Coated fabric and mattress ticking
AssigneeDaniel Ferziger
InventorsDaniel Ferziger, Jerry Lippman
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Abstract
This invention relates to coated fiberglass fabrics especially suitable for use as mattress tickings. The fabrics comprise a woven or non-woven fiberglass fabric to which a layer of a polymeric coating composition has been applied. The coating comprises a polymeric carrier containing an effective amount of a fungicide and/or bacteriocide, an effective amount of a flame retardant, and a filler which also functions to enhance the flame retardant properties of the fabric.
Claims42
A drapable fabric article such as a mattress ticking or cover, bedspread, upholstery, drapery or the like, prepared by sewing together portions of a sewable and flame retardant fiberglass fabric, said fabric comprising a single base layer of a tightly woven fiberglass fabric having on at least one surface thereof an unfoamed coating of a flame retardant and plasticized polymeric coating composition, said coating having been formed by applying up to about 3 ounces per square yard of said coating composition directly to and over the entirety of at least one surface of the fiberglass fabric base, wherein said coating is the outermost surface layer of the finished fabric, and is present in an amount sufficient to make said fiberglass fabric base non-abrasive and abrasion resistant, and the coated fabric sewable and drapable, and wherein said fabric article includes a seam formed by sewing together portions of said coated fabric.
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