Abstract:
The fabric of the present invention includes a pile portion comprising spun yarn tufted in alternating arrangement with bulk continuous filament yarn through a base layer. The spun yarn includes a space-dyed component and a stock-dyed component. The bulk continuous filament yarn is also space-dyed. A process and apparatus for producing the pile fabric of the present invention are also provided.
Abstract:
By introducing an expanded structure into a rubber portion during heating under pressure at the time of integrating a mat, and by using as a backing of a carpet a foamed rubber sheet having an expansibility of 1.2 to 3 times and a skin layer having a thickness of 0.1 to 1.0 mm, the shrinkage of the mat by shrinking, washing and drying after heating under pressure can be relaxed, and the waving of the mat can be prevented effectively. At the same time, the mat of the invention has excellent fitness to a floor surface, light-weight, strength and heat resistance.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for permitting ready removal of a floor covering through the use of a two-component release web secured between the floor covering and the floor such that the floor covering may be peeled from the floor leaving one portion of the release web secured to the floor covering and the other portion of the release web secured to the floor, thus permitting reuse of the floor covering in another location and permitting ready installation of a new floor covering over the portion of the release web secured to the floor.
Abstract:
A tufted carpet having a backing which has thereon a plurality of first areas of tufts of fine denier fibers and a plurality of second areas of tufts of at least one looped, uncrimped, coarse denier fiber. Preferred patterns for the areas of tufts are alternating stripes or a checkerboard.
Abstract:
A broadloom carpet is featured that can be laid similar to modular carpet tiles, and which can be cut or severed to remove damaged portions or to gain access to the floor below the carpet. The carpet is uniquely characterized by its ability to prevent fraying and/or warping of severed flaps.
Abstract:
A warp resistant tile and method for preparation thereof in which a primary facing layer is secured to a tile backing layer which comprises a laminate having(A) a characterizing layer of predetermined weight, bulk, and strength, this layer and being complementary to the primary facing, and to(B) a thin flexible base layer.
Abstract:
An improved carpet product includes a pile fabric layer and a stabilizing layer adhered to the back of the pile fabric layer to provide dimensional stability against concentrated stresses exerted against the upper surface of the carpet. A balancing layer disposed below the stabilizing layer has thermal response and moisture absorption characteristics selected for compatibility with the pile fabric layer. When the carpet product is exposed to temperature extremes or changes in ambient humidity, stresses exerted by the expansion or contraction of the pile fabric layer create a bending moment around the stabilizing layer. However, the balancing layer creates comparable stresses on the lower side of the stabilizing layer and exerts an equal-but-opposite bending moment which balances the moment exerted by the pile fabric layer. The resulting carpet product exhibits enhanced flatness and floor hugging characteristics when subjected to temperature extremes or changes in the ambient humidity.
Abstract:
Lamination of a tufted, primary carpet backing to a secondary backing is conducted using a composite hot melt adhesive in sheet form. The composite adhesive overcomes the unfavorable temperature-viscosity gradient within the carpet structure during the lamination process, yielding tufted pile carpets with good tuft encapsulation, tuft bind strength and delamination strength. Also disclosed are hot melt adhesive compositions suitable for use in sheet form in such a process.
Abstract:
A carpet tile and method of production wherein the carpet tile comprises a carpet tile having a fibrous face, such as a tufted face, and a fibrous back surface secured to a primary backing and comprising three separate hot melt coating composition layers and a secondary backing on the back surface of the carpet tile. The carpet tile is produced by coating a thick backing layer of a rubber-modified bitumen coating composition onto a secondary backing sheet material and separately coating a first precoat layer comprising a hot melt petroleum resin or bitumen and a second layer comprising a hot melt bitumen composition containing a flexible vinyl adhesive resin, like ethylene vinyl acetate, onto a fibrous back surface of a carpet material having a primary backing sheet containing a fibrous face wear surface and laminating the surface of the second layer to the surface of the backing layer to provide a carpet tile having dimensional stability, good lay flat characteristics and capable of production by an in-line production method.
Abstract:
Disclosed is a precoat resin dispersion having a solids content from about 63% to about 69% comprising (1) at least one resin having a Ring and Ball softening point from about 60.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C. in an aqueous dispersion having a solids content from about 53% to about 58%; (2) at least one water-soluble polymer; (3) at least one cationic resin; and (4) water. The precoat resin dispersion is useful in the manufacture of tufted carpets, especially carpets manufactured with carboxylated latices as a backcoat.