Method to selectively carve textile fabrics
AssigneeMilliken Research Corporation
InventorEdward Leland Crenshaw
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Abstract
An apparatus and method for selectively carving textile fabric by selectively applying chemicals containing a liquid repellent either alone or with other chemicals such as dye to a textile fabric and subsequently finishing said fabric. The textile fabric is then rewetted by the application of liquid. The printed areas containing liquid repellant remain dry and the areas without liquid repellent are selectively wetted out. The textile fabric is then subjected to pressurized heated gas which selectively carves the dry areas printed with liquid repellent leaving the wetted areas protected and uncarved. As an alternative embodiment, the yarns that make up a textile fabric can be individually treated with a liquid repellent prior to being formed into a textile fabric.
Claims11
A process for carving areas of a textile fabric comprising the steps of:
- (a) applying a chemical solution comprising a liquid repellent to a surface of said textile fabric;
- (b) applying liquid to said textile fabric;
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- (c) directing pressurized heated gas at said surface of said textile fabric to carve said surface of said textile fabric where said liquid repellant was applied.
A process for carving areas of a web of textile fabric comprising the steps of:
- (a) applying a first chemical solution comprising a liquid repellent to a surface of said web of textile fabric;
- (b) applying a second chemical solution comprising a dye to said surface of said web of textile fabric;
- (c) applying liquid to said web of textile fabric;
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- (d) directing pressurized heated gas at said surface of said web of textile fabric to carve said surface of said textile fabric where said liquid repellant was applied.
A process for carving areas of a textile fabric formed of yarns that are pretreated with a chemical solution comprising a liquid repellent, the process comprising the steps of:
- (a) applying liquid to areas of said textile fabric;
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- (b) directing pressurized heated gas at said surface of said textile fabric to carve said surface of said textile fabric where liquid repellant is present on said yarns.
A process for carving textile fabric comprising the steps of:
- (a) applying a chemical solution comprising a liquid repellent to a first set of yarns;
- (b) forming a fabric by weaving, knitting, or needling said first set of yarns with other yarns to form a textile fabric;
- (c) applying liquid to said textile fabric;
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- (d) directing pressurized heated gas at said surface of said textile fabric to carve said first set of yarns of said textile fabric where said liquid repellant was applied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.