Patents by Inventor Malcolm Frederick Proctor

Malcolm Frederick Proctor 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).

  • Knitted cover
    Patent number: 6134923
    Abstract: A knitted cover and a method of forming a two-dimensional knitting pattern for the cover. The pattern is taken from two-dimensional development of the cover and has pairs of edges-to-be-joined in the conversion from two-dimensional development to three-dimensional cover. These edges are broken down into courses or rows of progressively changing lengths, and the courses or rows are rearranged to form new edges in which a particular course or row is not necessarily adjacent its original neighbour before rearrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Lear Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Michael Lay, Malcolm Frederick Proctor
  • Knitted cover
    Patent number: 5802882
    Abstract: Where a knitted cover is intended to be subjected to a heat treatment to stabilize or otherwise process the fabric, it is useful to form a knitted-in portion (in an unobtrusive portion of the cover) using a suitably heat-sensitive yarn so that such heat treatment indicator portion undergoes a visual and tactile change to reveal that the cover has been so treated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: William E. Girard, Daniel J. Forest, Malcolm Frederick Proctor, Gerald Francis Day
  • Method of knitting fabric where joined edges are formed from sub-edges of 45.degree. and course-wise directions
    Patent number: 5722262
    Abstract: A continuously weft-knitted three-dimensional fabric cover having sutures to accommodate its three-dimensional format in which each suture defines a straight line or a series of straight lines joined end-to-end, each straight line lying at an angle of between 0.degree. and 50.degree. to the course-wise direction of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm Frederick Proctor, Giles Timothy Gregory, Stuart Thomas Smith, Gary John Leeke
  • Knitting method
    Patent number: 5711168
    Abstract: A continuously weft-knitted three-dimensional fabric cover having sutures to accommodate its three-dimensional format in which each suture defines a straight line or a series of straight lines joined end-to-end, each straight line lying at an angle of between 0 and 50 to the course-wise direction of the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Malcolm Frederick Proctor, Giles Timothy Gregory, Stuart Thomas Smith, Gary John Leeke
  • Knitted covers
    Patent number: 5711169
    Abstract: A fabric upholstered structure having a core whose external surface is covered by a knitted fabric cover, the external surface of the cover having at least one strip of hook member of any hook/loop fastener attached hereto, the hook member engaging knitted loops on the internal surface of the cover which are formed integrally with the knitted cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Gary John Leeke, Giles Timothy Gregory, Malcolm Frederick Proctor
  • Knitted cover
    Patent number: 5682771
    Abstract: A knitted fabric cover, especially for a vehicle seat having a vehicle air bag housed therein, in which the cover is adapted to provide minimal hindrance to inflation of the air bag by having at least one line of weakness knitted into the cover, in particular in a coursewise direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel J. Forest, Gerald Francis Day, Giles Timothy Gregory, Malcolm Frederick Proctor, William E. Girard