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Multi-ply fabric structure including interliner
Assignee: Facemate Corp
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Filing: 1979-05-18
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Granted: 1982-06-08
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Expires: 1999-05-18
Abstract
Abstract An improved interliner for fabric articles such as neckbands, collars, cuffs for garments such as shirts and the like. The interliner includes a fabric having a heat responsive permanent adhesive disposed on one surface and on the opposite surface another heat responsive adhesive which serves solely as a fabrication aid and acts as a temporary bonding agent. The permanent adhesive may be employed to bond the interliner to an outer face ply of fabric, thereby imparting form stability and wrinkle resistance to the article despite repeated laundering or dry cleaning. The temporary adhesive adheres to the other face ply for ease of assembly of the garment structure. Alternatively, the permanent adhesive may be used to bind the interliner to a second interliner to impart greater resilience and shape retentive qualities to the fabric structure.
Inventors
- 👤 William M. Russell
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-02 21:15
CPC Classifications
B; B32; B32B; B32B5/00; B32B5/22; B32B5/24; B32B5/26; A; A41; A41B; A41B3/00; A41B3/10; B32B3/00; B32B3/02; B32B3/04; B32B7/00; B32B7/04; B32B7/12; D; D06; D06M; D06M17/00; D06M17/04; D06M17/06; B32B2437/00; Y; Y10; Y10T; Y10T156/00; Y10T156/10; Y10T156/1002; Y10T156/1007; Y10T156/1008; Y10T156/1011; Y10T428/00; Y10T428/24; Y10T428/24777; Y10T428/24785; Y10T428/24793; Y10T428/24802; Y10T428/2481; Y10T428/24826; Y10T428/24843; Y10T428/24851
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 15
Claim 1
Independent Claim
184 words
Multi-ply fabric structure for use in fabricating garment components comprising at least one outer fabric ply and a fabric interliner having on one surface a heat responsive, permanent type adhesive and on the opposite surface a temporary fusible adhesive, the adhesive properties of which are removable by laundering, said temporary and permanent adhesives disposed at discontinuous bond sites being simultaneously activatable to a tacky condition within a first range of heat and dwell time, said outer fabric ply being superposed in generally edge-to-edge abutting relation against said interliner, outer edge portions of both said interliner and fabric ply being folded inwardly to overlapping relation against the marginal portions of said interliner, the overlapped edge and marginal portions of the interliner and fabric ply being bondable together by activation of said temporary and permanent adhesives within said first energy level range for providing temporary adhesive bonding between said overlapped edge and marginal portions of the interliner and the outer ply, said permanent adhesive being further responsive to a substantially higher energy level than said first range for permanent bonding onto one surface of said interliner.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
184 words
Multi-ply fabric structure for use in fabricating garment components comprising at least one outer fabric ply and a fabric interliner having on one surface a heat responsive, permanent type adhesive and on the opposite surface a temporary fusible adhesive, the adhesive properties of which are removable by laundering, said temporary and permanent adhesives disposed at discontinuous bond sites being simultaneously activatable to a tacky condition within a first range of heat and dwell time, said outer fabric ply being superposed in generally edge-to-edge abutting relation against said interliner, outer edge portions of both said interliner and fabric ply being folded inwardly to overlapping relation against the marginal portions of said interliner, the overlapped edge and marginal portions of the interliner and fabric ply being bondable together by activation of said temporary and permanent adhesives within said first energy level range for providing temporary adhesive bonding between said overlapped edge and marginal portions of the interliner and the outer ply, said permanent adhesive being further responsive to a substantially higher energy level than said first range for permanent bonding onto one surface of said interliner.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
51 words
Multi-ply fabric structure as set forth in claim 1 in which said temporary adhesive is selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl acetate, polyvinyl alcohol, and polyacrylate resin, and said permanent adhesive is selected from the group consisting of polyethylene, polyamide, polyester, ethylene vinyl acetate, polyacrylate, polyvinyl chlorides and copolymers thereof.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
75 words
Multi-ply fabric structure as set forth in claim 1 wherein said outer fabric ply is disposed against one surface of the interliner and wherein the outer edge portions of the interliner and fabric ply are folded inwardly onto said opposite surface of the interliner, said outer ply being permanently bondable to said one surface of the interliner by application of substantially higher temperature and longer dwell time than used for activation within said first range.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
31 words
Multi-ply fabric structure as set forth in claim 1 in which the permanent adhesive comprises spaced deposits of granular material and said temporary adhesive comprises spaced deposits of a coagulated latex.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
46 words
Multi-ply fabric structure in accordance with claim 1 wherein said interliner is adhered to the abutting surface of a second superposed fabric interliner by said temporary adhesive, the other side of said second interliner being adhesively fixed to the inner surface of a second fabric ply.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
50 words
Multi-ply fabric structure in accordance with claim 1 further including a second identical interliner superposed with said first interliner between a pair of outer fabric plies, each interliner being permanently bonded in surface-to-surface contact with one of said fabric plies and adhered together by temporary adhesive disposed on said interliners.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
87 words
Multi-ply fabric structure in accordance with claim 1 wherein said interliner is disposed between said one and another outer fabric ply, the latter being disposed in edge-to-edge relation with the overlapped marginal portions of the interliner and said one ply, said one or the other of said outer plies being permanently bondable overall to the interliner by activation of said permanent adhesive to a substantially higher temperature and longer dwell time than the temperature and dwell time used for activation of both adhesives with said first range.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
25 words
Multi-ply fabric structure as set forth in claim 3 wherein said outer fabric ply is permanently bondable overall to said one surface of the interliner.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
95 words
Method of manufacturing an interliner, said method comprising the steps of heating a continuously advancing fabric web to the softening temperature of a selected granular heat responsive adhesive resin, depositing said adhesive resin onto one surface of said web and allowing said resin to fuse into adhesive deposits in a discontinuous layer, said adhesive resin being a permanent type resistant to laundering and dry cleaning and applying to the opposite surface of said web in a pattern of uniformly spaced sites a heat responsive, water soluble adhesive by disposition thereof of a coagulated latex adhesive.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
95 words
Method of manufacturing an interliner, said method comprising the steps of heating a continuously advancing fabric web to the softening temperature of a selected granular heat responsive adhesive resin, depositing said adhesive resin onto one surface of said web and allowing said resin to fuse into adhesive deposits in a discontinuous layer, said adhesive resin being a permanent type resistant to laundering and dry cleaning and applying to the opposite surface of said web in a pattern of uniformly spaced sites a heat responsive, water soluble adhesive by disposition thereof of a coagulated latex adhesive.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
26 words
Method of manufacturing an interliner in accordance with claim 9 in which said permanent adhesive is a polyethylene and said temporary adhesive is polyvinyl acetate copolymer.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
146 words
Method of fabricating a multi-ply garment structure which comprises the steps of superimposing at least one fabric face ply and a fabric interliner in edge-to-edge relation having on one surface thereof a heat responsive, permanent type adhesive and on the opposite surface a temporary fusible adhesive selected so that its adhesive properties will be dissipated by laundering or dry cleaning, inwardly folding the edge portions of the superposed fabrics against the marginal portions of the interliner, applying heat for a given dwell time to at least the folded and marginal portions of the interliner and face ply to cause both adhesives to become tacky so that the two folded plies will be adhesively held for further fabrication of the garment structure, thereafter applying substantially greater heat for a longer dwell time to activate the permanent adhesive thereby achieving permanent bonding between the interliner and face ply.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
146 words
Method of fabricating a multi-ply garment structure which comprises the steps of superimposing at least one fabric face ply and a fabric interliner in edge-to-edge relation having on one surface thereof a heat responsive, permanent type adhesive and on the opposite surface a temporary fusible adhesive selected so that its adhesive properties will be dissipated by laundering or dry cleaning, inwardly folding the edge portions of the superposed fabrics against the marginal portions of the interliner, applying heat for a given dwell time to at least the folded and marginal portions of the interliner and face ply to cause both adhesives to become tacky so that the two folded plies will be adhesively held for further fabrication of the garment structure, thereafter applying substantially greater heat for a longer dwell time to activate the permanent adhesive thereby achieving permanent bonding between the interliner and face ply.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
73 words
Method of fabricating a multi-ply garment structure as set forth in claim 11 wherein the permanent adhesive on said one surface is disposed against said face ply; the edge portions of the two plies being folded against the marginal portion of the opposite surface and upon activation of the permanent adhesive for said longer dwell time an overall permanent bond is formed between said one surface of the interliner and said face ply.
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