Patents by Inventor Mark Joseph Levine

Mark Joseph Levine 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).

  • Nonwovens forming or conveying fabrics with enhanced surface roughness and texture
    Patent number: 6790796
    Abstract: An industrial fabric used in the form of an endless fabric belt to form and convey a nonwoven fiber web during the manufacture of a nonwoven fabric has a web-supporting surface which includes rough-surface yarns which inhibit movement, namely, slippage, of the nonwoven fiber web relative to the web-supporting surface. Preferably, the rough-surface yarns make long floats in one or both directions, that is, lengthwise and/or crosswise, on the web-supporting surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Albany International Corp.
    Inventors: Scott Sheldon Smith, Paul Allen Zimmerman, Mark Joseph Levine
  • Nonwovens forming or conveying fabrics with enhanced surface roughness and texture
    Publication number: 20030068948
    Abstract: An industrial fabric used in the form of an endless fabric belt to form and convey a nonwoven fiber web during the manufacture of a nonwoven fabric has a web-supporting surface which includes rough-surface yarns which inhibit movement, namely, slippage, of the nonwoven fiber web relative to the web-supporting surface. Preferably, the rough-surface yarns make long floats in one or both directions, that is, lengthwise and/or crosswise, on the web-supporting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2001
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Scott Sheldon Smith, Paul Allen Zimmerman, Mark Joseph Levine