MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL

**Definition:** This place covers:

**Limiting references (this place does not cover):** - Non-woven fabrics having an intermediate or external layer of a different kind, e.g. of woven fabric -> B23B - Weaving -> D03 - Knitting -> D04B - Braiding or lace making -> D04C - Net-making or making knotted carpets -> D04G - Sewing -> D05B - Tufting -> D05C - Finishing non-woven fabrics -> D06

**Glossary:** - Carded thermal bonded and resin bonded staples: fabrics formed by processing textile staple fibers over a card and bonding by resin or thermal means. - Air laid: fabrics formed by air laying and bonding pulp or staple fibers. - Wet laid: fabrics that contain long (longer than pulp) fibers and are made by papermaking techniques. - Needle punched staples: fabrics formed by processing staple fibers over a card or other web forming device and entangling them by penetrating the fabric with multiple barbed needles. - Spun laced or hydro entangled: fabrics formed by carding, air laying or other web forming techniques and consolidated by hydraulic needling. - Spun bonded: fabrics formed by in-line melt extrusion spinning of filaments of conventional textile denier. - Melt blown: fabrics formed by in-line melt extrusion spinning of very fine fiber diameter, less than one denier. - Non-woven fabrics: fabrics formed wholly or partly of textile material by processes comprising operations other than the weaving, knitting, braiding, lacing, or knotting of yarns, threads, or filaments for which provision is made in other subclasses of Section D . This expression includes felts, cotton-wool, and wadding. - Composite fibres: Conjugated fibres that are manufactured by composite spinning of two or more kinds of immiscible resins, of which the resins form such phase structures as side-by-side, sheath-core, sea-island, wood grain pattern, multi-layered, radial or mosaic in the cross section surface vertical to the fibre axis. - Mixed fibres: Mixture of two or more kinds of fibres made of different substances. - Fleece: Non-woven - Pile: Upright loop or nap raised from the surface of fabrics. - Welding: bonding of fibres or filaments using heat and/or pressure or solvent bonding, i.e. autogenously bonding