Patents by Inventor Benjamin Hughes Knox

Benjamin Hughes Knox 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).

  • Making high filament count fine filament polyester yarns
    Patent number: 5827464
    Abstract: A direct melt spinning process for providing high filament count fine filament polyester yarns having excellent mechanical quality and along-end uniformity and unitary interlace by spinning all the filaments of such high filament count yarn from a single spinneret. Such yarns may be used as direct-use yarns and as draw-feed yarns for preparing drawn flat yarns and draw-textured yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1998
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: David George Bennie, Robert James Collins, Hans Rudolf Edward Frankfort, Stephen Buckner Johnson, Benjamin Hughes Knox, Joe Forrest London, Jr., Elmer Edwin Most, Jr., Girish Anant Pai
  • High filament count fine filament polyester yarns
    Patent number: 5741587
    Abstract: A direct melt spinning process for providing high filament count fine filament polyester yarns having excellent mechanical quality and along-end uniformity and unitary interlace by spinning all the filaments of such high filament count yarn from a single spinneret. Such yarns may be used as direct-use yarns and as draw-feed yarns for preparing drawn flat yarns and draw-textured yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: David George Bennie, Robert James Collins, Hans Rudolf Edward Frankfort, Stephen Buckner Johnson, Benjamin Hughes Knox, Joe Forrest London, Jr., Elmer Edwin Most, Jr., Girish Anant Pai
  • Polyester mixed yarns with fine filaments
    Patent number: 5691057
    Abstract: Polyester mixed fine filament yarns having excellent mechanical quality and uniformity, and preferably with a balance of good dyeability and shrinkage, are prepared by a simplified direct spin-orientation process by selection of polymer and spinning conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: David George Bennie, Robert James Collins, Hans Rudolf Edward Frankfort, Stephen Buckner Johnson, Benjamin Hughes Knox, Joe Forrest London, Jr., Elmer Edwin Most, Jr., Girish Anant Pai
  • Continuous filaments, yarns, and tows
    Patent number: 5645936
    Abstract: Polyester filaments of high shrinkage and high shrinkage tension may be prepared by heat treatment of undrawn crystalline filaments of low shrinkage and shrinkage tension, and may be used for making polyester yarns of mixed shrinkage and bulky polyester yarns and fabrics therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: Hans Rudolf Edward Frankfort, Benjamin Hughes Knox, Girish Anant Pai
  • Hollow nylon filaments and yarns
    Patent number: 5643660
    Abstract: A melt spinning process and the nylon hollow filaments and yarns made by such process which includes extruding molten nylon polymer having a relative viscosity (RV) of at least about 50 and a melting point (T.sub.M) of about 210.degree. C. to about 310.degree. C. from a spinneret capillary orifice with multiple orifice segments providing a total extrusion area (EA) and an extrusion void area (EVA) such that the fractional extrusion void content, defined by the ratio [EVA/EA] is about 0.6 to about 0.95, and the extent of melt attenuation, defined by the ratio [EVA/(dpf).sub.S ], is about 0.05 to about 1.5, in which (dpf).sub.S is the spun denier per filament, the (dpf).sub.S being selected such that the denier per filament at 25% elongation (dpf).sub.25 is about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 1, 1997
    Assignee: E. I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: David Arthur Price, James Preston Bennett, Benjamin Hughes Knox, Dennis Raymond Schafluetzel