Methods and systems for recycling carpet and carpets manufactured from recycled material
AssigneeColumbia Insurance Company
InventorsJeffrey Wright, Kellie Ballew
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Abstract
The present invention pertains to carpet and methods of making and recycling carpet. In one aspect, the carpet includes: a primary backing which has a face and a back surface; a plurality of fibers attached to the primary backing and extending from the face of the primary backing and exposed at the back surface of the primary backing; an adhesive composition backing; and an optional secondary backing adjacent to the adhesive backing. The method of making carpet includes extrusion coating the adhesive composition onto the back surface of a primary backing to form the adhesive composition backing. The method of recycling carpet can recover one or more polymeric carpet components.
Claims20
A method for reclaiming a polymer from a carpet comprising the steps of:
- contacting a carpet comprising a terpene soluble polymer composition with a solvent system comprising a terpene;
- dissolving at least a portion of the polymer composition in the solvent system to provide a solution of terpene and dissolved polymer;
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- separating the terpene from the solution of terpene and dissolved polymer to provide a reclaimed polymer composition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.