Patent ID: 7468113

Claim:
A method of forming a woven appearing non-woven fabric comprising the steps of: providing a supply of elongated side-by-side warp yarns defining an elongated warp sheet, forming said warp sheet into a substantially cylindrical configuration and moving it along a linear path, surrounding said cylindrically formed warp sheet with an apparatus for transversely wrapping weft yarns around said warp sheet, wrapping the weft yarns transversely around said warp sheet as it is moved linearly past said apparatus, cutting said weft yarns along the length of said cylindrically formed warp sheet, and accumulating said warp sheet and weft yarns applied thereto, wherein said apparatus includes an elongated rotatable tube on which a plurality of circumferentially spaced spools of weft yarns are mounted and wherein said spools are further positioned at a plurality of locations along the length of said tube.