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US 12,509,821 B2Granted
Printed textile substrate and process for making
AssigneeMilliken & Company
InventorsRobert M. MacMeccan, Jonathan C. McCay, Tammy B. Harris, Kevin D. West, Dale S. Kitchen, Jonathan Rosen, Scott R. Parry
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Abstract
This invention relates to a printed textile substrate, such as a floorcovering article, and a process for making a printed textile substrate. This invention provides the process and steps to print color patterns in-register with physical patterns, such as varying yarn pile heights, yarn luster, yarn color, and the like. This process provides many unique aesthetics on a textile substrate that cannot be created another way.
Claims3
A process for creating a design on a textile substrate comprising the following steps:
- (a) providing a textile substrate, wherein the textile substrate contains tufted yarns having a first height, tufted yarns having a second height, and areas free from tufted yarns, wherein the first height is greater than the second height;
- (b) applying a first print design on a surface of the textile substrate in a pre-determined location, wherein the first print design is applied to the textile substrate via a digital printing apparatus, and wherein the first print design is applied to the textile substrate in only one of the following pre-determined locations on the textile substrate:
- (i) on at least a portion of the tufted yarns having a first height,
- (ii) on at least a portion of the tufted yarns having a second height,
- (iii) on a least a portion of the areas free from tufted yarns, or
- (iv) on a least a portion of the tufted yarns having a first height and a second height;
- (c) applying a second print design on the surface of the textile substrate, wherein the second print design is applied to the textile substrate via a digital printing apparatus, and wherein the second print design is applied to the textile substrate in only one of the following pre-determined locations on the textile substrate:
- (i) on at least a portion of the tufted yarns having a first height,
- (ii) on at least a portion of the tufted yarns having a second height,
- (iii) on a least a portion of the areas free from tufted yarns, or
- (iv) on a least a portion of the tufted yarns having a first height and a second height;
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- (d) applying a third print design on the surface of the textile substrate, wherein the third print design is applied to the textile substrate via a digital printing apparatus, and wherein the third print design is applied to the textile substrate in only one of the following pre-determined locations on the textile substrate:
- (i) on at least a portion of the tufted yarns having a first height,
- (ii) on at least a portion of the tufted yarns having a second height,
- (iii) on a least a portion of the areas free from tufted yarns, or
- on a least a portion of the tufted yarns having a first height and a second height.
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