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Mesh structure/fabric laminate

  • US 5,651,853 A
  • Filed: 06/01/1995
  • Issued: 07/29/1997
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/02/1994
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of making a laminate, comprising:

  • providing a plastics material mesh structure having molecularly oriented strands connected together by thicker and non-oriented or less-oriented portions;

    providing a fabric for lamination to the mesh structure;

    heating the surfaces of said thicker portions of the mesh structure to soften or melt the surfaces of said thicker portions;

    subsequently passing the mesh structure and the fabric through a nip formed by a nip member and a backing member, to cause the softened or melted plastics material of said thicker portions to penetrate into the fabric; and

    cooling the laminate so formed;

    said nip member having surface protuberances which engage the opposite face of the fabric to that face of the fabric which engages the mesh structure, in general at least one protuberance engaging substantially each said thicker portion of the mesh structure where bonding is required.

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