John H Gee

US Patent:

41400712, Feb 20, 1979

Filed:

Aug 9, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/823097

Inventors:

John R. Gee - Newark DE
Ray M. Harlin - Hixson TN

Assignee:

E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company - Wilmington DE

International Classification:

D05C 300

US Classification:

112266

Abstract:

There is disclosed a process for preparing a tufted carpet consisting essentially of feeding simultaneously into a tufting machine a woven or bonded nonwoven sheet of continuous polypropylene filaments and a dyeable, bonded, nonwoven sheet of continuous synthetic organic filaments, said sheets being fed in surface contact with each other, and tufting a pile yarn through both sheets to develop a tufted face having tufts extending above the dyeable, bonded, nonwoven sheet, said pile yarn being selected so as to be dyeable in conjunction with the dyeable, bonded, nonwoven sheet.