Patents by Inventor Klaus Reifenhauser

Klaus Reifenhauser 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).

  • Method of making a web having good breathing properties
    Patent number: 6991758
    Abstract: A method and a device for production of a web with good breathing properties, for example having a nonwoven web based on plastic filaments and/or plastic fibers and a plastic film, applied on one side of the nonwoven web and containing at least one mineral filler. For the production of the good breathing properties, the web is stretched in the longitudinal direction of the same, in two successive steps, and an embossing is carried out, at least in certain sectors of the surface, between the two steps which effect the stretching in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2006
    Assignee: Reifenhauser GmbH & Co. Maschinenfabrik
    Inventors: Klemens Krumm, Klaus Reifenhauser
  • Method and apparatus for the preparation of a web with good breathing properties
    Publication number: 20030067091
    Abstract: A method and a device for production of a web with good breathing properties, for example having a nonwoven web based on plastic filaments and/or plastic fibers and a plastic film, applied on one side of the nonwoven web and containing at least one mineral filler. For the production of the good breathing properties, the web is stretched in the longitudinal direction of the same, in two successive steps, and an embossing is carried out, at least in certain sectors of the surface, between the two steps which effect the stretching in the longitudinal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2002
    Publication date: April 10, 2003
    Inventors: Klemens Krumm, Klaus Reifenhauser