Patents by Inventor Bartjan Rietdijk

Bartjan Rietdijk 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: 5032443
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method of making an article from a thermoplastic sandwich material, the normals of at least two surfaces of said material mutually forming an angle, said sandwich material comprising a foam core of a thermoplastic foam and top layers of a thermoplastic synthetic material, which top layers are reinforced with woven fabric, knitted fabric, fibre web or unidirectionally applied fibres, comprising at least the steps of softening a portion of one of said surfaces of said thermoplastic sandwich material over a distance corresponding at least to the length of the folding line of the angle between the two surfaces, by means of a die, the impression of said die being provided at least partly in the top layer, and folding the two surfaces of said thermoplastic material, the surface that has been softened being thereby disposed on the inside of the angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Assignee: Schreiner Luchtvaart Groep B.V.
    Inventors: Bartjan Rietdijk, Johan A. Brambach