EP0568916B1 - A tufted fabric - Google Patents

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EP0568916B1
EP0568916B1 EP19930106882 EP93106882A EP0568916B1 EP 0568916 B1 EP0568916 B1 EP 0568916B1 EP 19930106882 EP19930106882 EP 19930106882 EP 93106882 A EP93106882 A EP 93106882A EP 0568916 B1 EP0568916 B1 EP 0568916B1
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fibrous
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Barrie L. Davies
James A. Corbin
Robert D. Johnson
William G. Neely
Ian S. Slack
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Invista Technologies SARL Switzerland
CNA Holdings LLC
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H11/00—Non-woven pile fabrics
    • D04H11/08—Non-woven pile fabrics formed by creation of a pile on at least one surface of a non-woven fabric without addition of pile-forming material, e.g. by needling, by differential shrinking
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D05—SEWING; EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05C—EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05C15/00—Making pile fabrics or articles having similar surface features by inserting loops into a base material
    • D05C15/04—Tufting
    • D05C15/08—Tufting machines
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H1/00—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres
    • D04H1/40—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties
    • D04H1/44—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties the fleeces or layers being consolidated by mechanical means, e.g. by rolling
    • D04H1/46—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties the fleeces or layers being consolidated by mechanical means, e.g. by rolling by needling or like operations to cause entanglement of fibres
    • D04H1/48—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties the fleeces or layers being consolidated by mechanical means, e.g. by rolling by needling or like operations to cause entanglement of fibres in combination with at least one other method of consolidation
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H1/00—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres
    • D04H1/40—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties
    • D04H1/54—Non-woven fabrics formed wholly or mainly of staple fibres or like relatively short fibres from fleeces or layers composed of fibres without existing or potential cohesive properties by welding together the fibres, e.g. by partially melting or dissolving
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D04—BRAIDING; LACE-MAKING; KNITTING; TRIMMINGS; NON-WOVEN FABRICS
    • D04H—MAKING TEXTILE FABRICS, e.g. FROM FIBRES OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL; FABRICS MADE BY SUCH PROCESSES OR APPARATUS, e.g. FELTS, NON-WOVEN FABRICS; COTTON-WOOL; WADDING ; NON-WOVEN FABRICS FROM STAPLE FIBRES, FILAMENTS OR YARNS, BONDED WITH AT LEAST ONE WEB-LIKE MATERIAL DURING THEIR CONSOLIDATION
    • D04H11/00—Non-woven pile fabrics
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D05—SEWING; EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05C—EMBROIDERING; TUFTING
    • D05C17/00—Embroidered or tufted products; Base fabrics specially adapted for embroidered work; Inserts for producing surface irregularities in embroidered products
    • D05C17/02—Tufted products
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D06—TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE; LAUNDERING; FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06N—WALL, FLOOR, OR LIKE COVERING MATERIALS, e.g. LINOLEUM, OILCLOTH, ARTIFICIAL LEATHER, ROOFING FELT, CONSISTING OF A FIBROUS WEB COATED WITH A LAYER OF MACROMOLECULAR MATERIAL; FLEXIBLE SHEET MATERIAL NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • D06N7/00—Flexible sheet materials not otherwise provided for, e.g. textile threads, filaments, yarns or tow, glued on macromolecular material
    • D06N7/0063—Floor covering on textile basis comprising a fibrous top layer being coated at the back with at least one polymer layer, e.g. carpets, rugs, synthetic turf
    • D06N7/0068—Floor covering on textile basis comprising a fibrous top layer being coated at the back with at least one polymer layer, e.g. carpets, rugs, synthetic turf characterised by the primary backing or the fibrous top layer

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  • Tufted fabrics such as carpets and rugs, are made up of various components and different types of material.
  • the components generally include a primary backing, secondary backing, latex adhesives and tuft material.
  • Tufted fabrics generally have a primary backing of natural or synthetic polymeric materials such as polypropylene in a woven or nonwoven fabric form.
  • broadloom carpets are normally produced by having a primary backing of woven slit film made from polypropylene into which there is inserted a plurality of tufts by a tufting machine. Tufts are inserted into the primary backing.
  • the present invention is a tufted fabric having a fibrous primary backing layer, a plurality of fibrous tufts each made of a bundle of yarns forming a pile layer on the face side of the primary backing layer and extending through the backside of the primary backing layer to form a plurality of loops, wherein the loops are anchored to the primary backing layer either through entanglement or through heating the primary backing layer to cause fusion of the loops to the back of the primary backing layer.
  • the amount of the binder fiber is from 5% to 95% of the blend, preferably from 15% to 30% of the blend. As the proportion of the binder fiber in the blend is increased, the resulting heat bonded backing will generally have greater rigidity. The amount of bonding will depend most importantly on whether binder is available to bond the polyester fiber at the crossover point, and the statistical probability of this increases with an increase in the amount of binder.
  • the structure may be a stitch bonded fabric.
  • the carpet may be further processed, including dyeing and heat treating.
  • the blended fibers were carded into a web, and a batting was prepared by crosslapping the webs on standard crosslapping laps.
  • the batt was 15.2cm (6 inches)thick made up of 10.
  • the batting was then needle punched to entangle the blended fibers and to reduce the batting to the primary backing having a thickness of 2.54mm (0.10 inches).
  • the weight of the primary backing was 475 g/m 2 (14 oz./sq. yard).

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  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Textile Engineering (AREA)
  • Mechanical Engineering (AREA)
  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Materials Engineering (AREA)
  • Carpets (AREA)
  • Nonwoven Fabrics (AREA)
  • Woven Fabrics (AREA)
  • Treatments For Attaching Organic Compounds To Fibrous Goods (AREA)
  • Laminated Bodies (AREA)
  • Perforating, Stamping-Out Or Severing By Means Other Than Cutting (AREA)
  • Automatic Embroidering For Embroidered Or Tufted Products (AREA)
  • Sewing Machines And Sewing (AREA)
  • Manufacturing Of Multi-Layer Textile Fabrics (AREA)
  • Chemical Or Physical Treatment Of Fibers (AREA)
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US87661792A 1992-05-01 1992-05-01
US876617 1992-05-01
US4160193A 1993-04-13 1993-04-13
US41601 1993-04-13

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JP (1) JPH06123052A (cs)
KR (1) KR930023520A (cs)
CN (1) CN1084119A (cs)
AT (1) ATE169697T1 (cs)
AU (1) AU3820493A (cs)
BR (1) BR9301703A (cs)
CA (1) CA2094875A1 (cs)
CZ (1) CZ80793A3 (cs)
DE (1) DE69320240T2 (cs)
DK (1) DK0568916T3 (cs)

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ATE169697T1 (de) 1998-08-15
KR930023520A (ko) 1993-12-18
BR9301703A (pt) 1993-11-03
CN1084119A (zh) 1994-03-23
DK0568916T3 (da) 1999-02-08
DE69320240D1 (de) 1998-09-17
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