Title (en)

AN ENTANGLED NONWOVEN FABRIC INCLUDING BICOMPONENT FIBERS AND THE METHOD OF MAKING SAME

Publication

EP 0171806 A3 19870616 (EN)

Application

EP 85110211 A 19850814

Priority

US 64123984 A 19840816

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0171806A2] There is disclosed a thermal bonded entangled nonwoven fabric including conjugate fibers having an exposed low melting point component and a component having a higher melting point. The fabric may include only conjugate fibers or the conjugate fibers may be combined with other fibers. The fabric is formed by forming a web containing conjugate fibers, entangling the fibers of the web, heating the web to heat fuse the low melting point component of the conjugate fibers to fibers of the web at the fiber intersection.

IPC 1-7

D04H 1/44; D04H 1/54

IPC 8 full level

D04H 1/46 (2006.01); D04H 1/54 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

D04H 1/49 (2013.01); D04H 1/54 (2013.01)

Citation (search report)

• [X] US 4285748 A 19810825 - BOOKER HAZAEL E, et al
• [X] US 4269888 A 19810526 - EJIMA SHOZO, et al
• [X] GB 1160428 A 19690806 - ICI LTD [GB]
• [X] DE 2533406 A1 19760408 - ICI LTD
• [A] DE 1909345 A1 19700910 - VEPA AG
• [AD] US 3511747 A 19700512 - DAVIES STANLEY

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE DE FR GB IT LU NL

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0171806 A2 19860219; EP 0171806 A3 19870616; AU 4624485 A 19860220; BR 8503890 A 19860527; ZA 856208 B 19870325

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 85110211 A 19850814; AU 4624485 A 19850815; BR 8503890 A 19850815; ZA 856208 A 19850815