Patents by Inventor Byron James Lemonier

Byron James Lemonier 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).

  • Manufacture of built-up roofing products with moisture conditioned fibrous mats
    Patent number: 5932287
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing roofing felts, cap sheets, base sheets and similar built-up roofing products from fibrous mats includes: supplying a roofing mat to a manufacturing process; moisturizing the roofing mat by applying steam or a liquid mist to one or both major surfaces of the roofing mat during the manufacturing process to increase the moisture content of the roofing mat and reduce the amount of hot bitumen accepted by the roofing mat during a coating operation; and applying a hot bitumen coating to one or both major surfaces of the roofing mat during the manufacturing process after the moisture content of the roofing mat has been increased by the moisturizing step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore W. Michelsen, Byron James Lemonier, Brian Francis Olson, Gary Allen Lundholm