Method of imaging woven textile fabric
AssigneePolymer Group, Inc.
InventorsCharles Keith Curtis, Kenneth Daniels, Kay Goodson
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to a method of imaging a woven textile fabric by positioning the fabric on a three-dimensional image transfer device, and subjecting the fabric to treatment with high pressure liquid streams. A regular pattern defined by the image transfer device is thereby durably imparted to the fabric. The use of a three-dimensional image transfer device facilitates efficient commercially viable use of the method, while avoiding the creation of repeating defects which can occur when imaging fabrics on wire mesh screens.
Claims3
A method of imaging a woven textile fabric, comprising the steps of:
- providing a woven textile fabric having a plurality of interwoven warp and weft yarns comprising fibers;
- providing a three-dimensional image transfer device having a foraminous image-forming surface comprising a pattern of three-dimensional surface elements, said image-forming surface of said image transfer device being seamless;
- positioning said woven textile fabric on said image transfer device, and hydraulically imaging said textile fabric by subjecting said fabric to pressurized liquid streams applied to a surface of said fabric facing away from said image transfer device to thereby impart said regular pattern of said image-forming surface to said fabric without any repeating defect left by said seamless image-forming surface.
A method of imaging a woven textile fabric, comprising the steps of:
- providing a woven textile fabric having a plurality of interwoven warp and weft yarns comprising cellulosic fibers;
- providing substantially continuous yardage of a three-dimensional image transfer device having a foraminous image-forming surface comprising a pattern of three-dimensional surface elements, said image-forming surface of said image transfer device being seamless;
- positioning said woven textile fabric on said image transfer device, and hydraulically imaging said textile fabric by subjecting said fabric to pressurized liquid streams applied to a surface of said fabric facing away from said image transfer device to thereby impart said regular pattern of said image-forming surface to said fabric, wherein said regular pattern is substantially free of any repeating defects left by said seamless image-forming surface of said image-transfer device.
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