153 patents
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Utility
Low Weight Modular Carpet Components and Methods of Making the Same
3 Aug 23
A low-weight carpet tile and process for making the same, wherein the carpet tile comprises a facecloth having a plurality of face yarns tufted through a primary backing, an extruded polymer secondary backing layer, and a reinforcing scrim layer partially un embedded within the extruded polymer secondary backing layer.
Michael Christopher Gallman, Michael E. Bell
Filed: 6 Apr 23
Utility
a Floor Element for Forming a Floor Covering, a Floor Covering, and a Method for Manufacturing a Floor Element
13 Jul 23
A floor element for forming a floor covering, the floor element comprising a decorative layer comprising a ceramic material, an intermediate layer comprising a resin material, and a support layer arranged below the decorative layer, wherein the support layer comprises edges provided with coupling elements configured to realize a mechanical coupling with coupling elements of an adjacent floor element and wherein the resin material comprises a modulus of elasticity greater than 0.1 GPa, preferably greater than 0.5 GPa, even more preferably greater than 1 GPa.
Claudio Caselli, Rahul Patki
Filed: 26 Apr 21
Utility
High Wear Resilient Soft Yarn
6 Jul 23
Various implementations include a method of forming a bulked continuous filament (BCF) yarn.
Anthony CASCIO, Wayne BEASON
Filed: 16 Jun 21
Utility
Floor Board and Method for Manufacturing Such Floor Boards
6 Jul 23
A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate has MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, where the side edge is treated both with an impregnation agent and/or a sealing agent based on a superabsorbing material.
Dieter D'HONDT, Aaron SHAW
Filed: 13 Mar 23
Utility
Trilobal filaments and spinnerets for producing the same
4 Jul 23
Various implementations include a filament that includes three lobes that extend from a central portion of the filament, and the central portion defines an axial void.
Maarten Meinders, Paul Pustolski
Filed: 17 Apr 17
Utility
Trilobal Filaments and Spinnerets for Producing the Same
29 Jun 23
Various implementations include a filament that includes three lobes that extend from a central portion of the filament, and the central portion defines an axial void.
Maarten Meinders, Paul Pustolski
Filed: 7 Mar 23
Utility
Low weight modular carpet components and methods of making the same
16 May 23
A low-weight carpet tile and process for making the same, wherein the carpet tile comprises a facecloth having a plurality of face yarns tufted through a primary backing, an extruded polymer secondary backing layer, and a reinforcing scrim layer partially embedded within the extruded polymer secondary backing layer.
Michael Christopher Gallman, Michael E. Bell
Filed: 12 Sep 18
Utility
Floor board and method for manufacturing such floor boards
9 May 23
A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate has MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, where the side edge is treated both with an impregnation agent and/or a sealing agent based on a super absorbing material.
Dieter D'Hondt, Aaron Shaw
Filed: 13 Jul 21
Utility
Method for Manufacturing an Engineered Stone and an Engineered Stone
4 May 23
A method for manufacturing an engineered stone, the method including: providing a mixture comprising at least a stone or stone like material and a binder; compacting the mixture; curing the binder; and further comprising printing a printed pattern on at least a top surface of the engineered stone.
Terry ADAMS, Claudio CASELLI
Filed: 27 Dec 22
Utility
Method for manufacturing an engineered stone and an engineered stone
18 Apr 23
A method for manufacturing an engineered stone, the method including: providing a mixture comprising at least a stone or stone like material and a binder; compacting the mixture; curing the binder; and printing on at least a top surface of the engineered stone.
Terry Adams, Claudio Caselli
Filed: 2 Oct 17
Utility
Polyethylene terephthalate coloring systems and methods
4 Apr 23
Method and system for manufacturing bulked continuous filament having tonal coloring from PET comprising: an extruder (202); a static mixing assembly (208) coupled to the extruder and comprising a housing and one or more individual static mixing elements disposed within the housing; the method and system further comprising a plurality of colorant ports along a length of the static mixing assembly such that each of the plurality of colorant ports is configured to provide colorant (204) to a polymer stream at a different location along the length of the static mixing assembly, and one or more spinning machines (212) positioned downstream of the static mixing assembly and coupled to the static mixing assembly to receive the colored polymer stream.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 14 Sep 18
Utility
Methods for manufacturing panels having a decorative surface
28 Mar 23
A method is provided for manufacturing a paper layer having a printed pattern for use in panels that at least include a substrate and a top layer.
Benjamin Clement, Laurent Meersseman, Patrick Van Den Bergen, Rudi Vanhooydonck
Filed: 31 Mar 21
Utility
Trilobal filaments and spinnerets for producing the same
21 Mar 23
Various implementations include a filament that includes three lobes that extend from a central portion of the filament, and the central portion defines an axial void.
Maarten Meinders, Paul Pustolski
Filed: 3 Jun 19
Utility
Recyclable Tufted Fabric and Method of Making the Same
16 Mar 23
Recyclable tufted fabrics and methods of preparing the same are provided.
Charles Winston REYNOLDS, Michael Bejon SETHNA, Christopher Lee CRAIG
Filed: 22 Jan 21
Utility
Tile Edge Systems and Methods
2 Mar 23
Disclosed herein are tiles, systems, and methods related to manufacturing bullnose or other non-straight edge tiles.
Claudio Caselli, Rahul Patki
Filed: 8 Nov 22
Utility
Tufted Carpet
2 Mar 23
A tufted carpet comprising a secondary backing which defines a volume being a parallelepiped having three pair of parallel faces, a first pair of parallel faces defining a upper surface of the secondary backing and a lower face of the tufted carpet, at least a second pair of parallel faces being inclined with respect to the first pair of parallel faces under an angle α1 less than 90°, preferably in the range of 10 to 87°, the angle being the smallest angle measured between the planes defining the first pair of parallel faces and second pair of parallel faces.
Michael Bejon SETHNA, Christopher Lee CRAIG, Luke Adam BRYSON
Filed: 16 Feb 21
Utility
Tube holder for line dispensing
21 Feb 23
A tube holder supports a spool of flexible line wrapped onto the outer surface of a tube.
John T. Schuler
Filed: 24 Jan 19
Utility
Ribbon Like Filaments and Systems and Methods for Producing the Same
9 Feb 23
Various implementations include a melt-spun filament that has a radial cross section that has two substantially parallel linear perimetrical sections and first and second curved perimetrical sections.
Anthony CASCIO
Filed: 30 Sep 22
Utility
Single Pass Carpet-production Method and Carpets Prepared Using Same
26 Jan 23
A low-weight carpet or carpet tile and process for making the same, wherein the carpet or carpet tile comprises a facecloth having a plurality of face yarns tufted through a primary backing, a low-viscosity polyolefin coating layer applied to the primary backing, a reinforcing scrim layer, and an extruded polyolefin sheet.
Michael E. Bell
Filed: 6 Jan 21
Utility
Polyester Filaments with Improved Dyeability
19 Jan 23
The present disclosure provides polyester filaments with improved dyeability and their use in fiber for various applications, in particular polyethylene terephthalate or polytrimethylene terephthalate filaments that can be used in carpets.
Melissa NORTH, Wayne BEASON, Anthony CASCIO
Filed: 9 Dec 20