153 patents
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Utility
Floor Panel
19 Aug 21
A floor panel with a substrate, including thermoplastic material, a decor provided thereon, and, on at least one pair of opposite edges, coupling parts realized at least partially from the substrate.
Kristof VAN VLASSENRODE, Paul BRUSSEEL, Nick VANHULLE, Jochen BOSSUYT
Filed: 18 Mar 21
Utility
Methods to Provide a Floor Covering
19 Aug 21
A method to provide a floor covering, including the steps of: providing a sheet vinyl; providing a PVC intermediate including at least a first layer of PVC material and at least a first reinforcing sheet, the first layer of PVC material providing the upper side of the PVC intermediate.
Kristof VAN VLASSENRODE
Filed: 5 Jun 19
Utility
Double Image Overprint Carpet Components and Methods of Making Same
5 Aug 21
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to carpet components and methods of making the carpet components.
Clyde Ray Burgess, Paul Matthew Dabrowa
Filed: 19 Apr 21
Utility
Methods for Manufacturing Panels Having a Decorative Surface
15 Jul 21
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
Method for Composing a Set of Floor Panels
8 Jul 21
A method for composing a set of floor panels for flooring a room is based on a data set in accordance at least with the ground surface area of the room.
Klaus LOZIE
Filed: 24 May 19
Utility
Floor Panel for Forming a Floor Covering
1 Jul 21
Floor panel for forming a floor covering, where the floor panel includes a carrier on the basis of a thermoplastic material and a top layer provided on the carrier.
Kristof VAN VLASSENRODE, Filip BOSSUYT
Filed: 26 Feb 21
Utility
Methods for manufacturing bulked continuous filament from recycled PET
29 Jun 21
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament that includes providing a polymer melt and separating the polymer melt from the extruder into at least eight streams.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 25 Oct 19
Utility
Floor covering material and method for manufacturing same
15 Jun 21
Floor covering material, wherein this floor covering material comprises at least a foamed layer, a printed decor provided thereon, and preferably a transparent wear layer, wherein the printed decor represents a plurality of panel-shaped or tile-shaped elements, wherein at the edges of said represented elements, lowered edge regions are formed, which form at least a portion of the circumference of the respective element, wherein said lowered edge regions, seen in cross-section, are realized with at least two different geometries.
Stefaan Gerard Lucien Duyck, Kristof Van Vlassenrode
Filed: 22 Dec 17
Utility
Bulked Continuous Carpet Filament Manufacturing from Polytrimethylene Terephthalate
10 Jun 21
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.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 18 Jul 19
Utility
Polyethylene Terephthalate Coloring Systems and Methods
3 Jun 21
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
Floor Panel for Forming a Floor Covering and Method for Manufacturing Such Floor Panels
27 May 21
A method may be provided for manufacturing a floor panel having a substrate and a top layer.
Benjamin CLEMENT
Filed: 2 Feb 21
Utility
Methods for manufacturing bulked continuous filament from colored recycled PET
18 May 21
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament which, in various embodiments, comprises: (A) grinding recycled PET bottles into a group of flakes; (B) washing the flakes; (C) identifying and removing impurities, including impure flakes, from the group of flakes; (D) adding one or more color concentrates to the flakes; (E) passing the group of flakes through an extrusion system while maintaining the pressure within the extrusion system below about 25 millibars; (F) passing the resulting polymer melt through at least one filter having a micron rating of less than about 50 microns; and (G) forming the recycled polymer into bulked continuous carpet filament that consists essentially of recycled PET.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 12 Aug 19
Utility
Floor panel and method for manufacturing floor panels
18 May 21
A floor panel has a substrate and a decorative layer of wood veneer provided thereon having a thickness of 1 millimeter or less.
Frank Loncke, Luc Vanhastel, Laurent Meersseman
Filed: 4 Oct 19
Utility
Methods for manufacturing panels having a decorative surface
4 May 21
A method is provided for manufacturing panels having a decorative surface, wherein the panels at least include a substrate and a top layer, and wherein the top layer includes a paper layer having a printed pattern.
Benjamin Clement, Laurent Meersseman, Patrick Van Den Bergen, Rudi Vanhooydonck
Filed: 19 Sep 18
Utility
Floor panel and method for manufacturing a floor panel
27 Apr 21
Floor panel with a substrate, including thermoplastic material, a decor provided thereon, and, on at least one pair of opposite edges, coupling parts realized at least partially from the substrate.
Kristof Van Vlassenrode, Paul Brusseel, Nick Vanhulle, Jochen Bossuyt
Filed: 3 Nov 17
Utility
Method for Manufacturing Panels Having a Decorative Surface
22 Apr 21
A method is provided for manufacturing a printed paper layer.
Benjamin CLEMENT
Filed: 29 Dec 20
Utility
Set of floor panels and method for composing thereof
13 Apr 21
A set of floor panels is intended for installing a floor in a room.
Jasper De Jaeger, Kristof Vangeenberghe, Bram Verschatse, Mark Cappelle
Filed: 30 Nov 17
Utility
Tube holder for line dispensing
6 Apr 21
A tube holder supports a spool of flexible line wrapped onto the outer surface of a tube.
John T. Schuler
Filed: 13 Feb 18
Utility
Adjustable Molding Assemblies and Methods
1 Apr 21
Adjustable molding assemblies and methods for bridging a gap between building elements are provided.
Benjamin R. Elliott, David W. Moore
Filed: 29 Sep 20
Utility
Method for manufacturing floor panels and floor panel for forming a floor covering
30 Mar 21
Method for manufacturing floor panels, where the floor panels include a carrier on the basis of thermoplastic material and a top layer provided on the carrier; and where the method further includes at least the steps of strewing the thermoplastic material and consolidating the strewn thermoplastic material; where the thermoplastic material is strewn as a dry-blend.
Kristof Van Vlassenrode, Filip Bossuyt
Filed: 13 Sep 16