Pile fabrics and systems and methods for forming pile fabrics
AssigneeProGlobal Products LLC
InventorsBarclay PAYNE, Forrest JAQUITH
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Abstract
An example method for forming a pile fabric includes: providing a primary backing material (configured as a sheet), a layer of thermoplastic material (disposed at the back side of the primary backing material), and a plurality of pile tufts extending through the primary backing material and at least partially into the layer of thermoplastic material with back stitch portions of the pile tufts being disposed at the back side of the primary backing material; and heating only the back of the pile fabric to melt the back stitch portions of the pile tufts and the layer of thermoplastic material to form a melt bond disposed at the back side of the primary backing material to secure the pile tufts to the primary backing material.
Claims20
A method for forming a pile fabric, the pile fabric having a front and a back, the method comprising:
- providing a primary backing material, a layer of thermoplastic material, and a plurality of pile tufts, the primary backing material being configured as a sheet having a front side oriented at the front of the pile fabric and an opposing back side oriented at the back of the pile fabric, the layer of thermoplastic material being disposed at the back side of the primary backing material, each of the plurality of pile tufts extending through the primary backing material and at least partially into the layer of thermoplastic material with back stitch portions of the pile tufts being disposed at the back side of the primary backing material;
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- heating only the back of the pile fabric to melt the back stitch portions of the pile tufts and the layer of thermoplastic material to form a melt bond disposed at the back side of the primary backing material to secure the pile tufts to the primary backing material.
A pile fabric comprising:
- a front and a back;
- a primary backing material configured as a sheet having a front side oriented at the front of the pile fabric and a back side oriented at the back of the pile fabric;
- a layer of thermoplastic material disposed at the back side of the primary backing material;
- a plurality of pile tufts, each of the plurality of pile tufts extending through the primary backing material and at least partially into the layer of thermoplastic material with back stitch portions of the pile tufts being disposed at the back side of the primary backing material;
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- a melt bond, disposed only at the back side of the primary backing material, formed of melted material of the back stitch portions of the pile tufts and melted material of the layer of thermoplastic material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.