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5804273 Floor covering with carpet over carpet and hook and loop fasteners  
New wall to wall carpeting is applied directly over worn broadloom or tile wall to wall carpeting having a backing secured to a hard floor surface (e.g. directly attached, such as by adhesive, to...
5800898 Tufted carpet and process for preparing same  
A tufted carpet comprises consecutively a primary backing, stitched with loops of yarn to form a tufted structure projecting outwardly from the primary backing, a polyolefin locking layer, a...
5786060 Female member for face fastener and method of producing the same  
The invention provides a female member for a face fastener. The female member has loops formed on a first surface of a web. The web has a heat-melt-adhering composite fiber body and is densely...
5766722 Automotive floor covering  
A floor covering for automotive vehicles includes a first surface area layer formed of tuft carpeting or other high quality, esthetically pleasing floor covering material and a second surface area...
5763040 Rug and carpet underlays substantially impervious to liquids  
A carpet underlay comprising a fibrous nonwoven substrate composed of natural or synthetic fibers having in or on it a repellent finish which makes said substrate substantially imprevious to...
5763039 Protective carpet system  
An elevated carpet system and method of applying the carpet system to a surface to protect the underlying surface from damaging exposure to water, salt and moisture. The carpet system includes a...
5759662 Facing fabric for reusable incontinent products  
A facing fabric (10) for a reusable incontinent product (40) having a pair of multi-filament ground yarn sets (14, 16) interknitted together with a warp knit third set of yarns (18) which define...
5756180 Flocked fabric suitable as outerwear  
A fabric used as outerwear having a stabilized substrate, an adhesive and flock adhered to the substrate with the adhesive. The adhesive is dried and cured, preferably aerated. A waterproof film...
5753336 Reversible underlay for rugs  
A reversible underlay device for positioning between a rug and an underlying flooring surface to inhibit movement of the rug relative to the underlying flooring surface. In a preferred embodiment,...
5744209 Scented mat product and method for making the mat product  
A low cost, high quality, durable mat product having a fragrance or scent incorporated in the backing material so that the scent is evenly dispersed throughout the environment of the mat for an...
5735990 Process for production of carpets backsized with an ethylene/vinyl acetate backing composition  
Disclosed is a process for producing a carpet backsized with a backing composition. The composition contains a resin component with ethylene/vinyl acetate being the principle compound and an...
5725926 Car floor mat  
A car floor mat has a dustproof side and a waterproof side. The dustproof side is provided with a carpet body detachably secured to the dustproof side. The carpet body is provided in the underside...
5725705 Dust-control mat having excellent dimensional stability and method of producing the same  
A dust-control mat having excellent dimensional stability during the processing, good pile-erecting property and excellent pattern expression, and a method of producing the same. The dust-control...
5723194 Polyurethane layers with higher surface energy  
The present invention relates to polyurethane layers having higher surface energy. These polyurethane layers are formed on a substrate from a reactive mixture, and comprised of A) a compound...
5723195 Carpet and underpad attachment system  
This invention relates to a method of installing wall to wall carpeting of a selected width over an underpad of a selected thickness by attaching hooked tapes of a thickness substantially equal to...
5721035 Foam structure  
The present invention is based upon the discovery that composite open-cell foam structures, such as carpet underlay cushions, having improved compression resistance and better wear characteristics...
5716689 Hollow fiber membrane carpet manufacturing method and an elementary carpet member and carpet  
A method of manufacturing a hollow fiber membrane carpet includes the steps of laying out a multiplicity of hollow fibers, forming a pair of strips of non-permeable adhesive material on the hollow...
5707707 Compressively resilient loop structure for hook and loop fastener systems  
The present invention relates to an improved loop portion of a hook and loop fastening system. The loop portion is a two-layer composite including a compressively resilient backing material and a...
5707906 Needled non-woven fabric  
Method to produce a nonwoven needled fabric in which the needled fabric includes 15-30% of low melt nylon 6 and nylon 12 fusible fibers to aid in holding the nonwoven fabric together when passed...
5702796 Modified multiphase bitumen composition and floor covering  
A floor covering having a bitumen composition as a backing layer, such as carpet tiles, which bitumen composition comprises straight run bitumen and a mixture of high density and low density...
5683780 Modular carpet tile mat construction and process of making same  
This invention relates to a novel modular carpet tile mat construction and a process of making same. More particularly, the invention relates to a novel modular carpet tile mat construction which...
5677027 Sound insulating structure  
The disclosure relates to a sound insulating structure formed on an automobile floor panel on which at least one of a vibration and a sound is incident. This structure includes a covering layer for...
5674585 Composite thermal insulation structure  
A composite thermal insulation structure particularly suited for gas turbine engine applications is disclosed. An aspect of the present invention includes a composite thermal insulation structure...
5660911 Tufted carpet and process for producing the same  
A tufted carpet is described in which the tufting yarns (2) are tufted into a tufting backing (1) and firmly joined to it. The back side (1a) of the tufted carpet (1) has a layer (5) comprising...
5660906 Floor coverings  
A floor covering comprises a plurality of tread strips of substantially resilient material, each tread strip having a wear layer of a material which provides a fibrous tread surface, and a...
5660910 Increased tear strength nonwoven fabric and process for its manufacture  
A spun-bonded nonwoven composite web has randomly laid continuous matrix filaments (average linear density per filament less than 25 denier) and one or more continuous reinforcement filament...
5658637 Floor mat  
The present invention relates to slip-resistant machine washable floor mats particularly suitable for use in motor vehicles. The floor mats have an upper carpet fabric layer attached with adhesive...
5658430 Carpet over carpet installation adhesive  
New wall to wall carpeting is applied directly over worn broadloom or tile wall to wall carpeting having a backing secured to a hard floor surface (e.g. directly attached, such as by adhesive, to...
5656109 Method of making inlaid floor coverings  
A method of making a floor covering having decorative inlays therein is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of cutting and removing portions of the floor covering, providing inlays from...
5654067 Formable, heat-stabilizable textile loop pile material  
Described is a loop pile material composed of a textile backing composed of a knit or woven and bound-in loop-forming pile yarns, wherein the textile backing consists of a multifilament hybrid...
5646195 Catalyst for polyurethane carpet backings and carpets prepared therewith  
Polyurethane foam backed textiles, particularly polyurethane backed carpets can be prepared using a formulation including a dialkyltin sulfide catalyst. Use of the dialkyltin sulfide catalyst...
5645914 Anti-fatigue mat  
A mat adapted to relieve fatigue in a person standing on it without shoes or boots, and formed from fine cell foam having a density of between 1.5 and 2.5 pounds per cubic foot, with thickness...
5639532 Multilayer cleansing kit and towel system  
A cleansing kit composed of a plurality of layers of absorbent layers or tissues laminated together with an inner one of said absorbent layers being impregnated with a cleaning or other solution...
5637389 Thermally enhanced foam insulation  
A thermal barrier in the form of a base material with a plurality of microcapsules containing a phase change material forms an insulative pad, such as a shoe insole. The microcapsules are...
5634997 Elastic tufted fabric and process therefor  
A tufted pile nonwoven fabric with an elastomeric backing has an elastic stretch of at least 10% and is particularly suited for floor coverings, upholstery, seat covers, etc. A stitchbonded fabric...
5630896 Method of making recyclable tufted carpets  
A recyclable thermoplastic tufted fabric made of a partially meltable primary backing and tufts tufted into the primary backing. The tufts are bonded to the backing by partially melting the backing...
5630856 Self-supporting filter composite  
A filter composite comprising a first layer of glass fibers having random orientation, the layer being porous to gas flow therethrough; a porous mat of sufficient stiffness as to support the glass...
5626933 Modular floor cover  
A modular floor cover for a garage floor, made of a plurality of strips of impermeable ribbed matting. The strips are laterally joined to one-another by elongated moldings. A first series of...
5626938 Flame-retardant polyamide fiber  
A method for producing halogen-free, antimony-free and phosphorous-free polyamide fibers is described by incorporating an additive into the polyamide which comprises a vulcanizable mixture of...
5626939 Synthetic wood from waste fibrous waste products  
A composition of matter and a process for the preparation thereof is disclosed for a fibrous composite (e.g., synthetic wood). The fibrous composite contains 50 to 95% by weight carpet and 5 to 50%...
5624729 Increased pile density composite elastic material  
Disclosed is a lanate composite elastic material made by a method including the steps of applying a tensioning force to elongate at least one pressure sensitive elastomer adhesive sheet; inserting...
5618605 Flame-retardant polyamide carpets  
A method for producing halogen-free, antimony-free and phorphorous-free polyamide fibers is described by incorporating an additive into the polyamide which comprises a vulcanizable mixture of...
5612113 Carpet with fluid barrier  
A carpet including yarn pile extending from the face of a primary backing and a secondary backing bonded to the back of the primary backing has a thin film of liquid impervious thermoplastic...
5605729 Loop fastener material storage/dispensing assembly  
A storage/dispensing assembly, e.g., a roll or stack, of loop fastener material such as is used in hook and loop fastening system comprising one or more multilayer sheets of loop fastener material...
5605108 Method of forming a variable density motor vehicle carpet  
The invention is directed to a method of tufting and molding a carpet module which is sized and shaped to fit the interior of a motor vehicle to form its floor carpeting. The method includes...
5604009 Non-adhesive bonded tufted carpet and method for making the same  
A non-wet processed tufted carpet (10) includes a plurality of face yarns (12), dyeable to the desired carpet color prior to tufting, which are tufted into and through a primary backing fabric (14)...
5604007 Method for producing polyamide carpet fibers with improved flame retardancy  
A method for producing halogen-free, antimony-free and phosphorous-free polyamide fibers is described by incorporating an additive into the polyamide which comprises a vulcanizable mixture of...
5601886 Artificial turf  
An artificial turf of the invention is disclosed in which tufts of artificial grass filaments are implanted on a backing structure to form a pile surface, and tufts of assist filaments, which are...
5597637 Elastomeric backing for flock transfer  
A stretchable hot melt is applied to a transfer so that the transfer may stretch when it is applied to a stretchable substrate without cracking or splitting. The hot melt is made from an extrusion...
5587218 Surface covering  
An improved surface covering includes a base having a plurality of receiving grooves on one side and a plurality of working grooves on the other side. Each receiving groove includes gripping...