Textured fibrous structures, and more particularly textured fibrous structures having a plurality of deformations such that the textures fibrous structures exhibit novel surface height properties compared to known fibrous structures, and methods for making such textured fibrous structures.

The present invention is directed at fiber compositions for noise abatement and compression resistance for vehicular applications. More particularly, the fiber compositions are suitable to replace expanded polypropylene foam pads utilized in vehicular carpet applications.

A belt carcass (1) comprising one, two, or more than two impregnated layers (21,22,23,24,25); characterised in that i) each impregnated layer (21,22,23,24,25) comprises, or consists essentially of, a non-wovenfabric (3,301,302,303,304,305,306,307,308) and an impregnation material (4,401,402,403,404,405,406,407,408) comprising, or consisting essentially of, a first thermoplastic, first thermoplastic elastomer, first elastomer or first thermoset and optional additives; whereby, if there are two or more such impregnated layers (21,22,23,24,25), they are adjacent to each other, ii) if the belt carcass (1) comprises one or more such impregnated layers (21,22,23,24,25), then reinforcing filaments extending at least in part in one given direction and being in the form of one filament layer (51) are embedded in the non-woven fabric (3) of exactly one of said impregnated layers (21); or if the belt carcass (1) comprises two or more such impregnated layers (21,22,23,24,25), then reinforcing filaments extending at least in part in one given direction and being in the form of one filament layer (52,53) are sandwiched between two adjacent such impregnated layers (21/22, 24/25), and iii) the belt carcass is devoid of woven fabrics. This belt carcass can be cut into longitudinal belts or into circular disks or corner belts.

A composite board comprising (i) a first foam region; (ii) at least one fragile insulating material; and (iii) a second foam region, where said second foam region is substantially devoid of hydrocarbons.

The present disclosure is directed to substrates or topsheets having repeating patterns of apertures for absorbent articles. Each of the repeat units comprises at least three apertures.

The present invention provides a mop cleaning cloth and a method for manufacturing the same. The mop cleaning cloth comprises, sequentially from bottom to top, a base cloth layer, a water-absorption layer and a dirt removal layer. The dirt removal layer is formed by high terry fabrics and low terry fabrics. The ratio of the terry height of the high terry fabrics to the terry height of the low terry fabrics is 1.1-5:1. The high terry fabrics have a terry height of 2-20 mm and low terry fabrics have a terry height of 1-10 mm. The water-absorption layer is formed by a water-absorption fabric made from water-absorption fibers. The base cloth layer is formed by a terry fabric. The manufacturing method is simple, and the mop cleaning cloth is easy to manufacture and has the advantages of being small in resistance, high in water absorptivity and dirt collection and removal capacity, and the like.

Laminate comprising a support component (1) in the form of a first layer of fibres and/or filaments, in particular a first non-woven fabric, and a component (2) with loops in the form of a second layer of fibres and/or filaments, in particular a second non-woven fabric with loops, the two components being fastened to one another, wherein the fastening causes so-called calendering islands (3, 3′) to appear on the external surface of the component with loops in the shape of an S with symmetrical heads, characterised in that each S-shaped island with symmetrical heads consists of two sub-islands (3A, 3B; 3′A, 3′B) forming opposite heads and an intermediate, non-fastened region (4; 4′) separating the two sub-islands forming opposite heads.

The present invention provides a sound-absorbing material having sound absorption performance with an average sound absorption coefficient of 0.70 or more in the frequency range of 800 to 5000 Hz. The present invention provides a sound-absorbing material including: a fiber layer including a plurality of holes open to a surface thereof and having a thickness of 3 mm or more; and an inorganic material layer mainly containing a calcium-based material and having a thickness of 0.4 to 0.6 mm on the surface of the fiber layer, the holes being blind holes each penetrating through the inorganic material layer and having a bottom inside the fiber layer, each hole having a depth corresponding to 50 to 90% of the thickness of the fiber layer.

In a shaped sheet manufacturing method, it is possible to reliably shape a first sheet even if the tension of the first sheet is reduced at the time of manufacturing the shaped sheet. In a first step, a first sheet is conveyed along an outer peripheral surface of a first roll having a plurality of recessed parts. In a second step, a second sheet is overlapped with the first sheet and conveyed together with the first sheet so that the first and second sheets are held between the recessed parts of the first roll and projection parts of a second roll. In a third step, the first and second sheets having passed between the first roll and the second roll are bonded to each other. In the second step, the tension of the first sheet is made smaller than the tension of the second sheet.

The present invention provides a nonwoven fabric for a separation membrane which can prevent a bleed-through of a resin solution used for coating in a step of producing the separation membrane, can produce a separation membrane having a large permeate flux of a liquid by non-solvent induced phase separation, has high adhesiveness between a coating membrane and the nonwoven fabric, and can make the coating membrane thin, and a method of producing the same. In an exemplary aspect of the present invention, a two-layer nonwoven fabric 10 for a separation membrane is configured to have a surface layer 11 and a back surface layer 12, a coating surface of a coating solution during membrane formation is a surface 11a of the surface layer 11, and, when the nonwoven fabric 10 is impregnated with the coating solution for membrane formation, the surface layer 11 has a large Laplace force and the back surface layer 12 has a small Laplace force. The nonwoven fabric 10 for a separation membrane can be produced by sequentially papermaking a fiber dispersion liquid DS1 for a surface layer including one or more kinds of fine fibers FF having a small fiber diameter and one or more kinds of thick fibers TF having a fiber diameter larger than that of the fine fibers FF and a fiber dispersion liquid DS2 for a back surface layer consisting of the thick fibers TF using a wet papermaking method.