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US 4,333,980 AGranted
Multi-ply fabric structure including interliner
AssigneeFacemate Corporation
InventorWilliam M. Russell
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AssigneeFacemate Corporation
InventorWilliam M. Russell
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An improved interliner for fabric articles such as neckbands, collars, cuffs for garments such as shirts and the like. The interliner includes a fabric having a heat responsive permanent adhesive disposed on one surface and on the opposite surface another heat responsive adhesive which serves solely as a fabrication aid and acts as a temporary bonding agent. The permanent adhesive may be employed to bond the interliner to an outer face ply of fabric, thereby imparting form stability and wrinkle resistance to the article despite repeated laundering or dry cleaning. The temporary adhesive adheres to the other face ply for ease of assembly of the garment structure. Alternatively, the permanent adhesive may be used to bind the interliner to a second interliner to impart greater resilience and shape retentive qualities to the fabric structure.
Multi-ply fabric structure for use in fabricating garment components comprising at least one outer fabric ply and a fabric interliner having on one surface a heat responsive, permanent type adhesive and on the opposite surface a temporary fusible adhesive, the adhesive properties of which are removable by laundering, said temporary and permanent adhesives disposed at discontinuous bond sites being simultaneously activatable to a tacky condition within a first range of heat and dwell time, said outer fabric ply being superposed in generally edge-to-edge abutting relation against said interliner, outer edge portions of both said interliner and fabric ply being folded inwardly to overlapping relation against the marginal portions of said interliner, the overlapped edge and marginal portions of the interliner and fabric ply being bondable together by activation of said temporary and permanent adhesives within said first energy level range for providing temporary adhesive bonding between said overlapped edge and marginal portions of the interliner and the outer ply, said permanent adhesive being further responsive to a substantially higher energy level than said first range for permanent bonding onto one surface of said interliner.
Method of manufacturing an interliner, said method comprising the steps of
Method of fabricating a multi-ply garment structure which comprises the steps of superimposing at least one fabric face ply and a fabric interliner in edge-to-edge relation having on one surface thereof a heat responsive, permanent type adhesive and on the opposite surface a temporary fusible adhesive selected so that its adhesive properties will be dissipated by laundering or dry cleaning, inwardly folding the edge portions of the superposed fabrics against the marginal portions of the interliner, applying heat for a given dwell time to at least the folded and marginal portions of the interliner and face ply to cause both adhesives to become tacky so that the two folded plies will be adhesively held for further fabrication of the garment structure, thereafter applying substantially greater heat for a longer dwell time to activate the permanent adhesive thereby achieving permanent bonding between the interliner and face ply.
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