Patents by Inventor Joshua W. Whitcomb

Joshua W. Whitcomb 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).

  • Touch fastener
    Patent number: 10722003
    Abstract: A touch fastener having long and thin headed stems welded to and extending from, for example, a thin film, is made by orienting thin, hollow, drawn staple fibers between bristles of a brush, with no more than fiber ends sticking out of the brush, and then fusing a film to the fiber ends by direct welding. The fibers are then withdrawn from the brush as stems that are headed by heating their ends and allowing the resin to reform into an engageable head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Velcro BVBA
    Inventors: Gregory K. Kopanski, Joshua W. Whitcomb
  • Touch fastener
    Patent number: 10506850
    Abstract: A touch fastener having long and thin headed stems welded to and extending from, for example, a thin film, is made by orienting thin, hollow, drawn staple fibers between bristles of a brush, with no more than fiber ends sticking out of the brush, and then fusing a film to the fiber ends by direct welding. The fibers are then withdrawn from the brush as stems that are headed by heating their ends and allowing the resin to reform into an engageable head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Velcro BVBA
    Inventors: Gregory K. Kopanski, Joshua W. Whitcomb
  • SPACER PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20180169923
    Abstract: A spacer product (e.g., a fabric) has long and thin stems welded to, interconnecting and extending from, two spaced flexible carrier sheets, such as of thin film. A precursor sheet product may be made by orienting thin, hollow, drawn staple fibers between bristles of a brush, and then fusing a film to the fiber ends by direct welding. The fibers are then withdrawn from the brush as stems with distal ends that are secured to another carrier sheet to form the spacer product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Joshua W. Whitcomb, Gregory K. Kopanski, Mark A. Clarner, James L. Tardiff, Mary L. Watts
  • TOUCH FASTENER
    Publication number: 20180140057
    Abstract: A touch fastener having long and thin headed stems welded to and extending from, for example, a thin film, is made by orienting thin, hollow, drawn staple fibers between bristles of a brush, with no more than fiber ends sticking out of the brush, and then fusing a film to the fiber ends by direct welding. The fibers are then withdrawn from the brush as stems that are headed by heating their ends and allowing the resin to reform into an engageable head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Gregory K. Kopanski, Joshua W. Whitcomb