Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bulked continuous carpet filament manufacturing from polytrimethylene terephthalate
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Application No.: US16514903Application Date: 2019-07-17
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Publication No.: US11242622B2Publication Date: 2022-02-08
- Inventor: Thomas R. Clark
- Applicant: Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation
- Applicant Address: US GA Calhoun
- Assignee: Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation
- Current Assignee: Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Calhoun
- Agency: Brient IP Law, LLC
- Main IPC: B29B7/38
- IPC: B29B7/38 ; D01F1/06 ; D01F6/92 ; D02G3/24 ; D01F1/04 ; D01F6/62 ; D01D5/08 ; B29C48/05 ; B29C48/36 ; D01D1/06 ; D02G3/44 ; B29C48/255 ; D01D1/10 ; B29B7/32 ; B29B7/74 ; B29K105/00 ; B29K67/00

Abstract:
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from polytrimethylene terephthalate (PTT) with polyethylene terephthalate (PET) comprises: (1) splitting the PTT stream extruded from the primary extruder into a number of polymer streams, each of the plurality of polymer streams having an associated spinning machine; (2) adding a colorant to each split polymer stream; (3) adding PET to the extruded polymer stream downstream of the primary extruder; (4) using one or more static mixing assemblies for each split polymer stream to substantially uniformly mix each split polymer stream and its respective colorant and PET; and (5) spinning each polymer stream with its substantially uniformly mixed colorant and any additives into BCF using the respective spinning machine.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200024772A1 BULKED CONTINUOUS CARPET FILAMENT MANUFACTURING FROM POLYTRIMETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE Public/Granted day:2020-01-23
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