Antistatic carpet and production thereof
AssigneeToray Industries, Inc.
InventorsHideo Takase, Toyota Ishii, Shiro Nishiumi
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Abstract
Antistatic pile carpet comprising carbon fibers arranged in the backing layer along the direction of pile rows.
Claims12
An antistatic pile carpet comprising a primary backing of a base cloth, a plurality of rows of pile yarn tufted through the base cloth and a backing layer of a latex having carbon fibers dispersed therein, said carbon fibers having a diameter of from 4.mu. to 26.mu. and a length of from 0.05 mm to 30 mm and being positioned between and along the rows of pile yarn and being arranged parallel to the rows.
A method for producing antistatic pile carpet which comprises coating the back surface of a base cloth having a plurality of rows of pile yarn tufted therethrough with a liquid latex having carbon fibers dispersed therein, said fibers having a diameter of 4.mu. to 26.mu. and a length of from 0.05 mm to 30 mm, and inclining the coated base cloth in the direction of the rows of pile yarn while the liquid latex is in a fluid state to cause said carbon fibers to become arranged parallel to the rows and positioned between and along the rows.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.