Patents by Inventor Manuel A. Thomas

Manuel A. Thomas 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).

  • Industrial dust mop
    Patent number: 5398492
    Abstract: Industrial dust mop having a homogenous yarn composed of high melt staple fibers and low melt staple which has been heated to homogeneously melt the low melt fibers throughout the yarn to form a fused yarn product in the mop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1995
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Manuel A. Thomas
  • Industrial dust mop comprising a blended yarn
    Patent number: 5397622
    Abstract: Industrial dust mop having a homogenous yarn composed of high melt staple fibers and low melt staple which has been heated to homogeneously melt the low melt fibers throughout the yarn to form a fused yarn product in the mop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 14, 1995
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventor: Manuel A. Thomas
  • Polymer-printed fabric and method for producing same
    Patent number: 4131422
    Abstract: Polymer-printed fabrics are produced by applying to a textile fabric substrate, in a pre-determined pattern, an aqueous admixture consisting essentially of from about 1 and to about 45 percent of a substantially water-soluble acid dyeable polymer having a cationic charge in milliequivalents/gram of polymer of from about 0.01 to about 5. The aqueous admixture is further characterized as having a viscosity of from about 5 to about 50,000 centipoise. The wetted printed substrate is dried to remove substantially all the water and thereafter cured. The cured polymer printed substrate is then dyed with a dye admixture containing an acid dyestuff preferential to the polymer coated portion of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 26, 1978
    Assignee: Milliken Research Corporation
    Inventors: Manuel A. Thomas, Jerry A. Cogan, Jr.