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US 11,248,322 B2Granted
Method for nonwoven textiles with variable zonal properties
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsBalwant S. Atwal, Daniel Morgan, Will Stark, Patrick Williams
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Abstract
Methods and systems are provided for a process to generate a nonwoven textile. In one example, the nonwoven textile may have layered, zonal properties resulting from entangling of two or more types of staple fibers through a merging region between the layers of staple fibers while maintaining distinct zones, each zone comprising a type of staple fiber. Furthermore, the process may include embedding a filament layer into the nonwoven textile via a continuous assembly line.
Claims10
A method of generating a nonwoven textile, comprising:
- generating a web including a first staple fiber, a second staple fiber, and a continuous filament at least partially aligned with one another, wherein the first staple fiber included in the web is a different type of fiber than the second staple fiber included in the web, wherein the continuous filament is further aligned within a width of the web that includes the first staple fiber and excludes the second staple fiber;
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- pleating the web along a first axis while moving the pleated web along a second axis, offset from the first axis and substantially perpendicular to the first axis.
A method of generating a nonwoven textile, comprising:
- generating a web including a first staple fiber, a second staple fiber, and a continuous filament at least partially aligned with one another, wherein the first staple fiber included in the web is a different type of fiber than the second staple fiber included in the web, wherein the web further includes a first fiber zone including the first staple fiber and excluding the second staple fiber and a second fiber zone including the second staple fiber and excluding the first staple fiber, wherein the continuous filament is included in one of the first fiber zone or the second fiber zone;
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- pleating the web along a first axis while moving the pleated web along a second axis, offset from the first axis and substantially perpendicular to the first axis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.