Patents Represented by Attorney Earle R. Marden

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  • Balanced collage yarn
    Patent number: 5775087
    Abstract: Process of manufacturing a collage yarn from at least two different colored synthetic multifilament yarn. At least two bobbins of different colored multifilament, synthetic yarn, is supplied to commingling air jet. A true twist is provided to each of the yarns as they are being supplied to the commingling jets. Compressed air is supplied to the commingling jets to commingle the yarns into a collage yarn and then the collage yarn is taken up by a take-up roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Andre'M. Goineau
  • Chair seat frame system
    Patent number: 5768761
    Abstract: Process and apparatus to semi-automatically cover the opening in a chair with a two-way stretch fabric which does not require extensive manual operation by an operator. The fabric is automatically clamped and stretched over the chair opening prior to the clamping thereof by an operator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Bernhard Zeiler, Howard Christy Willauer, Jr.
  • Registration control
    Patent number: 5727366
    Abstract: Registration system for a continuously operating machine which produces a filled package with an upper and lower seal which automatically adjusts position and the speed of the packaging material being supplied and also adjusts the speed after a preselected number of position adjustments in either direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: John B. Manly, Jr.
  • Platform lifter
    Patent number: 5727655
    Abstract: A platform which is raised and lowered evenly in a vertical direction only by a pair of piston activated four-bar linkages which are linked together through an endless cable or belt which will not allow one four-bar linkage to act independently of the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Frank Mark Pitman
  • Cattle mattress
    Patent number: 5724917
    Abstract: A cattle mattress made from a woven fabric which is double-woven in areas across the fabric into which crumb rubber is inserted and which are closed off after insertion of the crumb rubber to make a self-contained structure for the comfort of animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Robert W. Dodson, Jules A. Haneburger
  • Chafer fabric with textured nylon warp yarns
    Patent number: 5720322
    Abstract: A wick proof woven chafer fabric for automotive radial tires having a monofilament fill yarn and a large denier textured multifilament warp yarn. The texturing of the warp yarns allows for efficient wickproofing of the fabric and the larger denier, higher tensile strength warp, provides a fabric which enables efficient calendering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Roger H. Soderberg, Michael J. Chekan
  • Needled non-woven fabric
    Patent number: 5707906
    Abstract: Method to produce a nonwoven needled fabric in which the needled fabric includes 15-30% of low melt nylon 6 and nylon 12 fusible fibers to aid in holding the nonwoven fabric together when passed through an oven to melt the fusible fibers and then allow them to cool and bind the fabric together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1998
    Assignee: Milliken Research Company
    Inventor: Paul William Eschenbach
  • Knit cellular cattle mattress fabric
    Patent number: 5701846
    Abstract: A cattle mattress made from a double needle bar knit fabric in which the top and bottom layers tire joined at intervals across the fabric, forming tubes into which crumb rubber is inserted and which are closed off after insertion of the crumb rubber to make a self-contained structure for the comfort of animals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Norman Marion Parker, IV
  • Stabilized fabrics and reinforced products containing them
    Patent number: 5698282
    Abstract: A bonded fabric comprising a mesh of filament yarns of the core-sheath type having little or no elasticity in the longitudinal direction but which will break when bent without affecting the filaments in the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Willy De Meyer
  • Stabilized fabrics and reinforced products containing them
    Patent number: 5691030
    Abstract: A bonded fabric comprising a mesh of filament yarns of the core-sheath type having little or no elasticity in the longitudinal direction but which will break when bent without affecting the filaments in the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Willy De Meyer
  • Continuous process to wrap entangled yarn
    Patent number: 5682656
    Abstract: Method to continuously merge two multifilament yarns supplied from bobbins on a creel by merging and entangling the two yarns in a commingling air jet and supplying directly to a warper to form a warp beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Bascum G. Lesley
  • Apparatus to merge and texturize mulitple filament yarns
    Patent number: 5675878
    Abstract: Apparatus to continuously draw, texture and warp polyester yam in which the texturing apparatus includes texturing balls mounted on a common mount for a plurality of texturing positions which individually can be rotated into and out of position without individual adjustment of each ball after rotation back into operative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Saul Brown, Ralph Allen Cantrell
  • Needled nonwoven fabric
    Patent number: 5672222
    Abstract: Method to produce a nonwoven needled fabric in which the needled fabric includes 15-30% of low melt nylon 6 and nylon 12 fusible fibers to aid in holding the nonwoven fabric together when passed through an oven to melt the fusible fibers and then allow them to cool and bind the fabric together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Paul William Eschenbach
  • Grasscatcher bag fabric
    Patent number: 5638703
    Abstract: A 3-bar Raschel warp knit fabric for use in grasscatcher bags which has an additional high tenacity yarn knit in to provide a lower elongation yarn in the course direction to prevent the grasscatcher bag from dragging the ground as it is being filled. The fabric also has a second textured needle lap stitch yarn to provide cover and to prevent the exhaust of dust to the atmosphere from the interior of the bag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 17, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Brian Callaway
  • Radial tire with bias cut woven nylon chafer fabric
    Patent number: 5609701
    Abstract: A wick proof woven chafer fabric for automotive radial tires has a monofilament fill yarn and a textured multifilament warp yarn. The chafer fabric comprises nylon yarns and is bias cut so that the warp and fill yarns extend at an angle to the bead of the radial tire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Roger H. Soderberg, Michael J. Chekan
  • Continuous process from interlacing to warping to provide a heather yarn
    Patent number: 5590447
    Abstract: Method to continuously merge two multifilament yarns supplied from bobbins on a creel by merging and entangling the two yarns in a commingling air jet and supplying directly to a warper to form a warp beam. The method includes feed rolls upstream and downstream of the air jets providing an overfeed of the yarns to the jet of about 2.3%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Andre M. Goineau
  • Automatic cutter adjustment
    Patent number: 5590511
    Abstract: A machine to produce filled packages having transverse seals at the top and bottom thereof created by severing a seal area between formed packages by cutting blades the position of which can be adjusted during running of the machine to vary the heights of the transverse seals. The adjustment of seal is caused by movement of a sliding bar member which causes the chain drive of the cutting mechanism to rotate in one direction or the other to move the cutting point of the blade relative to the uncut seal between adjacent packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 7, 1997
    Assignee: Milliken Packaging Corporation
    Inventor: Robert Morrison
  • Method of making a roofing membrane
    Patent number: 5569430
    Abstract: A method of making a roofing membrane having a reinforcing fabric saturated with a bituminous material. The reinforcing fabric comprises a first fiberglass scrim layer to which is stitched a non-woven polyester mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1996
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Brian Callaway, Morris D. Moore, III
  • Method to produce light-lock fabric
    Patent number: 5539964
    Abstract: A container for a strip (12) of light-sensitive material includes an elongated opening for withdrawing the material from the container. Strips (22) of light-locking material are provided on both sides of the opening, the strips being made from a napped and sheared woven fabric (12, 14). The fabric is dyed, dried, napped, sheared and heat set prior to preparation of the strips. A method of producing such a light-locking material is taught which includes steps of passing the woven fabric multiple times through napping and shearing operations to increase the pile density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Leonard A. Russum, Thomas B. Cobb
  • Industrial roofing fabric
    Patent number: 5540971
    Abstract: A triaxially wound non woven roofing membrane fabric is disclosed. The selvage areas of the fabric having an increased number of warp yarns in spaced groups to provide an area for the attachment of the fabric to a roof through the use of roofing tacks inserted through the selvage areas of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 30, 1996
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Mark D. Daurer, John M. Whispell