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US 7,682,994 B2Granted
Breathable fabric
AssigneeLightex Limited
InventorsOliver Van Emden, Chris Carr
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Abstract
A fabric comprising a textile layer comprising yarns, wherein said textile layer is permeable to water vapour and impermeable to liquid water; and disposed on at least part of one side of the textile layer is a wicking means.
Claims22
A single-weave fabric comprising a woven textile layer that is permeable to water vapor and impermeable to liquid water and comprising hydrophobic warp and weft yarns and floating warp or weft wicking yarns or fibres,
- wherein the floating warp or weft wicking yarns or fibres are integrally woven with the hydrophobic yarns, and the hydrophobic warp and weft yarns and the floating warp or weft wicking yarns or fibres together form the single weave fabric, and
- wherein the textile layer has two opposing sides and the wicking yarns or fibres are disposed on at least part of one side of the textile layer, and
- the other side has more than 70% hydrophobic yarns exposed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.