摘要 |
A synthetic furniture or automobile upholstery or wall-covering or the like, is provided using vinyl or similar film as a leather substitute and backing it with a non-woven fabric layer (or layers) which is needle-punched through the film in limited stripe areas of the film to produce a variety of straight, well-defined, uniform stripes of fiber and/or vinyl running parallel to the longitudinal (feed) direction of a film web with distinct stripe edges and good control thereof and further characterized by eliminating sag or loosening in the non-needle-punched areas by provision of a filler foam or a lively fiber material as part of the non-woven fiber, the essential lateral cross section thickness regularity of the product being maintained by compression of such filler in the needle-punched area.
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