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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7168232 | Fiber reinforcement material, products made thereform, and method for making the same The present invention provides a synthetic fiber and methods for its use and formation. The present invention may comprise a fiber component that is a twisted bundle comprised of multiple strands of a nonfibrillating monofilament, the degree of twist being greater t... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7078096 | Method for producing polyester extra fine multi-filament yarn and polyester extra fine false twist textured yarn, polyester extra fine multi-filament yarn, and polyester extra-fine false twist textured yarn There are provided a process for producing a polyester fine multifilament yarn having a single filament fineness of 0.9 dtex or below, a total number of single filaments of 100 to 400 and a birefringence of 0.03 to 0.06 comprising passing polymer streams of a polyes... | 07/18/2006 |
| 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 |
| 6848248 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 02/01/2005 |
| 6748731 | Tire cord A tire cord having core filaments preformed into a helical configuration while maintaining the core filaments in a parallel, side-by-side relationship. The core filaments are not twisted or stranded together. High tensile strength sheath filaments are also preformed... | 06/15/2004 |
| 6725640 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6722116 | Method and apparatus for manufacturing fiber bundle with injected air Two flat fiber bundles of non-twisted filaments are arranged in an overlapped relationship or in a parallel and adjoining relationship, and held by a gripper at two points spaced apart from each other in the filament-extending direction. Compressed air is injected f... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6705070 | Method of making furniture with synthetic woven material An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments. The polymer filaments may be monofilaments or plural filaments which are twisted together and heat set to prevent their untwisting during the subsequent weaving process. The heat setting of the polyme... | 03/16/2004 |
| 6625970 | Method of making twisted elongated yarn An article of furniture is made from elongated polymer filaments which are attached and woven onto a frame forming woven panels. Subsequent to the weaving and attachment process, the completed article is placed in an oven to heat set the resulting woven m... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6627311 | Polyester tape yarn The present invention is polyester tape yarn excellent in mechanical strength and dye affinity, and, therefore, suitable as fancy work yarn formed through uniaxial orientation of polyester having the ultimate viscosity of 0.7 or more, and has the tensile ... | 09/30/2003 |
| 6425237 | Sewing yarn and process for the manufacture of a sewing yarn A sewing yarn is described, with at least two roving. yarns, which are twisted together with one another for the formation of the sewing yarn, whereby each roving yarn has the structure of a core yarn, comprising at least one first multifilament yarn comp... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6351933 | Pneumatic tire A pneumatic tire for heavy duty use comprises at least one radial carcass ply, a tread portion disposed radially outwardly of the crown region of the carcass plies and a crown reinforcing structure interposed between the tread portion and the crown region... | 03/05/2002 |
| 6260343 | High-strength, fatigue resistant strands and wire ropes Strands and wire ropes composed of materials such as high carbon steels and stainless steels can be provided in a compacted, mechanically stress relieved and thermally stress relieved condition. The wires are compacted during stranding to form the individ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 5741587 | High filament count fine filament polyester yarns A direct melt spinning process for providing high filament count fine filament polyester yarns having excellent mechanical quality and along-end uniformity and unitary interlace by spinning all the filaments of such high filament count yarn from a single ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5724800 | Ring spinning method and a yarn made thereby The ring spinning method drafts a sliver in a multi-stage drafting system where the sliver acquires a total draft in a range of from 60 to 150-fold. Following outlet from the last nip of the drafting system, the drafted sliver is conveyed without drafting... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5518814 | Flat multifilament yarn having low opening tendency and good compaction Described is a flat multifilament yarn with minimal opening tendency of the mutually bound-together filaments, expressed by the quantity VS(KF)>42% and with good compaction, expressed by the quantity (VGmean /VGmax) * 100%>45% the V... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5486417 | Mixed cross-section carpet yarn A blend of fibers is made of about 51 to 90% by weight of base fibers (a) selected from triangular trilobal fibers having a modification ratio ranging from 2.4 to 3.4; hollow pentagonal fibers; standard trilobal fibers having a modification ratio of at le... | 01/23/1996 |
| 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 |
| 5413857 | Mixed cross-section carpet yarn A blend of fibers is made of about 51 to 90% by weight of base fibers (a) selected from triangular trilobal fibers having a modification ratio ranging from 2.4 to 3.4; hollow pentagonal fibers; standard trilobal fibers having a modification ratio of at le... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5361808 | Papermaker's fabric containing finned weft yarns A woven papermakers' fabric containing warp and weft yarns wherein the weft yarns are monofilaments characterized by having two or more thin readily deformable fins or lobed extensions. By replacing the currently used round monofilaments or twisted and ca... | 11/08/1994 |
| 5333442 | Method for producing a rope having superior friction and wearing resistance A multi-strand nylon rope having improved abrasion resistance is comprised of a plurality of strands. Each strand is comprised of a plurality of yarns wherein each yarn is formed of a predetermined number of filaments. The filaments of each yarn are twist... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5221382 | Pneumatic tire including gas absorbing cords Pneumatic tires are rendered less susceptible to blow or blister defects by providing, in at least one cord reinforcement ply of a tire, a plurality of gas absorbing cords with the reinforcement cords and gas absorbing cords lying in the same general plan... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5208106 | Trilobal and tetralobal filaments exhibiting low glitter and high bulk Synthetic filaments having a trilobal or tetralobal cross-sectional shape with substantial convex curves, connected by cusps, along the contour of each lobe. The filaments are especially suitable for making carpets which exhibit low glitter, high bulk, an... | 05/04/1993 |
| 5202185 | Sheath-core spinning of multilobal conductive core filaments Multilobal core conductive bicomponent sheath-core filaments are provided and methods for making the same.... | 04/13/1993 |
| 5199253 | Nylon rope having superior friction and wearing resistance A multi-strand nylon rope having improved abrasion resistance comprised of a plurality of strands. Each strand is comprised of a plurality of yarns wherein each yarn is formed of a predetermined number of filaments. The filaments of each yarn are twisted ... | 04/06/1993 |
| 5108838 | Trilobal and tetralobal filaments exhibiting low glitter and high bulk Synthetic filaments having a trilobal or tetralobal cross-sectional shape with substantial convex curves, connected by cusps, along the contour of each lobe. The filaments are especially suitable for making carpets which exhibit low glitter, high bulk, an... | 04/28/1992 |
| 5097872 | Woven work fabric with X-shaped monofilament yarns A woven work fabric includes a first set of monofilament yarns that extend in a first direction and a second set of monofilament yarns that are interwoven with the first set of yarns and that extend in a second direction that is transverse to the first se... | 03/24/1992 |
| 5019449 | Spinneret and yarn produced thereby A spinneret having octagonally-shaped orifices for producing yarn filaments having a characteristic cross-section and improved cross-sectional fidelity. The filament cross-section is characterized by generally symmetrical rectangular sub-sections each hav... | 05/28/1991 |
| 4938015 | Reinforcing steel cords A steel cord for the reinforcement of rubber products and the like has an open twisted structure comprised of 3 to 6 steel filaments each having an ellipsoidally helical shape, and has a particular tensile elongation under a load of 5 kg.... | 07/03/1990 |
| 4900496 | Process for making a tire cord using yarns containing a dip penetration regulator A polyamide yarn having on the surface of the polyamide yarn a hydrophobic organic ester dip penetration regulator having a melting point greater than 27° C. and convertible by conventional means into a tire cord having low stiffness and high air permeab... | 02/13/1990 |
| 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 |
| 4869059 | Yarn consolidation by wrapping for hollow fiber membranes Hollow fiber separation membranes are bundled in groups of 5-350 membranes and helically wound with a 20-120 denier yarn. The bundle is more readily handled when making permeators using dry membranes and there is significantly reduced fiber breakage and d... | 09/26/1989 |
| 4860531 | Racquet strings A synthetic string for a sports racquet has an inner single strand or multifilament core, wrapped with one or more helically wound layers of large diameter strands of monofilament, and surrounded by an extruded coating of regular polygonal cross-section h... | 08/29/1989 |
| 4845934 | False twisted bulky multifilament yarn, method of making and end use of this yarn A false twisted bulky synthetic multifilament yarn of a uniform polymer consisting of at least two filament bundles of different filament deniers, with the filaments in each of said bundles having the same denier per filament. The smaller denier per filam... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4829761 | Continuous filament yarn having spun-like or staple-like character Continuous filament yarn having nonload-bearing fracturable filaments and load-bearing non-fracturable filaments, an elongation-to-break of equal to or less than 180%; yarn made from such continuous filament yarn and fractured to have spun-like or staple-... | 05/16/1989 |
| 4805393 | String construction for a sports racket A construction of a string of the type used with a plurality of other such strings, in connected fashion across the head of a sports racket, such as a tennis racket or the like, wherein the string construction is defined to include various structural comp... | 02/21/1989 |
| 4801503 | High tenacity polyhexamethylene adipamide yarn having ribbon cross-section filaments A polyhexamethylene adipamide yarn characterized by a tenacity greater than 4.5 g/den., an elongation of from 25-40% constituent ribbon cross-section filaments having a length to width ratio greater than 3 is disclosed. Also disclosed is the process for m... | 01/31/1989 |
| 4712366 | Denier-mixed composite yarn, denier-mixed special thick and thin yarn, false twist yarn and denier-mixed shrinkage-mixed composite yarn The present invention relates to a denier-mixed composite yarn containing 20 weight percent or more coarse filaments whose single filament fineness is 3 deniers or more and 5 weight percent or more fine filaments whose single filament fineness is 1.5 deni... | 12/15/1987 |
| 4707409 | Spinneret orifices and four-wing filament cross-sections therefrom Spinneret having an orifice defined by two intersecting slots and each intersecting slot in turn defined by three quadrilateral sections connected in series: the middle quadrilateral section of each intersecting slot having a greater width than the other ... | 11/17/1987 |
| 4698260 | Polyester yarn A polyester multi-filament yarn having uneven thickness along the length, comprising a bulged portion in which a part of filaments are separated or bulged out from the yarn surface, and at least a portion of the filament composing the bulged portion has a... | 10/06/1987 |
