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Utility
Recyclable Tufted Carpet Product
25 Mar 21
Recyclable tufted carpet products and methods of preparing the same are provided.
Charles Winston REYNOLDS, Michael Bejon SETHNA, Christopher Lee CRAIG
Filed: 20 Sep 19
Utility
Method for Manufacturing a Carpet or a Rug and a Carpet or Rug Obtained Thereby
11 Mar 21
Method for manufacturing a carpet or a rug, comprising the following steps: the step (S1-S2) of providing a primary backing (1), being a woven or non-woven layer comprising filaments (2) of polyethyleneterephthalate and copolymer of polyethyleneterephthalate, the coPET having a lower melting temperature than the PET and wherein said PET is available in said primary backing (1) in a higher amount than said coPET; the step of providing a glue layer (11) consisting for 50% or more out of coPET; the step of tufting yarn at least into said primary backing (1); the step of activating said glue layer (11) at least for partially fixing said yarn (12) on said primary backing (1).
Charles Winston REYNOLDS, Mark Gregory DYE, Michael Bejon SETHNA
Filed: 28 Feb 19
Utility
Method and installation for manufacturing a floor covering product and floor covering product obtained hereby
9 Mar 21
A method for manufacturing a floor covering product comprises at least a first step of forming a single- or multi-layered substrate by consolidating synthetic material-based starting material.
Christophe Naeyaert
Filed: 31 Jul 15
Utility
Floor panel for forming a floor covering and method for manufacturing such floor panels
9 Mar 21
A method may be provided for manufacturing a floor panel having a decorative upper side formed by a top layer.
Benjamin Clement
Filed: 10 Oct 19
Utility
Composed element, multi-layered board and panel-shaped element for forming this composed element
2 Mar 21
A composed element includes at least two panel-shaped elements, which each have an edge zone in which coupling means are present in a profiled part respectively extending in the longitudinal direction of the respective edge zone, and each including an end face extending transversely to the respective edge zone.
Luc Maertens, Mark Cappelle, Luc Vanhastel, Luc Deman, Guy Van Hooydonck
Filed: 25 Jun 20
Design
Filament
2 Feb 21
Maarten Meinders, Paul Pustolski
Filed: 2 Oct 18
Utility
Method for manufacturing panels having a decorative surface
2 Feb 21
A method is provided for manufacturing a printed paper layer.
Benjamin Clement
Filed: 24 Sep 19
Utility
Method for Manufacturing Panels Having a Decorative Surface
14 Jan 21
Panels having a decorative surface may include a plate shaped substrate and a top layer, and the top layer may include a paper layer having a printed pattern.
Benjamin CLEMENT, Luc DE BOE
Filed: 29 Sep 20
Utility
Polyester Fiber Blends and Methods of Manufacturing Same
23 Dec 20
This application is directed to polymer blends of polyethylene naphthalate, polytrimethylene terephthalate, and polyethylene naphthalate, for use in fibers, such as carpet fibers, and other applications.
James L. Williams, Mark G. Dye, Jonathan Skelley, Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 30 Aug 20
Utility
Methods for Manufacturing Bulked Continuous Filament
25 Nov 20
A method for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament, the method comprising: (1) reducing a chamber pressure within a chamber to below about 5 millibars; (2) after reducing the chamber pressure to below about 5 millibars, providing a polymer melt to the chamber; (3) separating the polymer melt into at least eight streams; (4) while the at least eight streams of the polymer melt are within the chamber, exposing the at least eight streams of the polymer melt to the chamber pressure of below about 5 millibars; (5) after exposing the at least eight streams of the polymer melt to the chamber pressure of below about 5 millibars, recombining the at least eight streams into a single polymer stream; and (6) forming polymer from the single polymer stream into bulked continuous carpet filament.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 13 Aug 20
Utility
Piece of furniture
23 Nov 20
A piece of furniture, comprising a first and a second furniture part, which are coupled to each other at an angle by means of mechanical coupling means.
Luc Maertens, Luc Deman, Guy Van Hooydonck, Benny Schacht
Filed: 20 Oct 15
Utility
Methods for Manufacturing Bulked Continuous Carpet Filament
30 Sep 20
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from recycled polymer.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 8 Jun 20
Utility
Low Weight Modular Carpet Components and Methods of Making the Same
30 Sep 20
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.
Mike Gallman, Michael E. Bell
Filed: 11 Sep 18
Utility
Polyester fiber blends and methods of manufacturing same
7 Sep 20
This application is directed to polymer blends of polyethylene naphthalate, polytrimethylene terephthalate, and polyethylene naphthalate, for use in fibers, such as carpet fibers, and other applications.
James L. Williams, Mark G. Dye, Jonathan Skelley, Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 23 Mar 17
Utility
Polyethylene terephthalate coloring systems and methods
24 Aug 20
A method of manufacturing a plurality of colors of bulked continuous carpet filament from a single multi-screw extruder which, in various embodiments, comprises: (A) passing PET through an extruder that melts the PET and purifies the resulting PET polymer melt; (B) splitting the extruded polymer melt into a plurality of melt streams and adding a colorant to each of the plurality of melt streams; (C) using one or more static mixers (e.g., thirty six static mixers) to substantially uniformly mix (e.g., homogeneously mix) each of the plurality of melt streams with its respective added colorant; and (D) feed each of the uniformly mixed and colored plurality of melt streams into a respective spinning machines that turns the polymer into filament for use in manufacturing carpet, rugs, and other products.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 9 Nov 16
Utility
Methods for Manufacturing Bulked Continuous Filament
19 Aug 20
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament which, in various embodiments, comprises: (A) washing a plurality of flakes of recycled PET; (B) providing a PET crystallizer; (C) after the step of washing the plurality of flakes, passing the plurality of flakes of recycled PET through the PET crystallizer; (D) at least partially melting the plurality of flakes into a polymer melt; (E) providing a multi-rotating screw (MRS) extruder having an MRS section; and a vacuum pump in communication with the MRS section; (F) using the vacuum pump to reduce a pressure within the MRS Section; (G) after the step of passing the plurality of flakes through the PET crystallizer, passing the polymer melt through the MRS Section; and (H) after the step of passing the polymer melt through the MRS extruder, forming the polymer melt into bulked continuous carpet filament.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 4 May 20
Utility
Methods for Manufacturing Bulked Continuous Filament
19 Aug 20
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament, in various embodiments, comprises: (A) providing an expanded surface area extruder; (B) providing a spinning machine having an inlet that is operatively coupled to an expanded surface area extruder outlet; (C) using a pressure regulation system to reduce the pressure within the expanded surface area extruder; (D) passing a plurality of flakes comprising recycled PET through the expanded surface area extruder to at least partially melt the plurality of flakes to form a polymer melt; and (E) substantially immediately after passing the plurality of flakes through the expanded surface area extruder, using the spinning machine to form the polymer melt into bulked continuous carpet filament.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 4 May 20
Utility
Methods for manufacturing bulked continuous filament
17 Aug 20
A method for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament, the method comprising: (1) reducing a chamber pressure within a chamber to below about 5 millibars; (2) after reducing the chamber pressure to below about 5 millibars, providing a polymer melt to the chamber; (3) separating the polymer melt into at least eight streams; (4) while the at least eight streams of the polymer melt are within the chamber, exposing the at least eight streams of the polymer melt to the chamber pressure of below about 5 millibars; (5) after exposing the at least eight streams of the polymer melt to the chamber pressure of below about 5 millibars, recombining the at least eight streams into a single polymer stream; and (6) forming polymer from the single polymer stream into bulked continuous carpet filament.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 13 Nov 19
Utility
Method of Manufacturing Bulked Continuous Carpet Filament
29 Jul 20
In particular embodiments, a process for producing bulked continuous carpet filament from recycled polymer utilizes two vacuum pumps (140A, 140B) in combination with a single extruder (100).
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 1 Mar 18
Utility
Systems and Methods for Manufacturing Bulked Continuous Filament
1 Jul 20
Systems for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from polymer, where the systems are configured for: (1) melting polymer (e.g., derived from post-consumer PET bottles) to create a first single stream of polymer melt; (2) separating the first single stream of polymer melt into multiple streams of polymer melt; (3) exposing the multiple streams of polymer melt to a pressure of between about 0 millibars and about 5 millibars; (4) allowing the multiple streams of polymer melt to fall into a receiving section of a melt processing unit; (5) recombining the multiple streams of polymer melt into a second single stream of polymer melt; and (6) providing the second single stream of polymer melt to one or more spinning machines that are configured to form the second single stream of polymer melt into bulked continuous carpet filament.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 11 Mar 20