Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Pile or nap type surface or component – Nap type surface
Reexamination Certificate
2006-07-04
2006-07-04
Befumo, Jenna-Leigh (Department: 1771)
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Pile or nap type surface or component
Nap type surface
C428S092000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07070847
ABSTRACT:
The inventive method provides highly desirable hand to various different types of fabrics through the initial immobilization of individual fibers within target fabrics and subsequent treatment through abrasion, sanding, or napping of at least a portion of the target fabric. Such a procedure includes “nicking” the immobilized fibers thereby permitting the fibers to produce a substantially balanced strength of the target fabric in the fill and warp directions while also providing the same degree of hand improvements as obtained with previous methods. Furthermore, this process also provides the unexpected improvement of non-pilling to synthetic fibers as the “nicking” of the immobilized fibers results in the lack of unraveling of fibers and thus the near impossibility of such fibers balling together to form unwanted pills on the fabric surface. Fabrics treated by this process are also contemplated within this invention.
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Dischler Louis
Efird Scott W.
Befumo Jenna-Leigh
Milliken & Company
Moyer Terry T.
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