Fibers, woven fabrics including the fibers, and methods of manufacturing the same
AssigneeIndo Count Industries Ltd.
InventorMohit Kumar JAIN
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Abstract
Fibers, yarns, woven fabric including the yarns and fibers, and methods of manufacturing the same are disclosed. Fibers can include base material staple fibers and dissolvable or water-soluble fibers that are mixed together to define an ultra-homogenous yarn comprising base material and dissolvable material, which is provided in at least the warp direction to form a woven fabric having a 7-end, 8-end or 10-end sateen weave. A processing step provides for the removal of the dissolvable fibers to produce a yarn defining a plurality of pores that are uniformly distributed throughout the structure of the yarn. The woven fabric has a thread count between 450-1200. The woven fabric is thermally-insulative, breathable and moisture-wicking.
Claims20
A method of making a specialized yarn comprising a spinning process, the spinning process comprising the steps of:
- mixing insoluble and dissolvable fibrous materials in a blow-room to form an once-blended homogenous mixture of insoluble and dissolvable fibers;
- cleaning and carding the once-blended homogenous mixture of insoluble and dissolvable fibers to form once-blended homogenous slivers of insoluble and dissolvable fibers;
- drawing two or more homogenous slivers together in a draw frame to form twice-blended ultra-homogenous slivers of insoluble and dissolvable fibers;
- passing the twice-blended ultra-homogenous slivers through a roving machine to produce a twice-blended ultra-homogenous roving;
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- spinning the twice-blended ultra-homogenous roving into the special yarn,
- wherein the specialized yarn comprises a homogenous distribution of insoluble and dissolvable fibers such that dissolution of the dissolvable fibers forms a plurality of micro passageways extending from a plurality of positions along an outer surface of the specialized yarn and to within a central core thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.