| abstract |
A fabric containing organic yarns and glass yarns so woven that the composite reinforcement is extensible, due to the inherent stretchability of the organic and due to the particular configuration in placement and orientation of the glass component, until the glass component is in line with the direction of tensile force, whereupon the glass yarns assume the load; the organic yarns having, in the meantime, become stretched to some point short of the elastic limit or to its ultimate elastic limit. |