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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2000
David N. Swers, Chapel Hill, NC (US);
Johnny E. Parrish, Anderson, NC (US);
Glen Raven, Inc., Glen Raven, NC (US);
Abstract
A decorative outdoor fabric including a woven structure formed of warp effect yarns and at least some of the fill yarns comprising self-coating yarns formed of high melt and low melt yarn constituents. When the fabric is tentered, the low melt constituents melt and cross-flow to the other fibers in the fill and warp yarns. Both the warp yarns have deniers in the range of 50-4000 and the fill yarns have deniers in the range of 150-4000. Because of the cross-flow of the low melt constituents, the resulting fabric achieves acceptable abrasion resistance, stability, and load recovery and hand without the need for a latex backing.