| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 156072000 | Setting or embedding tufts or discrete pile elements onto backing (e.g., rugs, brushes, etc.) | 16 |
| 20090145534 | Carpet Tile Manufacturing Process - A method of producing a decorative carpet tile may include providing a carpet tile in accordance with the prior art techniques and then treating the carpet tile in one of various manners to provide a separation internal to side edges of the carpet tile. The treatment can include tip shearing side portions relative to an internal portion to provide at least one discontinuity, dripping colors to provide a frame, carving, burning, or otherwise providing a separation internal to the side edges of the carpet tile in various disclosed embodiments. | 06-11-2009 |
| 20100051169 | Low Weight Carpet and Carpet Tile and Methods of Manufacture - Low weight and non-square carpet tile suitable for use in mass transit vehicles, particularly passenger aircraft. The carpet tile preferably weighs less than about 82 ounces per square yard. The carpet tile of this invention may have a carpet pile and at least one backing layer. The backing layer may use low weight filler material. Secondary backing plastic material may be compressed into the tile structure with pressure rollers or other pressure applying process on an improved tile production line. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100252168 | BACKED PILE WEATHERSTRIP - A new method of making and manufacturing pile weather stripping is described using a non-woven, e.g. a knitted pile that is either cropped or slit to the correct pile height. The pile is then precisely introduced to a singer using guides. After the singing process the knitted pile is guided into the extruder head where the base is extruded around the knitted pile. The density of the knitted pile weather stripping is controlled by adding or removing filling yarns, picks and changing of the yarn denier. The base thickness and configuration is a direct function of the extrusion head. A pile fin or fins can be added as a purchased raw good or extruded as part of the process. The inventive pile weather stripping allows for the fabrication of any pile height, pile density and backing configuration to include throat width, T-slot width, T-slot base depth and varying fin heights. The method can be used to make a weather stripping comprising pile extending from a backing, the pile comprising pile yarns, the backing being bonded to the pile, a synthetic fibre being interlaced with the pile yarns, and the backing trapping at least a part of the synthetic fibre in the backing. | 10-07-2010 |
| 20100276060 | FLOCKED ELASTOMERIC ARTICLES - In one embodiment, a flocked article is provided that includes an elastomeric film and a plurality of flock fibers on a flocked surface of the film. The flock fibers are embedded in the film. | 11-04-2010 |
| 20110083792 | VELOUR CARPET WITH TUFTING-LIKE SURFACE - The present invention relates to a method for producing a velour rug, comprising the following steps: a) needling of a nonwoven/mali nonwoven on a bristle strip using a needling machine, in the process of which a pile nonwoven/carrier nonwoven is pulled into and partially back out of the bristle strip such that the fibers of the pile nonwoven/carrier nonwoven are located in the plane of the bristle strip, b) separating the nonwoven from the bristle strip by means of a roller brush, c) brushing the pile side prior to cutting the loops, characterized in that, in order to increase the fiber density and enhance the pile stability, an additional nonwoven/mali nonwoven, especially a pile nonwoven/carrier nonwoven, is placed onto the reverse of the nonwoven/mali nonwoven, especially between a first and second needling unit, between steps a) and b). | 04-14-2011 |
| 20110203717 | PROCESS FOR MAKING NOISE ABSORBER CARPET - A process for making a noise absorber carpet including a fabric layer and a resinous backing layer, the process including providing an uncured resinous backing layer within a mold having perforation pins, heating the backing layer to activate the resin, providing a fabric layer, pressing the fabric layer into the backing layer while maintaining the heating process to the backing layer, and providing a cooling medium to cool the mold to fix and cure the perforations within the backing layer thereby forming noise absorber perforations in the resinous backing layer. | 08-25-2011 |
| 20120138209 | Methods of Manufacturing Paint Roller Covers From A Tubular Fabric Sleeve - A method of manufacturing paint roller covers is disclosed in which the paint roller covers are manufactured from a seamless segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric that is placed onto a cylindrical forming tube having a segment of bonding material temporarily secured on its outer surface under the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is placed on a heated mandrel to apply heat thereto to cause the bonding material to bond to the interior of the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric. The cylindrical forming tube is removed from the mandrel and cooled, and the segment of tubular paint roller cover fabric becomes secured to the bonding material to produce a semi-rigid paint roller cover segment. The semi-rigid paint roller cover segment may be finished into paint roller covers. | 06-07-2012 |
| 20120145307 | METHOD OF MT FERRULE TERMINATION AND PROTRUSION EQUALIZATION FIXTURE - A method for terminating a multifiber connector. A multifiber ribbon is stripped to the appropriate preliminary length A protruding from the ferrule. A cleave is performed for all fibers protruding from the ferrule leaving a residual fiber length A | 06-14-2012 |
| 20120267034 | Outer Cover Engagement - A method for forming a hook-engageable landing zone on a fibrous surface by selecting a region of the surface to form the landing zone, by raising fibers from the surface in the selected region to form fibrous loops extending from the surface, and by anchoring the fibrous loops in the selected region to secure the loops and resist pullout during hook engagement. | 10-25-2012 |
| 20130014884 | METHOD FOR MAKING SQUARE RUGS FROM RECYCLED MATERIALSAANM KAO; SemiAACI Huatan TownshipAACO TWAAGP KAO; Semi Huatan Township TW - The present invention relates to provide a method for making square rugs from recycled materials. Firstly, make one piece of surface material: Melt the woven layer of the surface material at a proper temperature. Then, apply a proper pressure to press the surface material till each fluff of the surface material is firmly secured to the woven layer. After that, make one piece of base material and one piece of middle material made of the resilient foam material reclaimed from abandoned waste. Apply a proper pressure to press the base material, the middle material and the surface material till they are stuck on each other. Heat the stuck surface material, the middle material and the base material. The middle material will foam after heating, and produce a force to stick itself on the surface material and the base material. Thus, a square rug is finished. | 01-17-2013 |
| 20130075015 | Device and Method for Embedding Wires in a Rubber Profile Section - Device for embedding a thread (F) in a rubber profiled element (P) in a given direction comprising: a continuous thread-feed means ( | 03-28-2013 |
| 20130098531 | PROCESS FOR MAKING ARTIFICIAL TURF FIBERS - A method of making a fiber for use in association with an artificial turf system, as well as an artificial turf system having such a fiber. The fiber is made by extruding a fiber, fibrillating the fiber, and storing the fiber, wherein the fiber is not cut longitudinally between the step of extruding the fiber and storing the fiber. After being extruded the fiber may be folded and wrapped with a wrapping yarn. | 04-25-2013 |
| 20130240117 | Method to Produce a Textile Product and a Textile Product Resulting from the Same - A method for manufacturing a textile product includes the steps of providing an intermediate product formed by a backing having a front surface and a back surface, and yarns applied into the backing, the yarns extending from the front surface of the backing material, feeding the intermediate product along a body having a heated surface, the back surface being pressed against the heated surface, to at least partly melt the yarns present in the intermediate product to form the textile product, wherein the part of the back surface that is pressed against the heated surface has a relative speed with respect to the heated surface, and a device enabling applications of this method and to a floor covering incorporating such a textile product connected to a dimensionally stable carrier sheet using thermo reversible covalent interactions. | 09-19-2013 |
| 20130276953 | INNER FLOCK COATING FOR VEHICLES WITH INDICATIVE AND/OR DECORATIVE MOTIF AND ITS MANUFACTURING PROCESS - This invention relates to a process for the manufacture of an inner flock coating for vehicles with an indicative and/or decorative motif, which inner flock coating is made up of a support, an adhesive layer and a flock layer made up of a set of fibres adhered to the support via the adhesive layer, wherein said motif is located on a visible surface of said inner coating and wherein said motif is performed by the combination of at least two visibly different areas of the coating, a first area and a second area on which a laser beam is applied. | 10-24-2013 |
| 20150101734 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A FLEXIBLE STRIP BRUSH - A method for manufacturing a flexible strip brush element is disclosed. A multiplicity of thermoplastic monofilaments respectively having first ends and second ends are arranged in substantially parallel fashion and at a prescribed density. Heat is applied to the first ends of the monofilaments so as to melt the first ends of the monofilaments. The monofilaments are transported toward an extrusion die comprising an outlet. Molten thermoplastic resin is extruded from an extrusion die outlet, wherein the outlet is shaped to produce a base having a top and a bottom. The first ends of the monofilaments are brought into physical contact with the top of the base as the base emerges from the extrusion die outlet. The monofilaments and the base are cooled so that the first ends of the monofilaments are fused to the top of the base and the second ends of the monofilaments are free. | 04-16-2015 |
| 20150361590 | PROCESS FOR MAKING FILAMENT HAVING UNIQUE TIP AND SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS - A process for making a filament for use in a brush implement comprises providing a composite filament comprising an external material and at least one internal material, wherein the tip surface comprises the internal material surrounded by the external material, the internal material having longitudinal shrinkage characteristics that differ from those of the external material; and causing the internal material to shrink inside the external material, whereby the internal material comprising the tip surface sinks relative to the external material comprising the tip surface so that at least one crater is formed at the tip surface of the filament, the at least one crater comprising a bottom formed by the internal material and walls formed by the external material, the at least one crater having a surface edge of a predetermined size and a predetermined shape. | 12-17-2015 |
