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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2004
Applicants:
Kaushal Gandhi, Spartanburg, SC (US);
Benjamin H. Glover, Easley, SC (US);
Inventors:
Kaushal Gandhi, Spartanburg, SC (US);
Benjamin H. Glover, Easley, SC (US);
Assignee:
Milliken & Company, Spartanburg, SC (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B 27/12 (2006.01); B32B 27/04 (2006.01); D06P 1/24 (2006.01); D06P 5/15 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A nonwoven textile substrate formed from microfibers with a polyurethane matrix fully and/or partially impregnated therein, a non-azo disperse dye within microfibers, including the surface, and the matrix. The dyed fibers having an L value of about 35 or less, an ΔE light fastness of about 6 or less when subjected to about 225 kilo-joules, and a long term crock of at least about 1.5.