A low-weight carpet tile and process for making the same, wherein the carpet tile comprises a facecloth having a plurality of face yarns tufted through a primary backing, an extruded polymer secondary backing layer, and a reinforcing scrim layer partially embedded within the extruded polymer secondary backing layer. The top surface and bottom surface of the carpet tile are defined by the facecloth and the reinforcing scrim layer, respectively. A polymer-based resin is extruded onto the facecloth to form an at least substantially uniform secondary backing layer, and the reinforcing scrim layer is laid onto the extruded polymer secondary backing layer while the extruded polymer secondary backing layer remains above a softening temperature for the resin. The entire multi-layer web is then passed through a nip to embed the reinforcing scrim layer into the extruded polymer secondary layer, and the entire web is chilled.

The present invention relates to a composite sheet comprising a woven fabric consisting of liquid crystal polyester fiber in which one side or both sides of the woven fabric is coated with a coating material comprising a thermoplastic resin, wherein a tensile strength of the composite sheet in a warp direction of the woven fabric is 300 N/cm or more, and wherein a ratio of a mass of the thermoplastic resin to a mass of the woven fabric is 5 to 25% by mass.

A roofing material including a bitumen or other hot melt coating disposed across a base sheet of stitch-bonded fabric incorporating a blend of standard and bi-component polyester staple fibers stitch-bonded with a plurality of parallel stitch lines of stitching yarn running in the machine direction. The bicomponent fibers may be heat activated and cooled prior to application of the hot melt coating thereby providing dimensional stability.

A low-weight carpet tile and process for making the same, wherein the carpet tile comprises a facecloth having a plurality of face yarns tufted through a primary backing, an extruded polymer secondary backing layer, and a reinforcing scrim layer partially embedded within the extruded polymer secondary backing layer. The top surface and bottom surface of the carpet tile are defined by the facecloth and the reinforcing scrim layer, respectively. A polymer-based resin is extruded onto the facecloth to form an at least substantially uniform secondary backing layer, and the reinforcing scrim layer is laid onto the extruded polymer secondary backing layer while the extruded polymer secondary backing layer remains above a softening temperature for the resin. The entire multi-layer web is then passed through a nip to embed the reinforcing scrim layer into the extruded polymer secondary layer, and the entire web is chilled.

Disclosed herein are carpets whose face fiber comprises a bicomponent fiber comprising one component of poly(ethylene terephthalate) homopolymer or poly(ethylene terephthalate) copolymer and a second component of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) polymer or a blend of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) with poly(ethylene terephthalate) homopolymer or poly(ethylene terephthalate) copolymer, wherein the bicomponent fiber is self-bulking due to differential shrinkage. Also disclosed is an improved process for making a yarn to produce a carpet whose face fiber comprises a self-bulking bicomponent fiber comprising one component of poly(ethylene terephthalate) homopolymer or poly(ethylene terephthalate) copolymer and a second component of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) or a blend of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) with poly(ethylene terephthalate) homopolymer or poly(ethylene terephthalate) copolymer.

Disclosed is an artificial leather base material including: a non-woven fabric that is an entangle body of fibers (A) and fibers (B); and an elastic polymer applied inside the non-woven fabric, wherein the fibers (A) are crimped fibers that are formed from two types of resins with intrinsic viscosities different from each other, and that are filaments of 0.6 dtex or more, and the fibers (B) are ultrafine fibers of less than 0.6 dtex.

A task is to provide a woven fabric for airbags for protecting drivers and passengers of an automobile and the like, wherein the woven fabric for airbags has excellent flexibility, tear strength, and elongation at break, and means for solution is a woven fabric for airbags comprising a polyester multifilament, wherein the polyester multifilament has a total fineness in the range of 140 to 580 dtex, and has the number of filaments in the range of 96 to 192, wherein the difference between the total fineness of warp yarns constituting the woven fabric and the total fineness of weft yarns constituting the woven fabric is 5 dtex or less, and the number of warp yarns per unit length is smaller than the number of weft yarns per unit length.

A leather-like fabric has a feel of natural nubuck leather and a napped feel and air permeability of suede leather, as well as high wear resistance. The leather-like fabric includes a fibrous structure including ultrafine fibers having an average monofilament fineness of 0.0001 dtex or more and 0.5 dtex or less, at least one surface of the fibrous structure being napped, the napped surface having resin layers located discontinuously, and each of the resin layers containing two or more layers.

Recyclable tufted carpet products and methods of preparing the same are provided. In particular, the recyclable tufted carpet product includes a primary backing having an air permeability greater than 100 l/m.sup.2/sec at 200 Pa/20 cm.sup.2, the primary backing comprising a polyester nonwoven; a plurality of yarns tufted through the primary backing such that a pile is provided at a first surface of the primary backing and a plurality of yarn loops are provided at a second surface of the primary backing; and an adhesive that anchors the plurality of yarn loops to the second surface of the primary backing.

A low-weight carpet tile and process for making the same, wherein the carpet tile comprises a facecloth having a plurality of face yarns tufted through a primary backing, an extruded polymer secondary backing layer, and a reinforcing scrim layer partially embedded within the extruded polymer secondary backing layer. The top surface and bottom surface of the carpet tile are defined by the facecloth and the reinforcing scrim layer, respectively. A polymer-based resin is extruded onto the facecloth to form an at least substantially uniform secondary backing layer, and the reinforcing scrim layer is laid onto the extruded polymer secondary backing layer while the extruded polymer secondary backing layer remains above a softening temperature for the resin. The entire multi-layer web is then passed through a nip to embed the reinforcing scrim layer into the extruded polymer secondary layer, and the entire web is chilled.