Article: Nonwoven Fabrics Containing Yarns With Varying Filament Characteristics: No. 7,175,902; Albert Ortega, Wayne Thomley, Jan Mackey and Charles Shafer, assignors to Cerex Advanced Fabrics, Inc., Cantonment, FL.

Article: Combination Effects of Open-End Rotor Spun Hybrid Yarns
Textile Research Journal;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... typical hybrid yarns by inserting two filament yarns with varying filament over-feeds. The results are a new rotor spun loop ... yarns combined with staple fibers and a filament yarn with varying filament over-feed (FOF) were classified as follows: First ...

Article: Tin whisker observations: after years of study, fin whiskers ...
Circuits Assembly;  November 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... curved or spiraled (FIGURES 1 to 7). FIGURE 4 also shows whiskers in the same general growth area can have widely varying filament thicknesses. FIGURE 5 provides an example of a kinked filament tin whisker having multiple bends along its length ...

Article: Modeling the Effects of Filament Radius and Photochemical Dye ...
Textile Research Journal;  February 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT An optical model is used for simulating the effects of varying filament radii on the perceived color strength of an array of parallel filament layers representing a textile fabric. As the filament radius ...

Article: Florida, Alabama Inventors Develop Nonwoven Fabric
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 19, 2007 ;     454 words ... ... Gulf Breeze, Fla., and Charles F. Shafer of Stockton, Ala., have developed nonwoven fabrics containing yarns with varying filament characteristics. According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject invention provides non-woven ...

Article: New findings from H.S. Ramanath and co-researchers in the area of ...
Blood Weekly;  August 14, 2008 ;     659 words ... ... modelling and finite element analysis (FEA) using Ansys (R). The MFB is studied using accurate channel geometry by varying filament velocity at the entry and by varying nozzle diameters and angles at the exit. The comparative results of both mathematical ...

Article: Spinning conditions and characteristics of open-end rotor spun ...
Textile Research Journal;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... describe our progress in producing different kinds of novel hybrid yams by combining staple fibers with filament yams under varying filament over-feeds on an experimental open-end spinning frame. Theories/Hypotheses YARN STRUCTURE Using idealized helical ...

Article: Twisting mechanisms of open-end rotor spun hybrid yarns
Textile Research Journal;  August 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... fibers with a filament yam on this spinning frame, the two components in hybrid yams have different twist angles with varying filament over-feed. In this research, we describe the twisting mechanisms of hybrid yams by investigating each twist angle inserted ...