Patents by Inventor Geoffroy Bousselin

Geoffroy Bousselin 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: 5932166
    Abstract: A device and method is provided for manufacturing at least two curved, joined tubes. The method includes extruding, without clamping, a blank in a modifiable-geometry mold cavity and placing the blank in the cavity by means of an entraining air stream, and then modifying the geometry of the mold cavity to clamp the blank and injecting a gas to shape the blank to the mold cavity geometry thus modified to obtain at least two curved, joined tubes. The device includes a mold cavity and at least one moving part for modifying a geometry of the mold cavity. The moving part is displaceable between a retracted position in which a blank can be placed in the mold cavity under the action of an air stream and a blank clamping position to allow formation of at least two curved, joined tubes upon blowing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1999
    Assignee: Compagnie Plastic Omnium
    Inventors: Geoffroy Bousselin, Claude Leviel