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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2015
Samsonite Ip Holdings S.a R.l., Luxembourg, LU;
Mathieu Vandevelde, Spiere-Helkijn, BE;
Pauline M. Koslowski, Berchem, BE;
Samsonite IP Holdings S.a r.l., Luxembourg, LU;
Abstract
A luggage shell or case made from a sheet formed by compacting and heating a mat made of either a mixture of randomly oriented first discontinuous non-woven plastic fibers () having a first melting temperature and randomly oriented second discontinuous reinforcing non-woven plastic fiber () having a second melting temperature higher than the first melting temperature, or a bicomponent fiber having a first plastic portion having a first melting temperature and a second plastic portion having a second melting temperature. The non-woven mat is heated at a temperature between the first melting temperature and the second melting temperature, as well as by forming the compacted non-woven sheet () into the luggage shell.