Patents by Inventor Billy Summer

Billy Summer 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).

  • Loop/tie-back woven loop seam press base
    Patent number: 6079454
    Abstract: An opened ended, endless woven papermaker's fabric having a plurality of longitudinal yarns and a plurality of transverse yarns woven in a selected weave pattern to form a fabric body and seaming loops, the fabric characterized by a longitudinal yarn weave repeat having selected yarns woven as the seaming loops and selected yarns woven in the fabric body and defining a fabric edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: AstenJohnson, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry J. Lee, Billy Summer
  • Multi-layered papermaker's seam product with formed loops
    Patent number: 6000441
    Abstract: An endless woven papermaker's fabric of having warp yarns in at least two layers and continuous weft yarns in at least two layers. The warp and weft yarns are interwoven to form a fabric where the first warp yarn layer is adjacent to the second warp layer and the weft yarns define seam loops at two ends of the fabric. Each end of the fabric has at least one warp yarn which is free of interweaving with the weft yarns and is removed to form the seam loops.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1999
    Assignee: Asten, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry J. Lee, Billy Summer
  • Woven loop press base fabric having high density top layer
    Patent number: H1974
    Abstract: A papermaker's fabric having a system of primary machine direction yarns which form seaming loops at each end of the fabric and a system of secondary machine direction yarns. A system of cross-machine direction yarns are interwoven with the primary and secondary systems of machine direction yarns in a weave pattern that provides adjacent balancing yarns that maintain the seam loops in substantially vertical alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: AstenJohnson, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry J. Lee, Billy Summer