Nonwoven fabric having the appearance of a woven fabric

US4259390A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Firma Carl Freudenberg · DE

Inventors

• Erich Fahrbach · Weinheim, DE
• Adolf Graber · Weinheim, DE
• Jurgen Knoke · Weinheim, DE
• Helmer Schweizer · Hirschberg, DE
• Bohuslav Tecl · Weinheim, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 16, 1978
• Grant date: Mar 31, 1981
• Expiry date: Oct 16, 1998

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T428/24901
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A nonwoven fabric having the appearance of a woven fabric and suited for use as a lining material for garments, comprising a nonwoven fabric substrate embossed on its face in a regular pattern of discrete areas of a maximum diameter of about 0.45 mm spaced not more than about 1.0 mm apart and carrying thereon in a regular printed pattern discrete areas of bonding-agent of a maximum diameter of about 0.45 mm spaced not more than about 0.7 mm apart. Advantageously the bonding-agent contains a coloring additive which differentiates it from the color of the nonwoven fabric, the spacing of the areas of the bonding-agent printed pattern is from about 50 to 95% of the spacing of the areas of the embossed pattern, the areas of the embossed and printed patterns are rectangular, the lengths of their lateral edges corresponding to a ratio of about 2:3, the sum of the length and width not exceeding a value of about 0.9 mm, and the areas of the embossed and printed patterns are arranged in straight lines parallel and at right angles to the longitudinal direction, and the areas within the lines of the embossed pattern and within the lines of the printed pattern are evenly spaced. The underside o…