Carpet products and methods of making same
AssigneeColumbia Insurance Company
InventorTom Odum
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Abstract
A carpet product including a primary backing layer and a plurality of yarn tufts. The plurality of yarn tufts are tufted in and extend upwardly from a top surface of the primary backing layer to form a tufted carpet product. The carpet product has an inner portion and a peripheral portion surrounding at least a portion of the inner portion and extending along at least one of the edges of the primary backing layer. The plurality of yarn tufts include a plurality of peripheral yarn tufts positioned within the peripheral portion of the tufted carpet product. A portion of the peripheral yarn tufts are anchored to other peripheral yarn tufts. At least a portion of each anchored peripheral yarn tuft is entangled with one or more of the other peripheral yarn tufts.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- displacing a first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts of a tufted carpet product in an inward direction away from a periphery of the tufted carpet product to entangle, without heat fusion, a second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts of the tufted carpet product that are positioned inwardly of the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts, each of the first and second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts being tufted in and extending upwardly from a top surface of a primary backing layer of the tufted carpet product,
- wherein entanglement of the yarn tufts of the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts with the second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts anchors the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts to the second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts,
- wherein the yarn tufts of the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts and the second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts are mechanically secured to one another without being chemically adhered to one another, and
- wherein displacing the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts of the tufted carpet product in the inward direction to entangle the second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts of the tufted carpet product comprises reciprocally moving a needle into the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts in the inward direction and outwardly from the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts in an opposed outward direction.
A method comprising:
- displacing a first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts of a tufted carpet product in an inward direction away from a periphery of the tufted carpet product to entangle a second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts of the tufted carpet product that are positioned inwardly of the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts, each of the first and second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts being tufted in and extending upwardly from a top surface of a primary backing layer of the tufted carpet product,
- wherein entanglement of the yarn tufts of the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts with the second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts anchors the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts to the second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts,
- wherein the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts are displaced using at least one needle that is inserted into the first peripheral yarn tufts in the inward direction.
A method comprising:
- displacing a first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts of a tufted carpet product in an inward direction so that each yarn tuft of the first plurality of yarn tufts entangles, without heat fusion, at least one other tuft of the tufted carpet product in order to anchor the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts in a desired orientation relative to the primary backing layer,
- wherein each yarn tuft of the tufted carpet product is tufted in and extends upwardly from a top surface of a primary backing layer of the tufted carpet product,
- wherein the yarn tufts of the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts and the second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts are mechanically secured to one another without being chemically adhered to one another, and
- wherein displacing the first plurality of peripheral yarn tufts of the tufted carpet product in the inward direction to entangle the second plurality of peripheral yarn tufts of the tufted carpet product comprises moving a needle in the inward direction across an edge of the primary backing layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.