Polyester carpet tile or carpet strip and method for manufacturing a polyester carpet tile or carpet strip
AssigneeDe Poortere Deco SA
InventorBert Schollier
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a carpet tile or carpet strip which is suitable for the contract market, more particularly office or commercial buildings, comprising a machine or mechanically woven carpet, comprising warp and weft yarns, a needle felt, an intermediate layer between the needle felt and the machine or mechanically woven fabric, wherein a part of the warp yarns on the back side of the machine or mechanically woven fabric have at least partially fused together. The invention also relates to a method for the manufacture of a carpet tile or carpet strip which is suitable for the contract market, in particular office and commercial buildings.
Claims15
A carpet tile or carpet strip suitable for the contract market, particularly office or commercial buildings, comprising
- a mechanically woven fabric, comprising a front side as a use surface and a back side, comprising warp and weft yarns of substantially 100% thermoplastic flame retardant polyester (PES),
- a needle felt of essentially 100% thermoplastic flame retardant polyester (PES),
- an intermediate layer between the needle felt and the mechanically woven fabric,
- wherein some of the warp threads on the back side of the mechanically woven fabric have at least partially fused to each other.
A method of manufacturing a carpet tile or carpet strip suitable for the contract market, particularly office or commercial buildings, comprising:
- the mechanical weaving of a fabric, comprising a front side as a use surface and a back side, comprising warp and weft yarns of substantially 100% thermoplastic flame retardant polyester (PES),
- the manufacture of a needle felt of essentially 100% thermoplastic flame retardant polyester (PES),
- the lamination of the needle felt to the fabric with an intermediate layer,
- the cutting of carpet tiles or carpet strips,
- wherein the method comprises the further step prior to lamination of directing the backside of the fabric along a heated surface to at least partially melt some of the warp threads at the backside of the mechanically woven fabric together.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.