Patents Assigned to Douglas J. Glenn
  • Decorative fabrics
    Patent number: 4640209
    Abstract: This invention relates to decorative fabrics wherein effect yarns are present on the fabric with the effect yarn being in a longitudinally compressed bulked condition imparting an expanded cross-sectional width to the effect yarn and wherein a stitching thread secures the effect yarn in the compressed bulked condition so that there is imparted to the fabric an appearance attendant to an effect yarn much larger than that actually present on the fabric. Related method and apparatus are also disclosed for forming such decorative fabrics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Douglas J. Glenn
    Inventors: Julian H. Glenn, Douglas J. Glenn
  • Method and apparatus for forming decorative fabrics
    Patent number: 4640208
    Abstract: This invention relates to a novel method and apparatus for making novel decorative fabrics wherein effect yarns are present on the fabric with the effect yarn being fed in a longitudinally compressed bulked condition imparting an expanded cross-sectional width to the effect yarn and wherein a stitching thread secures the effect yarn in the compressed bulked condition so that there is imparted to the fabric an appearance attendant to an effect yarn much larger than that actually present on the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1987
    Assignee: Douglas J. Glenn
    Inventors: Julian H. Glenn, Douglas J. Glenn