Patent ID: 7699954

Claim:
A method of forming a non-woven fabric, comprising the steps of: providing a supply of elongated side-by-side warp yarns; applying an adhesive scrim to only one side of the elongated side-by-side warp yarns to form an elongated warp sheet, wherein the adhesive scrim defines a web of adhesive strands that extend between adjacent warp yarns on said one side of the warp sheet to hold the warp yarns in a substantially parallel and non-twisting relationship; forming the warp sheet into a substantially cylindrical configuration, wherein the adhesive scrim on said one side of the warp sheet is exposed; moving the cylindrically-formed warp sheet along a linear path while transversely wrapping weft yarns around the cylindrically-formed warp sheet; adhering the weft yarns to the adhesive scrim on said one side of the cylindrically-formed warp sheet to form a substantially cylindrical non-woven fabric of said warp and weft yarns; and cutting the substantially cylindrical non-woven fabric along the linear path to free the non-woven fabric from its cylindrical form.