Composite fabric with engineered pattern
AssigneeMalden Mills Industries, Inc., a Massachusetts corporation
InventorsMoshe Rock, Douglas Lumb, Charles Haryslak, Gadalia Vainer
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Abstract
A composite fabric article includes multi-filament, interlaced yarns forming a knit construction. The fabric article has an inner surface and an outer surface where the inner surface has at least one region of raised fibers or fleece formed thereupon, and the outer surface has an area upon which a non-continuous coating of discrete coating segments of coating material is applied to bind individual yarn fibers together in bound groupings and to enhance abrasion resistance of the outer surface.
Claims21
A method of forming a fabric article, said method comprising the steps of:
- interlacing yarns comprising multi-filament fibers to form a fabric body of knit construction;
- forming a raised or fleece region upon an inner surface of the fabric body;
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- applying a non-continuous coating comprising discrete coating segments of coating material upon yarn fibers at an outer surface of the fabric body to bind individual yarn fibers together in bound groupings and to enhance abrasion resistance of the outer surface.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.