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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7914590 | Apparatus and method for carrying out optical readings on textile materials submitted to dyeing The present invention relates to a method for carrying out optical readings on textile materials submitted to dyeing. ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7407055 | Hair roots coloring kit A hair roots coloring kit includes a plurality of kit components carried in a drawstring bag for mixing and applying standard hair coloring materials to the uncolored outgrown roots of a user's hair. One or more measuring devices such as a measuring cup, a syringe, ... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7282349 | Solvatochromatic bacterial detection Solvatochromic dyes are used herein to indicate the presence of bacteria by incorporating them into various substrates such as films, woven and nonwoven fabrics, paper towels, coform and airlaid materials and bonded carded webs. These dyes change color in response t... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7260445 | System and method for customized industrial textile coloration A method and system for customized industrial textile goods manufacturing in which, under control of a client system, information is retrieved relating to the design of a customized textile good to be manufactured; desired design data is selected from one or more da... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7135184 | Culture having phenol oxidase-like activity It is intended to provide means of efficiently, economically and conveniently dyeing fibers or hair, bleaching pulp or fibers, removing phenol compounds from liquid wastes, degrading endocrine disruptors, producing phenolic resins, producing artificial lacquer coati... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7108763 | Method for manufacturing multi-laminar wood sheets with printed patterns A method for manufacturing multi-laminar wood sheets by slicing from a flitch of natural and/or laminated wood sheets glued and pre-printed with a basic pattern. A basic pattern is printed on one or both faces of wood sheets obtained by rotary cutting or slicing a n... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7060105 | Copper complex monazo dyes and their preparation and use Copper complex monoazo dyes of general formula (V) and of general formula (VI) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 | 06/13/2006 |
| 6962609 | Multi-colored fabrics made from a single dye formula, and methods of making same A process for making multi-colored fabrics from a single dye formula is described. The process involves providing a substrate including synthetic fibers, with the substrate having defined regions where the synthetic fibers have differing levels of fiber orientation,... | 11/08/2005 |
| 6806957 | Method for plain dyeing a textile web of fabric The invention relates to a method for plain dyeing a textile web of fabric by means of a padding mangle. The squeezing force distribution between the rollers of the padding mangles is controlled according to the dye distribution in the web of fabric which is still p... | 10/19/2004 |
| 6630056 | Color tracing paper An intensely colored transparent and/or translucent paper has chroma c and brightness L, as measured by a Hunterlab instrument, which measures the Cartesian coordinates a, b, L of a point P of color and its polar coordinates H and c. The paper is such tha... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6285453 | On-line color monitoring and control system and method An on-line color monitoring and control system and method includes feeding of colorant in a given amount or ratio in order to achieve a desired color of a product. The system and method described here achieve reliable on-line color control of synthetic fi... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6186403 | Method and apparatus for accurate color reading of material having variable depth and motif A card, generally rectangular, for maintains a material in a fixed position is dimensioned to interact with the holding plate for use with a spectrophotometer. A pair of polygon windows within the card are aligned with the window of the holding plate whic... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6130752 | On-line color monitoring and control system and method An on-line color monitoring and control system and method includes feeding of colorant in a given amount or ratio in order to achieve a desired color of a product. The system and method described here achieve reliable on-line color control of synthetic fi... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6090158 | Localized finishing of garment workpieces A method and system is disclosed for producing localized abraded, faded and worn finishing effects on a garment by applying a finishing pattern to its component pre-cut, individual fabric workpieces before assembly by sewing. An optical detection system t... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6071735 | Enzyme preparation with endoglucanase activity The present invention relates to an isolated enzyme exhibiting cellulolytic (endoglucanase) activity at alkaline pH, an enzyme composition comprising the enzyme, a DNA construct encoding the enzyme, methods for producing the enzyme or enzyme composition, ... | 06/06/2000 |
| 6056790 | Method for automated dyebath reuse The present invention is a fully automated modified batch dyeing process that provides a process that reduces water consumption, reduces environmental pollution, and reduces the energy and chemical consumption of the conventional batch dyeing process thro... | 05/02/2000 |
| 6039767 | Blended dyes and process for dyeing polypropylene fibers An improved method of dyeing a polyolefin material, and preferably a polypropylene based fiber, involves a disperse dye mix including a selected plurality of disperse dyes from the same primary color group. Each dye within the mix and the concentration of... | 03/21/2000 |
| 5917119 | Method for deciding parameters for dyeing lenses and method for producing colored lenses Disclosed are a method for deciding dyeing parameters for dyeing lenses in a dye bath consisting of mixed system of three colors, the parameters including dye concentrations and dyeing time, which method comprises deciding the dyeing parameters based on r... | 06/29/1999 |
| 5846265 | Closed-loop textile dyeing process utilizing real-time metered dosing of dyes and chemicals A process for the dyeing of a fibrous article utilizing closed-loop metered dosing of one or more dyes and one or more chemicals that are adjusted in real time as a function of selected monitored parameters of the dyeing bath. The process includes immersi... | 12/08/1998 |
| 5751834 | Image analysis method for determining pigment levels in fabric Image analysis method for determining pigment levels in fabric and yarn material. A sample fabric or yarn is illuminated by a source of visible light and a selected field area of the material is recorded then digitalized and stored in a video memory devic... | 05/12/1998 |
| 5420254 | Disperse dyes A compound of the formula I ##STR1## in which D is a diazo component, K is an aromatic group of formula a, b or c, ##STR2## Y is C2-3 alkylene and the remaining symbols are as defined in the specification. These compounds are useful f... | 05/30/1995 |
| 5366511 | Wool dyeing utilizing controlled dye addition A process for the dyeing of a fibrous article containing wool with an anionic dye and products processed thereby. The process includes immersing the article in a dyeing bath of a liquid solvent for the anionic dye. The liquid solvent and the article are h... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5335187 | Method and apparatus for dyeing and color matching lenses A color matching and lens dyeing apparatus and method in which a color is chosen, the color is converted to a numerical value on the basis of its transmissivity at different wavelengths of light and the transmissivity is converted into a lens dyeing presc... | 08/02/1994 |
| 5318598 | Nonaqueous polyamide dyeing process utilizing controlled dye addition A process for the dyeing of a fibrous article containing fibers of a polyamide polymer with at least one anionic dye. The process includes immersing the article in a liquid dyeing bath of a substantially nonaqueous solvent medium and heating to a temperat... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5230709 | Polyamide dyeing process utilizing controlled anionic dye addition A process for the dyeing of a fibrous article containing fibers of a polyamide polymer with an anionic dye and dyed products made by the process. The process includes immersing the article in a dyeing bath of a liquid solvent for the anionic dye. The liqu... | 07/27/1993 |
| 5176715 | Process for dyeing cellulosic fiber materials with vat dyes: dosing continuously over time interval There is disclosed a process for dyeing cellulosic fibre materials with vat dyes, which comprises adding to the dyebath all or some of the auxiliary chemicals required for the dyeing process, and subsequently, after a pretratment time, adding the vat dye ... | 01/05/1993 |
| 5167668 | Process for level exhaust of cellulose fibers with reactive dyes: addition of fixing alkali according to a parabolic time function In an existing isothermal dyeing process, the alkali required for dye fixation is added to the neutral dyebath under linear or progressive program control. In this process, the amount of alkali added per unit time is small at the beginning and is increase... | 12/01/1992 |
| 5131910 | Method of coloring or tinting paper: adding red, yellow and blue dyes in selected proportions to base furnish The coloring or tinting of paper is achieved during the paper making process by adding at least one of only the three primary color dyes to a base furnish. The coloring or tinting provides a tighter control for any shade of white paper while maintaining m... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5114427 | Method for level exhaust dyeing cellulose fiber material with reactive dyes by the controlled addition of the fixing alkali with a given progression which is changed before completion Method for dyeing of cellulose fibers by means of reactive dyeing agents according to the exhaust method. According to the present method one adds the alkali necessary for the fixation of the dyeing agent continuously or substantially continuously over a ... | 05/19/1992 |
| 5082529 | Color measurement and control of a sheet material The stack reflectance is predicted from an on-line, wavelength dependent measurement of the sheet reflectance and the on-line measurement of the sheet opacity at a wavelength interval. The stack reflectance Rst is then used to predict and/or control stack... | 01/21/1992 |
| 5072472 | Continuous process for dyeing a textile thread, and installation for the implementation of this process Continuous process for dyeing a textile thread by impregnation under pressure, followed by fluid extraction. The dye solution is applied to the thread in an impregnation enclosure, the thread then passes into a fluid extraction enclosure under which liqui... | 12/17/1991 |
| 4901254 | Method and apparatus for influencing the colour appearance of a colored area in a printing process The invention relates to a method and to apparatus for influencing the colour appearance of a coloured area made up of at least three chromatic separation colours in a printing process, on the basis of densitometric or colorimetric measurements, in which ... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4813973 | Modified, water-soluble polymers containing amide groups reacted with xanthydrol and other dyes Water-soluble, amide group containing polymers such as polyacrylamide are modified, to render them easy to detect, by reacting the polymer in aqueous solution with organic dye molecules which can form stable carbo-cations reversibly in water. The labelled... | 03/21/1989 |
| 4746324 | Isothermal rapid-dyeing process for wool with vinyl sulfone type reactive dyes and sulfuric acid added at dyeing temperature The dyeing of wool with reactive dyes in a strongly acid medium (containing sulfuric acid) requires no longer acceptable, long heating-up times (50-60 minutes) in order to obtain level dyeings. It has now been found, according to the invention, that by ra... | 05/24/1988 |
| 4737157 | Rapid exhaust process for dyeing wool with reactive dyes: acid added at 95°-106° C. The level dyeing of wool with reactive dyes and simultaneous endeavors to shorten the dyeing process appear to be incompatible. It has now been found, according to the invention, that in the course of the exhaustion process it is possible through metered ... | 04/12/1988 |
| 4719060 | Method of predicting yarn properties A method for determining key yarn properties such as modification ratio and MBB dye uptake rate by measuring yarn bundle filament velocities near the spinneret as they are melt spun. The average filament velocities only are used to determine yarn properti... | 01/12/1988 |
| 4715863 | Process for dyeing hydrophobic fibre material from aqueous bath containing untreated disperse dye and to adjust the exhausted dye bath for further use A process is described for dyeing hydrophobic fibre material with unfinished disperse dyes from an aqueous liquor, which comprises dissolving one or more such dyes in water at a temperature of 50° to 150° C. by means of a surfactant or surfactant mixtur... | 12/29/1987 |
| 4702116 | Permanently non-dusting pigment and dye preparations, method for producing them, and measuring device therefor The dust producing properties of a pigment or dye are measured under conditions which close approximate those during handling. A vessel with baffles having pigment or dye therein is rotated for a specified time while air is drawn through the rotating vess... | 10/27/1987 |
| 4668241 | Method of dyeing polycapronamide textile articles using two acid dye combinations with different dyeing kinetics A method of dyeing textile materials of polycapronamide, enabling low temperature dyeing conditions and process duration times which do not exceed the art standards, is characterized by the following combined features: (a) use of at least two discrete com... | 05/26/1987 |
| 4655786 | Process for dyeing hydrophobic fibre material with disperse dye and surfactant The invention relates to a process for dyeing hydrophobic fibre material under HT conditions with unformulated disperse dyes from an aqueous liquor, which process comprises dissolving one or more such dyes in water, in the temperature range from 70° to 1... | 04/07/1987 |
