Patent ID: 8273429

Claim:
A textile fabric, comprising: a substrate having filamentary members interlaced with one another, said filamentary members include first filamentary members oriented in a warp extending first direction and a plurality of second filamentary members oriented in a weft extending second direction generally transverse to said first direction, at least some of said first filamentary members being spaced from one another to provide a plurality of separate warp extending spaces between said spaced first filamentary members, at least some of said secondary filamentary members being monofilaments having a core of heat-settable polymeric material and an outer sheath of heat-fusible polymeric material; a plurality of strips of material separate from said substrate interlaced with said second filamentary members in at least some of said spaces, said strips of material having oppositely facing inner and outer sides and extending parallel to said first direction and transverse to said second direction; and wherein said outer sheath of at least some of said monofilaments abuts said outer side of each of said strips over a single circumferential extent and said outer sheath of at least some of said monofilaments abuts said inner side of each of said strips over a single circumferential extent, at least some of said outer sheaths being heat-fused to said material and said core of said at least some of said monofilaments being heat-shaped into a biased shape.