Method for making fabric with excellent water transition ability

• US 6,381,994 B1
• Filed: 06/28/2001
• Issued: 05/07/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Silzerstar Corporation
• Original Assignee: Silzerstar Corporation
• Inventors: Lee, Young-Kyu
• Primary Examiner(s): WORRELL JR, LARRY D
• Application Number:
  US09/892,761
• Publication Number:
  US 20020026814A1
• Time in Patent Office: 313 Days
• Field of Search: 662/02, 661/96, 661/97, 661/69.R, 661/70, 139/384.R, 139/408, 139/409, 139/410, 139/420.R, 139/420.A, 442/197, 442/198, 442/206, 442/208, 442/212, 442/213, 442/215, 442/217, 442/318
• US Class Current: 66/196
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 11/00 Double or multi-ply fabrics not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 15/00 Woven fabrics characterised by the material, structure or properties of the fibres, filaments, yarns, threads or other warp or weft elements used
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 15/283 synthetic polymer-based, e.g. polyamide or polyester fibres cellulose-based artificial fibres D03D15/225
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 15/37 with specific cross-section or surface shape
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 15/41 with specific twist
• CPC Class Codes: D03D 15/49 textured chenille D03D27/18; curled; crimped
• CPC Class Codes: D04B 21/16 incorporating synthetic threads
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2331/02 polyamides D10B2331/08 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2331/04 polyesters, e.g. polyethylene terephthalate [PET]
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2401/14 Dyeability
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2403/0114 with one or more yarns appearing predominantly on one face, e.g. plated or paralleled yarns for pile fabrics D03D27/00, D04B1/02, D04B21/02; for intarsia fabrics D04B1/126
• CPC Class Codes: D10B 2503/06 Bed linen

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for making a woven or knitted fabric with an excellent water transition ability, involving the steps of fabricating a woven or knitted fabric having a double weave structure by use of a polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) filament for one surface of said fabric and a divided PET/nylon-conjugated fiber for the other surface of said fabric, and subjecting said fabric to a weight loss finishing process. Since the fabric has a void size difference between the surfaces thereof in accordance with the weight loss finishing process, it can externally discharge, at a high velocity, moisture absorbed therein.

Claims

1. A method for making a woven or knitted fabric with an excellent water transition ability, comprising the steps of:

fabricating a woven or knitted fabric having a double weave structure by use of a polyethyleneterephthalate (PET) filament for one surface of said fabric and a divided PET/nylon-conjugated fiber for the other surface of said fabric; and

subjecting said fabric to a weight loss finishing process, thereby allowing said fabric to have a void size difference between said surfaces thereof, so that moisture can be transited from said one surface to said other surface.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein said divided PET/nylon-conjugated fiber is that twisted to have a twist number or twist level of 2,100 to 2,400 at a temperature of 140 to 190°

C.