Patents Assigned to The Lee Company
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Publication number: 20230235505Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Akash Pardeshi
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Patent number: 11618998Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Akash Pardeshi
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Patent number: 11576444Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Josue Monge, Samuel Beagle
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Patent number: 11433638Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Yongxin Wang, Josue Monge
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Patent number: 11344071Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Donald D. Hoffman, Darren Peshek, Stephen Frederick Dull, Stephen Harilaos Zades, Robin O'Neill Fisher
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Patent number: 11253909Abstract: An installation tool for installing an insert into a bore having a bore material, the insert having a fluid component disposed within a housing, the installation tool including: an outer tool member and an inner tool member, the inner tool member being concentric with, smaller in diameter than, and slidingly engaged within the outer tool member, the inner tool member being configured to axially drive the insert into the bore; wherein an upper end of the outer tool member forms and defines a blind cavity between the inner tool member at one end of the blind cavity and a cavity end wall at an opposing end of the blind cavity; wherein a resilient biasing member is disposed within the blind cavity, the resilient biasing member being configured to provide an axial load on the inner tool member.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: THE LEE COMPANYInventors: Serge Doyen, Damian Bianchi, Joseph Riccitelli, Dave Courcy
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Publication number: 20210403718Abstract: The present disclosure provides dye compounds for use in dyeing textiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Applicant: 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
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Patent number: 11208559Abstract: The present disclosure provides dye compounds for use in dyeing textiles.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: 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
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Patent number: 11193514Abstract: A fluid flow resistor includes: a body having entry and exit fluid flow ports, and an internal fluid flow path fluidly extending between the entry and exit fluid flow ports; the internal fluid flow path having a first spiral fluid flow path in a first spiral direction, and a second spiral fluid flow path in a second spiral direction opposite the first spiral direction; each of the first spiral flow path and the second spiral flow path having a plurality of discrete flow chambers fluidly connected in series via interconnecting fluid flow restriction passages; the first and second spiral flow paths having a connecting fluid flow path therebetween; the fluid flow resistor being configured to resistively permit fluid flow from the entry fluid flow port to the exit fluid flow port via the first spiral flow path, the connecting fluid flow path, and the second spiral flow path, in succession.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: THE LEE COMPANYInventor: Scott M. Whynall
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Patent number: 11129422Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Darren J. Peshek, Justin T. Mark, Brian Marion, Kyle Stephens, Donald Hoffman, Stephen H. Zades
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Publication number: 20210285153Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Akash Pardeshi
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Publication number: 20210100302Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Applicant: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Dhruv Agarwal, Achille Bivigou, Meghan Surra, Akash Pardeshi
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Patent number: 10352458Abstract: A method for removably securing a component within a bore having a shoulder, includes: forming a housing with a generally cylindrical wall with an open first axial end and a partially closed second axial end having an annular shoulder, and an annular lip section at the first end of the cylindrical housing wall, the lip section having a radially outwardly projecting and circumferentially extending annular ridge, an inner chamfer creating a frustoconical surface with a base toward the housing first axial end and an outer chamfer creating a frustonconical surface with a base toward the housing first axial end; and, inserting the housing into the bore, engaging the bore shoulder, engaging the inner chamfer of the housing lip section with a tool for applying axial force, the tool having a conical surface corresponding to and engageable with the housing inner chamfer, and applying axial force against the inner chamfer by means of the conical surface of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: THE LEE COMPANYInventor: Serge Doyen
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Patent number: 10047866Abstract: A device is formed that will accept or itself be a component to be inserted into and removably secured in a bore, the device being a cup shaped housing with a cylindrical wall and a floor in which there may be a central opening, the open end of the housing has an inner chamfer and an outer chamfer and an outwardly protruding ridge extending around the open end, and the device is used by inserting into a bore, with or without a separate component secured inside the housing, and forcing the ridge to expand into the bore wall by way of a tool having an outer conical surface corresponding to the inner chamfer, after which the housing can be removed by forcing the open end and ridge to compact by way of a tool having an inner conical surface corresponding to the housing outer chamfer.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: THE LEE COMPANYInventor: Serge Doyen
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Publication number: 20180168256Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: HD Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Darren Peshek, Kyle Stephens, Brian Marion, Justin Mark
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Patent number: 7543720Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 4, 2004Date of Patent: June 9, 2009Assignee: The Lee CompanyInventor: Arthur Nadel
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Patent number: D838085Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: THE H.D. LEE COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Darren J. Peshek, Justin T. Mark, Brian Marion, Kyle Stephens, Donald Hoffman, Stephen H. Zades, Varun Wadhawan
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Patent number: D840638Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: The H.D. Lee Company, Inc.Inventors: Darren J. Peshek, Justin T. Mark, Brian Marion, Kyle Stephens, Donald Hoffman, Stephen H. Zades, Varun Wadhawan
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Patent number: D841940Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignee: THE H.D. LEE COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Darren J. Peshek, Justin T. Mark, Brian Marion, Kyle Stephens, Donald Hoffman, Stephen H. Zades, Varun Wadhawan
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Patent number: D945121Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: 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