Patents by Inventor Wesley M. Drexler

Wesley M. Drexler 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 producing non-directional range-dyed face finished fabrics
    Patent number: 6916349
    Abstract: Range-dyed fabrics that possess excellent hand characteristics and simultaneously exhibit substantially nondirectional appearances are provided. Such a combination permits the production and utilization of an extremely comfortable apparel fabric that can be attached to any other similar type of fabric to form a target apparel article without the time-consuming need to align such component fabrics to ensure an overall aesthetic appearance is met for the target apparel article. In general, such a fabric is produced through the initial immobilization of individual fibers within target fabrics and subsequent treatment through abrasion, sanding, or sueding of at least a portion of the target fabric. Such a procedure produces a fabric of short pile height and desirable hand. Upon range-dyeing the target fabric exhibits the extra benefit of nondirectional surface characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Louis Dischler, Wesley M. Drexler, Scott W. Efird, Dale Robert Williams
  • Method of producing non-directional range-dyed face finished fabrics
    Publication number: 20040107552
    Abstract: Range-dyed fabrics that possess excellent hand characteristics and simultaneously exhibit substantially nondirectional appearances are provided. Such a combination permits the production and utilization of an extremely comfortable apparel fabric that can be attached to any other similar type of fabric to form a target apparel article without the time-consuming need to align such component fabrics to ensure an overall aesthetic appearance is met for the target apparel article. In general, such a fabric is produced through the initial immobilization of individual fibers within target fabrics and subsequent treatment through abrasion, sanding, or sueding of at least a portion of the target fabric. Such a procedure produces a fabric of short pile height and desirable hand. Upon range-dyeing the target fabric exhibits the extra benefit of nondirectional surface characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Louis Dischler, Wesley M. Drexler, Scott W. Efird, Dale Robert Williams
  • Range-dyed face finished fabrics exhibiting non-directional surface fiber characteristics
    Patent number: 6716775
    Abstract: Range-dyed fabrics that possess excellent hand characteristics and simultaneously exhibit substantially nondirectional appearances are provided. Such a combination permits the production and utilization of an extremely comfortable apparel fabric that can be attached to any other similar type of fabric to form a target apparel article without the time-consuming need to align such component fabrics to ensure an overall aesthetic appearance is met for the target apparel article. In general, such a fabric is produced through the initial immobilization of individual fibers within target fabrics and subsequent treatment through abrasion, sanding, or sueding of at least a portion of the target fabric. Such a procedure produces a fabric of short pile height and desirable hand. Upon range-dyeing the target fabric exhibits the extra benefit of nondirectional surface characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Milliken & Company
    Inventors: Louis Dischler, Wesley M. Drexler, Scott W. Efird, Dale Robert Williams