Patent ID: 6311633
Filing Date: 2001-11-06
Classification: B32B,B63H,D03D,D04H

Abstract:
As an article of manufacture, a yarn-oriented sail comprised of a number of specifically woven sail panels, wherein at least a majority of said specifically woven sail panels are of a specifically woven material of fill yarns and warp yarns wherein said fill yarns in said specifically woven material are fill yarns of nonparallel orientation in each of said majority of woven sail panels and are along primary load paths specific for each of said majority of specifically woven sail panels, said majority of specifically woven sail panels extending from luff to leach for each of said majority of specifically woven sail panels in said sail when said sail is in use for its intended purpose, and where in said fill yarns within each of said majority of specifically woven sail panels are of opposite slope at said luff versus said leach in said specifically woven sail panel.