Flocked fabric suitable as outerwear
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1. A fabric, comprising:
- a substrate selected from a group consisting of stabilized wovens and stabilized knits, flock fibers and an adhesive adhering said flock fibers to said substrate, said adhesive being in a dried and cured condition, said flock fibers having an embedded portion within said adhesive, a protruding portion protruding out of said adhesive and a bent portion between said embedded and protruding portions, said bent portion changing an angular orientation of the flock fibers, said protruding portion being in a flattened and laid down condition due to bending in said bent portion to provide an outwardly facing surface that is substantially flat in that said protruding portion is arranged to lie on at least one of said adhesive and neighboring ones of said flock fibers so as to increase both abrasion resistance and burr retention resistance over that for the flock in an erect condition, said flock fibers having a memory that tends to return said protruding portion to said flattened and laid down condition instead of said erect condition.
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Abstract
A fabric used as outerwear having a stabilized substrate, an adhesive and flock adhered to the substrate with the adhesive. The adhesive is dried and cured, preferably aerated. A waterproof film may be applied either to the substrate or to a lining adjacent the substrate. The flock may be flattened into a laid down condition.
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16 Claims
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1. A fabric, comprising:
a substrate selected from a group consisting of stabilized wovens and stabilized knits, flock fibers and an adhesive adhering said flock fibers to said substrate, said adhesive being in a dried and cured condition, said flock fibers having an embedded portion within said adhesive, a protruding portion protruding out of said adhesive and a bent portion between said embedded and protruding portions, said bent portion changing an angular orientation of the flock fibers, said protruding portion being in a flattened and laid down condition due to bending in said bent portion to provide an outwardly facing surface that is substantially flat in that said protruding portion is arranged to lie on at least one of said adhesive and neighboring ones of said flock fibers so as to increase both abrasion resistance and burr retention resistance over that for the flock in an erect condition, said flock fibers having a memory that tends to return said protruding portion to said flattened and laid down condition instead of said erect condition. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A fabric, comprising:
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a substrate selected from a group consisting of stabilized wovens and stabilized knits; a cured adhesive on said substrate; a plurality of flock fibers protruding from said adhesive in a laid down condition on at least one of said adhesive and neighboring flock fibers, said fibers each having an embedded portion within said adhesive, a protruding portion in said laid down condition, and a bent portion between said embedded and protruding portions, said bent portion changing an angular orientation of the flock fibers, the fabric having; (a) a level of abrasion resistance sufficient to resist abrading into pieces from machine washing that softens the fabric; (b) a level of water penetration resistance sufficient to block water from penetrating through to the substrate to saturate the same; (c) a level of water penetration resistance sufficient to withstand water penetration by a column of water that is over twice a height of that to which the fabric may withstand penetration of water with the flock fibers in a erect condition prior to being put into the laid down condition; and (d) a level of drape that is higher with the flock fibers being laid down than with the flock fibers standing in an erect condition prior to being laid down. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16)
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