Fabric - Indian Laws - General

Fabric The Mercury Dictionary of Textile Terms defines fabric as a term which covers all textiles no matter how constructed, how manufactured, or the nature of the material from which made , and the expression textile is described as any product manufactured from Fibres through twisting, interlacing, bonding, looping or any other means, in such a manner that the flexibility, strength, and other characteristic properties of the individual fibres are not suppressed . The Man-Made Textile Encyclopaedia (1959) defines fabric as a collective term applied to cloth no matter how constructed or manufactured and regardless of the kind of fibre from which made. In structure it is planer produced by interlacing yarns, fibres or filaments. Textile fabrics include the following varieties, bonding felted, knitted, braided and woven . The Fairchild s Dictionary of Textiles (1959) says that fabric is a cloth that is woven or knit, braided, netted, with any textile fibre....., and textile is said to refer to a broad classification of any material that can be worked into fabric, such as fibres and yarns including woven and knitted fabric, felt, netted fabric, lace and crouched goods . In Textile Terms and Definitions (1960) the words cloth is defined as a generic term embracing all textile fabrics and laminar felts and textile is applied in its modern sense to any manufacture from fibres, filaments, or yarns, natural or artificial, obtained by interlacing . The 1967 Annual Book of ASTM Standards defines cloth as any textile fabric but specially one designed for approval domestic or industrial use, and textile fabric as a planer structure consisting of interlaced yarns or fibres . A publication IS : 4910 (Para VI) - 1970, put out by the Indian Standards Institution , defines a tyre cord fabric as a fabric consisting of tyre cord warp with widely spaced weft threads . Another publication IS : 1324-1966 of the same Institution gives the definition of tyre cord fabrics as fabrics which comprise the main carcass of pneumatic tyres constructed predominantly of warp cords (cabled yarns) with light wefts. The latter merely serve to hold the cords together for processing . The Mercury Dictionary of Textile Terms define cord tyre fabric as a cloth made with strong corded sheets for the warp with as little weft as possible ......the warp takes all the strain...... . The Fairchild s Dictionary of Textiles declares that A tyre cord fabric is not a true fabtic today, but originally a square woven fabric was employed in making the pneumatic automobile tyre. The modern tyre fabric is not woven or knitted, but consists of cabled yarns with twists formerly mostly cotton, now usually of high tenacity viscose rayon or nylon. These cords are arranged in parallel order and rubberized. Delhi Cloth General Mills Co. Ltd., v. State of Rajasthan - 1980 (5) TMI 31 - SUPREME COURT