PROFILED CROSS-SECTION THREE DIMENSIONAL WOVEN FABRIC

摘要

A profiled cross-section three dimensional woven fabric having a plurality of woven, mutually intersecting filaments (X, Y, Z) woven in longitudinal, transverse and vertical planes respectively, with transverse planes of different widths and vertical planes of different height within a cross-section of the woven fabric perpendicular to the longitudinal woven filament planes. The woven filament in the transverse planes moves upward or downward while transversely reciprocating over a width which changes with the width of the woven filaments in each longitudinal woven plane and is disposed between vertically adjacent planes of longitudinal filaments (X). The woven filaments in the vertical planes move longitudinally to the height of disposition of the longitudinal (X) and transverse (Y) filaments in a plane perpendicular to the transverse filaments (Y) and are continuously disposed between longitudinally adjacent layers of transverse filaments, clamping the transverse and longitudinal filaments to unite them together. An even number of transverse filaments (Y) are inserted into each transversely elongated transverse space surrounded by vertically adjacent vertical filaments (X) with one or a plurality of the transverse filaments (Y) inserted into each loop formed by adjacent vertical filaments (Z) above the longitudinal filament (X) in the uppermost layer and below the longitudinal filaments (X) in the lowermost layer.