Textile interlining material having anisotropic properties

• US 4,647,492 A
• Filed: 06/15/1984
• Issued: 03/03/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Firma CARL Freuenberg Hohnerweg 2 6940 Weinheim/Bergstr
• Original Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
• Inventors: Walker, Edward, Grant, Eric M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Bell, James J.
• Application Number:
  US06/620,899
• Time in Patent Office: 991 Days
• Field of Search: 428/105, 428/109, 428/114, 428/292, 428/293, 428/294, 428/295, 428/296, 428/297, 428/298, 428/300, 428/198, 428/283, 428/284, 428/402, 428/232, 428/340, 428/287, 428/398, 2/97
• US Class Current: 428/198
• CPC Class Codes: A41D 27/06 Stiffening-pieces
• CPC Class Codes: D04H 5/06 strengthened or consolidated by welding-together thermoplastic fibres, filaments, or yarns
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24802 Discontinuous or differential coating, impregnation or bond [e.g., artwork, printing, retouched photograph, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/24826 Spot bonds connect components
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/27 Web or sheet containing structurally defined element or component, the element or component having a specified weight per unit area [e.g., gms/sq cm, lbs/sq ft, etc.]
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/2975 Tubular or cellular

Abstract

An interlining material having reinforcing filaments aligned parallel to one another and having an anisotropic stiffening action. They are characterized by a melting point of more than 180° C. and are applied to a substrate surface melting at temperatures below 150° C. Also described is a method of production whose steps are coordinated with the melting behavior of the substrate surface and reinforcing filaments.

Claims

1. A textile interlining material having anisotropic properties comprising:

a substrate comprising a surface that melts below 150°

C. and a layer of substantially parallel reinforcing filaments that have a melting point above 180°

C. and that are thermally bonded to said surface, the substrate comprising infusible material whose surface is provided with a hot-melt adhesive pattern in the form of dots, rows of dots, lines, or surfaces, in a regular or random arrangement.

2. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1 in which said substrate comprises a non-fusible substrate under said surface which is fusible and is thermally bonded thereto.

3. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 2 in which said non-fusible substrate comprises an interlining material.

4. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the substrate comprises a homogeneous thermoplastic fiber composite whose melting temperature is below 150°

C. and whose specific weight amounts to 10 to 80 g/m².

5. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 4, in which the homogeneous substrate can be destroyed by heat to such an extent that thereafter substrate material remains only area-wise bonded to the high-melting reinforcing filament layer.

6. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the substrate comprises infusible material whose surface is formed by a random mat of interconnected thermoplastic filaments whose melting temperature is below 150°

C.

7. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 6, in which the thermoplastic filaments have diameters between 5×

10^-3 and 5×

10^-2 mm and the specific weight of the filament layer is 5 to 50 g/m².

8. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 6, in which the thermoplastic filaments have diameters of 0.01 to 0.02 mm and the surface layer weighs 10 to 20 g/m².

9. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 6, in which the melting temperature of the thermoplastic filaments is between 80°

and 120°

C.

10. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the substrate infusible material is nonwoven material.

11. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 2, in which the specific weight of the reinforcing filament layer amounts to twice to three times the fusible surface of the substrate material.

12. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the reinforcing layer has a specific weight of 10 to 100 g/m².

13. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the reinforcing filament cross sections have a substantially circular configuration.

14. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 13, in which the reinforcing filaments have a diameter of 0.1 to 0.4 mm.

15. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the distances of the reinforcing filaments from one another amount to 0.5 to 5 mm.

16. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the parallel reinforcing filaments bonded to the substrate surface and melting above 180°

C. comprise filament clusters cemented to one another.

17. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the parallel reinforcing filaments melting above 180°

C. and bonded to the substrate surface are individual monofilaments.

18. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the reinforcing filaments are disposed parallel at a distance of 2 mm from one another on the substrate surface.

19. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which parallel bands of the reinforcing filaments cross one another at right angles.

20. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the parallel spacing of the reinforcing filaments from one another varies from one area to another.

21. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which the melting point of the reinforcing filaments is between 200°

and 300°

C.

22. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which said substrate is supported by a release-coated carrier.

23. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which said fusible surface is formed from randomly disposed fusible filaments fused to each other.

24. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which said fusible surface is formed from fusible powder particles fused to each other.

25. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which said fusible surface comprises low-melting polymeric material.

26. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 25, in which said polymeric material is selected from the group consisting of polyolefines, polyurethanes, polysters and polyamides.

27. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 25, in which said polymeric material is a terpolymer of nylon 6, 66 and 12,

28. An interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which said reinforcing filaments are of a polyamide polymer.

29. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 28, in which said polyamide polymer has a melting temperature of 290°

C.

30. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 1, in which said reinforcing filaments have a substantially circular cross-section having a diameter in the range of 0.1 to 0.4 mm and a substantially uniform spacing in the range of 1 to 3 mm.

31. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 30, in which said diameter is approximately 0.2 to 0.3 mm.

32. A textile interlining material in accordance with claim 31, in which said spacing is approximately 2 mm.