Patent · US Expired

Tuft backing

US5866229A · kind A · utility

8Cited by

8References

6Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Firma Carl Freudenburg · DE

Inventors

Rudolf Gartner · Birkenau, DE
Bernhard Klein · Bear River, US
Ararad Emirze · Kaiserslautern, DE
Christoph Josefiak · Rimbach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Mar 12, 1997
Grant date	Feb 2, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Mar 12, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY10T442/494
WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A textile composite material is used as tuft backing for tufted carpets, the composite material having at least one nonwoven fabric on which exclusively parallel-running, straight, load-absorbing, plastic, continuous filaments are rascheled, and a thin binding yarn serving as a knitting chain fixing the continuous filaments in position.

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