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US 5,503,096 AGranted
Process for forming a tufted pile fabric formed from spun and filament space-dyed yarn
AssigneeMilliken Research Corporation
InventorRichard C. Willey
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Abstract
The fabric of the present invention includes a pile portion comprising spun yarn tufted in alternating arrangement with bulk continuous filament yarn through a base layer. The spun yarn includes a space-dyed component and a stock-dyed component. The bulk continuous filament yarn is also space-dyed. A process and apparatus for producing the pile fabric of the present invention are also provided.
Claims2
A process for forming a pile fabric from space-dyed yarn, comprising the steps of:
- (a) forming a bulk continuous filament yarn;
- (b) space dyeing the bulk continuous filament yarn formed in step (a);
- (c) spinning singles yarn from stock dyed staple;
- (d) spinning singles yarn from undyed staple;
- (e) space-dying the singles yarn spun in step (d)
- (f) twisting a multi-ply spun yarn from singles yarn spun in step (c) and space-dyed in step (e);
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- (g) tufting the bulk continuous filament yarn space-dyed in step (b) in alternating relation with the multi-ply yarn twisted in step (f).
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