The present invention relates to various carpets, such as floor mats for automobiles, indoor carpets, heated carpets for an electric heater, door carpet for removing soil from shoes, or kitchen carpet. Especially, the invention relates to a carpet having a raschel fabric on the back face, the function of which is to prevent the carpet from being easily displaced.
A mat is placed on the entire floor of an automobile or a room. A small carpet may be placed on top of the mat. In the invention, “carpet” refers to the small carpet placed on top of the mat.
Previously, depending on the surface of the mat, the carpet was easily moved since the carpet was only resting on the surface of the mat. Since the coefficient of friction between the back face of the carpet and the surface of the mat was low, the carpet was easily displaced on the surface of the mat. Therefore, a specially treated raschel fabric was attached on the back face of the carpet, which prevented the carpet from being displaced by providing the carpet with a non-slip surface. For example, multiple standing loop piles were formed on the raschel fabric and provided on the back face of the carpet. In this case, the loop piles provided on the back face of the carpet engaged with the surface of the mat prevented the carpet from being displaced. The loop piles formed on the raschel fabric, which engaged with the mat, were generally inclined in the direction of the knitting, and therefore while the carpet was not displaced in the inclining direction, the carpet was easily displaced in the opposite direction of the inclining direction. Moreover, it was difficult for the loop piles to engage with the surface of the mat, because the top of each loop pile became round.
Therefore, it was necessary to heat and melt a ¼ length or more of each loop pile from the top thereof. The tops were melted and cut, thus changing the loop piles to cut piles. The molten balls were formed at the cutting ends of the cut pile. Moreover, the loop piles were pressed during the heating and melting process so that the molten balls became inclined in random directions (patent reference 1). When the cut piles having the molten balls were formed on the back face of the carpet, the carpet was prevented from being displaced on the mat because the cut piles having the molten balls engaged with the surface of the mat. Moreover, the carpet was prevented from becoming displaced in all directions since the cut piles were inclined in random directions.
In the technique described in Patent reference 1, the loop piles had to be pressed while heated and melted to incline the cut piles in random directions. Since the heat source was drawn toward the raschel fabric, there was a danger that the raschel fabric would be burned.
The invention avoids using the above referenced technique to produce the randomly inclined cut piles. According to this invention, it is possible to naturally create the randomly inclined cut piles when the tops of each loop piles are mechanically cut. The object of the present invention to form cut piles which are randomly inclined on the raschel fabric, using a simple process.
The invention relates to a carpet, the back face of which being comprised of a raschel fabric. The raschel fabric comprises wefts, which are made of inlay-yarns, and warps, each of which contains at least one chain-stitched ground yarn and at least one pile yarn. The pile yarn forms standing loop piles on specified courses, and is chain-stitched with said ground yarn, except for in said specified courses. The pile yarn comprises at least two mono-filaments which are twisted at least one time per the length of each loop pile. The each loop pile is mechanically cut near the top thereof, and is changed into cut piles. Each of the cut piles is comprised of the mono-filaments which are disjoined from each other and standing in randomly inclined directions on the raschel fabric.
In the carpet according to the invention, the raschel fabric 1 and the body 11 of the carpet may be layered together in this order from the surface. Moreover, in the carpet according to the invention, the raschel fabric 1, a layer of foamed material 12 and the body 11 of the carpet may be layered together in this order from the surface (
The raschel fabric 1 used in the present invention is a conventional raschel fabric and consists of wefts which are inlay-yarns and warps which are chain-stitched yarns. The warp 2 consists of a ground yarn 3 and a pile yarn 4. The ground yarn 3 may be made of, a conventional yarn such as a mono-filament, a multi-filament or a spun yarn etc. It may be preferable to use the mono-filament for the ground yarn because the mono-filament is also used for the pile yarn. The mono-filament may be a polyethylene mono-filament, a polypropylene mono-filament or polyamide (nylon) mono-filament etc. The fineness of the mono-filament may be 100 deniers or more, preferably about 300 deniers.
The pile yarn 4 is chain-stitched in the same manner as the ground yarn. However, the standing loop piles are formed at specified course intervals. For example, the pile yarn is chain-stitched through four courses and looped on the next course as showing in
The invention is characterized by the pile yarn 4 being composed of at least two mono-filaments. The mono-filament may be, for example, a polyethylene mono-filament, a polypropylene mono-filament or polyamide (nylon) mono-filament etc. The fineness of the mono-filament may be 100 deniers or more, preferably about 300 deniers. At least two mono-filaments are twisted, and the number of twisting is more than a designated number. The designated twisting number is more than one along the length of the loop pile. Because each mono-filament is twisted one or more times along the length of the loop pile, when cut, in near the top of the loop pile the twisting is loosened and the cut ends extend in random directions. Accordingly, the cut piles stand at inclinations in random directions. The rigidity of each mono-filament 5, 5 . . . contributes to the loosening of the twisting. Therefore, it is preferable that the fineness of each mono-filament 5, 5 . . . is thicker, that is, 100 deniers or more as above mentioned.
The inlay-yarn which is the weft in the raschel fabric according to the present invention may be a conventional yarn. It is preferable to use a spun yarn as the inlay-yarn. This is because the back face of the foamed material 12 is partially impregnated into the fibers of the spun yarn, as is the case in
The carpet of the invention may be produced, for example, by the following method. The body 11 of the carpet is adhered to the surface of the raschel fabric with an adhesive agent etc, which is opposite to the surface of the raschel fabric on which the loop piles are formed. As the result, a laminated material in which the raschel fabric 1 and the body 11 of the carpet are layered together is obtained. In the case where the body 11 of the carpet is made of nonwoven fabric, after the body 11 and the raschel fabric 1 are layered together, the fibers in the nonwoven fabric may be interlaced with the wefts and/or the warps, using a needle punching machine to thereby obtain a laminating material in which the raschel fabric 1 and the body 11 are layered together. Furthermore, after a foamable resin and the body 11 of the carpet are laminated on the surface of the raschel fabric on which the loop piles are not formed as shown in
The carpet of the invention may be used as a small carpet. The carpet may be placed on a mat which is placed on the entire floor. However, the carpet of the invention may be placed on the floor without the mat.
The invention adopts the specific pile yarn with the pile loops formed on the raschel fabric adhered to the back side of the carpet. That is, the pile yarn consists of at least two mono-filaments, and is twisted one or more times along the length of the loop pile. Accordingly, when the loop pile is mechanically cut near the top thereof, the mono-filaments twisted at least one time are loosened, and the cut ends extend in random directions. Therefore, each of the cut piles having the cutting ends extend at an inclination in a random direction. That is, by using the invention, the cut piles which extend at inclinations in random directions are obtained by cutting each of the loop piles. When the carpet is placed on the mat etc., the carpet is prevented from being displaced in all directions.
As explained above, the invention produces a carpet which is non-slip in all directions.
Numeral 1 is a raschel fabric.
Numeral 2 is a warp.
Numeral 3, 3a, 3b are ground yarns.
Numeral 4 is a pile yarn.
Numeral 5 is a mono-filament composing the pile yarn.
Two polyethylene mono-filaments, each of which was 300 deniers, were prepared as a ground yarn. One pile yarn in which two polyethylene mono-filaments were twisted at 180 times per meter was prepared. The polyethylene mono-filament was 300 deniers. An inlay-yarn of a weft which was a spun yarn was prepared. The spun yarn was yarn number count 3.5 and consisted of a mixture of polyester fibers and acrylic fibers. Using the ground yarns, the pile yarns, and the inlay-yarn, the raschel fabric consisting of warps and wefts was knitted using the knitting design as shown in
Two pile yarns in which two polyethylene mono-filaments were twisted at 180 times per meter were prepared. The polyethylene mono-filament was 300 deniers. One pile yarn was added in the knitting design as shown in
An inlay-yarn which was a polypropylene multi-filament of 2400 deniers/192 filaments was prepared. Using the inlay-yarn, the raschel fabric was obtained by using the same method as in example 1.
Polyurethane resin was applied to the back surface of the body of the carpet. Each raschel fabric of the above Examples was laminated to the layer of the polyurethane resin. The surface of the raschel fabric on which cut piles were not formed was applied with the layer of the polyurethane resin. After that, the layer of the polyurethane resin was foamed by heating, and three carpets were obtained. three carpets were obtained in each of which the body of the carpet, the layer of foamed polyurethane resin, and the raschel fabric were layered together. When each carpet was placed on the mat, the cut piles on the back surface of the carpet engage with the surface of the mat, and the mat was prevented from being displaced in all directions.
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This application is a divisional application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/570,841 filed on Dec. 4, 2006, which is a 371 application of PCT/JP2004/013204 having an international filing date of Sep. 10, 2004, which claims priority to JP2003-317772 filed on Sep. 10, 2003, the entire contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.
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