Patents by Inventor Jan Visscher
Jan Visscher 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).
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Patent number: 11623425Abstract: A carrier material for vinyl floor covering, wherein the carrier material includes a nonwoven layer containing at least 50 wt. % of thermoplastic fibers and a scrim for eliminating wrinkles in the vinyl floor covering. The scrim includes weft yarns having a linear density of 28 tex or less. The carrier material prevents the formation of surface irregularities and printing errors in the vinyl floor covering.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: LOW & BONAR B.V., SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORSInventors: Edze Jan Visscher, Ype Zijpp Van Der, Hans Veltman, Pepijn Kuik, Leonie Stigter, Sophie Lelogeay, Eric Daniel, Mantecon Torres Alejandro Javier
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Publication number: 20170314191Abstract: A primary carpet backing for latex free tufted carpets, including tufting yarns tufted into the backing, the yarns consisting essentially of a first thermoplastic polymer selected from a polyamide, a polyester or a polyolefin, the polymer having a first melting temperature, and wherein the back stitches of the tufting yarns have been at least partially melted for achieving tuft bind in the latex free tufted carpet after the melted back stitches have been cooled to room temperature, the primary carpet backing including at least a first layer of fibers, wherein the backing consists for at least 30 wt. % of one or more lower melting polymers of the same polymer family as the first polymer included in the tufting yarns and wherein each of the lower melting polymers has a melting temperature which is equal to or less than the first melting temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Applicant: LOW & BONAR B.V.Inventors: Edze Jan VISSCHER, Arnold KOETSIER, Leonie STIGTER
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Patent number: 9744731Abstract: The production of a biaxially oriented tube from thermoplastic material, wherein a tube in preform condition is extruded from thermoplastic material using an extruder having an extruder die head with an inner die member that forms a lumen in the tube in preform condition. The tube in preform condition is subjected to a temperature conditioning. Use is made of a expansion device comprising a non-deformable expansion part having a gradually increasing diameter to a maximum diameter, which expansion part is contacted by the tube and exerts an expanding force so as to bring about expansion of the tempered tube in circumferential direction. The method comprises drawing the tempered tube over the expansion device using a drawing device, in such a manner that said tube is transformed from a tube in preform condition into a biaxially oriented tube with thermoplastic material which is oriented in axial direction and in circumferential direction of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: HOPPMANN INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Jan Visscher, Hendrik Jan Carel Jansen Klomp, Jan-Mark Bosch
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Patent number: 9644314Abstract: A primary carpet backing including at least a first and a second layer of fibers, characterized in that both the first and the second layer of fibers is a nonwoven layer of randomly laid fibers, that both the first layer of fibers and the second layer of fibers has a uniform composition throughout the layer, wherein the linear density of the fibers is in the range of 1 to 25 dtex, wherein both the first layer of fibers and second layer includes at least two different polymers and wherein at least one polymer included in the first layer is different from the polymers included in the second layer.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2010Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: LOW & BONAR B.V.Inventor: Edze Jan Visscher
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Publication number: 20170100914Abstract: A primary carpet backing comprising at least a first and a second layer of fibers, characterised in that both the first and the second layer of fibers is a nonwoven layer of randomly laid fibers, that both the first layer of fibers and the second layer of fibers has a uniform composition throughout the layer, wherein the linear density of the fibers is in the range of 1 to 25 dtex, wherein both the first layer of fibers and second layer comprises at least two different polymers and wherein at least one polymer comprised in the first layer is different from the polymers comprised in the second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: BONAR B.V.Inventor: Edze Jan VISSCHER
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Publication number: 20170043551Abstract: A carrier material for vinyl floor covering, wherein the carrier material includes a nonwoven layer containing at least 50 wt. % of thermoplastic fibers and a scrim for eliminating wrinkles in the vinyl floor covering. The scrim includes weft yarns having a linear density of 28 tex or less. The carrier material prevents the formation of surface irregularities and printing errors in the vinyl floor covering.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicants: LOW & BONAR B.V., SAINT-GOBAIN ADFORSInventors: Edze Jan VISSCHER, Ype ZIJPP VAN DER, Hans VELTMAN, Pepijn KUIK, Leonie STIGTER, Sophie LELOGEAY, Eric DANIEL, Mantecon Torres ALEJANDRO JAVIER
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Patent number: 9163356Abstract: The invention pertains cushioned vinyl floor coverings. For the production of cushioned vinyl floor coverings non-woven carriers made from glass fibers are currently used. However, handling of floor coverings with glass fiber carriers is quite difficult especially when the covering is laid on stairs or sharp edges. According to the present invention a solution to overcome the disadvantages of the prior art is a cushioned vinyl floor covering comprising a nonwoven carrier that is made from different polymers. The different polymers exist either in separate filaments or together in one filament.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2005Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: BONAR B.V.Inventors: Pepijn Kuik, Edze Jan Visscher, Maarten Van Der Made
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Patent number: 9108839Abstract: A nonwoven is described comprising thermoplastic fibers with a fusion temperature Tm(th), bonding fibers 1 with a fusion temperature Tm(1), and bonding fibers 2 with a fusion temperature Tm(2), whereby for Tm(th), Tm(1), and Tm(2) the condition Tm(th)>Tm(1)>Tm(2) applies, and whereby the nonwoven contains the bonding fibers in the form of a solidified melt. Furthermore, a tufted nonwoven of the aforementioned type is described that contains tuft fibers. Finally, articles are described that contain the nonwoven or the tufted nonwoven.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2007Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: BONAR B.V.Inventors: Jan Dijkema, Edze Jan Visscher
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Publication number: 20150072035Abstract: The production of a biaxially oriented tube from thermoplastic material, wherein a tube in preform condition is extruded from thermoplastic material using an extruder having an extruder die head with an inner die member that forms a lumen in the tube in preform condition. The tube in preform condition is subjected to a temperature conditioning. Use is made of a expansion device comprising a non-deformable expansion part having a gradually increasing diameter to a maximum diameter, which expansion part is contacted by the tube and exerts an expanding force so as to bring about expansion of the tempered tube in circumferential direction. The method comprises drawing the tempered tube over the expansion device using a drawing device, in such a manner that said tube is transformed from a tube in preform condition into a biaxially oriented tube with thermoplastic material which is oriented in axial direction and in circumferential direction of the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: Jan Visscher, Hendrik Jan Carel Jansen Klomp, Jan-Mark Bosch
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Patent number: 8911660Abstract: The production of a biaxially oriented tube from thermoplastic material, wherein a tube in preform condition is extruded from thermoplastic material using an extruder having an extruder die head with an inner die member that forms a lumen in the tube in preform condition. The tube in preform condition is subjected to a temperature conditioning. Use is made of a expansion device comprising a non-deformable expansion part having a gradually increasing diameter to a maximum diameter, which expansion part is contacted by the tube and exerts an expanding force so as to bring about expansion of the tempered tube in circumferential direction. The method comprises drawing the tempered tube over the expansion device using a drawing device, in such a manner that said tube is transformed from a tube in preform condition into a biaxially oriented tube with thermoplastic material which is oriented in axial direction and in circumferential direction of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Hoppmann International B.V.Inventors: Jan Visscher, Hendrik Jan Carel Jansen Klomp, Jan-Mark Bosch
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Patent number: 8512844Abstract: A tufted nonwoven with improved stitch holding, a bonded nonwoven and methods for their manufacture are described.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2007Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Bonar B.V.Inventors: Jan Dijkema, Edze Jan Visscher
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Publication number: 20120261051Abstract: The production of a biaxially oriented tube from thermoplastic material, wherein a tube in preform condition is extruded from thermoplastic material using an extruder having an extruder die head with an inner die member that forms a lumen in the tube in preform condition. The tube in preform condition is subjected to a temperature conditioning. Use is made of a expansion device comprising a non-deformable expansion part having a gradually increasing diameter to a maximum diameter, which expansion part is contacted by the tube and exerts an expanding force so as to bring about expansion of the tempered tube in circumferential direction. The method comprises drawing the tempered tube over the expansion device using a drawing device, in such a manner that said tube is transformed from a tube in preform condition into a biaxially oriented tube with thermoplastic material which is oriented in axial direction and in circumferential direction of the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2010Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: Hoppmann International B.V.Inventors: Jan Visscher, Hendrik Jan Carel Jansen Klomp, Jan-Mark Bosch
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Publication number: 20120244310Abstract: A primary carpet backing including at least a first and a second layer of fibers, characterized in that both the first and the second layer of fibers is a nonwoven layer of randomly laid fibers, that both the first layer of fibers and the second layer of fibers has a uniform composition throughout the layer, wherein the linear density of the fibers is in the range of 1 to 25 dtex, wherein both the first layer of fibers and second layer includes at least two different polymers and wherein at least one polymer included in the first layer is different from the polymers included in the second layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2010Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: COLBOND B.V.Inventor: Edze Jan Visscher
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Patent number: 7695794Abstract: A tufted nonwoven includes a face material which tufts a bonded nonwoven having a mixture of a plurality of bicomponent filaments 1 with a plurality of bicomponent filaments 2. At least bicomponent filaments 1 have component 11 and component 12. Component 11 exhibits a melting temperature Tm(11), and component 22 of the bicomponent filaments 2 exhibits a melting temperature Tm(22). Component 12 exhibits a melting temperature Tm(12), and component 21 of the second bicomponent filaments exhibits a melting temperature Tm(21), and Tm(12) is higher than Tm(21). The melting temperatures of components 11 and 22 and the melting temperatures of components 12 and 21 obey a relationship in which Tm(11) and Tm(22)>Tm(12)>first Tm(21) and optionally wherein the face material is bonded to bicomponent filaments 2 by a solidified melt of component 21. Also described are a bonded nonwoven and methods for their manufacture.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2006Date of Patent: April 13, 2010Assignee: Colbond B.V.Inventors: Maarten Oosterbroek, Jan Dijkema, Edze Jan Visscher
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Publication number: 20090304953Abstract: A tufted nonwoven with improved stitch holding, a bonded nonwoven and methods for their manufacture are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2007Publication date: December 10, 2009Applicant: COLBOND B.V.Inventors: Jan Dijkema, Edze Jan Visscher
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Publication number: 20090152191Abstract: A nonwoven is described comprising thermoplastic fibers with a fusion temperature Tm(th), bonding fibers 1 with a fusion temperature Tm(1), and bonding fibers 2 with a fusion temperature Tm(2), whereby for Tm(th), Tm(1), and Tm(2) the condition Tm(th)>Tm(1)>Tm(2) applies, and whereby the nonwoven contains the bonding fibers in the form of a solidified melt. Furthermore, a tufted nonwoven of the aforementioned type is described that contains tuft fibers. Finally, articles are described that contain the nonwoven or the tufted nonwoven.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2007Publication date: June 18, 2009Applicant: Colbond B.V.Inventors: Jan Dijkema, Edze Jan Visscher
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Publication number: 20080116129Abstract: A tufted nonwoven includes a face material which tufts a bonded nonwoven having a mixture of a plurality of bicomponent filaments 1 with a plurality of bicomponent filaments 2. At least bicomponent filaments 1 have component 11 and component 12. Component 11 exhibits a melting temperature Tm(11), and component 22 of the bicomponent filaments 2 exhibits a melting temperature Tm(22). Component 12 exhibits a melting temperature Tm(12), and component 21 of the second bicomponent filaments exhibits a melting temperature Tm(21), and Tm(12) is higher than Tm(21). The melting temperatures of components 11 and 22 and the melting temperatures of components 12 and 21 obey a relationship in which Tm(11) and Tm(22)>Tm(12)>first Tm(21) and optionally wherein the face material is bonded to bicomponent filaments 2 by a solidified melt of component 21. Also described are a bonded nonwoven and methods for their manufacture.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2006Publication date: May 22, 2008Applicant: Colbond B.V.Inventors: Maarten Oosterbroek, Jan Dijkema, Edze Jan Visscher
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Publication number: 20070164486Abstract: A method for producing a tube section from thermoplastic material, in which a tube section is extruded by means of an extruder which is provided with an extruder die having an inner core, which inner core defines an axial hollow space in the tube section, the tube section coming out of the extruder die downstream of the extruder die being internally cooled by means of an internal cooling member and externally cooled by means of an external cooling device. Immediately after the tube section leaves the extruder die, the internal cooling member brings about internal cooling of the tube. The external cooling device is positioned downstream of the internal cooling member, so that the external cooling of the tube section is brought about after the internal cooling.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2007Publication date: July 19, 2007Inventors: Arjan Dirk Van Lenthe, Jan Hendrik Prenger, Jan Visscher
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Patent number: 7217379Abstract: A method for producing a tube section from thermoplastic material, in which a tube section is extruded by means of an extruder which is provided with an extruder die having an inner core, which inner core defines an axial hollow space in the tube section, the tube section coming out of the extruder die downstream of the extruder die being internally cooled by means of an internal cooling member and externally cooled by means of an external cooling device. Immediately after the tube section leaves the extruder die, the internal cooling member brings about internal cooling of the tube. The external cooling device is positioned downstream of the internal cooling member, so that the external cooling of the tube section is brought about after the internal cooling.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2004Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Wavin B.V.Inventors: Arjan Dirk van Lenthe, Jan Hendrik Prenger, Jan Visscher
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Patent number: 7069635Abstract: A method for forming an integral socket to a pipe made from biaxially oriented thermoplastic material is described. The pipe has a pipe body and is provided, at one or both ends, with an integral socket. The biaxially oriented thermoplastic pipe is subjected to a socket-forming operation comprising the steps of fixing both axial ends of the unheated end part of the pipe, heating the fixed end part to a suitable socket-forming temperature in one or more steps, and expanding the axially fixed end part with the aid of a fluid pressure in the interior of the end part and/or a vacuum on the outer side of the end part, which expansion may begin as early as during the heating of the end part.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2001Date of Patent: July 4, 2006Assignee: Wavin B.V.Inventors: Arjan Dirk van Lenthe, Jan Visscher, Duncan Hamilton Wormald, Jan Hendrik Prenger