MUMBAI, India, June 27 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517053824 A) filed by Simplifyber, Inc., Raleigh, U.S.A., on June 3, for 'forming a contoured finished soft good from a flatter fibrous intermediate part.'
Inventor(s) include Intscher-Owrang, Maria; Cohen, Philip; Miller, Joseph; and Jardim, Juliana Marangon.
The application for the patent was published on June 27, under issue no. 26/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention is a method for forming a fibrous molded article that includes providing a aqueous slurry containing a plurality of fibers, providing the slurry into a dehydration chamber to remove at least some of the amount of water from the slurry to achieve an intermediate form, removing the fibrous intermediate form from the dehydration chamber and placing the fibrous intermediate form in a press having a first mold portion and a second mold portion wherein at least one of the first or second mold portions includes a contour, applying at least one of heat and pressure to the press such that at least fiber to fiber bonding or chemical cross-linking of fibers occurs, and removing the three-dimensional solid fibrous molded part from the press."
The patent application was internationally filed on Nov. 16, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/080039.
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