Company Gore has invented the waterproof completely waterproof and air-penetrable fabric in 1978 - and now, did not look back back, continues to do the innovations best-selling at enthusiasts of active rest, tourism and treking using new technologies and decisions.
Why the clothes with membrane GORE-TEX reliably provide protection against dampness and a wind, and create comfort in any weather?
For this purpose we shall familiarize with properties of membrane GORE-TEX.
Clothes from a membrane:
Has long-term protection against water;
Has good air permeability;
Is not afraid of a cold;
Is not afraid of bending;
It is exclusively durable.
The secret of fabrics GORE-TEX consists in their revolutionary 2 componental membrane.
Fabrics GORE-TEX are created by means of a covering of a membrane (ePTFE) by high-quality fabrics, and its hermetic sealing by means of innovative decisions for 100 % of protection against water. The membrane has more than 1,4 billion microscopic times on square centimeter. These times in 20 000 times there are less than drops of water, but in 700 times more the size of a molecule of water in water to pair that does membrane Gore-Tex completely impenetrable for water and a wind outside, providing thus tap of evaporations of a body from within. Into a material of a membrane it is entered special (repellent oil) substance which interferes with penetration by an allocated leather of fatty greasing, and at the same time serves as a physical barrier to such polluting substances as oil, cosmetics, means from insects, and also food, that otherwise could damage a membrane.As a result it turns out completely waterproof, protecting from a wind and an air-penetrable membrane, the clothes and footwear from which possesses revolutionary characteristics and provides unsurpassed comfort during active rest on the nature and playing sports.
Technologies of a fabric
Multilayered materials
Each kind of activity assumes use of own specific equipment and corresponding materials GORE-TEX. For example, the suit for races on a motorcycle, on all parameters, will differ considerably from a suit for fishing. For the first very high degree of protection against a wind and mechanical durability while for the second these criteria will be much less rigid is characteristic. And here protection against a moisture is necessary to both equally because pressure of water upon clothes outside will be rather significant.
Pressure of water is not only pressure of a drop of a rain. If to sit down on a wet surface (sitting of a motorcycle during a rain) the water which has got between clothes and this surface, will "be pressed" with force of pressure of the person on this surface. And this force much more exceeds simply "pressure" of a rain. As to the fisherman or the tourist, that is an essential detail which many overlook - pressure of straps of a backpack upon clothes. In this place, during walking, shoulders most quickly sweat. If it is drizzling under straps of a backpack it will be wetest. The membrane solves all these problems, possessing sufficient stability to water pressure.
It is natural, that one only a membrane to carry it will not turn out, therefore it combine with various materials. At creation of multilayered material GORE-TEX, the membrane is located between high-quality layers of a fabric which have very high air permeability. These multilayered materials are used for manufacturing clothes, footwear or gloves, or built in for strengthening the sites, subjected to the raised deterioration.
Waterproof seams
The apertures made by a needle in a seam, can be small, but lead to a leaking. That is why the most waterproof, air-penetrable, tight fabric will not protect you from a moisture if its seams will not be completely tight.
For absolute protection against atmospheric influences, products GORE-TEX use technologies GORE-SEAM TAPE and MICRO GORE-SEAM TAPE. These tapes completely eliminate each small aperture made by a needle of the sewing machine when fabric GORE-TEX is used at manufacturing clothes, footwear and gloves.
Narrow and easy tape MICRO GORE-SEAM TAPE provides more functional and fashionable design.