Zhong Zhang, 61Blue Bell, PA

7874184, Jan 25, 2011

Aug 22, 2008

12/196715

Cassie M. Malloy - Blue Bell PA, US
Zhong Huai Zhang - Pottstown PA, US
Ellen Bacon - Blue Bell PA, US
Linwood Ludy - Pottstown PA, US

Federal-Mogul Powertrain, Inc. - Southfield MI

D04B 1/22

66170

A knit protective sleeve and method of construction thereof provides a continuous and seamless sleeve wall knit from one or more yarns extending between opposite open ends of the sleeve. At least one heat vent opening is integrally knit within the wall between the ends.

8434333, May 7, 2013

Jul 19, 2010

12/838816

Zhong Huai Zhang - Pottstown PA, US
Philip E. Marks - Chester Springs PA, US
Linwood Ludy - Pottstown PA, US

Federal-Mogul Powertrain, Inc. - Southfield MI

D04B 7/34

66174, 66193, 66195

A knit fabric, protective sleeve and glove constructed therefrom has three knit layers knit constructed and knit to one another in a single knitting operation to provide the fabric as a single piece of knit material. The fabric includes an outer layer, an inner layer and an intermediate layer sandwiched between the outer and inner layers. The outer layer is knit with a first yarn, the inner layer is knit with a second yarn and the intermediate layer is knit with a third yarn in looped fashion about at least some of the first and second yarns to provide an integrally knit structure having three layers knit stitched together in a single knitting process.

8505339, Aug 13, 2013

Sep 30, 2011

13/249667

Cassie Malloy - Bluebell PA, US
Zhong Haui Zhang - Pottstown PA, US

Federal-Mogul Powertrain, Inc. - Southfield MI

D04B 1/22

66170, 66202

A knit sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The knit sleeve is constructed including a knit tubular wall and at least one knit tubular extension attached to the wall. Further, a barrier member is disposed in the at least one knit tubular extension. The at least one knit tubular extension and the barrier member are foldable at least partially about the knit tubular wall.

2010008, Apr 8, 2010

Aug 12, 2009

12/539974

Cassie Malloy - Bluebell PA, US
Zhong Huai Zhang - Pottstown PA, US
Ming-Ming Chen - West Chester PA, US
Lucia Della Putta - Venette, FR
Gerard Mirmand - Roissy en Brie, FR
Linwood Ludy - Pottstown PA, US

F16L 21/025
D04B 1/22

277604, 66170

A textile gasket and method of construction thereof for establishing a seal between mating members in a high temperature application is provided. The gasket has a knit, tubular body constructed at least in part of non-metallic, heat-resistant yarns. The body extends between opposite ends with at least one of the ends being rolled toward the other end to form a circumferentially extending rolled portion of a predetermined diameter for receipt between the mating members.

2013004, Feb 14, 2013

Apr 18, 2012

13/450021

Masanori Yoshimura - Atsugi-Shi, JP
Cassie M. Malloy - Bluebell PA, US
Zhong Huai Zhang - Pottstown PA, US
Linwood Ludy - Pottstown PA, US
Danny Winters - Downingtown PA, US

B32B 1/08
D03D 11/00
D06C 7/00
D03D 3/02

428 341, 28142, 28158, 28165

A multilayer textile sleeve and method of construction thereof is provided. The sleeve includes a textile wall having opposite edges extending lengthwise along a longitudinal axis of the sleeve between opposite ends. The opposite edges are configured to overlap one another to bound a central cavity of the sleeve. The wall has an inner layer with opposite inner and outer faces and an outer layer with opposite inner and outer faces. The inner and outer layers overlap one another and are constructed of interlinked yarn. The inner and outer layers are integrally connected to one another across interlinked portions adjacent the opposite edges by yarn common to each of the inner and outer layers.

2013029, Nov 14, 2013

Mar 15, 2013

13/839348

Harry F. Gladfelter - Kimberton PA, US
Jimmy Teal - Mohton PA, US
Cassie M. Malloy - Bluebell PA, US
Zhong Huai Zhang - Pottstown PA, US

F16L 59/02
B23P 19/00

138147, 29428

A tubular thermal sleeve assembly for providing protection to an elongate member and method of enhancing the robustness of a thermal sleeve with the assembly is provided. The thermal sleeve assembly includes a tubular wall of insulative material having an outer surface and an inner surface bounding a cavity extending along a longitudinal central axis for receipt of the elongate member. The assembly further includes a flexible outer layer of metallic material extending along the longitudinal central axis between opposite ends with the metallic material having a plurality of openings formed between the opposite ends.

2019017, Jun 13, 2019

Feb 18, 2019

16/278318

- Southfield MI, US
LEIGH KRAUSER - COATESVILLE PA, US
ZHONG HUAI ZHANG - POTTSTOWN PA, US
MICHAEL PIOTROWSKI - PLYMOUTH MEETING PA, US

D04C 1/06
D04C 1/02

A protective textile sleeve and method of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve has a tubular wall of braided yarns extending lengthwise along a central longitudinal axis between opposite ends. At least some of the braided yarns including heat-set yarns, and the wall has a plurality of annular first regions forming generally convex ridges and a plurality of annular second regions forming generally concave valleys. The first regions alternate with the second regions along the central longitudinal axis. The first regions include a plurality of twisted yarns forming a plurality of closed loops, wherein at least some of the braided yarns pass through at least some of the closed loops within the first regions to enhance the radial stiffness and resistance of the wall to kinking,

2018006, Mar 1, 2018

Aug 23, 2017

15/684857

- Southfield MI, US
Tianqi Gao - Exton PA, US
Danny Winters - Downington PA, US
Ritesh Mehbubani - Royersford PA, US
Zhong Huai Zhang - Pottstown PA, US

H02G 3/04

A woven sleeve for routing and protecting an elongate member and method of construction thereof are provided. The sleeve has a woven wall with a circumferentially continuous outer periphery extending along a central axis between opposite ends. Warp yarns extend generally parallel to the central axis and fill yarns extend generally transversely to the warp yarns. At least a portion of the wall has a plurality of layers in abutment with one another. At least one of the fill yarns is provided as a shrinkable yarn that provides the wall with an ability to remain in a first, diametrically enlarged assembly state to facilitate assembly of the sleeve about the elongate member, whereupon the wall can be radially constricted to a second, diametrically constricted assembled state to maintain the sleeve in the desired location, while also minimizing the outer circumference to facilitate use of the sleeve in tight spaces.