forming a slub yarn uses conventional false-twist texturing apparatus in combination with one or more air jets to impart striations and/or neps and slubs to continuous filament yarns. Three process configurations are disclosed; each configura... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4711080 | Spun yarn and method and apparatus for forming spun yarn A bound spun yarn comprising substantially twistless core fibers and wound fibers wound spirally around the core fibers. The core fibers and the wound fibers have colors different from each other and the number of the wound fibers vary randomly in a longi... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4689944 | Flat yarn and method for producing the same A flat yarn wherein fibers composing a yarn are bonded to each other substantially in a side-by-side manner to form a tape-like flat body and the flat body has a plurality of gear-crimped portions across a width thereof. There may be a plurality of revers... | 09/01/1987 |
| 4674273 | Method to texturize synthetic yarns Method to produce a spun-like textured yarn comprised of one yarn which is substantially fully oriented and the other yarn is partially oriented. The method involves plying the yarns in the draw zone before being pre-textured. The ply point of the plied y... | 06/23/1987 |
| 4663927 | Method and apparatus for producing slub yarn A slub yarn, in which a sheath component is wound around a core component to form a plurality of slub portions along the axis of the yarn, which structure is obtained by simultaneously false-twist texturing the core and sheath components. The slub yarn ha... | 05/12/1987 |
| 4656825 | Sewing thread and method for manufacturing the same A method for manufacturing a sewing thread comprising the following steps: drawing an undrawn polyester multifilament yarn; preliminarily heat treating the drawn yarn at an effective heat treating temperature before false twisting; then, false twisting the heat tre... | 04/14/1987 |
| 4638624 | False twist crimped yarn having improved coherency The present invention provides a false twist crimped yarn having an improved coherent structure which is produced by the specific mode of processing realized by defining the processing conditions of false twist crimping system. Here the unitary effect gen... | 01/27/1987 |
| 4615167 | Highly entangled thread development A method and apparatus for forming a yarn or sewing thread from core and effect yarns. The effect yarn is drawn at no higher than a normal drawing ratio for material from which the effect yarn is made and the effect yarn is softened by sufficient heating,... | 10/07/1986 |
| 4610131 | Method of forming air textured boucle yarn A boucle yarn is produced by entangling a drawn core yarn and an air textured, drawn effect yarn. The air textured, drawn effect yarn provides a plurality of randomly spaced curls or loops around the core yarn to produce the boucle yarn appearance. A numb... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4578940 | Method for manufacturing sewing thread A method for manufacturing a sewing thread comprising the following steps: drawing an undrawn polyester multifilament yarn; preliminarily heat treating the drawn yarn at an effective heat treating temperature before false twisting; then, false twisting the heat tre... | 04/01/1986 |
