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US 2019/0368091 A1Published application
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.
Claims20
A nonwoven textile, comprising:
- a first fiber zone and a second fiber zone, the first fiber zone including a first staple fiber and the second fiber zone including a second staple fiber, wherein the first staple fiber of the first fiber zone is at least partially aligned with the second staple fiber of the second fiber zone along a length or width of the textile, the first fiber zone positioned above the second fiber zone.
A nonwoven textile, comprising:
- a first zone of carded, horizontally aligned first staple fibers;
- a second zone of carded, horizontally aligned second staple fibers;
- and
- a third zone intermediate the first and second zone, wherein the first, second, and third zone are vertically aligned relative to one another.
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A method of generating a nonwoven textile, comprising:
- generating a web including a first staple fiber and second staple fiber at least partially aligned to each other;
- and
- 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.