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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 01, 1997
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
Irfan F Raza, Utica, MI (US);
Ronald D Walther, Algonac, MI (US);
Assignee:
U.S. Farathane Corporation, Utica, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B29B / ; B29B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
264127 ; 264141 ; 264349 ; 525125 ;
Abstract
A process of manufacturing an article having high load absorption, durability and wear resistance properties with increased lubricity including mixing particles of polyurethane and polytetrafluoroethylene, extruding the mixture of polyurethane and polytetrafluoroethylene particles, reducing the extruded polyurethane/polytetrafluoroethylene product to particle form and molding the polyurethane/polytetrafluoroethylene extruded particles to form the article in a selected configuration.