Patents Assigned to Milliken Research Corporation
  • Patent number: 5725951
    Abstract: An improved textile yarn finish is provided having a continuous aqueous phase with a soil release agent incorporated therein and a discontinuous phase of a lubricating oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Louis Schuette, Phillip DeMott, Derek Taylor, Angel Lee
  • Patent number: 5725794
    Abstract: A color-stable antifreeze composition containing a polyhydric alcohol, a corrosion inhibitor and a poly(oxyalkylene)-substituted colorant having the structure ABXYZ, whereA is an organic chromophore;B is an electrophilic reactive group covalently bonded to A directly or through a linking group;X is a nucleophilic linking group covalently bonding B and Y;Y is a poly(oxyalkylene)-containing moiety; andZ is a terminal group for Y.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Bruhnke, Steven E. Brown
  • Patent number: 5724917
    Abstract: A cattle mattress made from a woven fabric which is double-woven in areas across the fabric into which crumb rubber is inserted and which are closed off after insertion of the crumb rubber to make a self-contained structure for the comfort of animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Robert W. Dodson, Jules A. Haneburger
  • Patent number: 5723060
    Abstract: An antifreeze composition is provided having a polyhydric alcohol, a corrosion inhibitor and a colorant of the formula: ##STR1## wherein m and n are independently selected from 0, 1, 2 or 3; M is cation; A is SO.sub.3 M or SO.sub.2 R.sup.3, where R.sup.3 is alkylene-SO.sub.3 M; R.sup.1 is selected from the group consisting of hydroxy, C.sub.1-8 alkoxy, C.sub.1-8 alkyl, amino, sulfoxy, carboxy and R.sup.2 ; and R.sup.2 is NHR.sup.4, where R.sup.4 is triazine or triazine substituted with aminophenylsulfonate, chloro, dichloro, fluoro, or R.sup.2 is CO.sub.2 M.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: John D. Bruhnke, Steven E. Brown
  • Patent number: 5720322
    Abstract: A wick proof woven chafer fabric for automotive radial tires having a monofilament fill yarn and a large denier textured multifilament warp yarn. The texturing of the warp yarns allows for efficient wickproofing of the fabric and the larger denier, higher tensile strength warp, provides a fabric which enables efficient calendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Roger H. Soderberg, Michael J. Chekan
  • Patent number: 5720892
    Abstract: A method of making a patterned conductive textile is provided by depositing a conductive polymer film on the fabric to provide a resistivity of 1000 ohms per square or less, coating selected areas of the fabric with a protective film, to protect the conductive polymer from a chemical etching agent, to provide an oxygen barrier and to retain areas of high conductivity, applying a chemical etching agent to the fabric thereby degrading the conductive polymer film on areas of the fabric which have not been coated with the protective film and create areas of low conductivity and rinsing the fabric to remove any residual etching agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred R. DeAngelis, Andrew D. Child, Dennis E. Green
  • Patent number: 5716893
    Abstract: A method of depositing a conductive polymer film on a textile fabric substrate is provided by the oxidative polymerization of a pyrrole compound in the presence of a dopant anion and a stabilizing agent having the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3 and R.sub.4 are independently selected from H, OH, and OR, and R is C.sub.1 -C.sub.8 alkyl; and R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are independently selected from H, COOH and SO.sub.3 H.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Andrew David Child
  • Patent number: 5704402
    Abstract: The woven structure for an air bag is designed to have an air permeability which does not increase by more than about fifty percent when the fabric is subjected to substantially equivalent tension forces in both the warp and fill. This is accomplished by a multiple warp harness arrangement using combinations of twill and basket weave pattern components. This weave construction does not only avoid substantial increases in permeability over a range of biaxial tensions but also may result in a permeability decrease when subjected to tensions which approximate those applicable during actual air bag deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Derek L. Bowen, Charles L. Bower, John A. Sollars, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5701846
    Abstract: A cattle mattress made from a double needle bar knit fabric in which the top and bottom layers tire joined at intervals across the fabric, forming tubes into which crumb rubber is inserted and which are closed off after insertion of the crumb rubber to make a self-contained structure for the comfort of animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Norman Marion Parker, IV
  • Patent number: 5698282
    Abstract: A bonded fabric comprising a mesh of filament yarns of the core-sheath type having little or no elasticity in the longitudinal direction but which will break when bent without affecting the filaments in the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Willy De Meyer
  • Patent number: 5691030
    Abstract: A bonded fabric comprising a mesh of filament yarns of the core-sheath type having little or no elasticity in the longitudinal direction but which will break when bent without affecting the filaments in the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Willy De Meyer
  • Patent number: 5688599
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for creation of moire textile fabric. This can be achieved by directing at least one stream of pressurized heated gas at the surface of said first piece of overfed fabric to provide lateral yarn displacement and selectively interrupting and re-establishing contact between said stream and said surface in accordance with pattern information in order to pattern said first piece of fabric. This is followed by combining said patterned first piece of fabric with an unpatterned second piece of fabric in overlapping relationship and applying pressure by means of calender rolls having smooth surfaces to said combination of said first piece of patterned fabric and said second piece of unpatterned fabric. By using high pressure heated gas and shrinking some of the thermoplastic yarns, there is movement of the filling yarns in the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Don M. Bylund, Howard C. Willauer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5682656
    Abstract: Method to continuously merge two multifilament yarns supplied from bobbins on a creel by merging and entangling the two yarns in a commingling air jet and supplying directly to a warper to form a warp beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Bascum G. Lesley
  • Patent number: 5675878
    Abstract: Apparatus to continuously draw, texture and warp polyester yam in which the texturing apparatus includes texturing balls mounted on a common mount for a plurality of texturing positions which individually can be rotated into and out of position without individual adjustment of each ball after rotation back into operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Saul Brown, Ralph Allen Cantrell
  • Patent number: 5674581
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for treatment of relatively moving substrate materials and the novel products produced thereby created by precise application of high temperature pressurized streams of fluid against the surface of the materials to melt and remove material which imparts a recessed channel to the materials that facilitates separation of the materials. The apparatus includes an elongate manifold for receiving heated pressurized fluid, such as air, disposed across the width of the relatively moving material and having a single slit the full width of the substrate for directing the fluid into the surface of the material. The substrate material is treated with an acrylic resin to eliminate jagged or frayed edges either prior to or after the melting and removal process by means of the high temperature pressurized fluid streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Francis William Marco, Colman Barrett O'Connell, Howard Christy Willauer, Jr., James Ansel Jacobs, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5672222
    Abstract: Method to produce a nonwoven needled fabric in which the needled fabric includes 15-30% of low melt nylon 6 and nylon 12 fusible fibers to aid in holding the nonwoven fabric together when passed through an oven to melt the fusible fibers and then allow them to cool and bind the fabric together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Paul William Eschenbach
  • Patent number: 5669937
    Abstract: Iodine stains may be removed from a substrate, such as a textile, by applying a solution of carboxyalkene, having a site of unsaturation at the 4, 5-, 5, 6- or 6, 7- position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel T. McBride, John D. Bruhnke
  • Patent number: 5647403
    Abstract: A method and apparatus utilizing an elongate, flexible member operatively attached to rods that move up and down, on a Jacquard loom. A latch control mechanism is provided for latching said elongate, flexible member in a fixed position by applying pressure thereto by vacuum or pressure. This latching of the rod in an upper position creates a shed whereby filling yarns can be passed through to create Jacquard fabric. The pressure can be applied against the elongate, flexible member by filling sealed elongate, elastomeric member with pressured gas. In addition, the pressure can be applied against the elongate, flexible member by activating a dimensionally alterable, electric element that presses against the elongate, flexible member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Charles Everage Willbanks
  • Patent number: 5638703
    Abstract: A 3-bar Raschel warp knit fabric for use in grasscatcher bags which has an additional high tenacity yarn knit in to provide a lower elongation yarn in the course direction to prevent the grasscatcher bag from dragging the ground as it is being filled. The fabric also has a second textured needle lap stitch yarn to provide cover and to prevent the exhaust of dust to the atmosphere from the interior of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Callaway
  • Patent number: 5632526
    Abstract: A seating structure including fabric support webs is provided. The seating structure includes a webbed support surface formed from a warp knit fabric with weft insertion of an elastomeric yarn. The stretch in the warp is substantially linear over a full range of applied stress from zero pounds to failure. The stretch in the weft has two substantially linear components wherein the first linear component operates over the range of zero to about 10 pounds applied force and the second linear component operates over the range of 10 pounds applied force to failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: George C. McLarty, III, Anthony R. Waldrop, Kathryn T. Anderson