Patent ID: 11926938
Assignee: XYMID, LLC.
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D | IPC B  D

Claim 14:
15. A method for dimensionally stabilizing the stitch-bonded fabric in accordance with claim 1 comprising the steps of
a. stitch-bonding a fibrous web layer with heat settable yarns following pattern of linear stitches along a machine direction (MD) to form the stitch-bonded fabric;
b. tightening the stitches to maintain fibers from the fibrous web within the stitches by applying heat to the stitch-bonding yarns, while planarly restraining the stitch-bonded fabric, wherein a density of fibers and yarn enclosed within the stitches is above about 0.10 g/cm3 and below about 5.0 g/cm3;
c. optionally shrinking or stretching the stitch-bonded fabric in step b.