Composite fabric member and methods
OwnerGiuseppe Puppininventor
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Abstract
A planar article in the form of a thin strip is shown. The article, comprising a fabric and a polymer, can be formed into a variety of shapes. A hollow profile made from the article by forming a seam using opposing edges of the strip to enclose a volume. A thermoplastic extrusion formed composite structural member and method for making is disclosed. In one embodiment, the composite structural member includes a first web made from a first material and a first resin, a second web made from a second material different from the first material, a third web made from a third material and a third resin, and a fourth web made from a fourth material.
Claims5
A hollow weather-strip article formed from a planar extruded article having an indeterminate length, a width of about 0.1 to 10 cm and a thickness of about 0.2 to 5 mm, the article consisting of:
- (a) a natural fiber fabric;
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- (b) an extruded resin layer;
- wherein the fabric comprising a basis weight of about 50 to 500 g-m−2, warp fiber and a fill fiber, the fabric having a count of about 50 to 4 fibers-cm−1, each fiber having a diameter of 30 to 500 denier, the article comprising an add on amount of polymer to fabric of about 0.01 to about 1 g-cm−2, a polymer thickness of less than 2 mm, a fiber tensile modulus about 2 to 10 g-denier−1, an extensibility of less than 10% in either length or width;
- wherein the article comprises a width having a first edge and a second edge, the edge width comprising about 0.1 to 3 centimeters, wherein the hollow article comprises a closed volume surrounded by the flexible article joined at a joint comprising the first edge in contact with the second edge wherein the enclosed volume has a cross-sectional area of about 0.1 to about 7 cm2 and the weather strip article has a shrinkage less than 0.4%.
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