Patents Assigned to Milliken Research Corporation
  • Video display arrangement
    Patent number: 4638969
    Abstract: A display arrangement for a video screen and a key board operably associated therewith in which the video is capable of vertical and horizontal rotary adjustment in conjunction with vertical and horizontal rotary motion of the key board. A shield is provided for the video screen to protect it from corrosive elements in the surrounding atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1987
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Walter J. Brown
  • Take-up tension control
    Patent number: 4633914
    Abstract: Apparatus and method to detect high tension in a web material being taken-up and cutting off the take-up device upon such detection to prevent stretching and necking of the fabric being handled. The detection device provides a time delay between detection of the condition of high tension and deactivation of the fabric take-up apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1987
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: William B. Carry
  • Apparatus for mechanically conditioning textile materials
    Patent number: 4631788
    Abstract: Method and apparatus to subject the face and back side of a fabric to successive impacting by a plurality of flaps to break up the fiber or filament bond thereof and increase the yarn-to-yarn mobility therein. The fabric is supplied at an angle to the impacting flaps and the flaps do not compact the fabric therebetween and cause a streak or lie therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 30, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Louis Dischler, Wolfgang K. F. Otto
  • P-formyl-N,N-dipolyoxyalkylenesubstitutedaniline
    Patent number: 4627939
    Abstract: A compound is provided of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is selected from alkyl, halide, or alkoxy; R.sub.2 is selected from H or alkyl; Y is a number of from 2 to about 200; and Z is selected from H or ##STR2## where W is alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 9, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick D. Moore, Robert L. Mahaffey, Jr.
  • Loop pile warp knit, weft inserted fabric
    Patent number: 4624116
    Abstract: A warp knit, weft inserted lap side loop pile fabric for use as the loop, fabric for an article of manufacture which has hooks thereon to engage the loops to hold the article of manufacture in a pre-selected position. In one form of the invention the lap side loop pile fabric is coated with an acrylic latex to provide strength and rigidity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Jack S. Rogers
  • N-t-alkyl-N-sec-alkyl secondary amine compounds
    Patent number: 4624980
    Abstract: An N-t-alkyl-N-sec-alkyl secondary amine compound of the formula: ##STR1## wherein X, Y and Z are each independently selected from --H, --OH, or an alkyl group having from 1 to about 15 carbon atoms; and n is an integer of from 3 to about 6.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: John W. Rekers, Edward W. Kluger
  • Air comb arrangement for jet dyeing machine
    Patent number: 4616794
    Abstract: Apparatus for the application of liquids to moving material, such as patterned application of dyes to moving textile material, including a liquid applicator positioned above the material path of travel for continuously discharging liquid in a row of plural streams downwardly onto the material, means for selectively deflecting selected of the continuously flowing streams in accordance with a pattern control device, and collection means for receiving the deflected liquid to prevent its contact with the moving material. The apparatus includes a novel air comb with air supply tubes in a pre-selected position relative to its particular dye jet in order to efficiently deflect the dye jet in the proper direction at the proper time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 14, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Herbert R. King
  • Buffing wheel
    Patent number: 4611362
    Abstract: A buffing wheel which employs a weft inserted, warp knit fabric which, when formed into the buffing wheel, has the weft inserted yarns projecting radially therefrom and the knit warp yarns extending in the peripheral direction thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Harold C. Sinclair
  • Pile fabric molding apparatus
    Patent number: 4610619
    Abstract: Pile fabric molding apparatus which incorporates a plurality of pin like members to allow the pile of the fabric being molded to pass therebetween while the pins contact the substrate of the pile fabric to maintain it at a position spaced from the mold member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Bascum G. Lesley
  • Method of forming air textured boucle yarn
    Patent number: 4610131
    Abstract: A boucle yarn is produced by entangling a drawn core yarn and an air textured, drawn effect yarn. The air textured, drawn effect yarn provides a plurality of randomly spaced curls or loops around the core yarn to produce the boucle yarn appearance. A number of the random curls or loops are embedded in the core yarn during the entangling process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Paul W. Eschenbach, Andre M. Goineau
  • Thiophene based fugitive colorants
    Patent number: 4601725
    Abstract: Fugitive colorants having the general formula:A--N.dbd.N--B--[(C)H].sub.nwherein A is thiophene or a thiophene derivative, N is nitrogen, B is a nitrogen containing organic dyestuff coupling component, C is a polymer chain bound to nitrogen in the dyestuff coupling component; said polymer chain being selected from polyethylene oxide, polypropylene oxide, polybutylene oxide and copolymers of polyethylene oxide, polypropylene oxide, and/or polybutylene oxide, said polymer chain having about x repeating monomeric units, n is an integer from 1 to 6 and the product of n times x is from about 50 to about 250. A coloration process is also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Margaret S. Keller, Edward W. Kluger
  • P-formyl-N,N-dipolyoxyalkylenesubstitutedaniline
    Patent number: 4594454
    Abstract: A compound is provided of the formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 is selected from alkyl, halide, or alkoxy; R.sub.2 is selected from H or alkyl; Y is a number of from 2 to about 200; and Z is selected from H or ##STR2## where W is alkyl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: June 10, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Patrick D. Moore, Robert L. Mahaffey, Jr.
  • Loom and method of weaving
    Patent number: 4590973
    Abstract: The invention provides a novel loom and method for weaving fabrics in which at least the weft comprises stiff strands for example in the form of tapes or bands. The weft strand (41) is frictionally gripped at one side of the warp array (40) and intermittently pushed through the shed to insert successive lengths of weft. In a preferred modification, a hollow guide (22) is advanced through the shed in the opposite direction to the pushing of the weft strand, the free or previously severed end of the strand is pushed into the hollow guide, for example by friction wheel drive (3),(31) mounted on sley (13), and the guide is retracted in the same direction and at the same time as the strand is pushed through the shed, such that the free end of the weft is inside the guide while it passes through the shed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Jack A. Wilkinson
  • Process for heat treating textile substrates to give colored pattern
    Patent number: 4589884
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for heat treating textile substrates wherein a substrate may be dyed in pattern configuration and, optionally, thermally modified to produce visual surface effects in the pattern areas in perfect registry. Dye is applied to the textile substrate, and optionally dried, without being fixed. Heat is selectively applied in pattern configuration to the substrate. The heat is sufficient to fix the dye in pattern configuration, at a pre-determined level of fixation, and may also be sufficient to cause thermal shrinkage or other thermally-induced physical modification to the substrate, also in pattern configuration. Unfixed dye may then be removed, leaving a pattern-dyed substrate which, optionally, may have physically modified areas in perfect registry. A mixture of dyes having different fixation energy levels may be used for multiple color effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 20, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Michael W. Gilpatrick
  • Air comb arrangement for jet dyeing machine
    Patent number: 4584854
    Abstract: Apparatus for the application of liquids to moving material, such as patterned application of dyes to moving textile material, including a liquid applicator positioned above the material path of travel for continuously discharging liquid in a row of plural streams downwardly onto the material, means for selectively deflecting selected of the continuously flowing streams in accordance with a pattern control device, and collection means for receiving the deflected liquid to prevent its contact with the moving material. The apparatus includes a novel air comb with air supply tubes in a pre-selected position relative to its particular dye jet in order to efficiently deflect the dye jet in the proper direction at the proper time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Herbert R. King
  • Optimum pressure control
    Patent number: 4580305
    Abstract: Pressure control system in which the pressure in a sealed vessel is continuously measured along with the temperature of the treatment fluid to maintain a predetermined pad pressure in the treatment vessel to prevent boil off or flashing of the treatment liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Lewis A. Bishop
  • Method for molding a pile fabric
    Patent number: 4581193
    Abstract: Method for molding a pile fabric molding using an apparatus which incorporates a plurality of pin like members to allow the pile of the fabric being molded to pass therebetween while the pins contact the substrate of the pile fabric to maintain it at a position spaced from the mold member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1984
    Date of Patent: April 8, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Bascum G. Lesley
  • Method for making a hot melt adhesive bonded pile fabric
    Patent number: 4576665
    Abstract: A hot melt adhesive bonded pile fabric is provided which comprises a liquid permeable base layer; a pile forming yarn adjacent to the base layer in pile forming fashion but not tufted through the base layer; the pile forming element having been bonded to the base layer by means of a hot melt adhesive applied to the back of said base layer. A method and apparatus for making fusion bonded, pile fabrics are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Greville Machell
  • Method for producing random-appearing patterns on fabric: nodes and line segments
    Patent number: 4576611
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for permanently patterning a textile fabric with a visually pleasing random-appearing network of line segments, as well as the fabrics produced thereby. The fabric is preferably calendered on at least one side, then packed into a heated chamber via a multi-stage folding or pleating process. The packed fabric is retained in the heated chamber a sufficient time to heat set the network of creases generated by the packing process. The fabric may then be dyed; creased portions of the fabric appear more saturated with dye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 18, 1986
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: William M. Pascoe, Sr.
  • Method for producing a di-acetal of sorbitol and an aromatic aldehyde
    Patent number: 4562265
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a di-acetal of sorbitol and an aromatic aldehyde wherein an aqueous solution containing a catalytic amount of a mineral acid and sorbitol is formed. Thereafter, an effective amount of an aromatic aldehyde such as benzaldehyde is incrementally admixed into the homogeneous aqueous admixture containing the sorbitol at a rate sufficient to allow a substantially spontaneous reaction to occur between the D-sorbitol and aromatic aldehyde; thus, forming an aqueous slurry containing crude di-acetal, e.g., dibenzylidene sorbitol. The amount of aromatic aldehyde employed is that amount sufficient to provide a molar ratio of D-sorbitol to aromatic aldehyde of from about 1:0.75 to about 1:1.75. Thereafter, the aqueous slurry is neutralized, and crude di-acetal is removed from the liquid phase and washed with water to remove mono-acetal impurities, e.g., monobenzylidene sorbitol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Greville Machell