Patents Assigned to Atlas Carpet Mills, Inc.
  • Straight stitch carpets with one or more pre-defined trim lines and methods of their manufacture using tufting equipment
    Patent number: 6890615
    Abstract: A pre-defined trim line within a carpet between a usable portion of carpet and a trim edge. The trim line may be formed by avoiding the tufting of yarn or by the removal of a tufting of yarn along a row. In one aspect of an embodiment of the invention, the pre-defined trim line provides an identifier of where to cut a patterned carpet to provide a high quality seam. Another aspect of an embodiment of the invention provides a gap for installers to easily cut between rows of yarn without unintended cross-cuts and also speeds the installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2005
    Assignee: Atlas Carpet Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: James Horwich, Kenneth W. Bitting, Stanley E. Dunford