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Non-woven fabric usable as a substratum sheet for artificial leather

US4107374A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 11, 1975
Grant dateAug 15, 1978
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Expiry dateSep 11, 1995

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T442/69
  • WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A non-woven fabric usable as a substratum sheet for artificial leather having a relatively high flexural rigidity is prepared by a process in hich fibrous bundles, each consisting of a plurality of extremely fine filaments or fibers having a denier of 0.005 to 0.5, is provided while allowing the filaments or fibers to spontaneously adhere to each other without using an adhesive, the fibrous bundles are massed into the form of sheet or web, and the sheet or web is then subjected to a non-woven fabric forming operation in which the fibrous bundles are entangled with each other.

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