Patents by Inventor Colin Filko

Colin Filko 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).

  • Glove turning and blocking process and apparatus
    Patent number: 4036415
    Abstract: A process of simultaneously turning and blocking a leather glove is disclosed, in which the fingers of the glove are initially mounted upon elongated members of relatively small diameter, and are turned onto heated mandrels of relatively larger diameter. The stretching of the finger portions as they are turned in this manner, combined with the application of heat from the heated mandrels, causes simultaneous blocking of the glove fingers as they are turned. In an apparatus for carrying out this process, the finger receiving members of lesser diameter are rods, and the mandrels onto which the fingers are turned are tubular. A wrist clamp is provided, which grips the inside of the cuff portion of the glove, and draws the glove off the finger mounting members onto the heated mandrels by movement relative to the finger mounting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 19, 1977
    Assignee: Sterling Glove Machinery Ltd.
    Inventors: Colin Filko, Richard Stanley Smith, Lawrie Gandier McIntosh, Willem John Bouman
  • Glove turning and blocking process and apparatus
    Patent number: 4023720
    Abstract: A process of simultaneously turning and blocking a leather glove is disclosed, in which the fingers of the glove are initially mounted upon elongated members of relatively small diameter, and are turned onto heated mandrels of relatively larger diameter. The stretching of the finger portions as they are turned in this manner, combined with the application of heat from the heated mandrels, causes simultaneous blocking of the glove fingers as they are turned. In an apparatus for carrying out this process, the finger receiving members of lesser diameter are rods, and the mandrels onto which the fingers are turned are tubular. A wrist clamp is provided, which grips the inside of the cuff portion of the glove, and draws the glove off the finger mounting members onto the heated mandrels by movement relative to the finger mounting members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1975
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1977
    Assignee: Sterling Glove Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Colin Filko, Richard Stanley Smith, Lawrie Gandier McIntosh