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Utility
Methods for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament
29 Jun 20
A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from recycled polymer.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 24 Oct 19
Utility
Floor Board and Method for Manufacturing Such Floor Boards
24 Jun 20
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: 3 Mar 20
Utility
Set of floor panels and method for installing this set of floor panels
15 Jun 20
A set of floor panels, which is suitable for forming a floor covering in herringbone pattern, wherein these floor panels are oblong rectangular; wherein the long as well as the short edges are provided with mechanical coupling means; and wherein the male coupling part on the short edge can be inserted into the female coupling part on the long edge in one and the same turning movement which is used to insert the male coupling part on the long edge into the female coupling part on the long or short edge.
Jan Eddy De Rick, Bart Van Der Stockt
Filed: 18 Apr 17
Utility
Silo
3 Jun 20
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 26 Nov 19
Utility
Methods for manufacturing bulked continuous filament
18 May 20
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) passing the group of flakes through an expanded surface area extruder while maintaining a pressure within the expanded surface area extruder below about 25 millibars; (E) passing the resulting polymer melt through at least one filter having a micron rating of less than about 50 microns; and (F) forming the recycled polymer into bulked continuous carpet filament that consists essentially of recycled PET.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 13 Dec 18
Utility
Floor board and method for manufacturing such floor boards
18 May 20
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: 5 May 16
Utility
Methods for manufacturing bulked continuous filament
11 May 20
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) passing the flakes through a PET crystallizer; (E) passing the group of flakes through an MRS extruder while maintaining the pressure within the MRS portion of the MRS extruder below about 18 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: 6 Dec 18
Utility
Methods for manufacturing bulked continuous filament
4 May 20
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) passing the group of flakes through an MRS extruder while maintaining the pressure within the MRS portion of the MRS extruder below about 5 millibars; (E) passing the resulting polymer melt through at least one filter having a micron rating of less than about 50 microns; and (F) forming the recycled polymer into bulked continuous carpet filament that consists essentially of recycled PET.
Thomas R. Clark
Filed: 19 Jul 18
Utility
Methods for Manufacturing Bulked Continuous Filament from Recycled Pet
22 Apr 20
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: 24 Oct 19
Utility
Systems and methods for item characteristic simulation
20 Apr 20
A virtual reality system provides users with visual and/or audible representations of various characteristics of items that are virtually included within a simulation.
Christina Schofield, Framarz Mistry
Filed: 12 Apr 18
Utility
Flooring material
20 Apr 20
A surface element designed to be assembled together with similar surface elements to form a unit of a plurality of joined surface elements; said surface elements comprising a core, a decorative upper surface and edges for joining, including a first and a second edges allowing joining by rotational movement, and a third and a fourth edge allowing joining by vertical movement, wherein two adjacent edges of the surface element at the same time, and concurrently with said rotational movement, is joined with a surface element adjacent to the first edge and a surface element adjacent to the third or fourth edge.
Jorgen Palsson
Filed: 15 Oct 17
Utility
Methods for Manufacturing Bulked Continuous Filament
18 Mar 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
Flooring board with a thin veneer wood aesthetic and durable surface
2 Mar 20
A flooring board having a plurality of layers may have a sufficiently high modified Janka hardness rating for use in general flooring applications.
Harry Bogner, Dick Quinlan
Filed: 9 Jul 15