Patents Assigned to Johns Manville International, Inc.
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Patent number: 6108879Abstract: Resilient battery separator media, especially adapted for use as battery separators for starved electrolyte batteries, are formed from air laid, fibrous mats of randomly oriented, entangled microfibers which may be needled to further entangle the fibers. The fibrous mats may be essentially uniform in density throughout their thickness or may include one or two relatively high density, high tensile strength fibrous surface layer(s) and a relatively low density, more resilient fibrous layer integral with and, in one embodiment, intermediate the two surface layers wherein the fibers in the surface layer(s) of the mats are more entangled than the fibers in the resilient layer. The fibrous mats, with one or two surface layers, are formed from the air laid fibrous mats by further entangling the fibers at and adjacent one or both surfaces of the mats, e.g. through hydroentanglement, relative to the entanglement of the fibers in the resilient fibrous layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 1998Date of Patent: August 29, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Don August Forte, Joseph Rumiesz, Jr., Michael John Cusick, Phillip Charles Martin
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Patent number: 6107224Abstract: Glass compositions displaying decreased far infrared radiation transmission, high biosolubility, and excellent moisture resistance are capable of fiberization by the rotary process, and may be used to prepare thermal insulation products exhibiting high thermal insulation efficiency as reflected by low thermal index values. The insulation products also exhibit excellent stiffness and recovery properties.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 1998Date of Patent: August 22, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Xiaojie Xu, Foster Laverne Harding, Mark Alan Albers
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Patent number: 6103049Abstract: A fibrous work piece, e.g. a glass fiber mat or blanket, is simultaneously cut, sealed and encapsulated using a focused, high energy liquid jet containing a sealant. The sealant in the focused, high energy liquid jet is deposited on and seals the edges of the kerf formed by the cutting operation to encapsulate dust and short length fibers formed by the cutting of the fibrous work piece. The focused, high energy liquid jet is emitted from a nozzle and the sealant is introduced into and mixed with the liquid before the liquid exits the nozzle. Portions of the fibrous work piece can be compressed by hold down shoes or by one or more high pressure air streams directed onto the work piece adjacent where the work piece is being cut to facilitate the formation of a cleaner edge on the kerf being cut in the fibrous work piece.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 1994Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventor: Daniel Joseph Batdorf
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Patent number: 6095321Abstract: A conveyor belt (5) for transport systems is described, containing an areal textile configuration based on predominantly synthetic yarns, characterized in that the conveyor belt has the form of an endless strip and the yarns extending in the running direction of the conveyor belt are elastic, the elastic yarns having a maximum tensile elongation of at least 60% and consisting at least 70 wt. %, referred to total yarn weight, of a thermoplastic, elastomer copolyether ester containing recurrent structural units of formulas I and II,--O--OC--Ar.sup.2 --CO--O--R.sup.4 -- (I)and--O--OC--Ar.sup.3 --CO--O--R.sup.5 -- (II),where Ar.sup.2 and Ar.sup.3 independently of each other represent bivalent aromatic radicals,R.sup.4 represents a bivalent aliphatic or cycloaliphatic radical, andR.sup.5 stands for the bivalent radical of a polyalkylene ether.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1998Date of Patent: August 1, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Peter Striegl, Achim Sohn
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Patent number: 6093485Abstract: A fiber glass mat especially useful for bonding to foam contains glass fibers and a "B" staged acrylic resin having a glass transition temperature above 45 degrees C., the method of making the mat, a precursor for a foam laminate, a method for making a foam laminate, and the product produced by the latter method are disclosed. The mat conforms well to any curvature on the foam layer and stiffens the foam layer resulting in a superior foam laminate for making automotive parts like headliners.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 1999Date of Patent: July 25, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventor: Alan Michael Jaffee
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Patent number: 6083594Abstract: A fibrous insulation blanket is pre-cut for custom fitting the insulation blanket into structural framework building cavities of different widths. The width of the blanket is substantially equal to the width of a standard cavity to be insulated by the blanket and the blanket has one or more longitudinally extending cuts in a first major surface of the blanket. The cut(s) have a depth greater than one half of the thickness of the blanket and less than the thickness of the blanket whereby the blanket can be handled as a unit for insulating a cavity having a standard cavity width or easily torn apart at a cut by hand for insulating a cavity having less than a standard cavity width. The second major surface of the blanket may have a facing bonded thereto with one or more perforated lines in the facing aligned with the cut(s) to facilitate tearing apart the blanket by hand if required.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1998Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Larry J. Weinstein, Robert J. Allwein, John A. Fry, Vern C. Plotts, Jo M. Teague, William H. Olbert
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Patent number: 6077883Abstract: The present invention relates to a glass fiber binding composition having an effective binding amount of a furan resin, an effective emulsifying amount of an emulsifier agent, and sufficient amount of water to result in a binding composition having from 0.5 to 80% N.V. The invention further pertains to a process of binding glass fibers at junctions of the fibers comprising the steps of providing glass fibers, applying an effect binding amount of an emulsified glass fiber binding composition to the junctions of the glass fibers, and curing the binder at the junctions of the glass fibers. Finally, the invention also discloses a glass fiber composition comprising a plurality of glass fibers having a plurality of junctions where two or more fibers meet, and an effective binding amount of an emulsified glass fiber binding composition applied to a portion of the junctions of the glass fibers.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 1995Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignees: Johns Manville International, Inc., QO Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Thomas John Taylor, William Henry Kielmeyer, Carlo Martin Golino, Carl A. Rude
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Patent number: 6076442Abstract: A new type of multi-chopper for cutting strands or ribbon shaped material such as strands of glass fibers, and a method of using this chopper, is disclosed. The chopper has at least two chopper assemblies on a rotating frame. When one chopper assembly needs repair, the frame is rotated which brings a rebuilt or repaired chopper assembly into operating position quickly and also brings the assembly needing repair into a position where it can be worked on while the other chopper is operating resulting in much reduced downtime. The frame of the chopper can rotate around a vertical or horizontal line, or around a line passing through two opposite corners of a frame.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 1999Date of Patent: June 20, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Russell D. Arterburn, Randall C. Bascom, Shawn E. Dennis, Douglas J. Kempski
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Patent number: 6071651Abstract: A resilient battery separator, especially suited for use in a starved electrolyte battery, is made of an air laid fibrous mat of randomly oriented, entangled microfibers having a mean diameter between 0.5 and 2.0 microns. The air laid mat weighs between 50 and 450 g/m.sup.2 and has a thickness between 0.01 and 0.5 inches. The fibrous mat may be essentially uniform in density throughout its thickness or may include one or two relatively high density, high tensile strength fibrous surface layer(s) and a relatively low density, more resilient fibrous layer integral with and, in one embodiment, intermediate the two surface layers. The microfibers in the surface layer(s) are more entangled than the microfibers in the resilient layer. In a starved electrolyte battery, the separator has a thickness, when subjected to a loading of 1.5 psi, that is equal to or greater than the spacing between the electrode plates of the battery and, preferably, at least 110% of the spacing between the electrode plates of the battery.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1998Date of Patent: June 6, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Don August Forte, Joseph Rumiesz, Jr., Michael John Cusick, Phillip Charles Martin
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Patent number: 6069204Abstract: The present invention is directed to a monofilament made from a blend of a polyester having a polyhydric alcohol of 1,4-cyclohexane-dimethanol, a polyamide, and a polyolefin. This blend is useful as an article of paper making machine clothing when the blend is in the form of a fiber structure. Particularly, this blend is useful in spiral fabrics having good dry-heat strength and hydrolysis resistance.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1995Date of Patent: May 30, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Herbert Dewey Stroud, Jr., Paul R. Cadmus
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Patent number: 6062048Abstract: Apparatus and methods of using the apparatus to automate a labor intensive portion of the process of making continuous fiber products, like chopped glass fiber. In this process many fiberizers are used, each fiberizer forming as many as several thousand fibers. Fibers break frequently requiring the fiberizers to be restarted and this has always been a labor intensive part of the process. Apparatus for getting the fiberizers ready to restart quickly and for forming a fiber strand, apparatus for gripping the strand, breaking it and transporting it to strand pulling and processing equipment and apparatus for moving a newly started strand into a desired position on an optional strand separating and guiding means, and methods of using the apparatus are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 1999Date of Patent: May 16, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Russell D. Arterburn, Larry Edward Howard
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Patent number: 6045645Abstract: Disclosed is a base inliner comprising a textile sheet material and a reinforcement, wherein said reinforcement comprises monofilaments whose diameter is at least 0.1 mm, preferably between 0.1 and 1 mm. The base inliner is useful for producing optionally bituminized roofing and sealing membranes.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 1999Date of Patent: April 4, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Werner Groh, Hans-Jurgen Profe, Michael Schops
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Patent number: 6043169Abstract: A method of making a fibrous, nonwoven electrically conductive mat particularly suited for use in making a glass fiber reinforced product is disclosed. The mat contains a majority of glass fibers with a majority of the glass fibers having a conductive material like an aluminum coating on at least a part of the surface of the glass fibers. The fibers are bonded together with a stretchable resin binder when the mat is to be used to mold a part having a complex curved surface, and a conventional binder when the mat is intended for flat or simple curved parts. The mats of the invention have a surface resistivity of less than about one million ohms/Sq. and usually less than 500 ohms/Sq. and are particularly useful in the manufacture of satellite antenna dishes.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1997Date of Patent: March 28, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventor: Alan Michael Jaffee
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Patent number: 6030905Abstract: A filter material is described containing synthetic yarns based on a thermoplastic, elastomer copolyether ester. The yarns contain at least 70 wt. %, referred to total yarn weight, of a thermoplastic, elastomer copolyether ester containing at least 95 wt. %, referred to the total weight of the thermoplastic, elastomer copolyether ester, of the recurrent structural units of formulas I and II,--O--OC--Ar.sup.2 --CO--O--R.sup.4 (I)and--O--OC--Ar.sup.3 --CO--O--R.sup.5 (II),where Ar.sup.2 and Ar.sup.3 independently of each other represent bivalent aromatic radicals,R.sup.4 represents a bivalent aliphatic or cycloaliphatic radical, andR.sup.5 stands for the bivalent radical of a polyalkylene ether.The invention also relates to a method of producing this filter material and to a filter press containing such a filter material.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 1998Date of Patent: February 29, 2000Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Peter Striegl, Achim Sohn
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Patent number: 6008147Abstract: A fiber glass mat especially useful for bonding to foam contains glass fibers and a "B" staged acrylic resin having a glass transition temperature above 45 degrees C., the method of making the mat, a precursor for a foam laminate, a method for making a foam laminate, and the product produced by the latter method are disclosed. The mat conforms well to any curvature on the foam layer and stiffens the foam layer resulting in a superior foam laminate for making automotive parts like headliners.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1998Date of Patent: December 28, 1999Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventor: Alan Michael Jaffee
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Patent number: 5992634Abstract: New product intended for use with hazardous materials is packaged in a container that is also capable of being used to ship and dispose of the spent product containing hazardous materials meeting the requirements of UN NA 3085 for Group II Packs for UN DOT Group II hazardous materials and being also capable of being ground up and used for fuel in the manufacture of cement. This method of shipment and novel package is especially useful for shipping filter cartridges intended to be used to filter hazardous materials and to dispose of the spent filter cartridges, producing a novel new product useful as a shipping package and as fuel. Also disclosed is a new filter cartridge that simplifies the new method and package, and the method of making the cartridge.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 1995Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Jeff Keven Woodring, Charles Lostak
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Patent number: 5993501Abstract: A composite filter media includes a fibrous filtration layer of randomly oriented fibers and one or more pleatable stiffening layers which enable the composite filter media to be pleated and hold or retain its pleats. The pleatable stiffening layer(s) may enhance the dirt holding capacity of the composite filter media especially when positioned upstream of the fibrous filtration layer. The composite filter media may also include a flexible covering layer which functions to block the loss of fibers from the fibrous filtration layer. Preferably, the mean fiber diameter of the fibers in fibrous filtration layer increases and the density of the fibrous filtration layer decreases throughout the thickness of the fibrous filtration layer from one major surface to the other major surface of the fibrous filtration layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 1998Date of Patent: November 30, 1999Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Michael John Cusick, Fred Lee Jackson, Charles Francis Kern, Craig Donald DePorter
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Patent number: 5987858Abstract: A movable retaining wall is used in a first position in a compression baler to retain a compressed mass, such as microfibers, and is then moved to a second position into an opening in a wall of a packaging chamber filling the opening such that a gap between the edges of the interior surface of the retaining wall and the edges of the opening is too small to allow the compressed material to enter the gap when it passes through the packaging chamber and past the gap. To accomplish this requires the use of hidden hinges to guide the retaining wall as it moves from the first position to the second position and back to the first position. The hidden hinges allow the retaining wall to move essentially straight out of the opening in the wall of the packaging chamber before it begins to pivot towards the second position, thus allowing the tight fit.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 1995Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventor: James Michael Long
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Patent number: 5985961Abstract: Elastomeric monofilament exhibiting improved long term retention of strength and elongation after exposure to test conditions described by SAE J-1885 are disclosed. The monofilaments comprise in specified amounts as weight percents on weight of monofilament:(1) at least one elastomeric copolyester polymer, and a stabilizing system comprising:(2) at least 1% carbon black,(3) at least one antioxidant,(4) an oligomeric hindered piperidinyl (HALS) compound having a pK.sub.a of less than 7 or a pK.sub.a from 7 to 12 in combination with an acid scavenger, and(5) a UV stabilizer other than a hindered piperidinyl (HALS) compound.The preferred embodiment is a heterofilament wherein the sheath copolyester has a lower melting point than the core and contains (4) according to: ##STR1## as specified.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1997Date of Patent: November 16, 1999Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Bernard C. Dailey, Daniel J. Scharf, Klaus Keck-Antoine
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Patent number: 5981062Abstract: The present invention is directed to a monofilament made from a blend of a polyester having a polyhydric alcohol of 1,4-cyclohexane-dimethanol, and a polyamide. This blend is useful as an article of paper making machine clothing used in forming, pressing, or drying sections of a paper making machine when the blend is in the form of a fiber structure. The blends usefulness stems from its dry-heat strength and hydrolysis resistance.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 1993Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.Inventors: Hebert Dewey Stroud, Jr., Paul R. Cadmus