Patents Assigned to Lee Company
  • Publication number: 20230235505
    Abstract: A yarn, fabric, or garment that includes a plurality of fibers or a fiber-based material. The yarn, fabric, or garment includes lignin as a primary dye agent. Lignin may be present in the plurality of fibers or the fiber-based material in a range of 0.3 percent to 10 percent by weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Applicant: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Akash Pardeshi
  • Patent number: 11618998
    Abstract: Dye baths including an aqueous solution including lignin in a range of 10% to 30% by weight of the aqueous solution are described. In addition, methods of dyeing fibers, yarns, textiles, or garments with an aqueous solution including 10% to 30% lignin by weight is disclosed. Further, methods of dyeing a fabric including preparing a first dye bath including an aqueous solution having lignin in a range of 10% to 30% by weight of the aqueous solution and passing a fabric through the first dye bath such that the fabric pics up lignin to dye the fabric is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Akash Pardeshi
  • Patent number: 11576444
    Abstract: Disclosed is a retro-reflective fabric, having an inner surface and an outer surface; one or more strands of retro-reflective yarn incorporated into the fabric; and a reflective ink coupled to the outer surface of the fabric. Also provided is a method of making a retro-reflective fabric, including: providing a coated retro-reflective yarn; incorporating the coated retro-reflective yarn into the weave or knit of a fabric; and disposing a reflective ink into an outward facing surface of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Josue Monge, Samuel Beagle
  • Patent number: 11433638
    Abstract: Provided are garments that comprise thermally-conductive materials, the materials comprising a heat-collecting coating disposed on a fibrous base material having a thermally-conductive additive dispersed within. Also provided are methods of fabricating thermally-conductive garments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Yongxin Wang, Josue Monge
  • Patent number: 11344071
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a garment includes a garment substrate and a pattern formed on the substrate that emulates the contours of an ideally proportioned body so as to give observers the impression of the ideal proportions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald D. Hoffman, Darren Peshek, Stephen Frederick Dull, Stephen Harilaos Zades, Robin O'Neill Fisher
  • Publication number: 20210403718
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides dye compounds for use in dyeing textiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Dennis Scheer, Paul Gerard Hoertz, Amsarani Ramamoorthy, Rajeev Rajbhandari, Caroline Elizabeth Hagerman, Alexander Peter Dirk Massey, Alexander Mark Hellawell, Asadollah Fallah, Ruhksana Quyoum
  • Patent number: 11208559
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides dye compounds for use in dyeing textiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhakar Puvvada, Dennis Scheer, Paul Gerard Hoertz, Amsarani Ramamoorthy, Rajeev Rajbhandari, Caroline Elizabeth Hagerman, Alexander Peter Dirk Massey, Alexander Mark Hellawell, Asadollah Fallah, Ruhksana Quyoum
  • Patent number: 11129422
    Abstract: Systems or methods for anatomy warping a garment are provided. Anatomy warping is any deliberate manipulation of a garment's seams, pockets, and/or other construction lines and/or details in order to change the perceived shape of a wearer of the garment toward a desired appearance. Additionally, the garments that result from use of these systems and methods for anatomy warping are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren J. Peshek, Justin T. Mark, Brian Marion, Kyle Stephens, Donald Hoffman, Stephen H. Zades
  • Publication number: 20210285153
    Abstract: Dye baths including an aqueous solution including lignin in a range of 10% to 30% by weight of the aqueous solution. In addition, methods of dyeing fibers, yarns, textiles, or garments with an aqueous solution including 10% to 30% lignin by weight is disclosed. Further, methods of dyeing a fabric including preparing a first dye bath including an aqueous solution having lignin in a range of 10% to 30% by weight of the aqueous solution and passing a fabric through the first dye bath such that the fabric pics up lignin to dye the fabric is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Akash Pardeshi
  • Publication number: 20210100302
    Abstract: A garment comprises yarns that include an elastic component and includes an uncoated region and a discrete coated region. The discrete coated region includes a coating that includes an acrylic polymer or copolymer thereof. The coated region has an air permeability substantially similar to the air permeability of the uncoated region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Achille Bivigou, Meghan Surra, Akash Pardeshi
  • Publication number: 20180168256
    Abstract: Systems or methods for anatomy striping a garment are provided. Anatomy striping is any deliberate manipulation of a garment's stripe pattern in order to change the perceived shape of a wearer of the garment toward a desired appearance. Additionally, the garments that result from use of these systems and methods for anatomy striping are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: HD Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren Peshek, Kyle Stephens, Brian Marion, Justin Mark
  • Patent number: 7543720
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for dispensing small volumes of fluid using a pneumatic control valve connected to the intake port of a pump having a chamber of variable volume, connecting the outlet port of the pump to the inlet port of a high speed flow control valve and a long, small diameter nozzle to the outlet port of the flow control valve, to aspirate a fluid to be dispensed into a long, small diameter nozzle by closing the pneumatic control valve, opening the flow control valve and partially expanding the volume of the pump chamber, then closing the flow control valve and further expanding the volume of the pump chamber to increase the gaseous volume within the pump chamber, pressurizing the gas within the pump chamber by closing the pneumatic control valve and reducing the volume of the pump chamber, finally dispensing a measured amount of fluid by briefly opening the flow control valve for a measured time to allow controlled amounts of fluid to be dispensed through the nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: The Lee Company
    Inventor: Arthur Nadel
  • Patent number: 6863276
    Abstract: A method and device for sealing or reducing holes or their connection with a tube end or similar fitting is characterized by at least one element with disc shaped surface with a rim smaller than the diameter of the hole to receive the element worth cone or some shaped surface with the wall of the drill hole under axial pressure, possibly with an additional tumbling action, and at least a temporary support of the element, the element of the device being placed into the drill hole and then with axial pressure from outside, e.g. by a punch, possible with an additional tumbling action, at least a radial shift of the disc shaped surface of the element and a press fit with the wall of the drill hole is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: The Lee Company
    Inventor: Rene Kaegi
  • Patent number: 6708978
    Abstract: A method and device for sealing or reducing holes or their connection with a tube end or similar fitting is characterized by at least one element with disc shaped surface with a rim smaller than the diameter of the hole to receive the element worth cone or some shaped surface with the wall of the drill hole under axial pressure, possibly with an additional tumbling action, and at least a temporary support of the element, the element of the device being placed into the drill hole and then with axial pressure from outside, e.g. by a punch, possible with an additional tumbling action, at least a radial shift of the disc shaped surface of the element and a press fit with the wall of the drill hole is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Assignee: The Lee Company
    Inventor: Rene Kägi
  • Publication number: 20020131324
    Abstract: The present invention is a frozen drink machine and a method for making frozen drinks from a frozen substance which has been frozen into a block. According to the method of the present invention, a block of frozen substance is held in a vessel while a rotatable blade having features for grinding the frozen substance, and if desirable, for aerating the ground frozen substance, acts on the block, grinding the frozen substance while a heated liquid is simultaneously introduced into the vessel. An apparatus according to the present invention supports a cup containing the frozen substance, and includes a rotatable blade which is lowered into the cup and means for pumping a heated liquid into the cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Publication date: September 19, 2002
    Applicant: Stevens-Lee Company
    Inventor: James J. Farrell
  • Publication number: 20020044997
    Abstract: The present invention is a frozen drink machine and a method for making frozen drinks from a frozen substance which has been frozen into a block. According to the method of the present invention, a block of frozen substance is held in a vessel while a rotatable blade having features for grinding the frozen substance, and if desirable, for aerating the ground frozen substance, acts on the block, grinding the frozen substance while a heated liquid is simultaneously introduced into the vessel. An apparatus according to the present invention supports a cup containing the frozen substance, and includes a rotatable blade which is lowered into the cup and means for pumping a heated liquid into the cup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2001
    Publication date: April 18, 2002
    Applicant: Stevens-Lee Company
    Inventor: James J. Farrell
  • Patent number: 6326047
    Abstract: The present invention is a frozen drink machine and a method for making frozen drinks from a frozen substance which has been frozen into a block. According to the method of the present invention, a block of frozen substance is held in a vessel while a rotatable blade having features for grinding the frozen substance and, if desirable, for aerating the ground frozen substance, acts on the block, grinding the frozen substance while a heated liquid is simultaneously introduced into the vessel. An apparatus according to the present invention supports a cup containing the frozen substance, and includes a rotatable blade which is lowered into the cup and means for pumping a heated liquid into the cup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2001
    Assignee: Stevens-Lee Company
    Inventor: James J. Farrell
  • Patent number: 6095372
    Abstract: A beverage dispenser, usable in dispensing milk, has a large refrigerated cabinet for housing large beverage containers. The beverage dispenser has a handle/valve with a first closed position, a second open position, and a third position for insertion and removal of a flexible milk tube. The handle includes two arms, and the user holds a cup between the two arms to receive the dispensed milk. The valve includes a cooling plate which refrigerates the milk in the flexible milk tube extending through the valve. The valve has a pinch plate which closes the flexible tube with a rocking motion, initially pinching the flexible tube at its lowest point and subsequently reopening the tube slightly to suck any beverage drops on the end of the tube back up into the tube. A hinged shelf is provided for ease of loading and unloading milk cases in and out of the refrigerated cabinet. The milk case has angled hand hold openings to allow lifting without repositioning of the wrists.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2000
    Assignee: Stevens-Lee Company
    Inventors: Steven T. Dorsey, Jerome D. Powlas, Karl D. Johnson
  • Patent number: D840638
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren J. Peshek, Justin T. Mark, Brian Marion, Kyle Stephens, Donald Hoffman, Stephen H. Zades, Varun Wadhawan
  • Patent number: D945121
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Darren J. Peshek, Brian Marion, Justin T. Mark, Kyle Stephens, Stephen H. Zades, Robin O. Fisher, David Tring, Varun Wadhawan, Hwei Ching Jenny Chan