Abstract:
A textile made at least in part with conductive yarns for the purpose of generating heat from an electrical power source. The textile has conducting yarns, or “heaters”, with conductivity and spacing tailored to the electrical source to be used and the heat to be generated. The heater yarns have a positive temperature coefficient whereby the resistance of the yarn increases with an increase in temperature and decreases with a decrease in temperature. “Leads”, such as conductive yarns, can be used to supply electricity to the heater yarns. A coating to the textile can electrically insulate the textile as well as provide protection to the textile during activities such as laundering or use.
Abstract:
A surface functional electro-textile fabric incorporates energy-active, electrically conductive or optically conductive fibers and nonconductive fibers in a woven or knitted textile fabric. The weave or knit pattern is selected so as to form floats of the electrically conductive fibers on at least one surface of the electro-textile fabric. The electro-textile fabric can be incorporated into an antenna structure that interacts with high frequency electromagnetic radiation, particularly in the frequency range of DC to 100 GHz.
Abstract:
Composite coating (10) improves the resistance to blast or seismic forces of a structure (100), such as wall (101). Coating (10) includes a first layer (20) of elastomeric polyurethane in contact with and adhering to wall (101), a second layer (30) of elastomeric polyurethane in contact with and adhering to first layer (20), and a layer of textile (40) embedded between first layer (20) and second layer (30).
Abstract:
A spun yarn comprising poly(trimethylene terephthalate) staple fibers at a content of at least 15% by weight, the spun yarn having an elastic recovery percentage of elongation at 5% elongation (%) null0.1Xnull70 (wherein X represents the content of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) staple fibers in the spun yarn (wt %)). The spun yarn is excellent in knitting and weaving characteristics, stretchability and stretch-back property and in shape stability and durability when worn for a prolonged period of time.
Abstract:
A textile made at least in part with conductive yarns for the purpose of generating heat from an electrical power source. The textile has conducting yarns, or nullheatersnull, with conductivity and spacing tailored to the electrical source to be used and the heat to be generated. The heater yarns have a positive temperature coefficient whereby the resistance of the yarn increases with an increase in temperature and decreases with a decrease in temperature. nullLeadsnull, such as conductive yarns, can be used to supply electricity to the heater yarns. A coating to the textile can electrically insulate the textile as well as provide protection to the textile during activities such as laundering or use.
Abstract:
A textile substrate for seat covers, a woven fabric or a knitted fabric, especially Raschel or Malimo, contains at least 40% by weight of wool and at least 15% by weight of ramie, but always more than 85% by weight of both taken together. The substrate can consist exclusively of wool and ramie but can also contain further constituents, preferably of animal or vegetable origin such as cotton, linen, hemp or else natural rubber. To obtain antistatic properties, it can contain incorporated metal threads. Minor proportions of synthetic fibres, for example polyester, are also possible. The substrate can be formed for example as a woven fabric with a blend yarn (1) of 80% by weight of wool and 20% by weight of ramie in the warp and ramie threads (2) in the weft. Textile substrates of the kind described offer on account of their excellent water absorption and transport properties high comfort as seat covers especially even over seats which are frequently used for a long period without interruption such as wheelchairs, seats in cars and buses, in trains and in aircraft and also office chairs. On account of their composition, the fabrics are also disposable in a very environmentally benign manner, since comminuted and kept at sufficiently high moisture and temperature they rot down substantially or--in particular when consisting exclusively of natural fibre--completely and are thus compostable.
Abstract:
A woven sheeting fabric is provided with a variety of unusual and visually appealing decorative patterned effects by forming in the fabric open, shear areas of various size and shape having an appearance contrasting with adjacent, substantially heavier areas. The fabric comprises warp and weft yarns of corespun construction interwoven with one another to form a substantially uniform woven fabric construction. Each of the corespun warp and weft yarns has a continuous multifilament core portion and a sheath portion formed of staple fibers helically wrapped about the core portion to substantially surround and encase the same. The portions of the corespun warp and weft yarns which extend throughout the sheer areas of the fabric have the multifilament core portions thereof exposed and are substantially devoid of sheath fibers and are thus smaller than adjacent portions of the yarns in the heavier areas of the fabric, and the sheer areas of the fabric are thus thinner than the adjacent heavier areas to provide further contrast with the heavier areas.