Patents by Inventor Michael A. Howe

Michael A. Howe 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: 6182913
    Abstract: A system for reclaiming carpet components such as yarn, tufting primary, binder, and secondary backing wherein the carpet is sprayed with a high velocity water spray so as to disjoint the components from one another, and thereafter, separating the secondary backing from the yarn and tufting primary. Desirably, water is removed from the disjointed carpet after spraying the carpet with high pressure water spray. This system is useful for reclaiming components of broadloom carpet and carpet tiles and cleanly and efficiently separates tie components of carpet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2001
    Assignee: Interface, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Howe, Samuel H. White, Samuel G. Locklear
  • Patent number: 5560972
    Abstract: A fusion bonded carpet in which the pile yarn is secured in a non hot-melt latex adhesive base and methods of manufacture of such carpet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: Interface, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence W. Blakely, Michael A. Howe
  • Patent number: 5024840
    Abstract: A carpet and carpet tile resistant to the growth of Gram negative, Gram positive and fungal organisms which contains a polymeric non-plasticized PVC tuftlock precoat, fusion bonding adhesive, or secondary backing which has incorporated in it a phosphoric acid ester or its salt of the general formula: ##STR1## wherein R and R' are alkyl, oxyalkyl, polyoxyalkyl, aryl, aralkyl or alkaryl groups of C.sub.1 to C.sub.24, and one of R or R' can be H; X is a Group I metal ion, Group II metal ion, transition metal ion, or NY.sub.1 Y.sub.2 Y.sub.3 Y.sub.4, where Y.sub.1-4 are hydrogen, a hydrocarbon of C.sub.1 to C.sub.24, or a hydroxyalkyl group of C.sub.1 to C.sub.24 ; and there is at least one free hydroxyl group; and when X is NY.sub.1 Y.sub.2 Y.sub.3 Y.sub.4 or a Group I metal ion, n is 1, when X is a Group II metal ion, n is 2; and when X is a transition metal, n is equal to the valence of the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1991
    Assignee: Interface, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence W. Blakely, Michael A. Howe, Daniel F. Pinholster, Jr., Claude E. Terry, Robert H. McIntosh, Sr.