Patents by Inventor Jimmy L. Bannister

Jimmy L. Bannister 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: 4387293
    Abstract: An electric heating appliance such as an electric comforter and a method of manufacturing the same in which two inner thermal insulation layers of resilient fiber fill material, one of which has substantially greater thermal conductivity than the other, and two outer textile fabric layers are stitched together along parallel spaced lines arranged in pairs of rows to form a shell with a series of laterally spaced channels in which are disposed an electric heating wire. Each inner thermal insulation layer has facing means on its inner surface to facilitate insertion of the heating wire into the channels and to resist penetration of the heating wire into the layer. Successive shells may be formed in a continuous manner by passing webs of the outer and inner layers in juxaposed relationship through a multi-needle stitching machine which stitches the webs together with groups of spaced parallel rows of stitching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1983
    Assignee: The Belton Corporation
    Inventors: Karl R. Grice, Jimmy L. Bannister, Leland M. Gregory, Frank J. Whitfield