Patents by Inventor Alton D. Hicks

Alton D. Hicks 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).

  • Yarn sizes, sizing treatments and resulting sized yarns
    Patent number: 3983271
    Abstract: Textile size compositions which are dispersible in water and comprise an alkali metal and/or ammonium salt of a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer containing as a copolymerized component a diester of an olefinically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or anhydride and a monohydric alcohol and/or a polyester of such an acid or anhydride and a polyhydric alcohol. Also, textile size compositions which are dispersible in water and comprise a mixed salt of a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer, wherein 20 to 80 weight percent of the cations of said salt are ammonium cations and 20 to 80 weight percent of the cations of said salt are alkali metal cations. Methods for sizing yarns and yarn sized with the above-mentioned compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 28, 1976
    Assignee: Dan River Inc.
    Inventors: James C. Pangle, Jr., Alton D. Hicks
  • Yarn sizes, sizing treatments and resulting sized yarns
    Patent number: 3981836
    Abstract: Textile size compositions which are dispersible in water and comprise an alkali metal and/or ammonium salt of a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer, containing as a copolymerized component a diester of an olefinically unsaturated dicarboxylic acid or anhydride and a monohydric alcohol and/or a polyester of such an acid or anhydride and a polyhydric alcohol. Also, textile size compositions which are dispersible in water and comprise a mixed salt of a styrene-maleic anhydride copolymer, wherein 20 to 80 weight percent of the cations of said salt are ammonium cations and 20 to 80 weight percent of the cations of said salt are alkali metal cations. Methods for sizing yarns and yarn sized with the above-mentioned compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1971
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1976
    Assignee: Dan River Inc.
    Inventors: James C. Pangle, Jr., Alton D. Hicks