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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7765654 | Carpet tile manufacturing process A method of producing a decorative carpet tile may include providing a carpet tile in accordance with the prior art techniques and then treating the carpet tile in one of various manners to provide a separation internal to side edges of the carpet tile. The treatmen... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7258051 | Arrangement for cutting an optical fibre An arrangement for cutting an optical fibre comprises a fibre cutter for cutting the fibre. A motor is provided to operate the cutter. To start a cutting movement, the motor is controlled by a control unit in response to a start signal. The start signal is generated... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7240408 | Selectivity altering a fiber height in a pile fabric and apparatus A region of a pile fabric is impacted with a laser at spaced illuminated areas in a dithered image, wherein the laser energy and duration of impact in the illuminated areas are selected to shorten the fibers within the illuminated area. The spacing of the illuminate... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7146693 | Tip shearing pattern in carpet An embossed surface is positioned opposite a pile fabric from a tip shearing apparatus. As the blades of the tip shearing apparatus contact the carpet, the embossed surface selectively elevates selected portions of carpet relative to unselected portions so that a de... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7054708 | Sheet material cutting system and methods regarding same A system and/or method for cutting designs of text and/or shapes out of sheet material, such as paper, vellum, and other materials used in, for example, the scrapbooking and card making industries. ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6722000 | Tip shearing carpet with moisture control A moisture applicator is positioned to apply moisture to a pile fabric prior to the blades of a tip shearing cutter contacting the carpet so that moisture may be selectively applied for one of a number of purposes such as, but not excluding, creating a pattern, and/... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6640680 | Apparatus and methods for sculpting carpet Apparatus and methods for cutting carpet pile are disclosed as including a clipper having a driver, a reciprocating blade and a fixed blade. The fixed blade and the reciprocating blade define an area there between. The fixed blade has a bore passing throu... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6505388 | Apparatus and methods for carving and separating carpet A design is formed in a carpet secured to a table with a carriage controlled and moved over the table by a computer. A carver is mounted to the carriage and is computer-controlled to carve a design into the secured carpet. Also, a separator is mounted to ... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6490771 | Velvet-like jacquard fabrics and processes for making the same Fabrics and methods of making such fabrics whereby no evident pile structure is present in raised pattern areas on the face of the fabric. The construction of the fabric is nonetheless such that the yarns forming the raised pattern areas are more suscepti... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6430787 | Apparatus and method for carving and separating carpet A design is formed in a carpet secured to a table with a carriage controlled and moved over the table by a computer. A carver is mounted to the carriage and is computer-controlled to carve a design into the secured carpet. Also, a separator is mounted to ... | 08/13/2002 |
| 6035749 | Patterned shearing of pile fabrics A method and apparatus by which selected pile across the face of a web of pile fabric such as carpet may be raised or lowered in accordance with a pattern as the fabric passes through shearing apparatus so that certain pile of the pile may be sheared more... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5679438 | Fabrics with a new wrinkle and a stitch A process of decorating fabric includes the step of imparting wrinkles to the fabric oblique to the warp and weft directions and heat setting the wrinkles into the fabric. The wrinkle imparting step may include moving the fabric longitudinally and simulta... | 10/21/1997 |
| 5427723 | Intermittent, machine-direction fluff contouring method A distinctive method for contouring a fibrous web includes the steps of (a) providing a fibrous web which defines an interconnected series of appointed article segments along a length dimension of said web, and (b) conveying said web at a selected speed a... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5288220 | Intermittent, machine-direction fluff contouring roll A distinctive apparatus for contouring a fibrous web includes a supplying mechanism for providing a fibrous web which defines an interconnected series of appointed article segments along a length dimension of the web. A conveying mechanism moves the web a... | 02/22/1994 |
| 5165151 | Shearing apparatus This invention provides a shearing apparatus for shearing, between a spiral cutter and a lower blade, tip ends of numerous piles formed on a foundation of a pile fabic. The shearing apparatus has a construction for producing fine design patterns, and comp... | 11/24/1992 |
| 4793033 | Method and apparatus for cutting carpet designs A method and apparatus is disclosed for cutting a sculptured pattern in carpet pile. The apparatus has a carpet clipping head carried by a carriage means that can move the clipping head horizontally, vertically and rotationally. Instructions from memory a... | 12/27/1988 |
| 4711004 | Apparatus for shearing a moving web of material The cutting apparatus for cutting a moving strip of material comprises a rotating cutting cylinder having a spatially fixed nap height determining plate provided with a plurality of holes which contacts a part of the active outer circumference of the cutt... | 12/08/1987 |
| 4381586 | Width control and alignment means for continuous extensible web A control system is provided for maintaining a constant predetermined transverse width in a continuous elastic or extensible web while the web is traveling longitudinally and while simultaneously transversely aligning the longitudinally moving web in regi... | 05/03/1983 |
| 4282635 | Pile fabric sculpturing apparatus An improved sculpturing apparatus having an asymmetric blade, improved fabric support means and an improved screen for applying stiffening agent is disclosed. The apparatus allows the fabric support structure to be adjusted to the curvature of the cutting... | 08/11/1981 |
| 4236286 | Manufacture of knitted synthetic fur fabric Process technology is provided for making a synthetic fur piece from a sliver knit, high pile, differentially transversely knitted, longitudinally patterned, unstabilized starting fabric having a pile containing heat shrinkable fibers. The process involve... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4222158 | Pile fabric sculpturing apparatus An improved sculpturing apparatus having an asymmetric blade, improved fabric support means and an improved screen for applying stiffening agent is disclosed.... | 09/16/1980 |
| 4218810 | Pile fabric sculpturing apparatus An improved sculpturing apparatus having an asymmetric blade, improved fabric support means and an improved screen for applying stiffening agent is disclosed.... | 08/26/1980 |
| 4174555 | Blade for sculpturing pile fabric An improved sculpturing apparatus having an asymmetric blade, improved fabric support means and an improved screen for applying stiffening agent is disclosed.... | 11/20/1979 |
| 4112560 | Method for sculpturing pile fabrics The pile is trimmed from selected regions of pile fabrics by applying stiffening agent to the regions from which the pile is to be trimmed, this stiffening agent is then hardened and the fibers thereof are then severed from the regions to which stiffening... | 09/12/1978 |
| 4102023 | Contour shear device for pile fabrics A contour shear rest is disclosed for use in a plane shearing machine to simulate, in a three dimensional deep-pile fabric, the effect obtained by sewing together small animal pelts such as mink. The shear rest has a contour surface made up of elements fo... | 07/25/1978 |
| 4085700 | Apparatus for sculpturing pile fabrics A device for sculpturing pile fabrics which have been treated by stiffening the fibers thereof in selected regions. The device includes means for advancing the fabric, a support and a blade which severs the stiffened fibers as they pass over the support b... | 04/25/1978 |
