Patents by Inventor Michel Passler

Michel Passler 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: 6398895
    Abstract: The invention relates to a structured textile material made of at least two different, needled base nonwoven fabrics. The base nonwoven fabrics have a structure obtained by needling from at least one side. The needles used for the structure needling are fork needles or crown needles, and the depth of the forks and barbs, respectively, is so selected that, when piercing through, they completely fill up with fibers of the base nonwoven fabric facing the needles. The textile material have unmixed, pure fibers in the pattern, in the background and on the reverse side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Karlheinz Stein, Heinrich Laun, Michel Pässler
  • Publication number: 20020029445
    Abstract: The invention relates to a structured textile material made of at least two different, needled base nonwoven fabrics. The base nonwoven fabrics have a structure obtained by needling from at least one side. The needles used for the structure needling are fork needles or crown needles, and the depth of the forks and barbs, respectively, is so selected that, when piercing through, they completely fill up with fibers of the base nonwoven fabric facing the needles. The textile material have unmixed, pure fibers in the pattern, in the background and on the reverse side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventors: Karlheinz Stein, Heinrich Laun, Michel Passler
  • Patent number: 6287407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a structured textile material made of at least two different, needled base nonwoven fabrics. The base nonwoven fabrics have a structure obtained by needling from at least one side. The needles used for the structure needling are fork needles or crown needles, and the depth of the forks and barbs, respectively, is so selected that, when piercing through, they completely fill up with fibers of the base nonwoven fabric facing the needles. The textile material have unmixed, pure fibers in the pattern, in the background and on the reverse side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2001
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Karlheinz Stein, Heinrich Laun, Michel Pässler
  • Patent number: 5725927
    Abstract: A reusable cleaning cloth for damp and dry cleaning of surfaces. The cloth is made of a textile base layer of non-woven fibers and, on the surface that provides the cleaning action, a plurality of filament loops which project out of this surface. The filament loops are concentrated in spaced apart surface regions separate from one another, like islands, by non-linear border lines delineating channels that are essentially free of filament loops. In its finished form, the island-like areas with the filament loops project 0.5 to 5 mm out of the base surface. The islands are aligned to be equidirectionally staggered relative to one another, each having a length of 4 to 50 mm with a corresponding width of 2 to 10 mm. The channels which separate the islands are as broad as one to two of these islands in the region between the adjacent long sides of the islands and narrow in the region of the adjacent ends of the islands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Jan-Peter Zilg, Heinrich Laun, Michel Passler
  • Patent number: 4622238
    Abstract: A process for the production of bulky, fiber-containing textile sheet material fills a material of loose fibers with a binding agent of an aqueous polymer dispersion containing a foaming adjuvant and puffs it up to a multiple of its original volume by the action of radiofrequency radiation in the range from 30 kHz to 30 GHz. The volume increase is then made permanent by drying. Even cellulosic fibers which formerly matted down when wet can be treated in the stated manner. The puffed textile sheet material is usable as padding for articles of clothing, for sound and heat insulation soft and resilient packing materials, clothing, protective padding and the like, but especially for products which are to absorb liquids to a relatively great extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 1985
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1986
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Gunter Franz, Bruno Reisch, Michel Passler
  • Patent number: 4559243
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an absorbent planar structure or so-called "sponge cloth" as well as for the method of making such a structure. The absorbent planar structure itself is permeated with pores and comprises a latex-bonded fiber material optionally reinforced with a woven or knit material, a layer of known foamed plastic, non-woven fabric or abrasive fleece. The method for making such a structure dispenses with conventional pore formers and is characterized by forming a foam of the latex and fiber materials by use of a suitable gaseous medium. The foam thus obtained, after homogeneous mixing, is applied to a substrate and the fiber-containing latex foam is then coagulated by heat action, resulting in an open-pore structure which is stabilized by subsequent drying and vulcanization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1985
    Assignee: Firma Carl Freudenberg
    Inventors: Michel Passler, Bruno Reisch