Patents by Inventor Alistair Alfred Preston Sutherland

Alistair Alfred Preston Sutherland has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Dimensionally heat-recoverable article
    Patent number: 5869153
    Abstract: Heat-shrinkable sleeves of relatively opaque polymeric material having a relatively transparent integral strip (or other formation) to facilitate positioning of the sleeve on an article about which it is to be shrunk. The opaque portions of the sleeves preferably incorporate sufficient flame-retardant additives to compensate for the absence of such additives from the transparent portions, which transparent portions preferably occupy less of the sleeve surface than the opaque portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Raychem Limited
    Inventors: Alistair Alfred Preston Sutherland, Sean Michael Lewington, Keith Nelson Melton