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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 1989
Filed:
Sep. 16, 1987
Applicant:
Inventors:
Vernon C Smith, Huntersville, NC (US);
Ruth C Roberts, Salisbury, NC (US);
Assignee:
Collins & Aikman Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
428 95 ; 156 72 ; 428 96 ; 428 97 ;
Abstract
A pile carpet having a primary backing with pile yarns extending from the primary backing is provided with a tuft-lock coating comprising a copolymer of vinylidene chloride with at least one acrylic monomer, and having a glass transition temperature of 0.degree. C. or less. The coating imparts excellent tuft-lock properties to the carpet and also serves as a thermoplastic adhesive layer for laminating the carpet to a secondary backing.