Patents by Inventor Michael G. Moriarty

Michael G. Moriarty 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: 8080137
    Abstract: A belt for use in a long nip press having an arcuate pressure shoe. The belt has at least one layer having a polymer resin coating on at least one surface thereof. The resin coating has a plurality of grooves arranged therein and wherein a number of the grooves has a length less than a length of the arcuate pressure shoe to reduce ingoing nip spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2011
    Assignee: Albany International Corp.
    Inventors: Keith Fitzpatrick, Bo-Christer Aberg, Michael G. Moriarty, Paul Turner
  • Publication number: 20090029051
    Abstract: A belt for use in a long nip press having an arcuate pressure shoe. The belt has at least one layer having a polymer resin coating on at least one surface thereof. The resin coating has a plurality of grooves arranged therein and wherein a number of the grooves has a length less than a length of the arcuate pressure shoe to reduce ingoing nip spray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Keith Fitzpatrick, Bo-Christer Aberg, Michael G. Moriarty, Paul Turner
  • Patent number: 7387711
    Abstract: A belt for use in a long nip press having an arcuate pressure shoe. The belt has at least one layer having a polymer resin coating on at least one surface thereof. The resin coating has a plurality of grooves arranged therein and wherein a number of the grooves has a length less than a length of the arcuate pressure shoe to reduce ingoing nip spray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Albany International Corp.
    Inventors: Keith Fitzpatrick, Bo-Christer Aberg, Michael G. Moriarty
  • Patent number: 7101599
    Abstract: A papermaker's fabric formed of a woven fabric strip. The fabric strip has a width less than a width of the papermaker's fabric, a main portion that is in the form of a multi-layer weave, and two lateral edges that are in the form of weaves having fewer layers than the main portion. The edges are formed such that when the fabric strip is wound around in a continuous spiral fashion to form a papermaker's fabric, the lateral edges overlap one another forming a spiral seam which has a number of layers equal to that of the main portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2006
    Assignee: Albany International Corp.
    Inventor: Michael G. Moriarty
  • Patent number: 6786243
    Abstract: An industrial fabric of the variety used in the papermaking and similar industries has machine-direction (MD) yarns and cross-machine-direction (CD) yarns, which may be interwoven with one another to form a woven structure. The industrial fabric includes, as at least some of the MD and/or CD yarns, sheath/core yarns which have a core yarn surrounded by a sheath. The core yarn and the sheath are visually distinguishable by the naked eye from one another, such as by color, so that wear on a surface of the industrial fabric can be monitored visually during its operating life by the visual change that would become apparent when the sheath is worn away from the core yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2004
    Assignee: Albany International Corp.
    Inventors: Michael G. Moriarty, William A. Luciano
  • Publication number: 20030226611
    Abstract: An industrial fabric of the variety used in the papermaking and similar industries has machine-direction (MD) yarns and cross-machine-direction (CD) yarns, which may be interwoven with one another to form a woven structure. The industrial fabric includes, as at least some of the MD and/or CD yarns, sheath/core yarns which have a core yarn surrounded by a sheath. The core yarn and the sheath are visually distinguishable by the naked eye from one another, such as by color, so that wear on a surface of the industrial fabric can be monitored visually during its operating life by the visual change that would become apparent when the sheath is worn away from the core yarn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2002
    Publication date: December 11, 2003
    Inventors: Michael G. Moriarty, William A. Luciano
  • Publication number: 20030207069
    Abstract: A papermaker's fabric formed of a woven fabric strip. The fabric strip has a width less than a width of the papermaker's fabric, a main portion that is in the form of a multi-layer weave, and two lateral edges that are in the form of weaves having fewer layers than the main portion. The edges are formed such that when the fabric strip is wound around in a continuous spiral fashion to form a papermaker's fabric, the lateral edges overlap one another forming a spiral seam which has a number of layers equal to that of the main portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2002
    Publication date: November 6, 2003
    Inventor: Michael G. Moriarty
  • Patent number: 4979543
    Abstract: A dress fabric comprising a plurality of layers of machine direction and cross-machine direction yarns, respectively, the yarns for each layer oriented in parallel with respect to each other and perpendicular with respect to the yarns of immediately adjacent layers, the yarns of one layer not binding the yarns of adjacent layers, and separate binder yarns for binding said layers. The fabric defines two machine direction oriented edges and two cross-machine direction oriented edges, whereby at each cross-machine direction oriented edge certain machine direction yarns extend from one layer a distance sufficient to form a loop and then return to the same cross-machine direction oriented edge into another layer of machine direction yarns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 25, 1990
    Assignee: Albany International Corp.
    Inventors: Michael G. Moriarty, Paul F. Hood, Ricahard E. Humphreys