Waterproof fabric and fabrication method thereof
AssigneeSociete a Responsabilite Limitee styled: Speri-France
InventorJean-Luc Guillaume
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Abstract
The synthetic coating for the textile substrate consists of a thin film of coagulated polyamide with an open, asymmetrical microporous structure, comprising a first layer in direct contact with said substrate, having large, elongated pores extending transversely to the surface of said film and issuing upon the textile substrate, and a second layer with small, open ovoid pores communicating with both the elongated pores and the surface of the coagulated film.
Claims18
A waterproof fabric fabricated by the textile substrate having interstices less than 1 mm wide being taut and coated on one side with a thin film of liquid synthetic material and the whole is treated to solidify said film, wherein said film consists of an acid solution containing between 20 percent and 30 percent of a polyamide by weight, and is applied to said textile substrate to a depth of at least 50 microns by spreading in liquid form, whereafter the action of the acid solution on said textile substrate is immediately neutralized and the polyamide of said solution is coagulated by running the coated fabric product through a base bath, and the fabric is thereupon washed in water and dewatered, wherein said coagulated film adjacent to said textile substrate has elongated pores extending transversely to said film, said pores open to said textile substrate, and said coagulated film adjacent its surface away from said fabric substrate has smaller, open ovoid pores communicating with both said surface and said elongated pores.
A fabric as in claim 11, wherein the small ovoid pores have an average diameter on the order of 0.025 microns and have a density of occurence of 5 to 15 pores/micron.sup.2.
A fabrication method for a waterproof fabric, whereby a textile substrate having interstices less than 1 mm wide is taut and coated on one side with a thin film of liquid synthetic material and the whole is treated to solidify said film, wherein said film consists of an acid solution containing between 20% and 30% of a polyamide by weight, and is applied to said textile substrate to a depth of at least 50 microns by spreading in liquid form, whereafter the action of the acid solution on said textile substrate is immediately neutralized and the polyamide of said solution is coagulated by running the coated fabric product through a base bath, and the fabric is thereupon washed in water and dewatered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.