Woven carpet

Fig. 22.5. A chain-folded polymer crystal. The structure is like that of a badly woven carpet. The unit cell shown below, is relatively simple and is much smaller than the polymer chain.

Polyamides are used for flooring (woven carpets and rugs) and furniture fittings. 

Mixtures of emulsion copolymers comprising acrylonitrile, butadiene, styrene, and acrylic or methacrylic acid low density foams for non-wovens, carpets, fleece or cardboard Matner et al., 1977... 

In addition to the common applications of PVC in flooring and floor tiles, there are also applications of PU (coatings for flooring), polyamide (PA) (woven carpets and rugs), linoleum (manufactured by oxidising linseed oil mixed with pine resin and wood flour in the form of sheets on jute backing), wood/thermoset composites (thermosets like PE, UF, polyisocyanates used as veneers, in plywood, particleboard, fibreboard, laminates), wood fibre/thermoplastic composites (for industrial flooring with PE). 

Heavier-denier BCF yarns are generally spun for tufted or woven carpeting. Typical processes for producing BCF yarns consist of means for drawing the yam coupled with a stream or hot-air jet-texturing device for imparting bulk. The bulked yarn is removed from the jet-crimping device and wound onto a disposable tube. There are many variations of the BCF process. 

Axminster carpet n. A machine-woven carpet in which successive weft-wise rows of pile are inserted during weaving according to a predetermined arrangement of colors. There are four main types of Axminster looms Spool, Gripper, Gripper-Spool, and Chenille. Complete Textile Glossary. Celanese Corporation, Three Park Avenue, New York, NY. 

Chain binders n. Yarns running in the warp direction on the back of a woven carpet, which hold construction yarns together. 

Cut pile A pile surface obtained by cutting the loops of yarn in a tufted or woven carpet... 

Velvet carpet n. A woven carpet in which the pile ends are lifted over wires that are inserted in the same maimer as the filling and that cut the pile as they are withdrawn. 

Wilton carpet Woven carpet in which the pile yarns are woven in as an integral part of the carpet, being held in place by the filling, usually made on a loom with a Jacquard head. 

Polymer dispersions increase the tuft anchorage in woven carpets, without distracting from easy lay in tufted carpet emulsions act as anchor coats for backing compounds, and in reinforcing and primary binders in backing... 

Fibres Artificial sport surfaces, monofilaments for rope and cordage, stretched tapes, woven carpet backing, packaging sacks and tarpaulins, staple fibres, coarse fibres, filament yarns, fine fibres... 

Axminster Carpet n A machine-woven carpet in which successive weft-wise rows of pile are inserted during... 

By far the most important end uses of PO fibers at the moment are for carpets and floor coverings. The high growth in the consumption of PP fibers, mainly in the production of floor coverings (tufted, needlepunched, and woven carpets), has occurred partly because almost simultaneously with the production of PP fibers, the needling technique was found to be ideal for the production of carpets and floor coverings in which properties such as volume stability, low density and moisture absorption, resistance to abrasion and soiling, and a luster similar to wool are of prime importance. 

Similar to woven carpets, knitted carpets can also be distinguished as either flat or pile types. Flat carpets are produced on knitting machines and have no pile-producing thread system. However, pile carpets consist of a ground knit fabric and a pile-both produced simultaneously. Piles are one or more thread systems or fiber bands on top of the carpet. They are bound to the ground layer. Either the pile thread is bound in the ground or it is formed to a stitch in the ground. 

Chemical fibers for carpet production can be directly spin colored during production. Wool is colored with large amounts of a color in the flake or in the strand. Colored yarns are used for patterned woven carpets. 

Year Tufted carpet Woven carpet Total... 

In 1999 [2], the US carpet industry produced an estimated 1.6 bilhon square meters of carpet floor coverings, with a value of 11.7 billion. This represents 45 % of the total world carpet production. The state of Georgia accounts for 74 % of US production nearly all of which is concentrated in the northwest corner of the state around the dty of Dalton [7]. As shown in Tab. 9-2, tufted carpet is by far the largest carpet type produced with approximately 90 % of the total carpet volume, with broadloom carpet representing around 90 % of the tufted volume. Second largest are the carpets grouped under others (knitted, knotted, needlepunched, etc.) with around 8 % of the total. Woven carpet has almost disappeared and today only represents around 2 % of the total carpet manufactured. 

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