JP2009090044A - Mat - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a mat capable of efficiently sticking the fallen hair of a pet, etc., and easily removing the hair. <P>SOLUTION: The mat has a multiple layer structure where a mat body 1 is formed from a surface layer 2 and a packing layer 3. The surface layer 2 is formed from inclined pile groups 2a, so that the fallen hair of the pet, etc., can efficiently be stuck to inclined pile groups 2a. Thus, the fallen hair of the pet, etc., is prevented from being scattered in a room. The fallen hair of the pet, etc., to be stuck once is rarely stuck to other fibers, thereby the fallen hair of the pet, etc., is prevented from being stuck to clothes again even when the clothes, etc., are brought into contact with the mat body 1 where the fallen hair of the pet, etc., is stuck to the surface. Besides, when the fallen hair of the pet, etc., to be stuck to the mat body 1 is frequently cleaned by a cleaning means 5, the fallen hair can be restrained to prevent the disease of the pet caused by disturbing the metabolism of the pet. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a rug capable of efficiently adhering and easily removing pet hair or hair (hereinafter referred to as pet hair loss) adhering to the surface.

Conventionally, pets such as dogs and cats often have hair loss at the turn of the season, especially from spring to summer.
Hair loss from a pet kept indoors often adheres to fibers such as clothes and rugs, and hair loss once attached to fibers requires a lot of time and labor to remove.
In particular, even if a vacuum cleaner is used to clean pet hair that has adhered to a carpet or other rug with a vacuum cleaner, the hair entangled on the surface of the rug cannot be easily removed by the suction force of the vacuum cleaner.

For this reason, conventionally, for example, an adhesive tape type cleaning tool described in Patent Document 1 is used to remove pet hairs adhering to the rug.
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  However, in the case where an adhesive roller is used like the adhesive tape type cleaning tool described in Patent Document 1, it takes a lot of time and labor to remove pet hairs that have adhered to the surface of the rug over a wide area. Hair loss tightly entangled with the pile fibers forming the surface of the rug cannot be easily removed, and hair loss of pets that have been left on the rug for a long period of time is called so-called dead hair, impeding pet metabolism. Therefore, there are problems such as not only harming the health of pets but also adversely affecting the health of people with chronic illnesses such as asthma and atopic disease when dead hair scatters indoors.

Further, in the case of using the adhesive roller like the cleaning tool described in Patent Document 1, when the hair loss, dust, dust, etc. adhere to the surface of the adhesive roller and the adhesive force is reduced, the adhesive tape of the adhesive roller is peeled off. In order to recover the adhesive force by exposing a new adhesive surface, the rug has a large area and pet hair loss occurs on a daily basis. There are also problems such as being uneconomical because a large amount of adhesive tape is consumed for daily cleaning.
The present invention has been made to remedy such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a rug that can efficiently attach and easily remove hair loss of pets.

The rug of the present invention is a rug having a multi-layer structure in which a rug body is formed of a surface layer and a backing layer, and the surface layer is formed by an inclined pile group.

With the above configuration, the pet piled hairs and the like can be efficiently attached by the inclined pile group having the property of easily attaching the fibrous items such as the pet loosened hairs and hairs. This can be prevented in advance, thereby eliminating problems such as adverse health effects on people with chronic illnesses such as asthma and atopic diseases.
In addition, since pet hair that has adhered once is less likely to adhere to other fibers, even if clothes come into contact with the rug body that has pet hair removed from its surface, Can be prevented from re-adhering.

In the rug of the present invention, an anti-slip layer made of a material having a large friction coefficient is formed on the back surface of the backing layer.

  With the above configuration, since the anti-slip layer provided on the back surface of the rug body is in contact with the floor surface and prevents the rug body from slipping, the rug body can be used even when a person walks on the rug body and children or pets run around. There is little deviation.

In the rug of the present invention, a rug body is formed by joining a plurality of tile members to each other, and a detachable connecting means is provided on the joint surface of each tile member.

With the above-described configuration, the tile member can be laid easily and efficiently, and even if the user walks on the rug body after laying, there is no gap between the tile members or the positions of the tile members are not uneven.
In addition, since each tile member can be easily separated, if the rug body is soiled due to incontinence or vomiting on the rug body, it is easy to remove the tile member of the soiled part. Therefore, it is easier to wash than in the case of washing the entire rug body, and by washing the soiled part, the entire room filled with the rug can always be kept clean.

The rug according to the present invention is a combination of a rug body and a cleaning means that is provided with an inclined pile group at least in part and removes pet hair that has adhered to the surface layer by wiping the surface of the surface layer. .

By the above configuration, the surface of the surface layer is wiped with the direction of the inclined pile group of the cleaning means reversed from the inclined pile group of the surface layer, so that the pet hair that has adhered to the surface of the surface layer is cleaned. Nylon (registered trademark: the same applies hereinafter) is attached to the pile fiber side, so that pet hairs adhering to the surface layer can be easily removed in a short time.
In addition, by cleaning the rug body frequently with cleaning means, it is possible to suppress the occurrence of dead hair, so it is possible to reliably prevent pet illnesses that occur due to obstructing pet metabolism and Even if pet loosening hair, etc. generated on the rug is attached to a large area of the rug, it can be removed without using an adhesive tape or the like.

According to the rug of the present invention, it is possible to efficiently attach pet hair loss to the rug main body by the inclined pile group. The attached pet's hair loss, etc. is less likely to adhere to other fibers, so even if clothes come into contact with the surface of the rug, where the pet's hair loss has adhered to the surface, the pet's hair loss will reattach to the clothing, etc. Can be prevented in advance.
Moreover, since it is possible to suppress dead hair by frequently cleaning the pet hair attached to the rug body by the cleaning means, it is possible to reliably prevent pet illness caused by obstructing pet metabolism. .

Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
1 is a plan view of a carpet-like rug, FIG. 2 is a side view of the same, FIG. 3 is an enlarged view of the circle A in FIG. 2, and FIG. 4 is an explanation of a cleaning means for removing pet hair that has adhered to the rug. FIG.
The rug body 1 shown in FIG. 1 is manufactured in advance in a standard shape such as a square or a rectangle that is standardized according to the size of the room to be used, but the original fabric is cut according to the size of the room. Further, it may be in the form of spreading over the entire floor surface or in the form of a tile carpet described later.

The rug body 1 has a multilayer structure comprising a surface layer 2, a backing layer 3 and an anti-slip layer 4, and the surface layer 2 has an inclined pile group 2a to which pet hairs and the like easily adhere to a base fabric 2b. For example, nylon pile fibers manufactured by Nippon Seal Co., Ltd. are used.
As shown in the enlarged view of FIG. 3, the nylon pile fiber used for the surface layer 2 has a structure in which an inclined pile group 2a whose upper end side is inclined in one direction is knitted on the surface of the base fabric 2b. It has the property of easily attaching fibrous materials such as hair loss and hair.

In addition, since the hair loss of the pet once attached is difficult to adhere to other fibers, even if the clothing comes into contact with the rug body 1 with the pet hair loss attached to the surface, the hair loss of the pet on the clothing etc. Etc. are less likely to be reattached, and by using the cleaning means 5 described later, it is possible to easily remove the hair loss of the pet attached to the surface layer 2.
The backing layer 3 that forms the intermediate layer of the rug body 1 is formed of polyester fiber, synthetic fiber such as nylon fiber, woven fabric made of natural fiber such as cotton, or non-woven fabric such as spunbond nonwoven fabric or needle punched nonwoven fabric. The surface layer 2 is bonded to the entire upper surface of the backing layer 3 by means such as adhesion or sewing.

The anti-slip layer 4 provided on the back surface of the backing layer 3 is for preventing the rug main body 1 laid on the floor surface from being displaced by an oblique load applied to the surface, and the entire back surface of the backing layer 3 Or partially formed.
The anti-slip layer 4 is formed by adding a foaming aid and a crosslinking agent to a material having a large friction coefficient with the floor surface, for example, an emulsion having an acrylic polymer, kneading the mixture, and uniformly coating the back surface of the backing layer 3. Alternatively, it is formed by adhering a rubber sheet formed of natural rubber or synthetic rubber having a large friction coefficient to the back surface of the backing layer 3.

On the other hand, the cleaning means 5 for removing the hair loss of pets attached to the surface layer 2 of the rug main body 1 includes, for example, the above-described case where the inclined pile group 2a is woven into the base fabric 2b in a part of the glove 5a as shown in FIG. It has a structure in which nylon pile fibers 5b similar to the surface layer 2 are attached.
As the sewing position of the nylon pile fiber 5b, a portion where the palm of the hand hits when the glove 5a is fitted to the hand is appropriate. However, by attaching the nylon pile fiber 5b to the portion where the back of the hand hits, the glove 5a The upper and lower surfaces can be used for cleaning, so the service life is doubled.

Next, the operation of the rug constructed as described above will be described.
A rug main body 1 manufactured in advance according to the size of the room as shown in FIG. 1 is used by laying on the floor of the room. At this time, a non-slip layer 4 provided on the back surface of the rug main body 1 is provided on the floor. In order to prevent the rug main body 1 from slipping in contact with the surface, the rug main body 1 is less likely to be displaced even when a person walks on the rug main body 1 or children or pets run around.
Further, when a pet such as a dog lies on the rug main body 1 as shown in FIG. 8, so-called floating hairs, hair loss, etc., which have been removed from the skin of the pet, are attached to the surface layer 2 of the rug main body 1.
That is, since the inclined pile group 2a forming the surface layer 2 has a property of easily attaching fibrous materials such as pet hair loss and hair, pet floating hair and hair loss come into contact with the surface layer 2. It can be efficiently attached to the inclined pile group 2a, thereby preventing the hair loss of the pet from scattering into the room and the hair loss of the pet once attached to other fibers. Therefore, even when clothes or the like come into contact with the rug main body having pet hair on the surface, it is possible to prevent the pet hair from reattaching to the clothes or the like.

On the other hand, when a large amount of pet hair falls off, the glove 5a is moved in the inclined direction of the inclined pile group 2a forming the surface layer 2 with the glove 5a of the cleaning means 5 fitted in the hand, and the cleaning means 5 The surface of the surface layer 2 is wiped with the nylon pile fiber 5b.
At this time, the direction of the inclined pile group 2a of the cleaning means 5 is reversed to that of the inclined pile group 2a of the surface layer 2, so that the pet hair that has been attached to the inclined pile group 2a of the surface layer 2 until now is cleaned. Since it is forcibly attached to the nylon pile fiber 5b side of the means 5, it is possible to easily remove the hair loss of the pet attached on the surface of the surface layer 2.
By repeating the above operation over almost the entire surface layer 2, it is possible to easily and efficiently remove the hair loss of pets attached to the surface of the rug body 1 in a short time.

On the other hand, FIG. 5 and FIG. 6 show another embodiment of a rug made of tile carpet, which will be described next.
The rug main body 1 made of a tile carpet is formed by a plurality of tile members 7 formed in a fixed size, for example, 50 cm square.
The tile member 7 has a multi-layer structure of the surface layer 2, the backing layer 3 and the anti-slip layer 4 as in the above embodiment, and the material used is also the same as in the above embodiment, so the description thereof is omitted. .

The rug body 1 made of tile carpets is used by laying a plurality of tile members 7 on the floor of the room. During use, there is a gap between the tile members 7 or some of the tile members 7 are The position may be misaligned.
In order to prevent this, a connecting means 8 is provided on each of the four sides of each tile member 7.
The connecting means 8 connects the tile members 7 vertically and horizontally without any gaps, and is formed by, for example, a planar fastener 9 as shown in FIG.
The planar fastener 9 includes a hook-shaped locking portion 9a and an annular portion 9b made of fiber, and connects the tile members 7 without gaps by engaging the locking portion 9a and the annular portion 9b with each other. Be able to.

Further, when the tile members 7 are connected, the engaging portions 9a and the annular portions 9b of the connecting means 8 are arranged on each side as follows so that the inclination direction of the inclined pile group 2a of the surface layer 2 is constant. ing.
That is, when the locking portions 9a are provided on one vertical side of the tile member 7, for example, the right side and the upper side, the annular portions 9b are provided on the other vertical side, for example, the left side and the lower side.
As a result, the right-side engaging portion 9a and the left-side annular portion 9b are engaged with each other, and the upper-side engaging portion 9a and the lower-side annular portion 9b are engaged with each other, whereby the inclination direction of the inclined pile group 2a is constant. Therefore, when the hair loss attached to the inclined pile group 2a is cleaned by the cleaning means 5, the hair loss attached to the inclined pile group 2a can be removed only by moving the cleaning means 5 in one direction. , Cleaning becomes even easier.

The rug main body 1 composed of tile carpets configured as described above is used by laying a plurality of tile members 7 on the floor of a room while connecting them together. Since it is the same as that of the above embodiment, the description thereof is omitted. However, since the tile members 7 can be easily separated even after laying, the pet may incontinence or vomit on the rug main body 1. When a part of the rug body 1 is soiled, the tile member 7 of the soiled part can be removed and easily washed, so that washing is easier than when the entire rug body 1 is washed. .
Also, by washing the soiled part, the entire room covered with the rug can always be kept clean, and if the dirt does not come off even after washing, only the tile member 7 of that part is replaced with a new tile member. Since the rug main body 1 can be used continuously by exchanging it with 7, it is very economical.

Note that the rug body 1 described in the above embodiment may be manufactured according to the size of a kennel or cat bed and laid on the kennel or cat bed, in which case the pet is sleeping. Since the hair loss can be forcibly attached to the surface layer 2, the amount of hair loss entangled with the body hair of the pet can be reduced.
As the connecting means 8 for connecting the tile member 7, in addition to the planar fastener 9, as shown in FIG. 7, engaging portions 9c and 9d made of concavo-convex detachable from each other are formed on the end surface of the tile member 7. Then, by engaging the engaging portions 9c and 9d with each other, the tile members 7 may be connected to each other, or other connecting methods may be adopted.

Furthermore, since the nylon pile fiber made of the inclined pile group 2a has the effect of efficiently attaching the hair loss of the pet as described above, not only the surface of the rug, but also a cushion, a cushion, a sofa, and their covers, clothes For example, the inclined pile group 2a is provided in advance so that the pet's floating hairs and hair loss can be efficiently attached to the inclined pile group 2a, thereby preventing the pet hair loss and the like from scattering into the room.
Moreover, in the said embodiment, although the slip prevention layer 4 was formed in the back surface of the rug main body 1, when fixing a rug directly to a floor surface by means, such as a double-sided tape, you may abbreviate | omit the slip prevention layer 4.

It is a top view of the rug which becomes embodiment of this invention. It is a side view of the rug which becomes embodiment of this invention. FIG. 3 is an enlarged view in a circle A in FIG. 2. It is explanatory drawing of the cleaning means used for the rug which becomes embodiment of this invention. It is a top view of the rug which becomes another embodiment of this invention. FIG. 6 is an enlarged view in a circle B in FIG. 5. It is a top view which shows the modification of the connection means used for the rug which becomes another embodiment of this invention. It is explanatory drawing of the use condition of the rug which becomes another embodiment of this invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body 2 Surface layer 2a Inclined pile group 2b Base fabric 3 Backing layer 4 Non-slip layer 5 Cleaning means 5a Gloves 5b Nylon pile fiber 7 Tile member 8 Connection means

Claims (4)

  A rug having a multilayer structure in which a rug body is formed of a surface layer and a backing layer, wherein the surface layer is formed of an inclined pile group.   The rug according to claim 1, wherein an anti-slip layer made of a material having a large friction coefficient is formed on the back surface of the backing layer.   The rug according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the rug body is formed by joining a plurality of tile members to each other, and a detachable connecting means is provided on a joint surface of each tile member.   4. A cleaning means that is provided with an inclined pile group at least in part, and is combined with the rug main body to remove a pet's hair coming off the surface layer by wiping the surface of the surface layer. The rug according to any one of the above.

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