Patents by Inventor Antony Morton

Antony Morton 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).

  • Patent number: 11465405
    Abstract: A device for producing a pattern combination on a clothing includes the following: a rotary screen, a cylindrical jacket surface with a perforation pattern that defines a first pattern component. Material in the liquid or pasty state is pressed through the perforations of the jacket surface of the rotary screen and deposited on the surface of the clothing in order to produce the first pattern component on a surface of the clothing, while the rotary screen, rotating several times about a longitudinal axis thereof, rolls on the surface of the clothing in at least one path that continuously revolves on the surface of the clothing at least once. At least one device produces, synchronously and/or simultaneously, a second pattern component, which device is connected indirectly or directly to the rotary screen. The device for producing the pattern combination also includes a post-run system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Paul Raymond Riding, David Stuart Ponton, Andrew Allum, Antony Morton
  • Publication number: 20200173107
    Abstract: A device for producing a pattern combination on a clothing includes the following: a rotary screen, a cylindrical jacket surface with a perforation pattern that defines a first pattern component. Material in the liquid or pasty state is pressed through the perforations of the jacket surface of the rotary screen and deposited on the surface of the clothing in order to produce the first pattern component on a surface of the clothing, while the rotary screen, rotating several times about a longitudinal axis thereof, rolls on the surface of the clothing in at least one path that continuously revolves on the surface of the clothing at least once. At least one device produces, synchronously and/or simultaneously, a second pattern component, which device is connected indirectly or directly to the rotary screen. The device for producing the pattern combination also includes a post-run system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: PAUL RAYMOND RIDING, DAVID STUART PONTON, ANDREW ALLUM, ANTONY MORTON
  • Publication number: 20200087858
    Abstract: A device for producing a pattern combination on a clothing includes the following: a rotary screen, a cylindrical jacket surface with a perforation pattern that defines a first pattern component. Material in the liquid or pasty state is pressed through the perforations of the jacket surface of the rotary screen and deposited on the surface of the clothing in order to produce the first pattern component on a surface of the clothing, while the rotary screen, rotating several times about a longitudinal axis thereof, rolls on the surface of the clothing in at least one path that continuously revolves on the surface of the clothing at least once. At least one device produces, synchronously and/or simultaneously, a second pattern component, which device is connected indirectly or directly to the rotary screen. The device for producing the pattern combination also includes a post-run system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: PAUL RAYMOND RIDING, DAVID STUART PONTON, ANDREW ALLUM, ANTONY MORTON
  • Patent number: 10501889
    Abstract: A clothing for a machine producing and/or processing a fibrous web extending in longitudinal and widthwise directions, includes a basic structure providing dimensional stability in longitudinal and/or widthwise directions. The structure includes a band-shaped, one-piece grid having widthwise-adjacent first material strands and polymer material having lengths in a longitudinal direction, and adjacent second interconnected material strands and/or droplets and polymer material, contacting the first strands at contact points forming the grid. The strands and/or droplets are deposited by extrusion of the polymer materials in liquid or pasty state onto a depositing surface forming a portion or all of the grid in liquid or pasty state, the polymer materials are solidified, converting the portion or the grid from liquid or pasty to solidified, stable, self-supporting state producing bonding at the contact points, and removing the portion or the grid from the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Abraham, Antony Morton
  • Patent number: 10435828
    Abstract: A woven-fabric belt for producing web material, in particular for producing spunbonded fabric, with a plurality of longitudinal threads, running substantially in a longitudinal belt direction, and a plurality of transverse threads, running substantially in a transverse belt direction. The longitudinal threads bind with the transverse threads at binder points, and crown regions of the longitudinal threads are formed on a web-material contacting side. On the web-material contacting side a multiplicity of deposits are provided at least on the longitudinal threads. The deposits do not extend into crown regions and/or deposits which do extend into crown regions in the longitudinal belt direction are asymmetrical in relation to a respective crown region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Koeckritz, Juergen Abraham, Antony Morton
  • Publication number: 20180220726
    Abstract: An industrial clothing, in particular a clothing for a machine for manufacturing a fibrous web, such as a paper, cardboard, or tissue web, or a non-woven product, is manufactured by: i) forming a planar structure from yarn in the form of a woven fabric, a cross-laid structure, a knitted fabric, a warp-knitted fabric; or from interconnected helical elements; ii) applying polymer material in the form of at least one group of beads to at least one surface of the planar structure, the application of the polymer commencing at starting points and terminating at terminal points remote from the starting points; iii) repeating step ii), wherein terminating points of the group of beads are spaced apart from starting points of at least one further group of beads, which generates regions with a void between the groups on the surface of the planar structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: ANTONY MORTON, ANDREW ALLUM, DAVID STUART PONTON, PAUL RAYMOND RIDING
  • Publication number: 20170321377
    Abstract: A device for producing a pattern combination on a clothing includes the following: a rotary screen, a cylindrical jacket surface with a perforation pattern that defines a first pattern component. Material in the liquid or pasty state is pressed through the perforations of the jacket surface of the rotary screen and deposited on the surface of the clothing in order to produce the first pattern component on a surface of the clothing, while the rotary screen, rotating several times about a longitudinal axis thereof, rolls on the surface of the clothing in at least one path that continuously revolves on the surface of the clothing at least once. At least one device produces, synchronously and/or simultaneously, a second pattern component, which device is connected indirectly or directly to the rotary screen. The device for producing the pattern combination also includes a post-run system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: PAUL RAYMOND RIDING, DAVID STUART PONTON, ANDREW ALLUM, ANTONY MORTON
  • Publication number: 20170260664
    Abstract: A woven-fabric belt for producing web material, in particular for producing spunbonded fabric, with a plurality of longitudinal threads, running substantially in a longitudinal belt direction, and a plurality of transverse threads, running substantially in a transverse belt direction. The longitudinal threads bind with the transverse threads at binder points, and crown regions of the longitudinal threads are formed on a web-material contacting side. On the web-material contacting side a multiplicity of deposits are provided at least on the longitudinal threads. The deposits do not extend into crown regions and/or deposits which do extend into crown regions in the longitudinal belt direction are asymmetrical in relation to a respective crown region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: UWE KOECKRITZ, JUERGEN ABRAHAM, ANTONY MORTON
  • Publication number: 20170183819
    Abstract: A clothing for a machine producing and/or processing a fibrous web extending in longitudinal and widthwise directions, includes a basic structure providing dimensional stability in longitudinal and/or widthwise directions. The structure includes a band-shaped, one-piece grid having widthwise-adjacent first material strands and polymer material having lengths in a longitudinal direction, and adjacent second interconnected material strands and/or droplets and polymer material, contacting the first strands at contact points forming the grid. The strands and/or droplets are deposited by extrusion of the polymer materials in liquid or pasty state onto a depositing surface forming a portion or all of the grid in liquid or pasty state, the polymer materials are solidified, converting the portion or the grid from liquid or pasty to solidified, stable, self-supporting state producing bonding at the contact points, and removing the portion or the grid from the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Inventors: Juergen ABRAHAM, Antony MORTON
  • Patent number: 9365975
    Abstract: A press felt includes a base structure providing dimensional stability in a machine and a cross machine direction of the felt, a batt fiber structure including batt fiber layers attached to the base structure which provide a paper contacting side and a machine contacting side of the felt. The base structure includes a first and second side. Polymeric beads or strands made from a polymeric material are arranged on at least one of the two sides of the base structure. The polymeric beads or strands arranged on the at least one side have a longitudinal expansion in the machine direction of the felt and are arranged side-by-side when viewed in the cross machine direction of the felt to generate space between adjacent beads or strands. At least one of the batt fiber layers is arranged to cover both the at least one side and the polymeric beads or strands thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Antony Morton, David Stuart Ponton, Paul Raymond Riding, Andrew Allum
  • Publication number: 20160066638
    Abstract: An industrial clothing, in particular a clothing for a machine for manufacturing a fibrous web, such as a paper, cardboard, or tissue web, or a non-woven product, is manufactured by: i) forming a planar structure from yarn in the form of a woven fabric, a cross-laid structure, a knitted fabric, a warp-knitted fabric; or from interconnected helical elements; ii) applying polymer material in the form of at least one group of beads to at least one surface of the planar structure, the application of the polymer commencing at starting points and terminating at terminal points remote from the starting points; iii) repeating step ii), wherein terminating points of the group of beads are spaced apart from starting points of at least one further group of beads, which generates regions with a void between the groups on the surface of the planar structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: ANTONY MORTON, ANDREW ALLUM, DAVID STUART PONTON, PAUL RAYMOND RIDING
  • Publication number: 20160060811
    Abstract: A device for producing a pattern combination on a clothing includes the following: a rotary screen, a cylindrical jacket surface with a perforation pattern that defines a first pattern component. Material in the liquid or pasty state is pressed through the perforations of the jacket surface of the rotary screen and deposited on the surface of the clothing in order to produce the first pattern component on a surface of the clothing, while the rotary screen, rotating several times about a longitudinal axis thereof, rolls on the surface of the clothing in at least one path that continuously revolves on the surface of the clothing at least once. At least one device produces, synchronously and/or simultaneously, a second pattern component, which device is connected indirectly or directly to the rotary screen. The device for producing the pattern combination also includes a post-run system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: PAUL RAYMOND RIDING, DAVID STUART PONTON, ANDREW ALLUM, ANTONY MORTON
  • Publication number: 20160053436
    Abstract: A fabric for a machine for producing web material, in particular paper, cardboard, tissue, film, a nonwoven product or a composite product, has a base fabric and at least two pattern components. The pattern components are applied to the base fabric. A cross-sectional shape of the first pattern component and a cross-sectional shape of the at least one further pattern component are different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: ANTONY MORTON, ANDREW ALLUM, DAVID STUART PONTON, PAUL RAYMOND RIDING
  • Publication number: 20150020990
    Abstract: A press felt includes a base structure providing dimensional stability in a machine and a cross machine direction of the felt, a batt fiber structure including batt fiber layers attached to the base structure which provide a paper contacting side and a machine contacting side of the felt. The base structure includes a first and second side. Polymeric beads or strands made from a polymeric material are arranged on at least one of the two sides of the base structure. The polymeric beads or strands arranged on the at least one side have a longitudinal expansion in the machine direction of the felt and are arranged side-by-side when viewed in the cross machine direction of the felt to generate space between adjacent beads or strands. At least one of the batt fiber layers is arranged to cover both the at least one side and the polymeric beads or strands thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Antony Morton, David Stuart Ponton, Paul Raymond Riding, Andrew Allum
  • Patent number: 8460756
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a topographical pattern from polymer material on an endless strip with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction extending perpendicularly thereto, in which method a cylindrical rotary screen is used to apply the polymer material by the screen printing process to a circumferential side of the endless strip to be printed, wherein, when producing the pattern, the rotary screen, rotating repeatedly about its longitudinal axis, rolls on the circumferential side of the endless strip, whereby the pattern is applied to the circumferential side in at least one path running at least once uninterruptedly around the circumferential side in such a way that the beginning and the end of each revolution of the path are arranged along a common straight line, wherein, when rolling, the rotary screen performs N revolutions about its longitudinal axis during each revolution of the path on the circumferential side of the endless strip and N is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: John Jeffery, David Stuart Ponton, Douglas Stephen, Andrew Allum, Antony Morton
  • Publication number: 20110262714
    Abstract: A method to produce a press felt for a fiber web producing and/or processing machine, including the steps of a) providing a load bearing base structure, which is, for example, produced of yarns, b) providing a first and a second non-woven fiber layer, c) imprinting a polymer material pattern onto the first or second non-woven fiber layer so that the polymer material pattern partially covers the layer, d) arranging the first non-woven fiber layer on one side of the base structure and e) arranging the second non-woven fiber layer on the first non-woven fiber layer in such a manner that the polymer material pattern is arranged between the two non-woven fiber layers. The present invention further relates to a press felt manufactured according to the method of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Inventors: Andrew Allum, John Jeffery, Stephen Douglas, David Stuart Ponton, Antony Morton
  • Publication number: 20110250355
    Abstract: A method for producing a polymer topographic pattern on a continuous strip which has a longitudinal orientation and transverse orientation perpendicular thereto. The pattern is applied to an area of the continuous strip to be imprinted by means of an application device moving in relation to the strip in a basic movement which is parallel to the transverse orientation of the strip to produce the pattern. During production of the pattern, the position of the continuous strip parallel to its transverse orientation, relative to a stationary reference position, is measured and the position of the application device is changed by a correction movement parallel to the transverse orientation of the continuous strip when the position of the continuous strip parallel to its transverse orientation is changed, the correction movement being superimposed to the basic movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: October 13, 2011
    Inventors: Andrew Allum, John Jeffrey, David S. Ponton, Antony Morton, Stephen Douglas
  • Publication number: 20110244132
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a topographical pattern from polymer material on an endless strip with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction extending perpendicularly thereto, in which method a cylindrical rotary screen is used to apply the polymer material by the screen printing process to a circumferential side of the endless strip to be printed, wherein, when producing the pattern, the rotary screen, rotating repeatedly about its longitudinal axis, rolls on the circumferential side of the endless strip, whereby the pattern is applied to the circumferential side in at least one path running at least once uninterruptedly around the circumferential side in such a way that the beginning and the end of each revolution of the path are arranged along a common straight line, wherein, when rolling, the rotary screen performs N revolutions about its longitudinal axis during each revolution of the path on the circumferential side of the endless strip and N is a positive integer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: John Jeffery, David Stuart Ponton, Douglas Stephen, Andrew Allum, Antony Morton
  • Publication number: 20110174456
    Abstract: A method of forming a structured fibrous web including the steps of supplying a fiber slurry to a nip, the nip being formed by a structured fabric and a forming fabric; dewatering the fiber slurry through the forming fabric to create a web; retaining the web with the structured fabric through at least one dewatering process, the forming fabric including a woven fabric having a paper side and a roll side, the paper side having a paper side surface and said roll side having a roll side surface; and providing a polymer material deposit extending above the paper side surface, the polymer material deposit having at least one of a random pattern, a random motif, a pseudo-random pattern, a pseudo-random motif, a predetermined pattern and a predetermined motif.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Inventors: Lippi A. Fernandes, Martin Ringer, Antony Morton, John Jeffery, Justin Payne
  • Patent number: D678166
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Inventor: Richard Antony Morton Maskell