US 12,351,954 B2
Cloth and fiber article
Nobuaki Ogata, Osaka (JP); Akio Ukuma, Osaka (JP); and Sonomi Shibata, Osaka (JP)
Assigned to TEIJIN FRONTIER CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
Appl. No. 17/287,160
Filed by TEIJIN FRONTIER CO., LTD., Osaka (JP)
PCT Filed Nov. 21, 2019, PCT No. PCT/JP2019/045588
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 21, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/110890, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 4, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-221391 (JP), filed on Nov. 27, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0381141 A1, Dec. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. D04B 1/20 (2006.01); D01F 8/14 (2006.01); D02G 3/32 (2006.01); D03D 15/00 (2021.01); D03D 15/283 (2021.01)
CPC D04B 1/20 (2013.01) [D01F 8/14 (2013.01); D02G 3/326 (2013.01); D03D 15/00 (2013.01); D03D 15/283 (2021.01); D10B 2331/04 (2013.01); D10B 2401/021 (2013.01); D10B 2401/061 (2013.01); D10B 2401/14 (2013.01); D10B 2501/041 (2013.01); D10B 2501/042 (2013.01); D10B 2501/043 (2013.01); D10B 2503/06 (2013.01)] 5 Claims
 
1. A cloth comprising a composite yarn, the cloth being characterized in that the composite yarn contains a crimped yarn and a stretch fiber,
wherein the crimped yarn contains a false-twist crimped yarn A having torque in the S-direction and a false-twist crimped yarn B having torque in the Z-direction,
and the crimped yarn or the stretch fiber has a single fiber fineness within a range of 0.1 to 1.0 dtex,
and the stretch fiber is a conjugate fiber made of two components joined in a side-by-side manner or an eccentric sheath-core manner, or is a polytrimethylene terephthalate fiber,
and the two components include polytrimethylene terephthalate and polytrimethylene terephthalate, or polytrimethylene terephthalate and polyethylene terephthalate,
and the composite yarn is an entangled yarn that has been subjected to interlacing processing to have 98 to 150 entanglements/m,
and the composite yarn has a total fineness within a range of 40 to 180 dtex,
and the cloth is a knitted fabric having a circular-knitted structure,
and a hydrophilizing agent is imparted to the cloth,
and in the knitted fabric, a number of courses is 40 to 100/2.54 cm, and a number of wales is 30 to 60/2.54 cm,
and a weight per unit of the cloth is within a range of 50 to 200 g/m2.