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US 5,476,563 AGranted
Process of making a door mat
AssigneeYugengaisya Towa
InventorAkira Nakata
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Abstract
A method for making a door mat comprising an integral mass of loops of synthetic resin monofilaments which includes a surface layer having a decorative pattern on its upper side and a reverse surface layer having its upper side joined to the lower side of said surface layer. The underside of the reverse surface layer may be joined to an anti-slip layer, which may be in the form of a lattice layer.
Claims4
A method of manufacturing a door mat, comprising
- extruding monofilaments from a plurality of nozzles contained in a spinning pack connected with an extruder,
- receiving in loop form a first portion of the monofilaments on a concave groove provided on a peripheral surface of a rotating molding roll to form an anti-slip layer of a doormat, the rotating molding roll being located under the spinning pack and a portion of the rotating molding roll being arranged in a cooling water tank,
- receiving in loop form a second portion of the monofilaments on the anti-slip layer and on a nongrooved portion of the peripheral surface of the rotating molding roll to form a reverse surface layer of the doormat on the anti-slip layer and on the nongrooved portion of the peripheral surface of the rotating molding roll,
- receiving in loop form a third portion of the monofilaments on the reverse surface layer arranged at the cooling water surface and at a position lower than the surface of the rotating molding roll to form a surface layer of the doormat,
- forming a decorative pattern on the surface layer of the doormat by contacting the surface layer of the doormat with a pattern forming roll arranged opposite the rotating molding roll in the cooling water tank and provided with a convection restraint cover, and
- fusing the loops at their intersections to form an integral doormat.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.