Patent ID: 6704979
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: A41F,D04D,D06H

Abstract:
A method for producing elastic and stretchable tapes from a web of interlining fabric made of a nonwoven fabric web for use in the garment industry, comprising: laying at least one industrially produced web (1, 2; 16) on top of another or folding at least one web over on itself; joining the webs with one another or joining the folded web at their open edges (3, 4; 5, 6; 18, 19) so as to form a tube (11); cutting a wall (21) of the tube (11) open slantwise so that a new interlining fabric web (22) is created, which is more elastic in longitudinal direction (26) and the transverse direction and is furnished with equal strengths, and cutting the interlining fabric web in the longitudinal direction (26) to form tapes (25).