Methods, systems, and devices for changing cross-sectional sizes and/or shapes of flat braided sutures and the resulting constructs are disclosed. The flat braided sutures can have a textile first cross-sectional shape that can be changed to a textile second cross-sectional shape. The systems can have a heater and a die. The flat braided sutures can be movable through the heater and the die. When the flat braided sutures are in the heater, the flat braided sutures can be heatable from a textile first temperature to a textile second temperature greater than the textile first temperature. When the flat braided sutures are at the textile second temperature, the textile first cross-sectional shape can be changeable to the textile second cross-sectional shape.

A near-infrared-absorption white material, a method of manufacturing the same, and uses thereof. The near-infrared-absorption material includes copper pyrophosphate compound. The copper pyrophosphate compound has a brightness (CIE L*) value of 90 or more in a visible-ray region and is excellent in particle manufacturing properties, and a crystalline structure of the copper pyrophosphate compound is made chemically stable using a heat treatment at a high temperature. The copper pyrophosphate compound is represented by the following chemical formula:

Cu.sub.2P.sub.2O.sub.7 or Cu.sub.2P.sub.2O.sub.7.XH.sub.2O (x=13).

A near-infrared-absorption white material, a method of manufacturing the same, and uses thereof. The near-infrared-absorption material includes copper pyrophosphate compound. The copper pyrophosphate compound has a brightness (CIE L*) value of 90 or more in a visible-ray region and is excellent in particle manufacturing properties, and a crystalline structure of the copper pyrophosphate compound is made chemically stable using a heat treatment at a high temperature. The copper pyrophosphate compound is represented by the following chemical formula:

Cu.sub.2P.sub.2O.sub.7 or Cu.sub.2P.sub.2O.sub.7.XH.sub.2O (x=13).

Disclosed is a fabric for a roofing membrane adapted to waterproof a roof of a building, the fabric including: warp and weft yarns laid on each other on the front and back sides thereof in such a manner as to have numbers and lengths corresponding to an area of the fabric; ground yarns wound around one side warp yarn and the other side warp yarn in a zigzag form in such a manner as to interlace the weft yarn; and finishing yarns arranged on edges thereof to allow the ground yarns to be arranged therebetween, upper loops and lower loops being formed alternately on the warp yarns where the ground yarns, the finishing yarns, or the ground yarn and the finishing yarn are laid on each other.

Disclosed is a fabric for a roofing membrane adapted to waterproof a roof of a building, the fabric including: warp and weft yarns laid on each other on the front and back sides thereof in such a manner as to have numbers and lengths corresponding to an area of the fabric; ground yarns wound around one side warp yarn and the other side warp yarn in a zigzag form in such a manner as to interlace the weft yarn; and finishing yarns arranged on edges thereof to allow the ground yarns to be arranged therebetween, upper loops and lower loops being formed alternately on the warp yarns where the ground yarns, the finishing yarns, or the ground yarn and the finishing yarn are laid on each other.

A device for the laser treatment of trousers, including a laser beam generating equipment suitable for emitting the laser beam in any direction within an emission pyramid with an emission axis and two opening angles, and a work station with two mannequins, where each mannequin includes two legs. Each leg defines a longitudinal axis, and the two longitudinal axes of each mannequin define a mannequin plane. Each of the mannequins is oriented towards the equipment so that the emission axis strikes the mannequin plane at an angle of less than 90? and each mannequin has at least one of its legs within the pyramid.

A device for the laser treatment of trousers, including a laser beam generating equipment suitable for emitting the laser beam in any direction within an emission pyramid with an emission axis and two opening angles, and a work station with two mannequins, where each mannequin includes two legs. Each leg defines a longitudinal axis, and the two longitudinal axes of each mannequin define a mannequin plane. Each of the mannequins is oriented towards the equipment so that the emission axis strikes the mannequin plane at an angle of less than 90? and each mannequin has at least one of its legs within the pyramid.

The invention relates to a device and a method for the bonding of a textile web, whereby the textile web is guided over an idler drum into a bonding plant, led around a through-air drum and over a cooling drum and then led out again, whereby heated fresh air flows through the web and the through-air drum and the exhaust air is extracted from the bonding plant. According to the invention, it is intended that cooling air is directed onto the web ahead of the detachment point of the web from the through-air drum onto the web.

Disclosed is a fabric for a roofing membrane adapted to waterproof a roof of a building, the fabric including: warp and weft yarns laid on each other on the front and back sides thereof in such a manner as to have numbers and lengths corresponding to an area of the fabric; ground yarns wound around one side warp yarn and the other side warp yarn in a zigzag form in such a manner as to interlace the weft yarn; and finishing yarns arranged on edges thereof to allow the ground yarns to be arranged therebetween, upper loops and lower loops being formed alternately on the warp yarns where the ground yarns, the finishing yarns, or the ground yarn and the finishing yarn are laid on each other.

Disclosed is a fabric for a roofing membrane adapted to waterproof a roof of a building, the fabric including: warp and weft yarns laid on each other on the front and back sides thereof in such a manner as to have numbers and lengths corresponding to an area of the fabric; ground yarns wound around one side warp yarn and the other side warp yarn in a zigzag form in such a manner as to interlace the weft yarn; and finishing yarns arranged on edges thereof to allow the ground yarns to be arranged therebetween, upper loops and lower loops being formed alternately on the warp yarns where the ground yarns, the finishing yarns, or the ground yarn and the finishing yarn are laid on each other.