An improved finishing treatment for pile carpets

摘要

A method of laying the pile of a carpet uniformly in one direction and stabilizing the pile in its leaning orientation, the method including the steps of: providing a multiplicity of compression means to lay a pile in a preferred direction in a number of compression and relaxation cycles; treating a carpet with a multiplicity of compression/relaxation cycles to induce a preferred lean to the pile; and consolidating the pile orientation and state by inducing intratuft fibre migration and intertuft entanglement similar to those observed in a natural and severely shaded carpet.