Article for absorbing oils
AssigneeE. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
InventorDimitri P. Zafiroglu
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Abstract
An oil-absorbing article comprises a porous outer fabric which encloses fibrous oil-absorbing particles. The porous fabric of the invention is a nonwoven fibrous polyolefin layer of polyethylene or polypropylene that is stitch-bonded with an elastic thread.
Claims8
An improved oil-absorbing article having a porous outer fabric which encloses fibrous absorbent particles, the improvement comprising the outer fabric being a nonwoven fibrous polyolefin layer of polyethylene or polypropylene that is stitch-bonded with an elastic thread that forms spaced apart rows of stitches extending along the length of the fabric, the row spacing being in the range of 2 to 10 rows per centimeter and the stitch spacing being in the range of 2 to 15 per centimeter, the stitching thread amounting to 2 to 40% of the total weight of the outer fabric and the outer fabric having a unit weight in the range of 30 to 250 grams per square meter.
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