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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2004
Filed:
Jun. 02, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Gregory Paul Weeks, Hockessin, DE (US);
Paul Felix Pustolski, Newark, DE (US);
Assignee:
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company, Wilmington, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D04H 1/100 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
D04H 1/100 ;
Abstract
A pile article having a support strand for attachment to multifilament yarn to form a velour-like pile having loosely entangled filaments in spaced apart monolithic pile rows, a helically wound package of oriented pile articles for shipping and storage, and a pile surface structure comprising pile articles arranged in spaced apart rows on a substrate to form a pile surface that may be flat or moldable, and a method for making a pile surface structure by embedding the pile articles into the backing substrate. The pile surface structures may be usefully employed in automobile mats, carpets and panels.