Patents by Inventor Alfred Thies

Alfred Thies has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6233982
    Abstract: A device as well as a method for the treatment of ready-to-wear, textile apparel parts, particularly for the pretreatment and/or dyeing are described, according to which the ready-to-wear, textile apparel parts to be treated are arranged in cylindrical or cylinder-like fabric carrier being arranged in a preferably closable vessel, where the parts are brought into contact with a treatment bath, whereby the fabric carrier is moved within the apparatus during the treatment. Hereby the ready-to-wear, textile apparel parts are arranged in the fabric carrier as a heap of ready-to-wear, textile apparel parts. During the treatment the vessel is filled with the bath only to such an extent and the treatment bath is pumped through the fabric carrier in that way that the ready-to-wear apparel parts are displaced and particularly intermingled by the treatment bath streaming through the fabric carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Thies AG
    Inventor: Alfred Thies
  • Patent number: 4020658
    Abstract: An apparatus for wet-treating, particularly for dyeing, a fabric in the form of a continuous circulating rope of cloth, wherein the rope of cloth is fed into a kier by introducing it by means of a treating liquid and is moved farther within the kier. The treating liquid is circulated through outlets out of the kier and through inlets into the kier when feeding-in the rope of cloth by means of said liquid. The rope of cloth is fed-in into a drum pivoted in the kier, is moved together with this drum along a part of the circumference of said kier and is removed from the drum in order to be repeatedly fed-in. The treating liquid is removed from the drum after the feeding-in of the rope of cloth, and that part of the rope of cloth which is actually within the drum is deposited therein in a non-floating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1977
    Inventor: Alfred Thies, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4006612
    Abstract: An apparatus for the wet processing of textile strands including a kier with several drums therein, each drum being supported by rollers in the bottom of the kier for rotation about the central axis of the coaxial drums. The drums have central openings to permit the strand to be fed into and out of the drums in sequence. Jetting-in devices are associated with each drum to inject the strand under fluid pressure and reels are provided to guide the strand from the drums and to the respective jetting-in devices. A liquid circulating system withdraws processing liquor from the bottom of the kier and injects the liquid under pressure to the jetting-in devices. The drum walls are perforated. In one embodiment, the strand is recirculated through a series of drums in sequence and through a pipe extending through the central openings in the drum from the last to the first of the series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1975
    Date of Patent: February 8, 1977
    Inventor: Alfred Thies