Patents by Inventor Hilda E. Allen

Hilda E. Allen 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).

  • Textile fabric for dissipating electrical charges
    Patent number: 6291375
    Abstract: A textile fabric for dissipating electrostatic charges achieves remarkably low surface resistivity by forming into a fabric ground structure a matrix of electrically conducted yarns wherein electrical connections between the yarns are made by plural successive interconnections of two electrically conductive yarns, e.g., by plating electrically conductive yarns across multiple successive stitches in a knitted fabric ground structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Guilford Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Hilda E. Allen, John H. Beason, Dennis D. Leet
  • Underwire brassiere, warp knitted textile fabric for use in fabricating same, and method of warp knitting such fabric
    Patent number: 5669247
    Abstract: In an underwire brassiere, a generally inelastic and dimensionally stable two-bar warp knitted fabric is provided as a covering for the underwire. One set of warp yarns is knitted in a pattern of coursewise spaced stitches with extended underlaps and another set of warp yarns is knitted in a chain stitch pattern, collectively providing warpwise and coursewise stability and elongation resistance to the fabric. The run-in ratio of the two sets of warp yarns imparts a controlled coursewise inclination to the chain stitches enabling a predetermined degree of walewise elongation for better conformation of the fabric to the underwire in fabrication of the brassiere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Guilford Mills, Inc.
    Inventors: Phillip D. McCartney, Hilda E. Allen, James G. Donaghy