Abstract:
A tufted carpet comprises consecutively a primary backing, stitched with loops of yarn to form a tufted structure projecting outwardly from the primary backing, a polyolefin locking layer, a moisture barrier polyolefin layer, and a secondary backing comprising a woven polyolefin.
Abstract:
A mat or rug having a laminate structure is described composed of (A) a reverse side mat layer including (a) a laminated mat composed of (a.sup.1) base fabric and (a.sup.2) nonwoven fabric made of a thermoplastic resin fibrous binder, the base fabric (a.sup.1) and nonwoven fabric (a.sup.2) being united by needling, (b) cut piles made of a thermoplastic resin implanted from one side of the laminated mat (a), and (c) a resin adhesive layer formed by coating a liquid resin adhesive on the nonwoven fabric (a.sup.2) on the side opposite to the cut piles (b) and drying, (B) a thermoplastic resin adhesive layer, and (C) a surface mat layer, wherein the surface mat layer (C) is adhered via the thermoplastic resin adhesive layer (B) to the reverse side mat layer (A) on the side of reverse side mat layer (A) on which the liquid resin adhesive has been coated, wherein the cut piles (b) are implanted under the following conditions:Implanting density: 16 to 400 roots/in.sup.2Implanting pitch--gauge direction: 4 to 20 roots/in stitch direction: 4 to 20 roots/inPile height: 2 to 20 mmPile thickness: 20 to 1000 .mu.mPile fineness: 800 to 6000 denier.
Abstract:
Carpet and textile coating compositions are formulated to include fiber or flock pieces so as to improve the tuft pull strength and dimensional stability of the carpet or textile. The coating compositions comprise 10 to 70%, by weight, of a latex binder and 30 to 90%, by weight, of at least one filler, wherein the filler comprises about 0.001 to 100%, by weight, of fiber or flock pieces. Any natural or synthetic fiber may be used in the coating compositions of this invention.
Abstract:
A pile carpet having a primary backing with pile yarns extending from the primary backing is provided with a tuft-lock coating comprising a copolymer of vinylidene chloride with at least one acrylic monomer, and having a glass transition temperature of 0.degree. C. or less. The coating imparts excellent tuft-lock properties to the carpet and also serves as a thermoplastic adhesive layer for laminating the carpet to a secondary backing.
Abstract:
A thin tough glossy surface may be applied to a flexible substrate in a one step process comprising: applying an aqueous thin film of a compound of a polymer to an endless carrier belt made of a material having a low adhesion to said polymer, contacting the flexible substrate and coated carrier belt and keeping them together while they pass around a hot drum laminator at a temperature of from about 100.degree. to about 150.degree. C.The process is suitable for applying impermeable surfaces to non wovens, and foam backed carpet.
Abstract:
A composite laminate material and a process for making the same are provided, the process comprising the steps of providing an unbonded fibrous batt of desired thickness having a thermosetting binder material dispersed therethrough, applying a layer of desired thickness of a curable latex to at least one side of the fibrous batt, drying the layer to a predetermined moisture level to provide a dried composite material, and heating and compression molding the dried composite material to simultaneously mold the composite, cure the layer and cure the binder material by embossing a pattern into the exposed side of the layer before the layer and the binder material are cured to cause the layer to be contoured with the pattern substantially throughout the thickness thereof and thereby cause the pattern to be substantially impressed into one side of the batt so that the resulting embossed and cured layer has a substantially uniform thickness and the one side of the cured batt substantially conforms to the embossed contour of the layer.This application is a continuation patent application of copending parent application, Ser. No. 167,294, filed Jul. 10, 1980, now abandoned.
Abstract:
An improved process is disclosed for manufacturing carpet. The improved process involves replacing from 4% to 25% of a carboxylated styrene-butadiene rubber carpet backing adhesive in a conventional carpet manufacturing process with a water soluble saponified tall oil pitch tackifier, thereby improving the bond strength between the carpet and backing.
Abstract:
A method of laminating a curable elastomeric backing section to a pile carpet section, for example, for automobile floor mats, utilizing a compressive molding process to laminate the curable elastomeric backing to the carpet. Cooling the pile of the carpet protects the carpet from becoming substantially permanently deformed during molding despite the compressive molding pressure. While the carpet pile is being cooled, sufficient heat is applied to the elastomeric backing to cure the backing. The back face of the carpet is bonded to the elastomeric backing during the compressive molding process.
Abstract:
TUFTED RUGS AND CARPETING HAVING A THERMOPLASTIC BACKING, E.G. A CLOSED CELL FOAM BACKING, ARE PREPARED BY APPLYING A HEAT-SENSITIVE PLASTISOL COMPOSITION TO THE BACK OF A MATERIAL COMPOSED OF TUFTED YARNS IN A THERMOPLASTIC BASE FABRIC, FUSING THE PLASTISOL COMPOSITION TO BIND THE BASE FABRIC AND TUFTED YARNS TOGETHER, AND THEN LAMINATING THE THERMOPLASTIC SHEET TO THE PLASTISOL LAYER USING THE PLASTISOL LAYER AS THE SOLE SOURCE OF A SENSIBLE HEAT TO MELT THE THERMOPLASTIC SHEET AND BOND IT TO THE PLASSTISOL LAYER.