Color changeable fabric
AssigneeThalatta, Inc.
InventorClarence R. Tate
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Abstract
A fabric formed from fiber-like strands of hollow, transparent filaments which have been woven or otherwise joined together is disclosed. The hollow strands contain a liquid in which color-coded micromagnets are dispersed. The micromagnets are free to rotate within the filament, the fabric thereby being capable of changing colors, either selectively or totally, when an activating magnetic force causes the micromagnets therein to rotate. The fabric may incorporate, in place of color-coded micromagnets, other orientable bodies which are also capable of being oriented, as for example by an electromagnetic or electrostatic force field, to produce a visual display. Further, the fabric may comprise a material having one or more liquid filled veins, the liquid again containing color-coded micromagnets or orientable bodies dispersed therein.
Claims28
A hollow transparent filament containing a transparent liquid having rotatable color-coded micromagnets dispersed therein.
A hollow transparent filament containing a transparent liquid having rotatable bodies dispersed therein, which bodies are capable of being selectively oriented to produce a visual display.
An article of manufacture comprising a transparent material containing at least one vein of transparent liquid, said liquid containing rotatable color-coded micromagnets dispersed therein.
An article of manufacture comprising a transparent material containing at least one vein of transparent liquid, said liquid containing rotatable bodies dispersed therein, which bodies are capable of being selectively oriented to produce a visual display.
A method of displaying an image which comprises imagewise selectively rotating the color-coded micromagnets in a fabric comprising hollow transparent filaments bound together, said filaments containing a transparent liquid having rotatable color-coded micromagnets dispersed therein.
A method of displaying an image which comprises imagewise selectively rotating the rotatable bodies in a fabric comprising hollow transparent filaments bound together, said filaments containing a transparent liquid having rotatable bodies dispersed therein, which bodies are capable of being selectively oriented to produce a visual display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.