ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,453, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Aladdin Manufacturing Corp. (Calhoun, Ga.).
"Systems 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: "Systems for manufacturing bulked continuous carpet filament from polymer, where the systems are configured for: (1) passing polymer flakes through a crystalliers; (2) melting the polymer to create a first single stream of polymer melt; (3) separating the first single stream of polymer melt into multiple streams of polymer melt; (4) exposing the multiple streams of polymer melt to a pressure of between about 0 mi...