Flocked fabric printing
CA 2103451 C · Owner: Blanton, G. Kelly · Inventors: Blanton, G. Kelly
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A flocked fabric has colors with long wearing capabilities and includes a textile substrate and raised disperse-dyeable fibers adhered to the substrate, an opaque particulate colorant adhering to the raised fibers and arrayed on the fabric in a printed pattern. A dye other than the opaque particulate colorant is also arrayed on the fabric in other portions of the printed pattern such as in a blotch. A melamine-latex binder system causes the opaque particulate material to adhere to the fibers and a resist, causes the other dye not to dye the fibers in the area of the malamine-latex binder system. The opaque particulate colorant is adhered to the fibers strongly enough to show only very …
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- Filed May 20, 1992 and granted July 23, 2002. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 20, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by May 20, 2014.
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