Fabric (woven, knitted, or nonwoven textile or cloth, etc.) inventions 03/08

20080070459 - Construction laminates: A construction laminate comprising a first foam layer, a first reinforcing layer in contact with the foam layer, a second foam layer in contact with the first reinforcing layer and positioned opposite the first foam layer with respect to the first reinforcing layer, a second reinforcing layer in contact with... Agent: Jon D. Wood, Chief I.p. Counsel Bridgestone Americas Holding, Inc.

20080070460 - Stretch woven fabrics: The invention provides a polyester bicomponent core spun yarn comprising a sheath of at least one hard fiber and having an English cotton count of from about 5 to about 60 and a core of bicomponent polyester filament. The invention further includes a fabric substantially free of grin-through of the... Agent: Invista North America S.a.r.l.

20080070461 - Shade sheet with predetermined light transmittance and method for manufacturing the same: A method for manufacturing a shade sheet with a predetermined light transmittance includes the following steps: providing knitted fabric with a plurality of pores, dipping the fabric in coating, pressing the fabric socked by the coating, blowing off the coating within the pores to reveal the pores, and baking the... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080070462 - Felt for papermaking: [Problem to be solved] To provide a felt for papermaking which is less prone to be crushed during operation of high speed paper machine, enters promptly stable papermaking after starting the machine, assures durability, and maintains surface smoothness. [Solving Means ] Provided is a felt for papermaking having a substrate,... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.

20080070464 - Composite webs and methods of manufacturing same: Composite webs having a structured web attached to a carrier web and methods of manufacturing the composite webs are disclosed. The structured web may include a plurality of structures that protrude from the structured web. The methods may involve delivering a molten polymeric composition onto the outer surface of a... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080070463 - Nanowebs: A nonwoven web of fibers that have a number average diameter of less than 1 micron. The web can have a Poisson Ratio of less than about 0.8, a solidity of at least about 20%, a basis weight of at least about 1 gsm, and a thickness of at least... Agent: E I Du Pont De Nemours And Company Legal Patent Records Center

20080070465 - High loft nonwoven for foam replacement: The invention relates to a high loft nonwoven composite comprising a nonwoven layer having a first and second side and a thermoplastic layer. The nonwoven layer comprises about 60 to 90% by weight of a high crimp polyester fiber having between about 5 and 20 crimps per inch and about... Agent: Legal Department (m-495)

20080064277 - Siphon-protective tpu compound material: A siphon protective thermoplastic polyurethane compound material having an intermediate fabric layer prepared from cotton, nylon, or polyester, a top covering layer of thermoplastic polyurethane film and a bottom covering layer of thermoplastic polyurethane film respectively covered on the top and bottom sides of the intermediate fabric layer, and a... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080064278 - Wipes with indicia to indicate function: A system and a method for identifying disposable wipes are provided. Indicia, such as scent, color coding and/or icon identification on the wipes, assist the user in identifying the categorization of the wipes. The indicia are printed on the top and bottom sides of each of the wipes. A color... Agent: Patents+tms, P.C.

20080064279 - Densified conductive materials and articles made from same: Disclosed are electromagnetically conductive articles comprising a densified core material and at least one electromagnetically conductive material. Also disclosed are electromagnetically conductive articles comprising at least one layer of a densified fabric material at least a portion of at least one surface of which is plated with one or more... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20080064280 - High performance ballistic composites having improved flexibility and method of making the same: A composite material which has excellent ballistic performance and has improved flexibility. Surprisingly, it has been found that a combination of poly(alpha-olefin) fiber and matrix resin provides these desirable product features. The resin matrix is a block copolymer of a conjugated diene and a vinyl aromatic monomer, preferably a styrene-isoprene-styrene... Agent: Honeywell International Inc. Law Department

20080064281 - Band for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper, board or tissue, and process for the production of such a band: A band for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper, board or tissue, includes at least one fabric layer having longitudinal filaments running substantially in a band longitudinal direction and transverse filaments running substantially in a band transverse direction, end regions of the longitudinal filaments being woven with... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20080064282 - Polyamide fiber for uncoated airbags: A high strength polyamide fiber consisting of polyamide monofilaments each having a fineness of less than 4 denier and a stress-strain curve where (a) the monofilament elongates less than 5% when subjected to an initial stress of 1.0 g/d, (b) it elongates less than 12% when subjected to a middle... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080064283 - Airbag fabric: Airbag fabric with warp and weft yarns in which at least most of the weft yarns in the fabric comprise at least two contiguous yarns, characterised in that at least one of the contiguous yarns is an intermingled multifilament yarn, some filaments of the multifilament yarn being intermingled with some... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080064284 - Phenol-formaldehyde resin having low concentration of tetradimer: A phenol-formaldehyde resin, having a low concentration of tetradimer, making the resin suitable for preparing a binder composition for making non-woven fiber products, such as fiberglass insulation, prepared by reacting phenol and formaldehyde in the presence of a sulfite source.... Agent: Patent Group Ga30-43 Georgia-pacific LLC

20080064285 - Wettable polyester fibers and fabrics: The present invention is aimed at a method of providing wettability to polyester fibers or filaments, to woven or nonwoven fabrics made therefrom and to resultant articles of manufacture. The method comprises melt extruding a mixture comprising a polyester and one or more alkyl metal sulfonates where the metal is... Agent: Joann Villamizar Ciba Corporation/patent Department

20080057808 - Cleaning wipe for removing contamination from an article and method of making: A cleaning wipe that includes polyisobutylene (also sometimes referred to as polybutylene or as polybutene). Typically a substantial portion of the polyisobutylene has a molecular weight (MW) greater than 30,000 and in some particular applications the molecular weight is around 85,000. The polyisobutylene is generally disposed at the surface of... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham, P.C.

20080057809 - Temperature and moisture responsive smart textile: A textile fabric includes a smooth surface with one or more regions having a bound coating of hydrogel exhibiting expansion or contraction in response to change in relative humidity or exposure to liquid sweat or a combination thereof, adjusting insulation performance, air movement, and/or liquid management of the textile fabric... Agent: Fish & Richardson PC

20080057807 - Flame resistant fabrics and garments made from same: Unique blends of fibers that incorporate synthetic cellulosic fibers to render fabrics made with such blends more durable than fabrics made with natural cellulosic fibers such as cotton. While more durable than cotton, the synthetic cellulosic fibers used in the blends are still inexpensive and comfortable to the wearer. Thus,... Agent: John S. Pratt, Esq Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP

20080057810 - Production of absorbent composites: A process for producing an absorbent composite by contacting a solid supporting material with an emulsion comprising at least one polymeric material and at least one crosslinker and curing the mixture on the supporting material, the absorbent composites and also their use in sealing materials for road, tunnel and water... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20080057811 - Multifunctional hydrogel-web composites for enhanced absorbency applications and methods of making the same: The present disclosure is generally directed to hydrogel-fibrous web composites that can be used in a variety of applications. For instance, the hydrogel-fibrous web composite can be used in the same applications as the base fibrous web, without the addition of the hydrogel, when it is desired to increase the... Agent: Dority & Manning, P.A.

20080057812 - Stretch woven fabric: The present invention provides a bleachable stretch woven fabric which is excellent in stretchability even after bleaching and a woven product obtained by using the same. A stretch woven fabric characterized by comprising an elastic polyurethane fiber(s) containing two or more metals selected from Mg, Al and Zn in part... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080057813 - Polyester woven fabric: A polyester garment material including a set of 100% polyester warp yarns and a set of 100% polyester weft yarns, wherein the warp and weft yarns are interlaced to form the garment material. The warp and weft yarns comprise of air-jet spun polyester fibers that wisk moisture away from an... Agent: Troutman Sanders LLP

20080057814 - Adhesive film and method for bonding foams and fabrics: A laminate may comprise a first and at least a second substrate layer. The first substrate layer may include a layer of foam and the second substrate layer may include a foam layer, plastic layer, and/or fabric layer. A heat sealable adhesive layer may bond at least a portion of... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080057815 - Color-coated, fouling-resistant conductive cloth and manufacturing method thereof: The present invention relates to a color-coated fouling-resistant conductive cloth and a manufacturing method thereof. The method includes the steps of providing a conductive cloth interwoven by natural fibers or artificial fibers and containing a metal layer, and forming at least one colored resin-coating layer on the metal layer of... Agent: Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, LLP

20080057816 - Silicone-based fiber, nonwoven fabric formed therefrom, and methods of producing same: e

20080057817 - Amorphous inorganic ceramic material and method of producing same: wherein, a is a number that satisfies: 0.5≦a≦3.0, and b is a number that satisfies 0.5≦b≦4.0), the material has a siloxane skeleton formed of Si—O—Si bonds, and the hydrogen mass fraction is within a range from 0 to 1% by mass. The material exhibits excellent heat resistance, wettability with other... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch