Aladdin Manufacturing Corporation

Anthony Cascio

Lucinda Jones

James Mason

Daniel Amos

Nathaniel Cavic

Christopher M Lonvick

Melissa North

Mack Brindle

Christina Maria Hooker

Dennes Ozuna

Harlan Morris

Wayne Beason

Prior art teaches to apply strands of a hot melt adhesive on a primary backing of a textile product, such as a carpet or carpet tile, before adhering a secondary backing. In some cases, all portions of the strands may not contribute to the adhesion strength. Adjusting the viscosity of the hot melt adhesive may make the strands less flexible as they lay across the irregular features of the backstitching of a primary backing so they provide greater adhesion to the secondary backing. Alternatively, applying the hot melt adhesive to the secondary backing will also be used to create sufficient adhesion. Preferentially, using an air knife to prevent the strands from forming and/or to press the hot melt adhesive into the primary backing may also be used to create sufficient adhesion. These methods provide greater adhesion between the primary and secondary backings with less hot melt adhesive.

Binding strength improvement in laminated carpet tiles

Systems and methods for producing BCF yarns include providing at least one color enhancement method for enhancing the color and/or hue of at least one of the N bundles of filaments. The color enhancement methods include tacking one or more of the bundles of spun filaments prior to and/or during drawing, texturizing one or more bundles of spun filaments individually from the other bundles of spun filaments, providing intermediate tacking of at least one bundle of texturized filaments and feeding the tacked and texturized filaments to a mixing cam for positioning tacked and texturized bundles relative one to the other before reaching the final tacking device, or combinations thereof.

Systems and methods to provide color enhanced yarns

Systems for producing M yarns, wherein M≥1, include N extruders, M spin stations, and a processor, wherein N>1. Each extruder includes a thermoplastic polymer having a color, hue, and/or dyability characteristic, which are different from each other. Each spin station produces one yarn comprising at least one bundle of filaments. Each spin station comprises at least one spinneret through which filaments are spun from at least two molten thermoplastic polymer streams received by the respective spin station and N spin pumps upstream of the spinneret for the respective spin station. Each spin pump is paired with one of the N extruders. The processor is in electrical communication with the N*M spin pumps and is configured to adjust the volumetric flow rate of the polymers pumped from each spin pump to achieve a ratio of the polymers to be included in each M yarn.

Systems and methods for producing a bundle of filaments and/or a yarn

A method for providing a multifilament bundle of melt spun polymer filaments that includes providing a spinning device including at least M extruders for melting M polymers, M groups of spinning stations, each group comprising N spinning stations, each spinning station comprising a spin pack coupled to a spin pump which receives molten polymer from one of the M extruders and spins a strand of filaments by pushing said polymer through the coupled spin pack, and N transformation stations for bundling M strands of filaments. The method further includes spinning N*M strands of filaments from the spinning stations at a given spin pump output and bundling the strands into N multifilament bundles via the N transformation stations whereby the spin pump outputs are varied over time.

Method to provide multifilament bundles of melt spun polymer filaments

Undesirable materials that are frequently discarded from recycling desirable polymer-containing materials may be processed and used in the production of soft surfaces to produce soft surfaces with improved properties.

Latex additive from recycled plastic

Systems for producing M bundles of filaments, wherein M≥1, include N extruders, M spin stations, and a processor, wherein N>1. Each extruder includes a thermoplastic polymer having a color, hue, and/or dyability characteristic, which are different from each other. Each spin station produces N bundles of filaments that form a yarn. Each spin station comprises N spinnerets through which filaments are spun from molten polymers streams received by the respective spin station and N spin pumps upstream of the N spinnerets for the respective spin station. Each spin pump is paired with one of the N extruders. The processor is in electrical communication with the N*M spin pumps and is configured to adjust the volumetric flow rate of the polymers pumped from each spin pump to achieve a ratio of the polymers to be included in the yarn from each spin station.

Soft surface articles may be treated during manufacture with treatment articles loaded with treatment chemicals while drying the soft surface articles. This eliminates a step of adding the treatment chemicals to a water bath containing the treatment chemicals. Eliminating this step reduces the amount of water used in the manufacture of the soft surface articles and also removes the requirement of having to process a vat of waste water.

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Calhoun, GA, United States of America

Anthony Cascio