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EP 0180714 B1 19890719 - FABRIC AND METHOD FOR MAKING IT

Title (en)

FABRIC AND METHOD FOR MAKING IT

Publication

EP 0180714 B1 19890719 (DE)

Application

EP 85108589 A 19850710

Priority

DE 3436612 A 19841005

Abstract (en)

[origin: EP0180714A1] 1. Method for the production of a cloth web having a basic knitted fabric of intermeshed tricot threads and elastic fringe threads and having a function layer of function threads, which run to and fro between wales with which they are intermeshed, which is applied to the basic knitted fabric, characterized in that the fringe threads are knitted in under initial tension, crossing from wale to wale.

IPC 1-7

D04B 21/18

IPC 8 full level

D04B 21/04 (2006.01); D04B 21/18 (2006.01)

CPC (source: EP)

D04B 21/18 (2013.01)

Designated contracting state (EPC)

AT BE CH DE FR GB IT LI LU NL SE

DOCDB simple family (publication)

EP 0180714 A1 19860514; EP 0180714 B1 19890719; AT E44778 T1 19890815; DE 3436612 A1 19860424; DE 3571654 D1 19890824; JP S61124662 A 19860612

DOCDB simple family (application)

EP 85108589 A 19850710; AT 85108589 T 19850710; DE 3436612 A 19841005; DE 3571654 T 19850710; JP 22050085 A 19851004