Fabrics for Therapeutic Skin Care Bedding
AssigneePrecision Fabrics Group, Inc.
InventorsW. Allen Leonard, Neil Blanton, Terry Montgomery, Dino Montagner, Jones McCall
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Abstract
A fabric for bedding which includes a woven fabric having warp yarns and filling yarns woven to provide a smooth fabric surface. One of the warp or filling yarns being at least 40% by weight of the fabric of continuous filament nylon, and the other of the warp or filling yarns being from about 0% to 60% by weight of the fabric of continuous filament polyester or nylon having non-round filament cross sections. An antimicrobial substance is topically applied or inherently available in the fabric.
Claims20
A bed linen fabric comprising:
- a woven fabric having warp yarns and filling yarns, wherein the warp yarns are about 30 denier to 100 denier, and the filling yarns are about 30 denier to 100 denier, wherein the warp yarns and filling yarns are woven together in a plain weave to provide a pill resistant fabric having identical surfaces on both sides thereof;
- one of the warp or filling yarns being 100% continuous filament nylon having round filament cross sections and making up at least 40% by weight of the fabric;
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- the other of the warp or filling yarns being continuous filament polyester having non-round filament cross sections or nylon having non-round filament cross sections and making up the remainder of the weight of the fabric.
A bed linen fabric comprising:
- a woven fabric having warp yarns and filling yarns woven together in a plain weave to provide a pill resistant fabric having identical surfaces in both sides thereof;
- the warp yarns being 100% continuous filament 70 denier, 48 filament, textured nylon yarn having round filament cross sections and making up at least 40% by weight of the fabric;
- the filling yarns being up to about 60% by weight of the fabric of continuous filament 75 denier, 36 filament, textured polyester having non-round filament cross sections that are star shaped or clover leaf shaped and making up the remainder of the weight of the fabric.
A bed linen fabric comprising:
- woven fabric having warp yarns and filling yarns woven together in a plain weave to provide a pill resistant fabric having identical surfaces on both sides thereof;
- one of the warp or filling yarns being 100% continuous filament nylon having round filament cross sections and making up at least 40% by weight of the fabric;
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- the other of the warp or filling yarns being continuous filament polyester having non-round filament cross sections or nylon having non-round filament cross sections and making up the remainder of the weight of the fabric.
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