US Patent Issued to Aladdin Manufacturing on July 1 for "Methods for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,903, issued on July 1, was assigned to Aladdin Manufacturing Corp. (Calhoun, Ga.).

"Methods for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament" was invented by Thomas R. Clark (Hixson, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from recycled polymer. In various embodiments, the method includes: (1) reducing recycled polymer material into polymer flakes; (2) cleansing the polymer flakes; (3) melting the flakes into a polymer melt; (4) removing water and contaminants from the polymer melt by dividing the polymer melt into a plurality of polymer streams and exposing those streams to ...