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US3895981A
US3895981A US29356672A US3895981A US 3895981 A US3895981 A US 3895981A US 29356672 A US29356672 A US 29356672A US 3895981 A US3895981 A US 3895981A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A47—FURNITURE; DOMESTIC ARTICLES OR APPLIANCES; COFFEE MILLS; SPICE MILLS; SUCTION CLEANERS IN GENERAL
    • A47G—HOUSEHOLD OR TABLE EQUIPMENT
    • A47G27/00—Floor fabrics; Fastenings therefor
    • A47G27/06—Stair rods; Stair-rod fasteners ; Laying carpeting on stairs
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
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    • B29C70/04—Shaping composites, i.e. plastics material comprising reinforcements, fillers or preformed parts, e.g. inserts comprising reinforcements only, e.g. self-reinforcing plastics
    • B29C70/06—Fibrous reinforcements only
    • B29C70/08—Fibrous reinforcements only comprising combinations of different forms of fibrous reinforcements incorporated in matrix material, forming one or more layers, and with or without non-reinforced layers
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B32—LAYERED PRODUCTS
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
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    • 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
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    • D06N3/004—Artificial leather, oilcloth or other material obtained by covering fibrous webs with macromolecular material, e.g. resins, rubber or derivatives thereof characterised by the substrate using flocked webs or pile fabrics upon which a resin is applied; Teasing, raising web before resin application
    • 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
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    • D06N3/0086—Artificial leather, oilcloth or other material obtained by covering fibrous webs with macromolecular material, e.g. resins, rubber or derivatives thereof characterised by the application technique
    • D06N3/0088—Artificial leather, oilcloth or other material obtained by covering fibrous webs with macromolecular material, e.g. resins, rubber or derivatives thereof characterised by the application technique by directly applying the resin
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E04—BUILDING
    • E04F—FINISHING WORK ON BUILDINGS, e.g. STAIRS, FLOORS
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    • 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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  • coverl l (1 56; ing at least the front edge and the horizontal face of I6I/63; l6I/67; 161/1 6; /l 5 one stair step and a strip of a thermoplastic synthetic reinforcing material applied in the heat-melted state l B32b H 303d 27/00 on the visible face of the covering material and being Field Search 67, in a solid, nontacky state at room temperature, the 61/ 2. 6, strip being arranged adjacent to one lengthwise border 16/10; l5/2l5 217; 52/l79 I81; 156/71 edge of the covering material.
  • thermoplastic adhesive material applied to the reverse of the Covering [56]
  • R f r mr s Cited material in the edge area adjacent the same lengthwise UNITED STATES PATENTS border edge of the covering material to which the re- 2.739.637 3/1956 Tyler lot/ inforcing Substame applied- 2847.732 8/l953 Hyman i. 52/179 1 D F. mas 4/1959 Hyman 52/179 5 Chums 6 rawmg PATENTEDJUL 2 2 ms sum 1 hum.
  • the present invention concerns a textile floor covering having one or more reinforcing strips.
  • Plastic material strips are also known which are nailed in place.
  • At least one nozzle is moved relative to the longitudinal direction of a textile web having at least a part of its surface of thermoplastic material and a strip of thermoplastic reinforcing substance which is caused to become flowable by heating is applied to the web surface from the nozzle, the temperature of the strand being at least as high as the softening temperature of the thermoplastic surface and the reinforcing strip so applied to the textile web being hardened or solidified by cooling to room temperature.
  • the location of the reinforcing strip integrally disposed on the partly thermoplastic surface of a textile fiber covering is critical and must be at the edge area for covering a step edge.
  • the present invention has solved this problem and relieves the producer of floor coverings from the worry of the exact location of the reinforcement strips: he needs only to equip them as an edge strip along the floor covering track.
  • the installation man can then put the floor-covering carpet on the stairs. so that the reinforcement strips will be located on the stair edge. Therefore, the installation man does not put the carpet as before from the top of the stairway to the bottom. but horizontally from stair to stair.
  • One can still take advantage that the depth of the stair. as well as the height of the vertical wall between each stair has standard measurements, so that there is an optimum width of the prefabricated covering path 8" by which the slightest waste is obtained.
  • the cutting for the width of the stairs that is, the length of the staircase, L" leads to no waste when straight stairs are involved.
  • a ready-made textile stair floor covering material comprising a covering material having an indefinite length for being subsequently cut into lengths corresponding to the width of a stair case, and having a width between approximately 25 to 50 cm. for covering at least the front edge and the horizontal face of one stair step, and a strip of a thermoplastic synthetic reinforcing material applied in the heat melted state on the visible face of the covering material and being in a solid, nontacky state at room temperature, the strip being arranged adjacent to one lengthwise border edge of the covering material, and a thermoplastic adhesive material applied to the reverse of the covering material in the edge area adjacent the same lengthwise border edge of the covering material to which the reinforcing substance is applied.
  • Still another object of the present invention is to provide a covering material as above mentioned wherein the adhesive material is partly adhesive pressuresensitive at room temperature, whereby a pressing on after heating threrof leads to a stronger binding than a pressing on at room temperature.
  • Another object of the present invention is to provide a covering material as mentioned above wherein the adhesive material is less adhesive at room temperature than in the range of the reinforcing material, and is more adhesive in the range of a step face to be applied thereon.
  • a step of a staircase is a structural part which measured horizontally has a limited measurement (width); as the height, however, it can have any measure. It is for this reason that one thinks of a cover layer in roll form as a runner, to be rolled off as from the top to the bottom. Actually this is the pre-considered manner for a traditional operation.
  • the user desires a cover of chemical fibers or of natural sisal fibers or a fiber mixture, and whether the rein forcement mass should consist of polyamide or of bituminal rubber, as well as whether this reinforcement mass is applied in a melt flow from a nozzle, or if sprayed with pressure gas or from a liquid bath with roller transmission method, is of no importance for the performance of the present invention.
  • the invention extends to textile webs produced according to this method and provided with a covering of one or more reinforcing strips.
  • FlG. l is a longitudinal sectional view of a textile covering web provided with a reinforcing strip illustrating a production process in accordance with the present invention
  • FIGS. la to l f are longitudinal sections through parts of carpets reinforced in accordance with the invention.
  • FIGS. 2 to 8 show various arrangements of reinforcing strips on textile webs
  • FIG. 9 illustrates the separation of a fabric web as shown in FIG. 2 into individual sections for use as stair coverings.
  • FIG. 10 shows the arrangement of such stair coverings on stairs.
  • FIG. 1 The method in accordance with the present invention is illustrated in FIG. 1 by way of example in relation to a necdled felt.
  • the web-shaped needle felt I which contains 30percent thermoplastic fibers, is moved continuously in the direction of the arrow, past a reservoir 3 provided with a wide slot nozzle 2.
  • the thermoplastic material of the strand 4 has a softening temperature of about 60C to 300 C, preferably C to and a processing temperature during application at least as high as the softening temperature of the thermoplastic fibers of the needle felt I and preferably higher; consequently when' the hot strand 4 impacts the surface of the needle felt l, the thermoplastic fibers of the latter are softened or even melted. so that on the one hand, they form a close cohesive bond with the strand 4 and on the other hand are adhesively joined to non-thermoplastic fibers of the needle felt I. This bond is so strong that as shown by experiments a strand thickness of only 0.5 to 2 mm results in a substantially indivisible bond.
  • the plastic material strand 4 applied to the needle felt I may be readily cooled there and allowed to set, or the surface of the needle felt I may be embossed to a greater or lesser extent by means of a pair of rollers 5, a bar or other suitable device pressed against it. Cooling of the plastic strand 4 may be affected by the surrounding atmosphere, but it is also possible to accelerate the cooling process in order to increase the production rate. Such accelerated cooling may be obtained by passing the coated needle felt web 1 beneath one or more nozzles 6 from which cold air is blown against the strand of plastic material 4 causing it to set rapidly. Alternatively the web I of needle felt may be passed through a cooling chamber; there are, however. also other known cooling methods appliicable in the present case, e.g.. a cooling roller which may be formed simultaneously as an embossing roller.
  • thermoplastic fibers or fibers having a thermoplastic surface for example, non-thermoplastic fibers the surface of which is covered with a thermoplastic bonding agent; thus the fibers can not only be present as flatwork structures, such as fiber fleeces but also as linear structures, for instance. textile fiber and continuous fiber yarns. Consequently, the method in accordance with the invention may also be used to reinforce fabrics, also carpeting such as woven, for example, looped, velour and fiatowrk fabrics; tufted. for example nap.
  • looped, velour and woven flock and the like carpets made at least partially of thennoplastic fibers, possibly in the form of threads. or natural fibers which have received a prior scalable coating by means of a dispersion, a powder or the like.
  • FIG. Ia shows a longitudinal section through a part of a looped carpet reinforced in accordance with the present invention with reinforcing strip poured thereon, while FIG. lb shows a similar carpet with reinforcing strips pressed thereon; finally, FIG. Ir shows a similar carpet the surface of which, however. has been subjected to a pressure and heat treatment during the application of the reinforcing strips, that is, the surface is thermally compressed" (TK).
  • FIG. Id shows a velour carpet with a liquid compound poured thereon. while the velour carpet as shown in FIG. le is thermally compressed (TK).
  • FIG. 1f shows a thermally compressed flock velour.
  • Number, width and mutual arrangement of the reinforcing strips may be selected as required and in accordance with the intended purpose, as shown by the plan views of sections of textile webs reinforced in accordance with the method of the present invention as shown by FIGS. 2 to 8.
  • the strip arrangement shown in FIG. 8 is obtained by arranging several nozzles in a row extending transversely of the direction of the web, and causing them to execute an oscillatory movement at right angles to the direction of the web.
  • the reinforcing strips, as shown by FIG. 6, may have a rounded or angular profile in cross-section.
  • Reinforced webs as shown in FIGS. 2, 7 and 8 are suited in a particularly favorable manner as stair coverings, as will be explained in detail below.
  • edge protection In all three methods of laying, the protection of the Ill edges produces special problems.
  • the most primitive method of edge protection consists in nailing or cementing a metal protection ledge of brass or aluminum. rubber or plastic material onto the stair covering at the edges of the stairs.
  • This protective ledge if made of metal, tends to cause accidents due to a foot slipping when ascending stairs, while, if it is made of rubber or plastic material, it is mostly colored black or grey and contrasts unfavorably in color with the stair covering, which has an adverse effect on the appearance.
  • this edge protection comprising a colorless plastic material or such color exactly like the textile web, not contrast optically unless luminous pigments have been added purposely thereto to make the edge of the stairs visible also in the dark.
  • waste is at a minimum, because any desired width of stair tread may be chosen from the roller, 21 certain cutting loss occurring only in the depth of the step of the stairs.
  • a further considerable advantage is that the covering, which already contains the reinforcement, requires only a single cementing operation in contrast to the frequently used PVC edge guards which are required to be cemented in position before applying the stair covering and which for cementing require a special and costly contact adhesive which in addition has to be applied not only to the underside of the edge guards but also to the surface of the bevelled edges" which support the actual stair covering.
  • cementing occurs by means of a standard adhesive on the much more porous and more readily cemented reverse side of the carpet. It is, however, also possible to operate with an adhesive cement or contact adhesive.
  • an adhesive comprising for example 90 to 40 parts by weight of adhesive cement components causing the adhesive effect to be much increased at room temperature and 10 to parts by weight of thermoplastic components which are less adhesive at room temperatures but which, when heating to a temperature of between 60 C and the softening temperature of the fiber surfaces, with temporary loss of their cohesion, become a highly adhesive cement which at the required area sections causes a permanent bond with the foundation.
  • This adhesive has the advantage that after application of the stair covering it causes a sealing in the region of the edge of the stair when local heating to about 70 to l l C is brought about at this point by means of hot air.
  • the webs as shown in H68. 3 to 5 are divided by longitudinal sections on the lines Y-Y into webs as shown in HO. 2 and adapted, in the manner referred to, to be further processed into stair coverings.
  • webs may be used with undulated reinforcing strips as shown in H6. 8 in a conventional manner as stair coverings in the direction of the stairs. if the mutual distances of the reinforcing strips are smaller than the width of ladies or childrens shoes, so that when stepping on such a covering, the shoe is supported only by the reinforcing strip and hence the actual covering is subject to no, or only insignificant wear.
  • Step measurements are always variable, that is, the length L" in FIG. 10. This measure is mostly also variable, within a similar building, to a great extent, so that production of a piece in a factory for floor coverings is excluded from the start. Along with this is the fact that the floor covering operator can cut the cover on location in any desired length from the roll and the reinforcing strip for the step edge is already applied constituting an advance of the present invention.
  • the development does not lead from the individual production in measured pieces to the continuous production in the form, rather from the continuous production of a material track with non differentiated surface characteristics to the production of a material track with reinforcing locations in a predetermined arrangement.
  • This development has as a presumption a reversal of the laying method.
  • the traditional laying method from the top towards the bottom does not permit the application of the reinforcing strips, since these must have been applied as crossstrips crosswise over the cover track.
  • This arrangement is very unfavorable as to technical manufacture, and is also not practical for the floor layer, since a variable measure L can only arise by a combination of individual pieces.
  • the laying method of the present invention one starts with production process of the material track in the factory and terminates with the cutting and securing at the place of application of the material on the floor.
  • the method comprises covering of steps with textile floor covering material, worked from prefabricated floor covering materials in track form with applied longitudinal reinforcing strips.
  • the individual steps of the method consist of two parts, namely, of the steps for production of the covering track in the production operation, and the laying step at the place of application of the covering.
  • a layer mass is applied in a melted liquid state condition in the form of a strip extending in the longitudinal direction of the track and forming a non-adhesive hard surface at room temperature and brought to hardening (by cooling).
  • a layer mass is applied in a melted liquid state condition in the form of a strip extending in the longitudinal direction of the track and forming a non-adhesive hard surface at room temperature and brought to hardening (by cooling).
  • thermoplastic glue mass in a melt-liquid condition which is hardened by cooling.
  • This created material web is cut on both sides to the width to be used such that the layer strips of the upper and lower sides coincide with one of the two limit edges of the web (whereby the material web width, suitably suffices for covering of a step surface 8" in FIG. 10).
  • the material web cut to standard width (under circumstances with arrangement of an intermediate movable protection sheet for the underside glue material layer) is wound in a storage roll and brought to the place of application of the floor covering.
  • the material web is cut into pieces by the layers of the floor cover by cuts crosswise to the web direc tion corresponding with the length L in FIG. 10 (as well as the measure 8" under circumstances still exactly cut).
  • the edge strip of the piece is heated to the softening of the under-sided applied glue material layer and pressed to the edge of the step until the glue material due to cooling produces a rigid adhesive connection between the covering material and thesteps (under circumstances simultaneously, the upper-sided reinforcement strip gets pliant by heating, so that the edge strips can be bent over the step edge compare PK). 10 not however, a softening of the upper-sided reinforcement layer).
  • compositions can be considered new in view of their effects during security of the floor coverings on steps.
  • step rising ratio The relation between the height of the steps and the depth of the steps, the so-called step rising ratio, is normal. The basis, therefore. is in the observation that this rising ratio is a physiological optimum (depth to height equals 29:17) in which the rising understep is most comfortable and safest.
  • Floor covering materials in the form of the given width with a reinforcing strip along a longitudinal edge were hereto fore not known.
  • Step covers with continuous longitudinal reinforcement strips running along the entire roll for the step edges to be cut from a roll is an inventive advantage. Accordingly, the floor covering is usable for any step width.
  • thermoplastic layer of synthetic material 4 in a melting flow, selectively, the following material:
  • Polyvinylchloride polyurethane r ethylene/vinylacetate-copolymer.
  • the first ones have a somewhat higher melting range (about 190 to 220 C), the latter is somewhat lower (about 90 to 100 C).
  • the glue cover on the under side comprises a mixture of two different melting glue materials, of which one is composed such that it has at room temperature a good adhesion (pressure-sensitive hot-melt adhesive). it is applied by a roller transmission process, from a melt of 130 to 150 C, in a striplike manner to the entire underside of the covering. its composition is as follows:
  • melt glue material which at room temperature is only slightly glueable (hot seal glue is equal to hot-tack hot-melt adhesive) and serves for glueing of the reinforcement edge strip on the carpet step edge and which likewise as previously mentioned is applied with rolls from a melt of 130 to 150 C, however, only in the range of the carpet step-edge with the following compositions:
  • any known carpet and fiber content, or known thermoplastic materials are satisfactory and to apply same integrally as a reinforcing material at an edge of the stair covering material fibers adapted to be positioned over the edge of a stair is the novelty of the present invention.
  • the commercial form of the floor covering material is characterized by the fact that it has an indeterminate length of material and limited width, as well as being rollable, that is, it has no angle edge which would not permit a rolling.
  • the reinforcement mass on the upperside is thermoplastic so that it can be softened jointly with the same heating process
  • the adhesive material is heat activatable, that means a maximum glue force produced by heating and pressing (merely pressure-sensitive glue layers, for example, for adhesive plasters by heating bring about no stronger binding than by cold pressure, since the glue making additions destroy the cohesion of the glue mass, so that the return setting force of the reinforced and thereby also stiffened edge would tear up the glue connection.)
  • the glue application on the bottom side is partly gluey (pressure-sensitive) at room temperature, thereby the pressing on after heating of the glue material application to over 60 C, preferably to 1 10 C leads to a stronger binding than the pressing on at room temperature.
  • the glue material application on the bottom side is on part of the surface and the ratio between the covered and non-covered part of the surface is larger in the range of the reinforcement strip than in the range of the step face.
  • the glue material application is less adhesive at room temperature in the range of the reinforcement strip than in the range of the step surface. however. is much more cohesive.
  • steps have been laid in 3.5 minutes per step. In case of normal width steps 90-120 cm., four steps with lateral checks can be laid per hour.
  • the adhesive can be to 400 C. and pressed to the step.
  • a method of laying a floor covering upon the stairs of a staircase comprising the steps of:
  • a floor-covering material for individual stairs of a staircase consisting of a continuous length of a textile web having a base and an exposed face; a strip of thermally softenable synthetic-resin material deposited along a longitudinal edge of said web and bonded to said face. said strip being in a solid non-tacky state at room temperature; and an adhesive coated onto the underside of said base at least in the region of said strip and thermally activatable concurrently with said thermal softening of said strip to increase the adhesive bond of said covering to surfaces of a stair upon the softening of said strip to conform to a stair edge.

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