Stock material or miscellaneous articles – Pile or nap type surface or component – Flock surface
Patent
1996-05-15
1999-01-05
Bell, James J.
Stock material or miscellaneous articles
Pile or nap type surface or component
Flock surface
442 6, 442 12, 442 16, 442290, B05D 114
Patent
active
058559809
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to a fabric for garment-making and decoration, more particularly a fabric intended for clothing, furnishing, decoration and scenography.
The main object of the present invention is to obtain a pliant material, having an aesthetic appearance on the outside, keeping its shape after deformation and therefore having no concomitant spring-back or plastic recovery. Its pliancy must be such that it can be easily deformed by hand.
With such a material, it is therefore possible to mark folds and to vary the shape many times in succession, something which enable the final fabric to be used again in clothing, furnishing, decoration, scenography or equivalent, which fabric can thus change aesthetic appearance in its geometrical perception, including sculptural perception.
Studies carried out have resulted in a complex fabric, combining pliant materials, such as skin, woven cloth or paper, these fabrics being given structure by a metallic core, providing a consistency in its pliant rigidity in such a way that the fabric exhibits properties of pliancy, of easy deformation without concomitant spring-back and of good strength under its own weight.
PRIOR ART
Various documents are known in the field. For example, Document EP-A-0,481,106 describes a decorative element comprising a layer of magnetic rubber, a layer of aluminum and a layer of leather, making it possible to give said element various shapes. After giving said element the desired shape, the layer of magnetic rubber enables the element to be easily fixed to any ferrous material. Such a decorative element, by the very fact of the required thickness, cannot be used for clothing needs and its use is quite limited. What is more, it does not exhibit the correct ability to be bent through a large angle.
Document FR-A-2,088,105 describes an elastically deformable strip which enables resilient supports to be made. This document is therefore contrary to the spirit of the invention for which there must be no spring-back or plastic recovery.
As for Document EP-A-0,585,288, this describes a flexible laminate made of plastic which can bear a holographic image.
All these documents are therefore remote from the present invention.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention therefore relates to a fabric exhibiting a laminated structure comprising pliant material, such as skin, woven cloth and/or paper, and at least one metallic material, this fabric being able to be deformed by hand without appreciable spring-back or plastic recovery.
According to the invention, this structure comprises: material, this core having a thickness less than 0,15 mm providing consistency for pliant ridigity, and the thickness and metallurgical treatment of which are adapted to the weight of the pliant materials; and
According to a first embodiment, the metallic core is formed by a sheet of non-ferrous material, which sheet may possibly be made in the form of a simple or woven grid.
According to another embodiment, the core is formed by a layer of particulate metallic elements, of the type comprising flakes, lamellae, shims or single wire in a pliant binder.
Preferably, the core is firstly covered, at least partially, with a film made of a plastic, such as high density polyethylene, having a thickness of approximately 0,05 mm, this film adhering to the core.
Tests have shown that the non-ferrous metal must have, preferably, a very high purity and be chosen from the group comprising aluminum, copper, tin, bronze, brass, silver, gold, beryllium and alloys of these.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
The invention will be better understood, and further aims, advantages and characteristics thereof will appear more clearly on reading the following description of preferred embodiment which are given in a non limiting way.
As a person skilled in the art will have understood, the fabric according to the invention essentially comprises a laminated structure comprising at least three layers, that is to say a metallic core arranged between two sheet
Coerezza Santina
Roualdes Bruno
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