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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2000
Willy De Meyer, J.B.d'Hanedreef, BE;
Michael Gilpatrick, Chesnee, SC (US);
Milliken & Company, Spartanburg, SC (US);
Abstract
The weft threads ( ) of a textile product ( ) run at an angle of at least approximately 70 degrees with respect to its warp threads ( ) and the weft threads ( ) protrude, by a piece, beyond the outermost warp threads ( ′), on at least one side of the strip-shaped textile product ( ) in a strip-shaped textile product ( ), consisting, in particular, of filaments, threads, or a yarn, for use as a reinforcement layer for hoses, tubes, pressure containers, and similar hollow objects. Alternately or in addition, the warp threads ( ) are formed thinner than the remaining warp threads ( ) in at least one boundary area (R) of the textile product ( ).