Performance properties of machine woven carpets produced from splittable microfilament pile yarns

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In this study, splittable microfilament yarn is implemented as pile yarn for machine woven carpet. Firstly, the optimum process parameters of splittable microfilament yarns were determined in particular to carpet pile usage. Then, the cut and loop pile carpet samples were produced with the same production parameters. The half of the carpet samples were treated to the splitting process in order to obtain microfilament pile yarns. In doing so, loop and cut pile woven carpet samples with microfilament and conventional filament pile yarns were obtained. Then, the carpet performance properties were investigated for microfilament pile carpets in comparison to conventional filament ones. For this aim, thickness loss after static and dynamic loading, compression recovery, pile withdrawal force, appearance retention and soiling properties of the samples were tested. Consequently, it is seen that thickness loss after static and dynamic loading can be decreased by using microfilament pile yarns. Regarding the compression recovery, it is observed that the microfilament piles provided a very compact structure which causes lower compression recovery in comparison to conventional pile structure. Also, pile withdrawal force is increased for both cut and loop pile carpets as a result of using microfilament pile yarn whereas soiling and appearance retention properties have no considerable changes.