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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2023
Applicant:

Piana Nonwovens, Llc., Cartersville, GA (US);

Inventors:

Andrea Piana, Atlanta, GA (US);

Michael Stephen Defranks, Atlanta, GA (US);

Eric Mccann, Kennesaw, GA (US);

Andy Hollis, White, GA (US);

Sang-Hoon Lim, Smyrna, GA (US);

Mehran Jafari, Kennesaw, GA (US);

Assignee:

Piana Nonwovens LLC, Cartersville, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29C 70/34 (2006.01); A63B 69/00 (2006.01); B32B 5/02 (2006.01); B32B 5/26 (2006.01); B32B 37/00 (2006.01); B32B 39/00 (2006.01); B29L 31/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A63B 69/0048 (2013.01); B29C 70/342 (2013.01); B32B 5/022 (2013.01); B32B 5/26 (2013.01); B32B 37/0046 (2013.01); B32B 39/00 (2013.01); B29L 2031/771 (2013.01); B32B 2262/0276 (2013.01); B32B 2262/0284 (2013.01); B32B 2367/00 (2013.01); B32B 2605/003 (2013.01);
Abstract

A mobile molding system, comprising a vehicle and one or more molds arranged on the vehicle configured for receiving one or more expandable nonwoven substrates, heating said one or more expandable nonwoven substrates so as to cause said one or more expandable nonwoven substrates to expand and fill the one or more molds with one or more expanded nonwoven containing articles of three dimensional shape, and releasing said one or more expanded nonwoven containing articles of three dimensional shape from the one or more molds is provided. Methods for manufacturing three dimensional objects using the mobile molding system are also provided.


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