Fuse and fold fabric

Claim 1

A roll for facilitating the folding over of an edge of a continuous width of textile fabric to which the material of the roll is adhesively secured to define a rounded straight line fold characterized by outer layers of juxtaposed textile fabric and a pair of inner layers of roll fabric consisting essentially of a heat sensitive strip of a monolayer of a non-woven synthetic textile fabric of short staple fibers which fabric has on only one side thereof a heat actuatable adhesive, said fabric having a constant width and at least one longitudinally running perforated line of perforations each of which has a longer longitudinal dimension than a transverse direction, which perforated lines runs parallel with a side edge of said fabric, said fabric being free of any surface interruptions other than perforated lines running parallel with a side edge, whereby when said strip of non-woven textile fibers is unwound from said roll, disposed over said textile fabric and thermally adhesively secured thereto there is provided a linear zone non-supported by said strip and a zone on each side of said perforated line supported by said strip whereby said textile fabric can be accurately and rapidly folded over at said linear zone of non-support to form a folded article having a reduced tendency to return to its original shape and having an upper and lower layer of textile fabric and a pair of juxtaposed non-woven strips therebetween secured to the resultant facing sides of the upper and lower layers of said textile fabric.