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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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