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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7367094 | Apparatus for imparting stretch to fabrics An apparatus for the treatment of fabric which comprises transport means (20, 26) for effecting relative movement between a heat and pressure application means and the fabric, whereby the passage of the fabric through the apparatus results in the yarns substa... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7077796 | Bag with elastic strip and method of making the same Provided is a plastic bag including a live elastic strip that, in the elastic strip's normal condition, contracts thereby constricting an opening of the bag to assist in retaining the bag to an object. The elastic strip includes a first region that is continuously a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7036197 | Stretchable multiple-component nonwoven fabrics and methods for preparing A method for preparing stretchable bonded nonwoven fabrics which involves forming a substantially nonbonded nonwoven web of multiple-component continuous filaments or staple fibers which are capable of developing three-dimensional spiral crimp, activating the spiral... | 05/02/2006 |
| 6908664 | Process for making stitchbonded fabric An improved process for making stitchbonded fabric in which a feed material that has a visible pattern on it is surface is multi-needle stitched with a contractible yarn and then the stitched material is contracted to form an attractive, novel surface pattern that i... | 06/21/2005 |
| 6883193 | Elastic fitted cover A form-fitting cover has a top panel that has an elastic stretch in a least one linear direction in the range of 25 to 150% and a skirt attached to and depending from the periphery of the top panel. The skirt has an upper edge that has an elastic stretch at least eq... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6866068 | Method for producing woven fabrics A method for producing woven fabrics, especially airbag woven fabrics, while using a multiphase weaving machine in the following steps: weaving a fabric comprised of filament threads in warp and weft on the multiphase weaving machine, whereby a high shrinking type o... | 03/15/2005 |
| 6732413 | Method of producing stretchable fabrics A method of treating a woven fabric of thermoplastic synthetic fibres to produce a two-way stretchable fabric (20) which comprises providing a fabric (20) having stretch characteristics in the width direction, applying heat and pressure to the fabric (... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6423165 | Method of making convexities and/or concavities on cloths of a garment A method for forming convexities and/or concavities on cloths for a garment at almost entire portions of the garment or any desired portion of the garment without any substantial limitation from a design point of view. The method for forming a garment hav... | 07/23/2002 |
| 5987721 | Imparting stretch to fabrics A method of treating a woven fabric, this method including applying simultaneous and progressive heat and pressure to the fabric in such a manner that the yarn strands substantially across the width of the fabric are forced closer together thus imparting ... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5972473 | Separator or packaging material having a matte or embossed surface A separator or a packaging material is provided, comprising a thermoplastic plastic film at least one surface of which is a matte surface or an embossed surface having a surface roughness (Ra) of not larger than 1/2 of the thickness of the film. The therm... | 10/26/1999 |
| 5158821 | Formable textile sheet material and network materials produced therefrom A formable textile material is described comprising a textile sheet material comprising at least two different kinds of polyester yarn, at least one of the yarns having a heat shrinkage at the boil of at least 45%, preferably at least 60%, and at least on... | 10/27/1992 |
| 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 |
| 4921751 | Conductive fabric and a method for the manufacture of the conductive fabric, and a conductive sheet and film made using the conductive fabric A conductive fabric comprising conductive fibers and thermoplastic fibers with a higher heat shrinkage than that of said conductive fibers, said conductive fibers being crimped by heat shrinkage of said thermoplastic fibers. This invention also provides a... | 05/01/1990 |
| 4892557 | Process for forming crepe fabrics and for temporarily stabilizing high twist filament yarn in the manufacture of such fabrics A process for forming crepe fabrics on a shuttleless loom is provided which includes temporary stabilization of highly twisted (e.g., 40-70 TPI) filament yarn. To this end, hot melt size is applied at a predetermined temperature in predetermined amounts (... | 01/09/1990 |
| 4891040 | Woven fabric belt Woven fabric for use in a power transmission belt. The fabric has a warp of shrinkable yarns obtained by aligning and twisting individual shrinkable mixed twisted yarns. Alternatively, the warp may be formed of more than two mixed twisted yarns mixed in a... | 01/02/1990 |
| 4879169 | Quilted elastic composite fabric An elastic quilted composite fabric is provided. The quilted fabric has at least one gathered fibrous layer and at least one elastic fabric layer. The elastic fabric layer preferably includes 1/2 to 10% by weight of spandex fibers and is a stitch-bonded f... | 11/07/1989 |
| 4762581 | Method of making high-profile structures A planar, biaxially heat-shrinkable, plastics mesh layer is fixed to a planar, relatively non-heat-shrinkable plastics mesh layer at zones which are spaced apart on a generally square grid, and the structure so formed is heated to cause the shrink layer t... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4761321 | Corrugated woven fabric A heat shrunk, high bulk, elastic, corrugated fabric comprising low shrink fill yarns and an alternating pattern of high shrink and ultra low shrink texturized warp yarns; and wherein substantially parallel corrugations extending along the fill direction ... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4321735 | Method for forming a narrow weave from bare elastomeric threads A narrow woven stretch fabric is formed from bare elastomeric warp threads separated by high shrink warp threads and from a high shrink weft thread. The edge elastomeric warp threads are loosely wrapped with heat set yarn. These edge threads, which are un... | 03/30/1982 |
| 4244173 | Boucle yarn and process for its preparation A boucle yarn is prepared by relaxed heat treatment of a precursor yarn prepared by combination of a low shrinkage filament or yarn or monofil at the back of the front roller of a spinning frame with a roving of high shrinkage fibers followed by twisting ... | 01/13/1981 |
| 4168197 | Method of manufacturing padding cloth for belts having a latent differential shrinkability property Method of manufacturing a padding cloth for belts said cloth having a latent curvability property, in which a belt-like cloth having a plurality of thermal shrinkage rates in the widthwise direction is subjected to heat-treatment under a relaxed condition... | 09/18/1979 |
| 4079602 | Limited stretch double knit fabric A double knit fabric is knitted from at least a first yarn and a second yarn, said first yarn having a boiling water shrinkage ranging from boiling water shrinkage ranging from about 50 to about 95 percent, and said fabric containing from about 70 to abou... | 03/21/1978 |
| 3953271 | Process for the production of artificial leather having a crepe pattern Artificial leather having a crepe pattern is produced by a process comprising preparing a base cloth material at least a part of which is composed of highly heat shrinkable yarn and less heat shrinkable yarn, said highly heat shrinkable yarn having a heat... | 04/27/1976 |
