CA1111247A - Camouflage netting having a stiched base net - Google Patents

Camouflage netting having a stiched base net

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CA1111247A
CA1111247A CA310,612A CA310612A CA1111247A CA 1111247 A CA1111247 A CA 1111247A CA 310612 A CA310612 A CA 310612A CA 1111247 A CA1111247 A CA 1111247A
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trimming
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netting
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camouflage
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Kjell K.G. Forslund
Erik J. Larsson
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Barracudaverken AB
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    • FMECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F41WEAPONS
    • F41HARMOUR; ARMOURED TURRETS; ARMOURED OR ARMED VEHICLES; MEANS OF ATTACK OR DEFENCE, e.g. CAMOUFLAGE, IN GENERAL
    • F41H3/00Camouflage, i.e. means or methods for concealment or disguise
    • F41H3/02Flexible, e.g. fabric covers, e.g. screens, nets characterised by their material or structure

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • General Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Laminated Bodies (AREA)
  • Treatment Of Fiber Materials (AREA)
  • Pit Excavations, Shoring, Fill Or Stabilisation Of Slopes (AREA)
  • Aiming, Guidance, Guns With A Light Source, Armor, Camouflage, And Targets (AREA)
  • Treatments For Attaching Organic Compounds To Fibrous Goods (AREA)
  • Braiding, Manufacturing Of Bobbin-Net Or Lace, And Manufacturing Of Nets By Knotting (AREA)

Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure A camouflage netting and a method of manufactuing it is described, said netting having a base net attached to which is a trimming material made of natural and/or synthetic textile material. The base net consists of unravellable auxiliary seams stitched across and through the trimming material and any openings therein.

Description

Netting Having a Stitched Base Net The present invention relates to a camouflage netting having a base net, i.e. a flexible netting consisting of a base net and a so-called plastic foil and/or -tex-tile trimming material attached thereto, said trimming material at least having a camouflaging effect against visual detection but even a~ains-~ infrared reconnaissance as well as9 if desired, against radar reconnaisance. Said trimming material can consist of a con-tinuous foil or fabric with or without holes or incisions or of separa-te loose foil or fabric patches. The trimming material can, for example, consist of a continuous foil having so-called leaf cutting according to the known Ru-ter patent (mutually correspondirlg Swedish patent 19~ 025, German patent 1 088 843, US patent 3 069 796 and others) or camouflaging per~orations in the form of numerous round or oval holes.
The word "sheet" used below relates to all kinds of foil or foil-like material such as textile fabric or the like.
; "Fabric" relates to all kinds of natural or synthetic fiber material such as woven fabric, knitted fabric, pile and felted material. The word "felted" relates to all kinds of fabrics which are not woven, knitted, crocheted or in any other manner consist of threads (yarn~ i.e. which do not form a more or less ~ ........................... . . . . ~: .

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regular pat-tern so as -to Eorm a continuous ~abric. Rather, they essentially consist of fibers or pieces of -thread in irregular orientation 9 said fibers or pieces of thread being bonded to each other by means of friction, binder, heat treat-ment (plastic welding and the like) and~or o-ther similar manners whereby, if desired, several such bonds can be used simultaneously with eacll other, normally bonding by means of both gluing and friction. The expression "auxiliary seams"
relates to a seam which is not intended to fasten together fabrics and the like or pieces of fabric.

For various reasons, most camouflage sheets are provided with a base net. In certain cases, camouflage sheets without a base net or having a reinforcement in the form of a base net or mesh embedded in the sheet are suitable. However, the present lS invention does not relate to such sheets.

The attachment of the trimming material to the base net is a well~known problem which has been solved in various manners. A camouflage sheet and base net shall be able to be dragged over uneven terrain containing sharp s-tone blocks, tree
2 n stumps, sharp pieces of ice and the like, and shall also be able to be drawn over objects which are to be camouflaged and which have projecting edges, etc. These and other factors -entail that great demands must not only be placed on the camouflaging sheet as such, but especially on the a-ttachment of the trimming material to the base net, especially if the trimming material - which is almost always the case - shall be and is provided with incisions (leaf cutting or the like~ or ; holes or intermedia-te spaces between separate trimming material ~ patches. Furthermore, the trimming material and the base net i .
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usually consist o~ different materials, for example polyvinyl chloride and polyes-ter~ respectively.
It is previously known to fasten the trimming material to the base net by means of gluing, welding, metal clamps and by means of knotting or "sewing" the trimming material to the base net by means of a single needle wire in such a manner that it forms a helix around a base net thread and the trimming material portion,fastened to the same. This type of attachment is more or less similar to stitch -types 205, 214 or 306 according to Swedish standard SIS 85 01 01, proposal of April 10 1977, edition 1, which corresponds to an international standard proposed under No. 15 by ISO, Technical Committee 38, Subcommittee 10 (standard class 687) and to British standard BS 3870:1965 a~d the standards of several other countries.
When describing different types of sti-tches, reference is made below to said s-tandard which both describes and illustra-tes stitch types and thread guiding patterns.
Often, the need arises for a camouflage sheet and base net in which the sheet does not have -to be used very many times or does not have to have a long life span, that is, it does not have to be removed from and drawn onto the object to be camouflaged very many times. Such cases are very common and do not require any further explanation. In such casesg the usual camouflage sheets having strong, external or embedded base nets are both unnecessarily expensive and unnecessarily heavy~ said latter factor being of special importance in those cases in which the sheet shall be carried for a longer period of time or under di~ficult outer conditions (difficult terrain, over ice, etc.) or in cases in which it shall be discarded after use.

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., ' ' Ihe present invention makes it posslble to create a light and inex-pensive camouflage netting for these and other purposes.
In accordance with the invention there is provided camouflage net-ting having a base net and a camouflaging trimming material attached to the same, said trimming material consisting of natural and/or synthetic textile material, characterized in that the base net consists of unravellable auxiliary seams which are stitched across the trimming material and opening in the same.
In accordance with another aspect of the invention there is provided method of manufacturing a camouflage netting consisting of a base net onto which a camouflaging, sheet-formed trimmning material is attached, character-i~ed in that sturdy unravellable auxiliary seams are stitched across the trim-ming and openings in the same so as to form the base net.
Quite simply, the invention can be said to entail that instead of being stitched or tied onto a base net in a known manner, the trimming materi-al is provided with so-called auxiliary seams in more or less the same manner as quilted ("stitched") textile products, said seams being such that they simultaneously function as a base net.
An embodiment of the invention is iLlustrated in the drawing which shows a camouflage sheet with auxiliary seams which function as a base net.
In the embodiment illustrated the trimming material 2 of a camouflage sheet 1 consists of a thin, felted sheet (as defined above) of polypropylene or polyester fibers spin-bonded with binder bonds. The fibers are suitably of different colors and intermixed with each other, and the sheet is suitably pro-vided with, for example, a sprayed-on camouflage pattern. The camouflage sheet 1 is continuous, but sli*ted in many places with a leaf cut pattern 4 according to Ruter. Said trimming material can, in a known manner, also be prepared for infrared camou~lage and radar camouflage according to United States patent 3,733~606, German patent 2,151,349 and others, the electric ~' , ~ - 4 -'`' ~ .~

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sur:fac~ res:istance re(~ i.rcd by sa:id patents (the resistance measured between two parallel side edges of a square surface piece of arbitrary size) being the :finished slit and/or punched -trimming material's radio frequency resist-ance for radar frequencies (wavelengths below approximately 20 or 15 cm).
Thus, naturally, the trimming fabric has a lower resistance than desired prior to its being slit or the like.
Auxiliary seams 3 are stitched across said trimming material 2, said auxiliary seams 3 being seams which are essentially i - 4a -: ~

not intencled to fas-ten a fabric -to any-thing else, nor to itself by means o~ For example., hemming. Such seams are stitched at a suitable distance from each other and in different directions so that they cross each o-ther and form a square or rectangular grid pattern or a pa-t-tern composed of -triangles, in the latter case 7 i desired, in such a manner that an apparen-t hexagonal pa-t-tern composed of triangles is obtained. Other patterns are -.
also feasable in special cases~
Depending on the size of the camouflage sheet and the nature of the trimming material and -the stitching thread (yarn), -the distance between two consecutive~ non-intersecting seams in ~
square or rectangular or rhombic seam patterns can be selected .:
between approximately ~ and approximately 50 centimeters, .
suitably between 7 and 15 centimeters, in which case the side :
length of the squares or lozenges and the longitudinal length of the rectangle should lie within the same dimensional range.
In -the majority of cases, rectangles of approximately 8 -times 12 cm are very suitable. In the e~ent of three seam directions ir~ triangular patterns, the side leng-th of equila-teral triangles and the longest side length for non-equilateral triangle~
should be selected within the above-mentioned range.
As the camouflage sheet should most often be rather large ~ -and preferably be able -to be manufactured in long webs, the seams cannot consist of any arbitrary stitch type. Fur-thermore, the seams shall meet with other demands or at least desires.
For reasons of, i.a.~ manufacture, but not solely for said reasong seams having underthreads (shuttle threads) are often less desirable. The seams may not be unravelled. Above all 9 they should be able to be stitched across the heavily slitted, .~
. -5-so[-t an(i t~lerewith limp -~rimming fabric - which ~here~ore canno-t be -to-tally flaL over its en-tire surface during the sti-tching operation ~ without giving rise -to -the risk of inter-rupting said s-ti-tc}ling operation. When it comes to this kind of trimming material~ one must especially bear in mind that -the seam shall also ex-tend througll -the openings in -the trimming ma-terial and, thus 9 must be able to be s-titched "through air'l.
Furthermoreg the seam, like the actual seam thread (the yarn), must meet with rather great demands concerning durability, light and wea-ther resis-tance~ etc.~ in more or less the same manner as a conventional base net in known camouflage nettings.
An especially suitable seam consists of a three-thread or~ if desired, two-thread chain-stitch seam of monofilament of polypropylene or polyester or dark~ preferably black, polyamide (undied or light polyamide does not have sufficient light resistance)~ said seam no-t having any shuttle thread. The separate threads can have a diameter of approximately 0.L~-0.~
mm. Spun or -twis-ted threads (mul-tifilaments) can also be used.

In such a case~ -they shoulcl have a somewha-t larger diameter than monofilament for the same camouflage sheet~ unless -the required rigidity of the seams9 said rigidity not being allowed to be to great or -too low depending on the case, becomes too low.
Other suitable stitch types are -those in stitch classes 2~ 100 (simple chain stitch), 3no (shuttle stitch) and L~00 (two or multi-thread chain stitches) according to the above-mentioned standard. However~ i-t s]-lould be observed tha-t sti~tches according to class 300 are shuttle stitches requiring under-threads (bobbin threads) and, i.a., a more complicated sewing .
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machine than stitches not }~aYing any underthreads. When stitching large -trimming fabrics which are very limp due to heavy folding andt or other reasons, it can be more ra*io~al or even necessary -to rnove the sewing machine or its operative portion in relation to the trimming material fabric~
The invention can also be used for a trimming material consisting of numerous separate loose patches of fabric or plastic foil or other sheet material. Unless special measures are taken 9 it would be very difficult and require grea-t skill to produce a camouflage sheet according to the invention having such trimming material. Said problem can be solved according to the following.
The trimming patches are fas-tened, preferably glued~
onto paper in -the desired arrangement, after which the seams an be stitched in more or less the same manner as lf the trimming material were continuous. The paper can be of a very inexpensive kind and of such quality tha-t it can either be easily torn away or dissolved after -the camouflage net-ting has been finished, or by means of it wearing itself out as the camouflage netting is used, in which latter case -the paper should be provided with a camouflaging pa-ttern or have a camouflaging or environmentally neutral color~ that is, a color approximately similar to -the environments (-terrains) average color (for example~ gray-green or, in desert areas, khaki). Known machines exist which are suitable for attaching loose paper or fabric patches onto a support in a desired arrangement.
If desired, a plastic film of easily-destroyed plastic can be used instead of paper. Alternatively, thin, rather ~, .

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:loose -tex-tile pi:le suc~l as ~,auze or loose chiffon can be usedO
T)le mesh wid-th can be greater than in cus-tomary gauze~ chiffon or similar -tex-tile material. Such a woven fabric does not necessarily have to be removed after the manufacture of the sheetO Rather~ it can be of such a quality -that i-t does no-t impair the camouflaging effect and, to the extent the woven fabric is worn out during use a can even inhance the camouflaging effect by means of being -tattered during and due to the camouflaging netting being put to its purpose.
Finally, i-t is also possible to a-ttach loose trimming material patches at a desired mutual distance from each other on-to a cord (yarn) or band. If a larger number of such bands or a single :Long flat meanderingly-folded band is procluced, said bands or straight band portions, respectively~ can be connected to each other by means of stitching seams across the same in the manner described above. These bands or cords can then replace the auxiliary seams in one coordina-te direc-tion or can alternatively be easily des-tructable~ if desired~ self-destructable, as described above. In such a case, -they shall be supplemented with seams according to -tha-t which has been described above.

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Claims (11)

THE EMBODIMENTS OF THE INVENTION IN WHICH AN EXCLUSIVE
PROPERTY OR PRIVILEGE IS CLAIMED ARE DEFINED AS FOLLOWS:
1. Camouflage netting having a base net and a camouflaging trimming material attached to the same, said trimming material consisting of natural and/or synthetic textile material, characterized in that the base net consists of unravellable auxiliary seams which are stitched across the trimming material and opening in the same.
2. Netting according to Claim 1, characterized in that the seams are stitched with stitch type from stitch type classes 100, 300 or 400 according to British standard BS 3870: 1965.
3. Netting according to Claim 2, characterized in that the seams are stitched with chain stitches according to class 400 of the type having no underthreads (bobbin threads).
4. Netting according to Claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the seams intersect and form a grid pattern having square, rectangular, rhombic or triangular fields.
5. Netting according to Claim 1, 2 or 3, characterized in that the seam threads are polyester or polypropylene monofilaments.
6. Netting according to Claim 1, 2 or 3, chacterized in that the trim-ming material consists of felted bonded polyester fibers and is provided with incisions and openings.
7. Method of manufacturing a camouflage netting consisting of a base net onto which a camouflaging, sheet-formed trimming material is attached, characterized in that sturdy unravellable auxiliary seams are stitched across the trimming and openings in the same so as to form the base net.
8. Method according to Claim 7, characterized in that the seams are stitched with two or three-thread chain stitches without any underthread (bobbin thread).
9. Method according to Claim 7 of manufacturing a camouflage netting whose trimming material consists of a plurality of separate trimming patches, characterized in that the trimming patches are attached at a desired mutual distance from each other to a yarn or band in successive rows in such a manner that several separate rows or a continuous meander is obtained, and in that said seams are thereafter stitched across said rows or the straight, parallel row portions of the meander.
10. Method according to Claim 9 for a camouflage netting whose trimming patches are attached to bands, characterized in that the bands are manufactur-ed out of easily destroyed or self-destructing material, and in that seams are stitched also along the bands.
11. Method according to Claim 7 or 8 of manufacturing a camouflage net-ting whose trimming material consists of separate, spaced trimming patches, characterized in that the trimming patches are fastened, preferably glued, onto an easily destructable or self-destructable foil of paper, plastic film, pile, gauze or chiffon-like woven fabric or the like, and in that said seams are thereafter stitched across and through said foil and trimming.
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