Abstract:
Tuftable primary backings comprise a closed-weave, woven tape fabric to which is affixed a coherent web layer comprising staple fibers with fibers oriented in at least two directions and a plurality of the fibers being fused. The web layer is affixed to the fabric by penetration of fibers from the web into the fabric. The backings have substantial weftline straightness and stability against deformations in the machine, cross and off-axis directions. Improved tufted goods and methods for making the composites and tufted goods are also provided.
Abstract:
A mat made on the basis of a nonwoven comprising fibrous parts predominantly of plastic which are in part thermoplastic and of low-melting point and in part high-melting point, and wherein coherence is obtained by superficial melting of the low-melting point thermoplastic fibers.
Abstract:
A carpet having pile threads forming a pile layer, a support layer which consists of fiber or ribbon material of polyolefins or polyester, and a back coating, the pile threads being attached to the support layer possibly by the back coating, and of a plastic of comparatively high resistance to temperature, in particular polyamide 6 or 6.6, and the back coating is attached as lamination to the top material. In order to obtain a strong attachment of the layers to each other, if possible without limiting the recyclability of the carpet, the back coating be effected by means of a lamination adhesive which contains unmelted fibers, in particular polyamide fibers.
Abstract:
The specification discloses an improved automotive type carpet construction and method for manufacture thereof. The construction disclosed is particularly useful for lining the trunk of an automobile, the bed of an automotive type station wagon, or on the floor of a van type vehicle, where it is desired to have a construction which is light in weight, waterproof, easy to clean up, and yet can be made in a color to match the interior carpeting of the automobile. The construction disclosed has a primary layer of a ribbon fiber woven in a plain weave, with a continuous filament yarn inserted with a needled motion, and a bonding layer applied to the back thereof in a continuous hot melt flow. A non-skid layer may also be applied, if desired. The carpet construction is then die cut into one or more pieces with the piece(s) being sewn together or a binding being applied thereto.
Abstract:
A backing for tufted carpets, having improved tufting properties such as a small penetration resistance to tufting needles, a uniform distribution of values of penetration resistance and yet superior intrinsic properties, and a tufted carpet produced from the backing are provided, which backing is produced by weaving polypropylene tape yarns oriented by stretching, these polypropylene tape yarns comprising foamed polypropylene tape yarns having a foam content of 1.0 to 20%.
Abstract:
A tufted pile fabric for use indoors or outdoors as a substantially permanent floor covering. The tufted pile fabric is made entirely from man-made or synthetic materials and includes a synthetic plastic primary backing, and a synthetic plastic secondary backing, laminated together by a hot melt adhesive to form a relatively rigid impervious sheet. The structure is then provided with a plurality of perforations through the substantially impervious sheet comprising the secondary backing, the hot melt adhesive and the primary backing to give the fabric a softer hand and breathability. The tufted pile fabric may then be adhesively secured to a floor structure by a water based adhesive, inert to the primary and secondary backings and hot melt adhesive, with the water evaporating through the perforations to set the adhesive and thereby avoid puckers and edge rippling due to unbonding the pile fabric from the floor structure.
Abstract:
A yarn for strands of an artificial turf ground cover (2), including a tape filament (4) having a flat cross-section. One side of the tape filament (4; 54) has a colour and/or tint different from the color and/or tint of the other side. The a tape filament (4; 54) preferably has two layers or a core layer (8; 58) and two outer layers (9; 59) of a different material than the core layer (8; 58) and co-extruded with the core layer (8; 58), each on one of two opposite sides of the core layer (8; 58). An artificial turf ground cover including a substrate sheet and strands fastened to the substrate sheet and projecting upwardly from the substrate sheet, wherein the strands are formed of such a yarn is also described and its appearance makes it particularly suitable as a replacement of natural turf.
Abstract:
A yarn for strands of an artificial turf ground cover, including a tape filament (4) having a core layer (8) and two outer layers (9) of a different material than the core layer (8), each on one of two opposite sides of the core layer. The core layer (8) contains at least polyester or polyolefin material, and the outer layers (9) contain high-density polyethylene. An artificial turf ground cover and a playing field including such a yarn and a method for producing such a yarn are also described. The high-density polyethylene has a relatively small coefficient of friction with the human skin and the yarn has a good shape recovery after deformation in spite of containing HDPE in outer layers.
Abstract:
A covering for a floor, wall or ceiling surface includes tiles each having first and second discrete tile sections. The first section includes a primary backing exposed on one side of the tile forming a first discrete exposed surface portion and a plurality of yarns tufted into the primary backing with cut or loop yarns on the back side of the primary backing leaving backstitches forming a second discrete exposed surface portion of the first section. The primary backing and backstitches form the first and second surface portions, respectively, of the first section with aesthetic characteristics different from one another. The second section of the tile is formed of one of a woven fabric, a non-woven fabric and a tufted pile and which second section forms the remaining portion of the exposed surface of the tile.