US 11,857,081 B2
Load bearing surface with kinetic energy management fabric
Craig Martin Oomen, Lowell, MI (US); Randy James Sayers, Howard City, MI (US); and Manfred Mueller, Nuremberg (DE)
Assigned to Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US)
Appl. No. 17/265,461
Filed by Illinois Tool Works Inc., Glenview, IL (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 1, 2019, PCT No. PCT/US2019/044693
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 2, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/028679, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 6, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/714,169, filed on Aug. 3, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0227992 A1, Jul. 29, 2021
Int. Cl. A47C 7/28 (2006.01); A47C 31/02 (2006.01); D03D 1/00 (2006.01)
CPC A47C 31/023 (2013.01) [A47C 7/282 (2013.01); D03D 1/00 (2013.01); D10B 2331/021 (2013.01); D10B 2331/04 (2013.01); D10B 2401/062 (2013.01)] 22 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A load bearing surface, comprising:
a woven fabric formed from first fibers and second fibers, at least some of the first fibers being substantially inelastic; and
a carrier for supporting the woven fabric, the carrier being overmolded onto the woven fabric to secure the fabric thereto,
wherein at least some of the first fibers are bonded to the carrier so as to remain fixed relative to the carrier during normal loading conditions and during abnormally high loading conditions, and wherein others of the first fibers are bonded to the carrier so as to remain fixed relative to the carrier during normal loading conditions and to move or slip within the carrier during abnormally high loading conditions.