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US3422615A
US3422615A US547199A US3422615DA US3422615A US 3422615 A US3422615 A US 3422615A US 547199 A US547199 A US 547199A US 3422615D A US3422615D A US 3422615DA US 3422615 A US3422615 A US 3422615A
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D03—WEAVING
    • D03D—WOVEN FABRICS; METHODS OF WEAVING; LOOMS
    • D03D27/00—Woven pile fabrics
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S264/00—Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
    • Y10S264/47—Processes of splitting film, webs or sheets
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/23907—Pile or nap type surface or component
    • Y10T428/23957—Particular shape or structure of pile
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/23907—Pile or nap type surface or component
    • Y10T428/23979—Particular backing structure or composition
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T428/00—Stock material or miscellaneous articles
    • Y10T428/29—Coated or structually defined flake, particle, cell, strand, strand portion, rod, filament, macroscopic fiber or mass thereof
    • Y10T428/2913—Rod, strand, filament or fiber
    • Y10T428/2973—Particular cross section
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
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    • Y10T428/29—Coated or structually defined flake, particle, cell, strand, strand portion, rod, filament, macroscopic fiber or mass thereof
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  • This invention relates to a pile fabric and more particularly to a fabric of the type used for soft floor coverings and upholstery in which the filaments of the pile yarns are of generally rectangular cross section, approximately unform in thickness and varying in width.
  • carpet yarns using individual fibers that have been slit or shredded from an extruded 0 sheet or pellicle of synthetic plastic material give sur prisingly good performance in a pile carpet at relatively low cost.
  • the pile yarn in a soft floor covering is the single largest factor in the cost of such fabric. This means that a substantial reduction in the cost of the pile yarn with comparable performance of the fabric results in the ability to produce a superior product without the necessity of relying upon the vagaries of the world market for carpet wool as well as the other problems involved in the importation of either or both the pile fiber or the backing fiber.
  • the present fabric preferably all synthetic, is equally suitable for indoor and/0r outdoor use.
  • FIGURE 2 Description of the invention 3,422,615 Patented Jan. 21, 1969 "ice larged sectional view of FIGURE 3 (as seen at 33 of FIGURE 2), or they may be uncut as shown at 6b both in FIGURES 2 and 3.
  • the particular fabric illustrated in the perspective of FIGURE 2 is a tufted fabric of the type that is well known in the carpet industry.
  • the pile yarns are stitched in rows as the backing 5 is fed through the tufting machine.
  • Individual pile projections or yarns 6a and 6b may be either partially cut or uncut as shown in FIGURES 2 and 3, totally out or totally uncut.
  • the relative height of the pile projections may be controlled (whether cut or uncut) by one of several well known types of pattern attachments which are utilized for this purpose.
  • the use of such equipment does not form a part of the present invention but has been described to give the proper background for the showing of a tufted pile fabric. It will be understood, of course, that woven pile fabrics are included within the scope of the present invention.
  • Each of the individual pile projects 7 as shown in FIGURE 1 comprises a plurality of fibers or filaments twisted together into yarns that are stitched or woven to form the pile of the fabric.
  • Each of the filaments of the yarn 7 comprises a flat length or strip of a synthetic plastic material that has been shredded or sliced from a pellicle to provide random width filaments.
  • the widest filaments 8 shown in FIGURE 1 may be as much as of an inch and the width thereof decreases randomly to a minimum width filament or filaments shown at 9, with intermediate width filaments shown at 10. It will be understood, of course, that the widths are entirely random due to the splitting or fibrilating action employed in converting the pellicle to the oriented or stretched filaments.
  • filaments produced from the same pellicle will be of substantially the same thickness at least within the thickness tolerances of the extrusion and drafting equipment desirably employed in the production of the pellicle.
  • This random cross section area of the different filaments in each yarn produces an unexpected and unusually satisfactory effect when the yarns are twisted and incorporated in a pile fabric. This effect may be more prominent in the case of cut pile since the ends of the tufts tend to blend into a homogeneous mass in which the wide filaments provide resiliency and the narrow filaments provide the required hand and cover.
  • Any synthetic plastic material capable of being extruded into a pellicle and then cut or shredded into random width filaments is generally satisfactory for the yarns of the present invention.
  • Those that have been found to be satisfactory are the polyolefins, particularly polypropylene due to its natural tendency to fibrilate on drafting.
  • Other materials may be used such as nylon, vinyl, vinylidene chloride, polyvinyl chloride, polyethylene, polyester, polyacrylonitrile, acetate, triace'tate, rayon (cellulosics), and glass.
  • a pile fabric comprising a backing, a plurality of pile yarns secured in said backing, each of said pile yarns being composed of a plurality of flat strips of synthetic plastic filaments twisted together, said filaments having rectangular cross-sections of substantially equal thickness and random widths.

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US3520762A (en) * 1967-03-24 1970-07-14 Asahi Chemical Ind Pile fabric
US3751777A (en) * 1971-07-09 1973-08-14 H Turmel Process for making tufted pile carpet
US4181762A (en) * 1976-03-10 1980-01-01 Brunswick Corporation Fibers, yarns and fabrics of low modulus polymer
US4253299A (en) * 1979-05-03 1981-03-03 Phillips Petroleum Company Bulked and entangled multifilament thermoplastic yarn
USD387209S (en) * 1996-01-11 1997-12-09 Agru Alois Gruber Gmbh Calendared textured liner
US5987867A (en) * 1995-05-26 1999-11-23 Milliken Denmark A/S Floor textile material
US11060211B2 (en) * 2016-08-25 2021-07-13 Japan Matex Co., LTD Twisted yarn, opened yarn, carbon fiber-covered twisted yarn, and method for manufacturing these
USD954448S1 (en) * 2020-05-12 2022-06-14 Columbia Insurance Company Tufted article
USD955759S1 (en) * 2019-12-23 2022-06-28 Columbia Insurance Company Tufted article
USD955758S1 (en) * 2019-12-23 2022-06-28 Columbia Insurance Company Tufted article

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US2143574A (en) * 1937-12-15 1939-01-10 Porter Yarn and fabric
US2816349A (en) * 1955-11-30 1957-12-17 Du Pont Fibers and fabrics
US2920349A (en) * 1957-09-10 1960-01-12 Du Pont Polyethylene films
US3033240A (en) * 1958-12-19 1962-05-08 Celanese Corp Pile carpet
US3273771A (en) * 1962-05-14 1966-09-20 Courtaulds Ltd Filamentary material

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US2143574A (en) * 1937-12-15 1939-01-10 Porter Yarn and fabric
US2816349A (en) * 1955-11-30 1957-12-17 Du Pont Fibers and fabrics
US2920349A (en) * 1957-09-10 1960-01-12 Du Pont Polyethylene films
US3033240A (en) * 1958-12-19 1962-05-08 Celanese Corp Pile carpet
US3273771A (en) * 1962-05-14 1966-09-20 Courtaulds Ltd Filamentary material

Cited By (10)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US3520762A (en) * 1967-03-24 1970-07-14 Asahi Chemical Ind Pile fabric
US3751777A (en) * 1971-07-09 1973-08-14 H Turmel Process for making tufted pile carpet
US4181762A (en) * 1976-03-10 1980-01-01 Brunswick Corporation Fibers, yarns and fabrics of low modulus polymer
US4253299A (en) * 1979-05-03 1981-03-03 Phillips Petroleum Company Bulked and entangled multifilament thermoplastic yarn
US5987867A (en) * 1995-05-26 1999-11-23 Milliken Denmark A/S Floor textile material
USD387209S (en) * 1996-01-11 1997-12-09 Agru Alois Gruber Gmbh Calendared textured liner
US11060211B2 (en) * 2016-08-25 2021-07-13 Japan Matex Co., LTD Twisted yarn, opened yarn, carbon fiber-covered twisted yarn, and method for manufacturing these
USD955759S1 (en) * 2019-12-23 2022-06-28 Columbia Insurance Company Tufted article
USD955758S1 (en) * 2019-12-23 2022-06-28 Columbia Insurance Company Tufted article
USD954448S1 (en) * 2020-05-12 2022-06-14 Columbia Insurance Company Tufted article

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