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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7439200 | Fluoropolymer-glass fabric for circuit substrates An improved circuit substrate is provided wherein glass cloth is completely embedded within fluoropolymer by thermocompression to form a composite structure, which when containing an adhesive agent such as the combination of functional groups and liquid crystal poly... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7320287 | Tablecloth covering and method of covering and skirting a table A fitted tablecloth covering that may be affixed to a table without the use of tools or affixing devices is provided. Such a tablecloth covering may conveniently and quickly be affixed to a table and provide an appealing visual presentation that does not require the... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7238632 | Electromagnetic wave shielding material The present invention provides an electromagnetic wave shielding material including a three dimensionally knitted base material and a conductive metal layer formed on the three dimensionally knitted base material, which shielding material is characterized in that it... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7178470 | Tablecloth covering and method of covering and skirting a table Fitted tablecloth coverings that may be affixed to a table without the use of a tool or affixing devices are manufactured from polymeric film with prefitted corners. Methods of manufacturing a tablecloth from polymeric film with prefitted corners provide a covering ... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7053013 | X-ray absorbing material and variants The present invention relates to an X-ray absorbing material that can be used in medicine as well as in the manufacture of special protective clothing, protective screens, housings, protective coatings and isolation materials. In a first embodiment, the material use... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7053014 | Burner membrane comprising machined metal fiber bundles A burner membrane comprising a textile fabric. The textile fabric comprising at least 60% by weight of machined metal fiber bundles, having a bundle voluminousity in the range of 1 to 15% and a torsion rate in the range of 10 to 80 turns/m. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7036821 | Card game A card game is played with a set of playing cards and a gaming cloth (10), the gaming cloth (10) defining an area (12) in which a dealer may deal two or more cards constituting a house hand, and a plurality of player areas; each player area defi... | 05/02/2006 |
| 7007990 | Reinforced impact beam with layered matrix An impact beam having a polymer matrix and a metal reinforcing structure, the metal reinforcing structure including metal cords that can be made from metal elements having a diameter of 100 μm or more. The polymer matrix can include a thermoplastic material and/or ... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6984596 | Wire-reinforced elastic webbing A wire-reinforced webbing material is disclosed for use in furniture, bedding and the like. The webbing includes a flat knitted fabric comprised of substantially elastic yarns such as polyester. A plurality of reinforcement wires are integrally knitted into the fabr... | 01/10/2006 |
| 6846545 | Impact absorbing material A material to reduce the effects of trauma received from the impact of a projectile. One embodiment is a needle-punched, non-woven material including at least one type of ballistic fibers selected and oriented to provide a cushioning effect and maintain a high compr... | 01/25/2005 |
| 6803332 | Composite yarn, intermediate fabric product and method of producing a metallic fabric A composite yarn formed of a core yarn and a cover yarn, wherein one of the core yarn and the cover yarn is a fluid-soluble strand and the other of the core yarn and cover yarn is a non-fluid-soluble strand. The composite yarn can be knitted into an intermediate fab... | 10/12/2004 |
| 6800573 | Water-vapor-permeable, watertight, and heat-reflecting flat composite, process for its manufacture, and use thereof A water-vapor-permeable, watertight, heat-reflecting flat composite is made by a process of combining a metal layer and a nonporous, water-vapor-permeable, watertight, hydrophilic flat substrate. The process includes at least the three steps of (1) selecting the sub... | 10/05/2004 |
| 6779330 | Antimicrobial cut-resistant composite yarn and garments knitted or woven therefrom An antimicrobial, cut-resistant composite yarn which has a core member including at least one cut-resistant strand, a cover member including at least one strand wrapped around and enclosing the core member, wherein at least one strand in either the core member or th... | 08/24/2004 |
| 6756330 | Knitted fabric of steel fibers with increased number of stitches A knitted fabric comprises fibers. At least part of these are metal fibers. The fabric has 90 or more stitches per square centimeter. The fabric is used as a separation cloth (12) between mould (11) and glass (14). The increased number of stitch... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6723668 | Multiple layer cloth for casino, gaming and billiard tables and method therefor The cigar and cigarette burn resistant gaming cloth table includes a layer of fire retardant treated knit fabric laminated to a thin sheet of aluminum and wherein the other side of the aluminum sheet is laminated to a layer of non-woven synthetic fabric. Preferably,... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6703329 | Multiple layer cloth for casino, gaming and billiard tables and method therefor The cigar and cigarette burn resistant gaming cloth table includes a layer of fire retardant treated knit fabric laminated to a thin sheet of aluminum and wherein the other side of the aluminum sheet is laminated to a layer of synthetic fabric (preferably... | 03/09/2004 |
| 6602811 | Anti-microbial enhanced knit fabric A composite textile fabric for removing moisture from the skin is provided. The composite fabric includes an inner, first fabric layer comprising either a polyester, polypropylene, acrylic or nylon yam material which is naturally, or has been rendered, hy... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6569789 | Conductive material and its manufacture thereof A conductive material suitable as a gasket material for shielding the electromagnetic wave and a method of fabrication thereof are disclosed. The conductive material is intended to protect electronics equipment and devices from an erroneous operation whic... | 05/27/2003 |
| 6413889 | Pressing cushion The invention concerns a pressing cushion (1, 11, 31, 32, 33) having a cushioning (2, 12) that is elastic in its thickness direction and having connecting threads (8, 25), going back and forth between the surfaces of the cushioning, that are configured at... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6407016 | Reinforced knitted structure comprising metal fibers The invention relates to a single-bed weft-knitted textile structure comprising stainless steel fibre bundles, in which a reinforcing multifilament insert yarn with a titre of less than 180 Tex is incorporated with tuck stitches into the textile structure... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6342457 | Pressing cushion The invention concerns a pressing cushion (1, 6) having a textile thread system (2, 3, 7 which is characterized in that the thread system has a knitted material (2) or is made of a knitted material (7).... | 01/29/2002 |
| 6338887 | Reinforcing web, covering complex containing same and use in vehicle seat A reinforcing web constituted by substantially parallel and spaced-apart warp threads and by pairs of reinforcing threads, each shaped in the form of successive half-loops alternating in a weft direction. The successive half-loops of the reinforcing threa... | 01/15/2002 |
| 6274519 | Food wrapping cloth A food wrapping cloth comprises a fabric serving as a material and formed of a warp and a weft; the warp being composed of a cellulosic fiber yarn and a twist yarn formed by twisting an antibacterial yarn with a cellulosic fiber yarn, the antibacterial ya... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6194332 | Anti-microbial enhanced knit fabric A composite textile fabric for removing moisture away from the skin is provided. The composite fabric includes a first fabric layer comprising either a polyester, acrylic or nylon material which is naturally, or has been rendered, hydrophilic and a second... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6189157 | Fabric, especially pierce-proof fabric A fabric, which can be used more especially as a pierce-proof fabric but also as a decorative fabric, includes a plurality of interconnected scales, which have bores to connect them to one another, and into which connecting members extend. The connecting ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6180545 | Reflecting warp-knit tape for slide fastener A reflecting warp-knit slide fastener tape is knitted with several kinds of knitting patterns. A marginal portion onto which fastener elements are attached extends along one longitudinal edge of the tape. The marginal portion is formed by tricot-stitch ya... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6089051 | Warp-knit fabric of noble metal-containing wires, and method for the production thereof Fine-mesh warp-knit fabrics of noble metal-containing wires with high specific surface areas, having good mechanical stability, are produced by warp-knitting noble metal-containing wires to form closed stitches, such that the warp-knit fabric has at least... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6045926 | Thin textile fabric comprising bundles of metal filaments The invention relates to a textile fabric comprising bundles of metal filaments obtained by bundled drawing whereby the bundles in the sheet consist of filaments running substantially parallel and whereby the fabric has a thickness of preferably less than... | 04/04/2000 |
| 5981066 | Applications of metallized textile Applications of a metallized textile. The textile is activated by precipitating noble metal nucleation sites on the fibers of the textile. Immersing the activated textile in a suitably prepared solution of a metal cation, and adding a reducing agent, lead... | 11/09/1999 |
| 5965223 | Layered composite high performance fabric The present invention is a composite layered protective fabric having an outer primary layer composed of an abrasive material and an inner primary layer composed of an inherently cut-resistant material positioned below the outer primary layer and when ass... | 10/12/1999 |
| 5856248 | Microbistatic and deodorizing cellulose fibers Cellulose fibers and products comprising such fibers treated to absorb body secretions and to substantially decrease microbial growth, said fibers being chemically treated with a water soluble salt of a transition metal and an alkali and after this with a... | 01/05/1999 |
| 5645926 | Fire and heat resistant materials A flexible fire and heat resistant material comprising an intimate mixture of organic intumescent filler and organic fibres adapted to char intensely within the temperature range of 200° C. to 500° C. The added presence of inorganic fibre components enh... | 07/08/1997 |
| 5631067 | Heterogeneous knitted fabric Heterogeneous custom knitted fabric for lining the surfaces of molds includes predetermined surface zones with different knitted patterns. The knitted fabric can be utilized in devices designed for the shaping of, for example, plates of glass.... | 05/20/1997 |
| 5591509 | Ski containing sheetlike plates or tapes made of a fiber reinforced material The ski described is characterized by the use of a selected fiber reinforced material comprising a sheetlike textile material and a thermoset resin, the fiber content being 30-70% by weight and the fiber being not less than 30% by weight synthetic. This m... | 01/07/1997 |
| 5561167 | Antibacterial fiber, textile and water-treating element using the fiber and method of producing the same An antibacterial fiber includes an ion exchange fiber and an antibacterial metal ion entrapped within the ion exchange fiber through an ion exchange reaction. The invention also discloses antibacterial textiles and water-treating element using the fibers.... | 10/01/1996 |
| 5545470 | Anti-vandalism layer An anti-vandalism layer, especially for application in vehicle seats, vehicle roofs, vehicle tarpaulins, tents, inflatable structures, wall facing, and similar objects having an incisible exterior layer and subject to vandalism, includes of a knit fabric ... | 08/13/1996 |
| 5397618 | Multilayer composite article containing a multimodal combination of filler particles A multilayer composite comprising (i) a prepreg containing layer, (ii) a lightweight, highly conductive metallic wire screen or foil layer, and (iii) a sheet of lightweight carrier fabric containing (a) on one side a coating of a highly filled, thermoset ... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5385774 | Roof material for motor vehicles A roof material for motor vehicles includes an upper fabric, a lower fabric and a rubber layer arranged between them. The upper fabric includes polyacrylonitrile warp and filling threads. The warp threads are endless filaments (multifilaments). The upper ... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5384185 | Conducting reinforced plastics The invention relates to the use of an assembly comprising at least one non-conductive or substantially non-conductive carrier material and at least one conductive fiber web which has been provided on at least one side of the carrier material, with fibers... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5334440 | Wire-link belt A wire-link, such as a filament-link belt for process purposes, in particular one serving as a clothing for paper-making machines, with a plurality of juxtaposed, mutually engaging wire-coils comprising end-arcs enclosing plug-in wires and turn-legs conne... | 08/02/1994 |
