| Patent Number |
Title Of Patent |
Date Issued |
| 4455147 |
Transfer printing |
June 19, 1984 |
| Color yield of the coloration processes for textile and like materials, more especially of sublimable dyes applied by transfer printing, is enhanced by pretreatment of the material by deposition of 1 to 10% surfactant or other amphipathic substance. Preferred substances are cationic, |
| 4353158 |
Method for converting a lockstitch sewing machine to a machine for decorating fabrics |
October 12, 1982 |
| A method is disclosed for converting a lockstitch sewing machine to a machine for decorating fabrics with at least one untwisted strand of keratinous fiber applied in a pattern to the fabric. In general, the method consists of removing the throat plate, feed dog, presser foot, bobbin |
| 4225312 |
Treatment of textiles |
September 30, 1980 |
| A process for the treatment of textiles, especially to impart shrink resistance thereto, in which there is applied to the textile a water-soluble curable polymeric material in the presence of alkali in an aqueous medium and simultaneously with or subsequently to such application ther |
| 4211261 |
Fabrics for protective garments having strands of reflective materials |
July 8, 1980 |
| Protective fabrics having a reflective surface are made of textile yarns, for example of wool, intermeshed with strands of reflective material, for example a metallized plastics film, a major proportion of the textile yarns being present in one face of the fabric and a major proportion o |
| 4182264 |
Apparatus for applying a crease retaining coating in a preformed crease |
January 8, 1980 |
| A durable crease is formed in a textile article by applying a flexible casting compound in a preformed crease using a non-rotary applicator in conjunction with a structure for guiding the applicator along the crease. A screw driven piston within the applicator dispenses the compound in |
| 4160051 |
Zirconium flame-resist treatment |
July 3, 1979 |
| The flame resistance of wool and other polyamide fibres is enhanced by depositing in the fibres a complexed zirconium compound formed with an organic chelating agent or a halide. From 0.5 to 5% of Zr (as ZrO.sub.2) is preferred and the zirconium should be in the form of an anionic comple |
| 4159883 |
Cleaning pad |
July 3, 1979 |
| A cleaning pad with an internal well for cleaning agent consists of at least one surface formed from a tufted textile fabric with the inner ends of the yarns forming the tufts in communication with the cleaning agent in the well, through yarn-containing openings in a plastic film separat |
| 4078402 |
Knitting apparatus and yarn trapper |
March 14, 1978 |
| An attachment having a knitting machine including at least two toothed members slidable in relationship to one another such that when the teeth are aligned yarn receiving openings are presented and on sliding the members relative to one another yarns within the yarn receiving openings |
| 4069690 |
Knitting apparatus |
January 24, 1978 |
| Decorative knitted fabrics have a basic weft knit structure with patterned effects produced by a warp yarn loops of which cover selected loops of weft yarn so as to be visible on the face of the fabric. The fabrics are produced by feeding warp yarns to selected needles of a straight bar |
| 4067209 |
Warp knit upholstery fabrics |
January 10, 1978 |
| An upholstery fabric, suitable for providing the sole body-supporting surface in a seat construction with a lightweight, for example tubular, frame, comprises a rigid, knitted base fabric and, interengaged therewith, a fabric surface formed from textile yarns having flame retardant p |
| 4066392 |
Process for modifying keratinous materials |
January 3, 1978 |
| A process for modifying keratinous material is provided, which comprises treating said material with organic solutions or aqueous emulsions which contain1. polythiols with at least two thiol groups in the molecule and having a molecular weight of 400 to 20,000 and obtained fromA. polyalc |
| 4032565 |
Cross-linkable compounds |
June 28, 1977 |
| Crosslinkable polymers, suitable for use in the finishing of keratinous fibres such as wool, have polyoxyalkylene chains in which the alkylene groups consist of unbranched chains of not less than 3 carbon atoms. The polymer molecule contains at least two groupings capable of crosslinking |
| 4003702 |
Method for carbonizing cellulose materials |
January 18, 1977 |
| Cellulosic material present in admixture with or as impurities in wool or other non-carbonizable fibres is carbonized by treating the fibre substrate, which may be in any form from loose fibre to fabric, with a solution of an anhydrous acid in an inert organic solvent. The treated fi |
| 3981129 |
Method and device for the felting of sliver and suchlike into felted yarns |
September 21, 1976 |
| Apparatus and method of making felt or felted yarns includes passing a wet wool-containing sliver or yarn through a flexible hollow tube while flexing the tube preferably in a traveling wave motion. |
| 3968146 |
Esters of sulfothio alkanoic acids |
July 6, 1976 |
| Polymeric compounds containing at least one poly(oxyalkylene) chain and at least one thiosulphuric acid or thiosulphate group, and the cured products thereof, having useful application to textile fibers and to human hair. The compounds containing more than one thiosulphuric acid or thios |
| 3954402 |
Textile treatment |
May 4, 1976 |
| Flame resistance of polyamide materials, notably wool and other keratinous materials, is enhanced by application of tungsten from acid solutions of anionic tungsten complexes. Still more effective treatment is obtained by simultaneously applying anionic complexes of zirconium or titanium |
| 3933421 |
Polymer treatment of fibrous and filamentary materials |
January 20, 1976 |
| A process for the treatment of natural and/or synthetic fibrous and filamentary materials, including living human hair, which involves applying to the fibrous or filamentary materials a polymeric compound containing at least one poly (oxyalkylene) or polyamide chain and at least one |
