US Patent Issued to Aladdin Manufacturing on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for manufacturing bulked continuous filament from colored recycled PET" (Tennessee Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,509, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aladdin Manufacturing Corp. (Calhoun, Ga.).

"Systems and methods for manufacturing bulked continuous filament from colored recycled PET" was invented by Thomas R. Clark (Hixson, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising: (1) a grinding unit configured to receive and grind recycled PET bottles into a group of polymer flakes comprising up to about ten percent colored polymer flakes and balance substantially clear polymer flakes; (2) a washing unit configured to wash the group of polymer flakes; and (3) an extruder configured to extrude material in a plurality of different extrusi...