Soil-resistant textile materials
AssigneeMilliken Research Corporation
InventorRoy P. DeMott
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Abstract
A textile material suitable for use as an automotive upholstery fabric is provided, which comprises: (a) a body portion having a face and a back comprised of synthetic, thermoplastic fibers; (b) said body portion being provided with a substantially oil- and water-repellent fluoropolymer substantially evenly distributed on the face thereof in a minor amount sufficient to improve soil resistance characteristics but less than an amount which would cause said material to burn at a rate in excess of about 2 inches per minute or to support such burning for longer than about one minute; and (c) said textile material further having been backcoated with a flame-retardant backcoating in an amount sufficient to improve the flammability characteristics of said textile material.
Claims8
A textile material suitable for use as an automotive upholstery fabric which comprises:
- (a) a body portion having a face and a back comprised of synthetic, thermoplastic fibers;
- (b) said body portion being provided with a substantially oil and water-repellent fluoropolymer substantially evenly distributed on the face thereof and remaining substantially on or near the face surface of said textile material, said fluoropolymer being provided in a minor amount sufficient to improve soil resistance characteristics but less than an amount which would cause said material to burn at a rate in excess of about 2 inches per minute or to support such burning for longer than about one minute as determined by United States Government Department of Transportation Motor Vehicle Standard Test Number 302;
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- (c) said textile material further having been backcoated with a flame-retardant backcoating in an amount sufficient to improve the flammability characteristics of said textile material.
A textile material suitable for use as an automotive upholstery fabric which comprises:
- (a) a body portion having a face and a back comprised of synthetic, thermoplastic fibers;
- (b) said body portion being provided with a substantially oil and water-repellent fluoropolymer substantially evenly distributed on the face thereof and remaining substantially on or near the face surface of said textile material, said fluoropolymer being provided in a minor amount sufficient to improve soil resistance characteristics but less than 0.3 percent by weight on a solids add-on basis;
- (c) said textile material further having been backcoated with a flame-retardant backcoating in an amount sufficient to improve the flammability characteristics of said textile material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.