Non-woven fabric and method and apparatus for making the same

US5098764A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Chicopee · US

Inventors

• Alton H. Bassett · Princeton, US
• Arthur H. Drelich · Plainfield, US
• William A. James · Long Branch, US
• John W. Kennette · Somerville, US
• Linda J. McMeekin · Bound Brook, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 12, 1990
• Grant date: Mar 24, 1992
• Expiry date: Mar 12, 2010

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10T442/60
• WIPO field: Textile and paper machines
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Non-woven fabrics comprising yarn-like fiber groups of parallel and tightly compacted fiber segments, which groups include fiber segments circumferentially wrapped around at least a portion of the fiber groups. The groups are interconnected at junctures by fibers common to the plurality of such groups.