A continuous process for making a continuous fabric

A continuous process for making a continuous mop head fabric comprising the steps:

• a. continuously feeding a strand of textile material from a supply thereof;
• b. repeatedly folding said strand back and forth so as to provide a discrete and predetermined length of said strand between sequential foldings and at each folding to provide a looped end between consecutive discrete lengths of said strand;
• c. supporting said consecutive discrete lengths of said strand at their consecutive looped ends for moving said folded and supported lengths of said strand in a direction substantially parallel to a line joining the midpoints of said consecutive lengths of said strand and so moving said strand lengths;
• d. gripping said consecutive strand lengths along said midline thereof, and twisting from each looped end of said strand lengths inwardly toward said midline a prescribed number of turns to provide a twisted or cabled cord;
• e. consecutively releasing said strand lengths along their midline, and continuing to move them in said direction while bringing said cords thereof into side-by-side, parallel abutting relationship on each side of said midline;
• f. gripping said twisted cords inwardly of their looped ends and adhesively fixing a tape proximal the location of said gripping to a surface of said cords to fix said cords in their abutting relationship with one another;
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• g. releasing said support at said looped ends, and releasing said gripping inwardly of said looped ends.