Milliken + Co

John E Ashley

Rachel W Boyette

Andrew D Child

Ansel L Smith

Quentin Robert Bonner

Timothy J Mcgrath

David S Needleman

Jeffrey L Emery

Ryan J Connolly

J Brook Burley

A woven fire-resistant fabric that contains a plurality of warp yarns in the warp direction of the woven fire-resistant fabric and a plurality of weft yarns in the weft direction of the woven fire-resistant fabric. The warp direction and weft direction are approximately perpendicular. At least a portion of the warp or weft yarns comprise a blend of solution dyed meta-aramid fibers and solution dyed para-aramid fibers. The para-aramid fibers contain a co-polymer being poly (diphenylether-co-para-phenylenediamine-terephthaloyldichloride) and the para-aramid fibers have a carbon black loading of greater than 1.0% by weight of the para-aramid fibers.

Fire-resistant textile

A woven flame-resistant fabric for garments, the warp and fill yarns being made up of at least about 30 wt. % inherently flame-resistant fibers. The fabric is woven from a plurality of warp yarn groups consecutively arranged across the width direction in a recurring pattern, each warp yarn group consisting of a plurality of adjacent consecutively arranged warp yarns. At least one warp yarn in each warp yarn group is woven with the fill yarns in a plain (1/1) weave and at least one warp yarn in each warp yarn group is woven in one or more non-plain weaves each selected from the group consisting of 1/2, 2/1, 2/2, 1/3, and 3/1. Approximately half of the warp yarns in the fabric are woven in a plain (1/1) weave and the remaining warp yarns in the fabric are woven in the one or more non-plain weaves, in an alternating fashion.

Woven flame-resistant garment fabric, and garment made therefrom

A fiber blend, a yarn spun from the fiber blend, and a fabric made from the yarn, wherein the fiber blend is a blend of staple fibers comprising non-FR cellulosic fibers, modacrylic fibers, and aramid fibers intimately blended together. The blend is such that the cellulosic fibers constitute at least about 45 wt. % of the fiber blend, a weight ratio of the modacrylic fibers to the cellulosic fibers is at least 0.8 but not exceeding 1.0, and the aramid fibers make up no more than 15 wt. % of the fiber blend.

Flame-resistant fiber blend, yarn, and fabric, and method for making same

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