Patents by Inventor Miguel Forero

Miguel Forero 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).

  • Manufacturing process for synthetic fiber carpets fixed by fusion at regular intervals with crest or tufts, without using glues or using small amounts of glues, where threads do not loosen and thus obtaining the carpets
    Patent number: 5556684
    Abstract: A tufted carpet comprising a base and a plurality of tufts. Each of the tufts have a looped portion on an underside of the base. The looped portions are fused to the underside of the base and to adjacent looped portions using heat and pressure, thereby forming a homogeneous layer of the looped portions on the underside of the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Inventor: Miguel Forero
  • Polyolefin yarns with good performance for rugs and carpets and method of producing the same
    Patent number: 5336562
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel type of polyolefine yarns with good performance in the manufacture of rugs and carpets, made-up by admixing polypropylene filaments with polyethylene filaments, and by subjecting said filaments mixture to a temperature of from 125.degree. C. up to 130.degree. C., which substantially equals the melting temperature of the polyethylene filaments, whereby said polyethylene filaments become melted while the polypropylene filaments, with higher melting point, remain solid and stable, and with said melting of the polyethylene filaments constituting welding points for said polypropylene filaments, bulking and shaping the resulting yarn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Assignee: Pavco S.A.
    Inventor: Miguel Forero