Patent ID: 6859983
Filing Date: 2005-03-01
Classification: B32B,D04H,D06C,D06P,F41H,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A method of making a camouflage non-woven material, comprising the steps of: forming a non-woven layer having a predetermined pattern or image selected from the group consisting of: woodland and/or grassland patterns including tree bark, leaves, pine bough, tree limbs, flowers, grass blades, pine cones, palm fronds, and rocks; including providing a three-dimensional image transfer device exhibiting said predetermined pattern or image, and forming said nonwoven layer by hydroentanglement on said three-dimensional image transfer device, providing a colored layer having a different aesthetic quality than said predetermined pattern or image of said non-woven layer, applying said colored layer to said non-woven layer by a process selected from the group consisting of: dyeing, differential dyeing, transfer printing, digital printing, and overprinting; the resulting camouflage material exhibiting improved pattern disruption of said predetermined pattern or image by said colored layer.