Fabric (woven, knitted, or nonwoven textile or cloth, etc.) inventions 12/06

20060292945 - Alternate/reduced scrim for single ply roofing membrane: A reduced scrim reinforcement is provided in single ply roofing membranes having excellent wind uplift performance. Also provided is a method for making a roofing membrane having the scrim reinforcement incorporated therein.... Agent: Gaf Materials Corporation Attn: William J. Davis, Esq.

20060292946 - Financial transaction card with embedded fabric: A financial transaction card having first and second thermoplastic material sheets each having first and second substantially planar surfaces bounded by a continuous peripheral edge. A fabric material sheet disposed between said first and second thermoplastic material sheets. At least one of the thermoplastic material sheets has a viewing area... Agent: Walter W. Duft Law Offices Of Walter W. Duft

20060292947 - Polyester fiber scrim and method for making same: Self-supporting scrim or web structure, which is readily thermopleated, is provided for use in filter applications. The self-supporting scrim has very high porosity. When pleated and deployed for filter applications, the scrim or web structure retains the shape of pleats and contributes minimally to airflow resistance. The scrim or web... Agent: Baker & Botts

20060292948 - Fibrous veil impregnated with surface finish formulation: An impregnated fibrous veil comprises a nonwoven fibrous veil including a prebinder and reinforcing fibers. The fibers are selected from a group consisting of glass fibers, ceramic fibers and mixtures thereof. The nonwoven fibrous veil has at least one face impregnated with a surface finish formulation. The surface finish formulation... Agent: Owens Corning

20060292949 - Sealing and reinforcing strips principally for airbag assembly joints: Highly-deformable sealing strips integrating with fabric assemblies (principally of airbags) are detailed. The strips reduce gas leakage from occurring. They also function as mechanical reinforcements of the assemblies.... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20060292950 - Inflatable vehicle occupant protection device construction: An inflatable vehicle occupant protection device (14) is inflatable away from a roof (18) of a vehicle (12) to a position between a side structure (16) of the vehicle and a vehicle occupant. The protection device (14) includes overlying inboard and outboard panels (40 and 42) that help define an... Agent: Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino L.L.P.

20060292951 - Fibers of variable wettability and materials containing the fibers: The present invention is directed to an absorbent material and the fibers therein, having two or more layers including an upper surface layer which has on the outer surface of the layer one or more surface area zones which are more wettable zones and adjacent thereto one or more less... Agent: Baker Botts, L.L.P.

20060292952 - Fiber mat and process for making same: A fiber mat of improved wet web strength and a process of making same is disclosed. The fiber mat comprises fibers; a resinous fiber binder; and a polyethyleneimine modified polymer.... Agent: Attn: William J. Davis, Esq. Gaf Materials Corporation

20060292953 - Flame-resistant fiber blend, yarn, and fabric, and method for making same: A fiber blend, a yarn spun from the fiber blend, and a fabric made from the yarn, wherein the fiber blend comprises: (a) about 40 wt.% to about 65 wt.% modacrylic fibers containing antimony, or FR acrylic fibers; (b) about 10 wt.% to about 50 wt.% cotton fibers or FR... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20060292954 - High tenacity nonwoven fabric: The present invention provides a laminated nonwoven fabric wherein the nonwoven fabric is a laminated one formed by integrating, through compressive bonding, a stacked nonwoven fabric structure comprising an upper and a lower thermoplastic synthetic filamentary fiber layer that have a fiber diameter from 7 μm or more to 20... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20060286881 - Basic board member for electric facility: A basic board member includes an inner fabric member, and a gelatinous emulsion disposed on the inner fabric member, to form a gel outer layer on the inner fabric member, after the gelatinous emulsion is cured, to facilitate a low dielectric characteristic to the basic board member. The inner fabric... Agent: Charles E. Baxley, Esq.

20060286880 - Increased ballistic performance of fabrics coated with polymer stripes: A fabric layer with a polymer disposed thereon in a series of curves, stripes, or combinations thereof and the polymer is substantially continuous within the series of curves, stripes, or combinations and covers no greater than 20% of the fabric layer and a process for making the layer.... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20060286882 - Fabrics with strain-responsive viscous liquid polymers: A penetration resistant article with an area density less than 1.5 lb/ft2 made of a plurality of fibrous fabric layers that have applied thereto about 1 to 8 percent by weight of a polymer having a glass transition temperature in the range of minus 40 to about 0° C. and... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20060286883 - Ballistics panel, structure, and associated methods: A ballistic panel and associated methods of forming and using the same are provided. An embodiment of a ballistic panel has a first plurality of fabric layers of woven fiber material and at least one layer of a plurality of substantially solid objects positioned to overlie the first plurality of... Agent: Bracewell & Giuliani LLP

20060286884 - Wiping articles having a scouring surface: A wiping article (1), for cleaning surfaces, comprises a liquid-absorbent web material and, disposed on a liquid-absorbent surface thereof, abrasive areas (5) comprising at least cured particulate binder material, the abrasive areas being spaced apart by liquid-absorbent areas (4) of the web material. A method for making the wiping article,... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20060286885 - Tissue product with mixed inclination embosses: An emboss pattern, tissue product and method of manufacturing tissue product having improved bulk and softness with minimal roll ridging. The pattern combines a plurality of aligned signature bosses with a grouping of signature bosses offset from the machine direction in a clockwise manner and another grouping of signature bosses... Agent: Patent Group Ga030-43 Georgia-pacific Corporation

20060286886 - Nonwoven fabric and process for producing the same: A process for production of a nonwoven fabric, which comprises a step wherein a thermoplastic polymer is dissolved in a mixed solvent composed of a volatile good solvent and a volatile poor solvent, a step wherein the resulting solution is spun by an electrospinning method and a step wherein a... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20060286887 - Method and installation for producing a nonwoven fabric exhibiting good properties of tensile resistance: The invention concerns an installation for producing a nonwoven fabric comprising a spun bond lathe depositing a web of filaments on a first conveyor, the mat being consolidated on a first mobile element by entangling means. The invention is characterized in that it comprises means for passing, without any change... Agent: Pearne & Gordon LLP

20060286888 - Contaminant-reactive geocomposite mat and method of manufacture and use: Reactive geocomposite mats, and their method of manufacture, for treating contaminants in soil or water that allow the passage of essentially non-contaminated water therethrough. The geocomposite mat includes a pre-formed woven or non-woven geotextile, having a thickness of about 6 mm to about 200 mm, and having, a porosity sufficient... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20060281379 - Breathable, water resistant fabric: A breathable, water resistant fabric comprising a reinforcing layer, a barrier layer applied to the reinforcing layer and a a breathable first protective layer covering at least a portion of the barrier layer. The reinforcing layer has a first side and a second side and includes a plurality of openings... Agent: Wood, Phillips, Katz, Clark & Mortimer

20060281380 - Seeding resins for enhancing the crystallinity of polymeric substructures: The present invention provides for a resin mixture that comprises a highly structured resin 40 and a less structured resin 50. The highly structured resin 40 and the less structured resin 50 are mixed to a ratio of between 1:9 and 4:1 by volume, with a more particular ratio of... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20060281381 - Speaker member and method for manufacturing the same: The speaker member includes: a base material; and a resin film layer laminated on the base material through an adhesive layer. The adhesive layer has a heat shrinkage ratio of 0.5 to 1.0%; the resin film layer has a heat shrinkage ratio of 0.8 to 1.3%; and the heat shrinkage... Agent: The Webb Law Firm, P.C.

20060281382 - Surface functional electro-textile with functionality modulation capability, methods for making the same, and applications incorporating the same: 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... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20060281383 - Pmc with splittable fibres: The invention relates to a fabric for a machine for producing and/or further processing a material web, in particular a fibrous web, having a carrier structure and a fibre batt, the fibre batt comprising fibres which, in order to form elongated fibre segments, can be split substantially along their longitudinal... Agent: Voith Fabrics

20060276088 - Profiled structural concrete fiber material and building products including same, and methods: A synthetic fiber material made with multipolymer blends which have been fibrillated in oriented film form is provided that is useful as a secondary reinforcement material, which has a low Young's modulus for a more uniform distribution throughout a cementitious mixture incorporating the fiber material, and imparts good finishability, strength,...

20060276089 - Cooling garment: An article of clothing comprising a phase change material which is a blend of at least two compounds and which has a melting point of from 5 deg C. to 30 deg C., and a melting temperature range of from 1 to 5 deg. C....

20060276090 - Inorganic fabric: A fabric is formed from yarn comprised of inorganic filaments coated with rayon. Specifically, the inorganic filaments are spun from a melt of volcanic black rock and are comprised of calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, potassium oxide, aluminum oxide, iron oxide, silicon dioxide, titanium dioxide, sodium oxide, and boron. As a...

20060276091 - Polyethylene fabric with improved physical properties and method for making thereof: An improved polyethylene fabric comprises polyethylene fabric or yarn that is manufactured by mixing HDPE (typically in pellet form) with pellets of cyclic-olefin polymers (COCs) in a ratio of up to 40% by weight of the layer. This mixture is then extruded in ways known to those skilled in the...

20060276092 - Fibers and nonwovens with improved properties: The present invention can provide a distinctive article which includes a plurality of fibers (62), wherein the fibers include a selected polymer, fiber material. In a particular aspect, the fiber material can exhibit a “low” crystallization rate. In other aspects, the fiber material has been subjected to a low fiber-draw...

20060276093 - Facer and faced polymeric roofing board: A prefabricated, faced roofing board composite includes a first board layer made of a polymeric material or a predominantly polymeric material and a fire and weather resistant fiberglass-based facer bonded to a top major surface of the first board layer and forming a top major surface of the composite. The...

20060276094 - Composite laminated sheet material for containment sumps: The present invention is a composite laminated sheet material suitable for structures such as containment sumps. The laminated material comprises a fabric-backed thermoplastic layer upon which thermoset plastic is applied to the fabric side. The thermoplastic layer is formed by contacting a layer of fabric onto a layer of molten...

20060276095 - Article of footwear of nonwoven material and method of manufacturing same: A method of forming a portion of an article of footwear includes the steps of providing a last having an exterior surface, extruding a plurality of polymeric fibers, projecting a stream of the extruded polymeric fibers onto the last to form a mat having the shape of the exterior of...