Title:
WARP KNITTED TAPE
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO/1992/021805
Kind Code:
A1
Abstract:
A method of producing a warp knitted tape having a loop pile, the method including the steps of knitting a ground fabric by knitting a plurality of straight wales (12) from wale forming yarn and during knitting of the wales laying-in across said plurality of wales on selected courses at least one weft yarn (14), and during knitting of the ground fabric, knitting-in along selected wales a textured yarn (16), the textured yarn being floated across adjacent wales (12) or courses at selected locations to define a float (17) on the surface of the ground fabric at said selected locations, the textured yarn being knitted-in under tension and permitted to relax in the region of the floats (17) after knitting in order to produce a loop pile comprising a mat of tangled loops.
Inventors:
ALLEN KENNETH ALFRED (GB)
Application Number:
PCT/GB1992/000892
Publication Date:
December 10, 1992
Filing Date:
May 18, 1992
Export Citation:
Assignee:
BRIGHTWAKE LTD (GB)
International Classes:
A44B18/00; D04B21/02; (IPC1-7): A44B18/00; D04B21/02
Domestic Patent References:
| WO1991008331A1 | 1991-06-13 |
Foreign References:
| EP0284020A1 | 1988-09-28 | |||
| FR1539997A | 1968-09-20 | |||
| FR2632830A1 | 1989-12-22 | |||
| EP0223075A1 | 1987-05-27 | |||
| CH566117A | 1975-09-15 |
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