Patents by Inventor Helmut Grünhag

Helmut Grünhag 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).

  • Multicolored patterned floor covering and method for manufacture
    Patent number: 6503424
    Abstract: A multicolored, patterned floor covering is disclosed along with a method for its manufacture. The floor covering is made of a sheeting which has a first color, and a granular material dyed differently from the sheeting which is embedded in the sheeting along at least in the area of the top side. The sheeting and the granular material consist of cross-linkable, elastomeric materials, the granular material comprising particles which have at least two subregions dyed differently from each other and from the sheeting. The quantity and color of the fractions of each component as selected so that the mixed color resulting from an homogeneous intermixing of all the components contained in the floor covering agrees with the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2003
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Gerhard Graab, Klaus Heckel, Dieter Rischer, Thorsten Nahe, Helmut Grünhag
  • Multicolored patterned floor covering and method for manufacture
    Patent number: 6221462
    Abstract: A multicolored, patterned floor covering is disclosed along with a method for its manufacture. The floor covering is made of a sheeting which has a first color, and a granular material dyed differently from the sheeting which is embedded in the sheeting along at least in the area of the top side. The sheeting and the granular material consist of cross-linkable, elastomeric materials, the granular material comprising particles which have at least two subregions dyed differently from each other and from the sheeting. The quantity and color of the fractions of each component as selected so that the mixed color resulting from an homogeneous intermixing of all the components contained in the floor covering agrees with the first color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Gerhard Graab, Klaus Heckel, Dieter Rischer, Thorsten Nahe, Helmut Grünhag