Patents by Inventor Steve Wicht

Steve Wicht 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).

  • Method of forming a wrap-around heat-recoverable article
    Patent number: 5360584
    Abstract: A method of forming a heat-recoverable article including the steps of profile extruding polymeric material into a predetermined shape, irradiating the polymeric material and then deforming the polymeric material into a generally planar configuration. Also disclosed is a heat-recoverable article including a generally planar layer of polymeric material which is in the heat unstable condition. Opposed surfaces of the polymeric material have a latent recovery stress, however opposite in sense, so that the article upon recovering towards a predetermined shape, exhibits substantially no residual stress. Further disclosed is a heat-recoverable article made by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Raychem Corporation
    Inventors: Erling Hansen, Steve Wicht