Method of making metal flocked fabric

• US 3,973,059 A
• Filed: 08/16/1974
• Issued: 08/03/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/1969
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Memtec America Corporation
• Original Assignee: Brunswick Corporation
• Inventors: Tremblay, Maurice H., Brown, Perry H., Surprenant, Norman F.
• Primary Examiner(s): Smith, Ronald H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Beck, Shrive P.
• Application Number:
  US05/498,097
• Time in Patent Office: 718 Days
• Field of Search: 117/16, 117/17, 117/17.5, 117/22, 117/25, 117/31, 117/227, 117/235, 161/67, 29/182, 29/191.2, 51/400, 427/26, 427/197, 427/180, 427/202, 427/206, 427/376, 427/287, 428/90, 428/296, 428/457
• US Class Current: 427/180
• CPC Class Codes: B05D 1/16 Flocking otherwise than by spraying
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 11/00 Non-woven pile fabrics layered products forming non-woven pile fabrics B32B
• CPC Class Codes: D06Q 1/10 by treatment with, or fixation of, a particulate material, e.g. mica, glass beads by metallising D06Q1/04; by transferring D06Q1/12
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/23943 Flock surface
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/249927 Fiber embedded in a metal matrix
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/31678 Of metal
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 442/69 Autogenously bonded nonwoven fabric

Abstract

A method of making a flocked fabric wherein metal flock fibers are secured to a base. The fibers may be secured as by adhesive, metal fusion bonding, etc. The flock fibers may be metal fusion bonded to each other, may be maintained in spaced relationship, may be provided in tufts, etc.

Claims

1. A method of forming a flocked metal textile fabric comprising the steps of:

a. providing a porous textile fabric base made from textile metal-forming filaments;

b. flocking composite metal fibers on said base, each composite fiber comprising a plurality of textile metal fibers having rough, unmachined, unburnished outer surfaces, the textile fibers being disposed in a metal matrix material;

c. autogeneously bonding the composite fibers to said base; and

d. removing the matrix material.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the composite comprises nickel textile metal fibers in an aluminum matrix material.