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US 6,586,053 B2Granted
Carpet tile renewal process and products
AssigneeMilliken & Company
InventorsRobert S. Brown, Kenneth B. Higgins
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Abstract
Refurbishing and/or renewing cut or loop pile carpet products including carpet tiles by passing the product under a high pressure water or liquid dispensing head projecting a stream of water against the subject product at a pressure in the range of 100-2000 p.s.i.g. Improvements to such methods include adding a polymer backing layer to the tile, pre-bulking the face yarns, and/or chemically treating the face yarns.
Claims13
A method to refurbish cut or loop pile carpet products comprising the steps of:
- providing a source of high pressure cleaning liquid, supplying a pile product to be cleaned under the source of cleaning liquid, projecting a stream of cleaning liquid against the pile product to clean dirt from the product, drying the product after cleaning thereof, and applying a back coating to the back of the cleaned product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.