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US 2022/0025575 A1Published application
Polyester Yarn Cushioned Rugs and Methods of Manufacturing Same
AssigneeAladdin Manufacturing Corporation
InventorsMack Brindle, Jacqueline Killings, Melissa North, Christina Maria Hooker, Alfred Scroggins
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Abstract
The invention relates to cushioned rugs comprising polyester yarn, particularly polyethylene terephthalate (PET) yarn, comprising a crystallinity-reducing modifier in the polyester yarn, such as a branched polyester modifier. The invention further relates to methods of preparing such cushioned rugs.
Claims21
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A rug, comprising
- a) a textile face fabric comprising a polyester yarn, said polyester yarn comprising polyester fibers or filaments, said fibers or filaments having an average percent crystallinity of less than about 30%, and said fibers or filaments comprising a crystallinity-reducing modifier;
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- b) a backing layer secured to the textile face fabric.
A method of manufacturing a cushioned rug, said method comprising:
- (a) providing a greige fabric comprising polyester yarn, said polyester yarn comprising polyester fibers or filaments, said fibers or filaments having a percent crystallinity of less than about 30%, and said fibers or filaments comprising a crystallinity-reducing modifier;
- (b) securing a backing layer to the greige fabric, so as to form an intermediate rug;
- (c) beck-dyeing the intermediate rug with disperse dye, so as to form a dyed rug;
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- (d) scouring the dyed rug with a caustic liquid.
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A rug, comprising
- a) a textile face fabric comprising a polyester yarn, said polyester yarn comprising polyester fibers or filaments, said fibers or filaments having an average percent crystallinity of less than about 30%, and said fibers or filaments comprising a crystallinity-reducing modifier;
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- b) a backing layer secured to the textile face fabric, wherein the polyester fibers or filaments comprise recycled PET recovered from carpet waste or plastic bottles, wherein the polyester yarn comprises bulked continuous filaments, wherein the modifier is polybutylene adipate terephthalate (PBAT) in an amount from about 0.5% to about 16% by weight, and wherein the rug is beck-dyed.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.