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| 8028386 | Engineered fabric articles Methods are described for forming unitary fabric elements for use in engineered thermal fabric articles, including, but not limited to, thermal fabric garments, thermal fabric home textiles, and thermal fabric upholstery covers, and for forming these engineered ther... | 10/04/2011 |
| 7743476 | Engineered fabric articles Methods are described for forming unitary fabric elements for use in engineered thermal fabric articles, including thermal fabric garments, thermal fabric home textiles, and thermal fabric upholstery covers, and for forming these articles, having predetermined discr... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7428772 | Engineered fabric articles Methods are described for forming unitary fabric elements for use in engineered thermal fabric articles, including, but not limited to, thermal fabric garments, thermal fabric home textiles, and thermal fabric upholstery covers, and for forming these engineered ther... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7240408 | Selectivity altering a fiber height in a pile fabric and apparatus A region of a pile fabric is impacted with a laser at spaced illuminated areas in a dithered image, wherein the laser energy and duration of impact in the illuminated areas are selected to shorten the fibers within the illuminated area. The spacing of the illuminate... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7183231 | Textured materials and method of manufacturing textured materials The present invention is directed to a textile material comprising yarns wherein the material is textured by subjecting specified regions of the material to incremental strains sufficient to cause yarn failures or yarn elongation in yarns running in one direction wi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7146693 | Tip shearing pattern in carpet An embossed surface is positioned opposite a pile fabric from a tip shearing apparatus. As the blades of the tip shearing apparatus contact the carpet, the embossed surface selectively elevates selected portions of carpet relative to unselected portions so that a de... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7117899 | Pile mesh fabric A pile mesh fabric includes a ground thread woven on a first surface and a pile thread woven into the ground thread. The ground includes a plurality of closely-spaced holes into forming a mesh. The pile thread of a predetermined length extends perpendicularly to the... | 10/10/2006 |
| 6993941 | Silver-knit material A sliver-knit material causing less buckling fatigue or deformation during compression and improved with shedding, in which a pile thread contains 30% or more of staple fibers having steric crimps, and a dense layer (Bo) and a bulky layer (Su) on the side of the upp... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6923026 | Method for hand-crafting a rug A method for hand-crafting a rug includes obtaining a first sock loop and twisting the first sock loop to form one loop four strands thick. A second sock loop is pushed halfway through the one loop and a new sock loop is pushed through the two end loops of the secon... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6923219 | Double-sided fabric: flat side / woven pile fabric A pile fabric includes woven together inner and outer layers and cut pile yarns woven into the inner layer. The outer layer has a higher yarn count than the inner layer, without counting the pile yarns. The pile fabric is one of two substantially similar pile fabric... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6855392 | Patterned stitch bonded pile fabric A patterned pile fabric of stitch-bonded construction. The fabric includes a substrate layer with an arrangement of ground yarns extending in stitched relation through the substrate layer so as to define a ground covering across the substrate layer. An arrangement o... | 02/15/2005 |
| 6770240 | System and method for air embossing fabrics utilizing improved air lances Air embossing systems, air lances and methods of air embossing fabrics produce fine detail, crisp transition between unembossed and embossed regions, and a high degree of uniformity across the width of an embossed fabric. The air embossing systems utilize air lances... | 08/03/2004 |
| 6751831 | Method of forming a three-dimensional camouflage fabric A base textile with a camouflage pattern is subjected to hot fluid streams to create flat regions and puckered or wrinkled regions, enhancing the three dimensional characteristics of the resulting material. ... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6722000 | Tip shearing carpet with moisture control A moisture applicator is positioned to apply moisture to a pile fabric prior to the blades of a tip shearing cutter contacting the carpet so that moisture may be selectively applied for one of a number of purposes such as, but not excluding, creating a pattern, and/... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6716775 | Range-dyed face finished fabrics exhibiting non-directional surface fiber characteristics Range-dyed fabrics that possess excellent hand characteristics and simultaneously exhibit substantially nondirectional appearances are provided. Such a combination permits the production and utilization of an extremely comfortable apparel fabric that can be attached... | 04/06/2004 |
| 6668435 | Loop pile fabrics and methods for making same A lightweight loop pile fabric having improved particle pick-up is described. In addition, a patterned loop pile fabric is described. The fabric has a plurality of multifilament loops extending from at least one of its surfaces, with at least some of the ... | 12/30/2003 |
| 6634070 | Multi-colored materials and method of making same A material having a unique, multi-colored appearance is described. More specifically, a material having a multi-colored appearance and a three-dimensional surface is described, along with a method of making such a material. The process involves providing ... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6350504 | Printed flocked pile fabric and method for making same A printed multicolor synthetic pile fabric having a substrate and pile formed of fibers of substantially uniform length and diameter with the fibers arranged in random groups extending uniformly across the entire width and along the entire length of the f... | 02/26/2002 |
| 6247215 | Printed flocked pile fabric and method for making same Methods of forming a printed multicolor synthetic pile fabric having a substrate and pile formed of fibers arranged in random groups extending essentially unifomn-y across the entire width and along the entire length of the fabric are disclosed. The metho... | 06/19/2001 |
| 6185475 | Method for manufacturing jacquard with colored image The method for manufacturing jacquard with colored image is disclosed, wherein the basic color printing theory in the printing technical is employed in the weaving of jacquard so that jacquard also has image with different gray levels by the same basic co... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6105624 | Fabric having a synchronized woven and printed designs A fabric which is formed by a weaving system designed to automatically maintain a printed pattern in alignment with a woven pattern as the fabric is being formed. The printed pattern is printed onto the warp yarns. A controller is used to monitor the posi... | 08/22/2000 |
| 5715707 | Pile composite with specific appearance A pile composite with specific appearnace comprising a pile fabric obtained by sliver knitting process, the pile fabric including a ground fabric, substantially straight piles and cone shape piles, both of the piles being developed on a surface of the gro... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5609935 | Fur-like piled fabric and method for production thereof This invention is directed to a fur-like pile fabric of two-layer construction formed of guard hair fibers and under-fur fibers and used as artificial fur and a method for the production thereof. This invention produces a pile fabric 1 possessing guard hair fi... | 03/11/1997 |
| 5553364 | Heat processing apparatus for pile sheet The invention discloses a heat processing apparatus for processing the surface in undulated form and expressing a pattern in a pile sheet having multiple piles on a base cloth, in particular, a pile sheet having piles composed of synthetic fibers, which c... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5282298 | Pile-edge detector for pile-fabric treatment machine A pile-detecting apparatus is used in a machine wherein a pile fabric is deflected over a smooth surface of a roll to detect the edge between the pile-free portion of the fabric and the portion with the pile, which edge runs parallel to the displacement d... | 02/01/1994 |
| 5035031 | Method and apparatus for heated pressurized fluid stream treatment of substrate material A method and apparatus for treatment of relatively moving substrate materials by preheating the substrate before precise selective application of discrete, high temperature pressurized streams of fluid against the surface of the materials to impart a visu... | 07/30/1991 |
| 4884325 | Process for the manufacture of a blanket product The process herein described provides the weaving of a manufactured product consisting of an upper fabric (2) made of cotton or any other suitable material and a lower fabric (3) with weft yarns (3a) made of wool and warp yarns (3b) interlaced with the we... | 12/05/1989 |
| 4841607 | Process for producing cloth for stuffed animal toys There is disclosed a process for producing a cloth for stuffed animal toys, comprising directly binding long or superlong fibers with the lining cloth of a high pile base cloth by hand knitting. The cloth produced by this process can dispense with back pr... | 06/27/1989 |
| 4833762 | Device for the production of crumple pleat crease patterns in fabric webs An apparatus for producing permanently set crumple pleat crease patterns in fabric webs, having a heatable crumple tube with an oscillatingly driveable stuffing element with which a fabric web in rope form is batchwise successively inserted into the crump... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4773135 | Method for manufacturing artificial furs An improved method for manufacturing an artificial fur from an intermediate pile cloth such as a double velvet weave fabric, a knitted pile fabric provided with two ground constructions and a connecting pile connecting these two ground constructions, and ... | 09/27/1988 |
| 4629858 | Method for engraving carpet and carpet so engraved Methods for engraving carpet with beams of radiant energy. A beam of radiant energy, such as a laser beam, is intermittently directed at the surface of carpet to engrave the surface, and, if desired, to cause certain color changes. During the intermittent... | 12/16/1986 |
| 4576611 | Method for producing random-appearing patterns on fabric: nodes and line segments A method is disclosed for permanently patterning a textile fabric with a visually pleasing random-appearing network of line segments, as well as the fabrics produced thereby. The fabric is preferably calendered on at least one side, then packed into a hea... | 03/18/1986 |
| 4499637 | Method for the production of materials having visual surface effects Method for pressurized fluid stream treatment of the surface of a relatively moving substrate to impart visual surface changes thereto. A fluid discharge manifold having an elongate discharge slot disposed across the path of relative movement of the subst... | 02/19/1985 |
| 4497095 | Apparatus for preparing a suede-like raised woven or knitted fabric A process and apparatus for making the appearance of a raised fabric suede-like comprising jet spraying a high pressure liquid (12) (14) onto the nap surface of a raised fabric through the means of the liquid passable material (2) having liquid impassable... | 02/05/1985 |
| 4472220 | Textile detexturizing system In order to produce random changes in texture of pile fabrics, continuous multifilament bulked yarn is treated to detexturize spaced portions along its length.... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4471514 | Apparatus for imparting visual surface effects to relatively moving materials Apparatus for imparting visual surface effects to a relatively moving substrate by application of discrete streams of heated pressurized fluid to surface areas of the substrate. The apparatus includes an elongate manifold assembly comprising two fluid rec... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4418451 | Methods for the production of multi-level surface patterned materials A method of producing surface height patterned materials by application of streams of pressurized, heated fluid into surface areas of a relatively moving material having thermally modifiable surface components. The heated fluid streams are selectively act... | 12/06/1983 |
| 4415611 | Artificial fur having guard hair fibers and under fur fibers and a method for manufacturing the same In an artificial fur made from a pile cloth provided with a ground construction and numerous pile fibers projected upward from the ground construction, the pile fibers consist of a first group of pile fibers which form a layer of guard hair in the fur and... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4393562 | Apparatus for imparting visual surface effects to relatively moving materials Improved apparatus for imparting visual surface effects to a relatively moving substrate material by application of discrete streams of heated pressurized fluid to surface areas of the material. The apparatus includes an elongate manifold assembly dispose... | 07/19/1983 |
| 4364156 | Apparatus for heated pressurized fluid stream treatment of substrate material Improved apparatus for treatment of relatively moving substrate materials by precise selective application of discrete, high temperature pressurized streams of fluid against the surface of the materials to impart a visual change thereto. The apparatus inc... | 12/21/1982 |
