Carpet web having patterned adhesive segments on the backing thereof and method of manufacture of the same
AssigneeWorld Carpets, Inc.
InventorCharles I. Howell
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Abstract
A flexible carpet web having a plurality of spaced apart pressure sensitive adhesive segments disposed in a patterned relationship on the backing thereof, and in which the same are preferably patterned according to certain given parameters involving the relation of the total area of the adhesive segments to the weight and/or the area of the carpet web, the spacing between adhesive segment centers as related to the area of the adhesive segments, and/or the spacing apart of the adhesive segments in relation to the configuration thereof; and a method of manufacture of a carpet web having adhesive segments applied to the backing thereof for facile installation thereof.
Claims29
A flexible carpet web having a plurality of spaced apart pressure sensitive adhesive segments disposed in a patterned relationship on the backing thereof, the spacing between said centers of said adhesive segments being a function of the area of said adhesive segments, in relation to the area and weight of said carpet web, and said adhesive segments being spaced and configured for providing substantially uniform tensile adhesiveness longitudinally and transversely throughout said carpet web.
The method of carpet manufacture on a commercial scale of full width carpet web which comprises the patterned placement of a plurality of spaced apart pressure sensitive segments on the backing of a flexible full width carpet with the spacing between the centers of the adhesive segments being a function of the area of the adhesive segments, in relation to the area and weight of the carpet web, the configuration thereof being such as to provide substantially uniform tensile adhesiveness longitudinally and transversely throughout said carpet web, and in juxtaposition to adhere to the surface over which the carpet web is to be applied.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.