Roy T. Card & Brooks E. Taylor / Card-Monroe, "Method and apparatus for producing enhanced graphic appearances in a tufted product and a product produced therefrom" (US5058518A)
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- Made by
- Roy T. Card; Brooks E. Taylor; Card-Monroe Corp.
- Date
- filed 1989; published 22 Oct 1991
- Number
- US5058518A
- Themes
- Machine tufting & Dalton, Tools & equipment
Cite this source
Roy T. Card & Brooks E. Taylor / Card-Monroe, “Method and apparatus for producing enhanced graphic appearances in a tufted product and a product produced therefrom” (US5058518A), filed 1989; published 22 Oct 1991. patents.google.com/patent/US5058518A/en.
Research notes
A Card-Monroe patent for 'enhanced graphic appearances' in tufted carpet, covering a tufting machine, a way of forming tufts and the resulting fabric. It cites Card et al. US3919953 (18 Nov 1975), two needle rows that put cut pile beside loop pile. A later patent (2003) credits US5058518 with computerised design centres, where designers develop patterns on a computer. This marks the move from mechanical patterning to computer-designed 'graphics' carpet. Verified Oct 2026 by web search only: the title, inventors, assignee (from a citing-family table) and dates come from Google Patents snippets. The claims were not read. Research note (Oct 2026): from search results; pages not opened.