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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5188892 | Spun textile yarns Spun textile yarns from new polyester staple fiber, and downstream textile articles, such as fabrics and garments, made from such, and blends thereof, wherein the staple fiber is of intentionally mixed denier, the higher denier being about twice the lower... | 02/23/1993 |
| 5128197 | Woven fabric made of shape memory polymer A woven fabric woven from fibers of a shape memory polymer alone or a blend of said fibers and ordinary natural or synthetic fibers.... | 07/07/1992 |
| 5087499 | Puncture-resistant and medicinal treatment garments and method of manufacture thereof The present invention relates to improvements in puncture-resistant and medicinal treatment garments. Garments made from fibers such as KEVLAR.RTM. and designed to deter penetration of objects are subjected to an additional brushing step to enhance the fi... | 02/11/1992 |
| 5077126 | Process for making cotton blend warp yarns for durable fabrics Staple yarns of cotton and high modulus fiber are wet and then dried under tension to provide warp yarn for durable, abrasion resistant fabrics.... | 12/31/1991 |
| 4942089 | Rapidly shrinking fiber and water-absorbing shrinkable yarn and other materials comprising same Rapidly shrinking fibers hardly soluble in water and capable of shrinking in water at 20° C. by not less than 30% in not longer than 10 seconds are obtained, for example, by spinning, drawing and heat-treating a carboxy-modified polyvinyl alcohol under s... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4918912 | Cut and abrasion resistant spun yarns and fabrics Spun yarns and fabrics having a high level of both abrasion and cut-resistance are disclosed. Such yarns are made from a blend of about 40-60 percent para-aramid fiber, about 20-40 percent nylon fiber, and about 10-30 percent acrylic fiber. The yarns and ... | 04/24/1990 |
| 4882222 | Carpet fiber blends A blend of conventional carpet fibers (e.g. nylon fibers) and high shrinkage fibers (e.g. acrylic fibers) is described. Saxony carpet made from the blend has better appearance retention characteristics than corresponding saxony carpet made from the conven... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4809493 | Water-absorbing shrinkable yarn Rapidly shrinking fibers hardly soluble in water and capable of shrinking in water at 20° C. by not less than 30% in not longer than 10 seconds are obtained, for example, by spinning, drawing and heat-treating a carboxy-modified polyvinyl alcohol under s... | 03/07/1989 |
| 4771596 | Method of making fiber composite A fine heterogeneous hybrid spun yarn is blended from electrostatically conductive staple fibers and electrostatically non-conductive staple fibers so that the yarn is electrostatically conductive only over short discrete lengths. When used in pile fabric... | 09/20/1988 |
| 4729215 | Yarn for manufacturing artificial furs Improved yarn for manufacturing artificial fur, having underfur and guard hairs. The guard hairs have a multiplicity of staple fibers having tapered ends. The underfur fibers are shorter and of less denier. The guard hairs and underfur fibers are relative... | 03/08/1988 |
| 4668552 | Wrap yarns having low-melt binder strands and pile fabrics formed therefrom and attendant processes A pile fabric is formed from interengaging ground yarns and cut pile tufts formed of wrap yarns extending upwardly from the ground yarns to form the face of the fabric. Each of the wrap yarns comprises a body strand of untwisted staple fibers and a binder... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4668553 | Wrap yarns having crimped textured binder strands and pile fabrics formed therefrom and attendant processes A pile fabric is formed of interengaging ground yarns and cut pile tufts. The tufts are formed of wrap yarns extending upwardly from the ground yarns and forming the face of the fabric. Each of the wrap yarns comprises a body strand of untwisted staple fi... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4524577 | Twisted yarn The twisted yarn is prepared by twisting (1) a single yarn comprising a water-insoluble fiber having a degree of water swelling of at least 10 cc/g or (2) a plurality of single yarns comprising a water-insoluble fiber having a degree of water swelling of ... | 06/25/1985 |
| 4520623 | Activated carbon fiber spun yarn An activated carbon fiber spun yarn having excellent workability and adsorptive property is disclosed. The activated carbon fiber spun yarn comprising activated carbon fibers having a specific surface area of 500 to 1,500 m2 /g, a ductility of ... | 06/04/1985 |
| 4519201 | Process for blending fibers and textiles obtained from the fiber blends The present invention relates to an improved process for blending together textile like fibers exhibiting a relatively high modulus of elasticity together with textile fibers exhibiting a relatively low modulus of elasticity which blend can further be con... | 05/28/1985 |
| 4457345 | Blended yarn containing active carbon staple fibers, and fabric woven therefrom A yarn is prepared from a mixture of textile staple fibers and active carbon staple fibers which consists of 5 to 75%, preferably 20 to 40%, of the latter by weight, by chopping active carbon monofilaments into staple fibers, mixing them with textile stap... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4454196 | Polyester multifilament yarn and a process for manufacturing the same A polyester multifilament consisting essentially of a filament groups (I) and (II). The filament group (I) is composed of a polyester selected from the group consisting of polyethylene terephthalate, polytrimethylene terephthalate and polytetramethylene t... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4433535 | Glass fibre yarns and other goods, and method of manufacture A yarn is made by carding short lengths of glass fibre and then spinning the carded fibres. Advantageously short lengths of support fibre are mixed in with the short lengths of glass fibre before carding. A reinforcing strand may be buried in the yarn dur... | 02/28/1984 |
| 4384448 | Ring spinning frame Improvements in conventional ring spinning processes of the type wherein a strand of staple fibers if drafted, twisted and collected on a ring spinning frame are obtained by the added step of subjecting the strand to the twisting action of a pneumatic fal... | 05/24/1983 |
| 4356690 | Fasciated yarn Fasciated yarn having uniform yarn construction and high strength, comprising a staple fiber group having a special staple assortment for making such a fasciated yarn.... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4062177 | Spun yarn and process for manufacturing the same This invention relates to a novel spun yarn composed of staple fibers only and having the average number of fibers in cross section and the rate of yarn evenness being within a limited range, and a process for manufacturing the same directly from continuo... | 12/13/1977 |
| 4045949 | Integral, electrically-conductive textile filament The invention is an integral, electrically-conductive textile filament comprising from 2 to about 1000 electrically-conducting, longitudinally-directed strata of fiber-forming polymeric material, and one non-conducting stratum of the same polymeric materi... | 09/06/1977 |
| 4018042 | Wrapped yarn A Yarn is described composed of an untwisted staple sliver and of at least one filament wound around this sliver. The denier of the winding filamentary yarn is under 50 dtex, the elongation at break of the winding filamentary yarn is at least as great as the ... | 04/19/1977 |
| 3986530 | Cloth having antistatic properties A knitted or woven cloth having antistatic properties which is suitable for use in the preparation of filter bags and garments, which is characterized in that said cloth contains an electrically conductive thread composed of 10 to 90 weight % of electrole... | 10/19/1976 |
