Abstract: A wet mop head construction and a method of making such construction comprising a pile fabric having an improved headband for attachment to the gripping elements of a wet mop tool and wherein the headband is comprised of a fabric material sewn about an end of the main body pile fabric portion with end portions of the headband extending from the pile fabric to partially cover and prevent the gripping elements of a mop tool from contacting a surface being treated by the mop head.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to produce a dyed yarn package with qualities similar to that of a skein dyed yarn package. The method and apparatus incorporates a novel spindle onto which, preferably, high bulk yarns are wound under very little tension to provide a compact but loose yarn package which is amenable to efficient bulking and dyeing.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to score cut the hardbacking of carpet tiles to relieve the inherent stresses therein to alleviate the tendency of the carpet tiles to pucker when laid in operative position on the floor. The back of the carpet tiles are cut by a serrated die cutter to produce an undulating configuration in the backing of the carpet tile.

Abstract: A process for printing porous textile materials, such as pile fabrics, and the resultant products, wherein the poorly defined boundaries between adjacent dissimilarly colored surface areas of the material are subsequently overprinted with a color which is retained adjacent the surface of the textile material to overlie and hide the poorly defined boundary, thus providing a more sharply defined pattern in the textile material.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine having a step attached to the machine which is accessible when the machine is in operation but moves out of the way when the knitting machine guard is opened to gain access to the interior of the machine.

Abstract: A circular knitting machine having cantilevered split steps attached to the machine which are accessible when the machine is in operation but are moved out of the way when the knitting machine is opened to gain access to the interior of the machine.

Abstract: Apparatus and method to tumble pack a pre-selected number of tetrahedron containers into a transport container without breaking the seals of any of the tetrahedron containers. A sliding discharge chute is employed which slides into the transport container adjacent the bottom thereof to allow the first few containers to be placed therein without dropping a long distance. Then the chute is slid upward as the rest of the containers are dropped into the transport container.

Abstract: A dust control mat having a pile fabric upper surface and a bottom calendered rubber stock sheet which employs an anti-tear strip located perpendicular to the grain or calendered direction of the rubber stock sheet between the rubber sheet and a latex backing on the pile fabric. A novel method is employed to produce the mat in which the reinforcing tear strip is located in position prior to vulcanizing the rubber stock sheet in an autoclave.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to produce a bonded loop pile carpet. The carpet machine is of the rotary type which uses cooperating blade members to form the yarn loops for bonding to a backing sheet. One of the blade members is reciprocably mounted in the machine and moves in a downward curved angular path to contact the yarn.

Abstract: Warp knit denim fabrics wherein differentially colored or colorable yarn sets or groups are knit together in a fabric having a dominant, typically darker, color forming a background wherein flecks of a less dominant, typically lighter, color are present substantially uniformly throughout the surface of the fabric, thereby giving a fabric whose visual appearance is similar to woven denim fabrics, but which possesses superior fabric qualities. After knitting, the differentially colorable yarn sets may be dyed to selectively color one or more of the yarn sets. The denim effect may be enhanced by sanding or napping the denim surface of the fabric to abrade and/or break the dominant color yarns and blend the lighter color therewith. The fabric may be thereafter calendered, and finished in conventional manner.

Abstract: A dust control mat having a pile fabric upper surface and a bottom calendered rubber stock sheet which employs an anti-tear strip located perpendicular to the grain or calendered direction of the rubber stock sheet between the rubber sheet and a latex backing on the pile fabric. A novel method is employed to produce the mat in which the reinforcing tear strip is located in position prior to vulcanizing the rubber stock sheet in an autoclave.

Abstract: An improved fiber condenser for a spinning frame which is designed to provide an area for the passage of roving which has an elongated opening therein to allow slubs, etc., to pass through without breaking the roving or stretching it.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in a tufting operation to advance variable yarn lengths toward the needles of a tufting machine for the formation of tufted pile loops having lengths varied in accordance with a predetermined pattern.

Abstract: Apparatus to apply dyes to a moving material to print the same which employs dye applicator gun bars to direct a plurality of streams of dye onto the moving material, and means for deflecting certain of the streams for dye in a predetermined sequence to impart a pattern to the material, and wherein adjustable collection means are provided for receiving the deflected streams of dye to facilitate the accurate printing of the material.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to produce a bonded loop pile carpet. The carpet machine is of the rotary type which uses cooperating blade members to form the yarn loops for bonding to a backing sheet. One set of the blade members is reciprocably mounted in the rotor of the machine. The other blade member is controlled to produce high and low loops.

Abstract: Apparatus to apply dyes to a moving sheet of material to print the same which employs dye applicator gun bars constructed to facilitate and maintain accurate alignment of the applicator jets of the gun bars across the length of the bars wherein the fluid supplying manifolds for the jets are incorporated to provide structural support and stability to the applicator system.

Abstract: Apparatus for positioning a continuous strip on a movable support surface in a zigzag pattern including a traversing guide member having a slot passage disposed longitudinally of the movement of the support surface, means for reducing friction in the slot passage of the guide member, and positioning means between the guide member and the support surface movable into the path of the strip at the ends of each traverse to form the reversals of the zigzag pattern.

Abstract: Method and apparatus to produce a bonded loop pile carpet. The carpet machine is of the rotary type which uses cooperating blade members to form the yarn loops for bonding to a backing sheet. One set of the blade members is reciprocably mounted in the rotor of the machine.

Abstract: Apparatus for compressing an accumulated mass of fabric to impart a change in its physical appearance wherein the fabric is continuously gravitationally fed in accumulated form to compression means. The apparatus is specifically directed to imparting a crushed appearance to pile fabrics such as lightweight velvet-type fabrics used in upholstery, draperies, and the like.

Abstract: Apparatus to apply dyes to a moving material to print the same which employs dye applicator gun bars to direct a plurality of streams of dye onto the moving sheet in a predetermined pattern, and wherein means are provided for accurately positioning and adjusting the gun bars on their support frame to facilitate accurate placement of the dye streams on the moving material during the printing operation.