Inventors:
Dennis A. Nollen - Newark DE
Arthur A. Quinn - Newark DE
Assignee:
E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company - Wilmington DE
International Classification:
D21H 502
Abstract:
Less porous, more abrasion-resistant nonwoven aramid sheets are made by expanding a smooth-surface, dried, wet-laid sheet of fibrids and fibers, which has fused, nonexpandable, densified regions, segmented by spaced interruptions of nonfused regions of the sheet structure, in a pattern which encloses expandable portions of the sheet structure. The re-wet sheet is heated dielectrically to expand the interior of the nondensified portions without substantially roughening or disrupting their surface skin.