Patents Examined by Norca L Torres-Velasquez
  • Multi-lobal fiber containing nonwoven materials and articles made therefrom
    Patent number: 7968480
    Abstract: Nonwoven polymer materials and articles made therefrom. Materials of the invention include at least one nonwoven polymer web with at least one layer of at least about 50% by weight of a multi-lobal fiber. Materials and articles of the invention have improved properties, such as particle retention capacity, acoustic absorption, stiffness, crop color uniformity, and crop yield, when compared with nonwoven polymer materials and articles made with round fiber in place of all of the multi-lobal fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Polymer Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Nyle Bishop, Enrique Martinez, Pierre D. Grondin, Michel Delattre, Jorge Santisteban
  • Nonwoven fibrous product
    Patent number: 6159882
    Abstract: Nonwoven fibrous webs having substantial strength in the direction normal to their planes and the preparation of such webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Assignee: Boricel Corporation
    Inventors: James Harvey Kean, Tod Mitchell Kean, Kenneth Roger Williams