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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2007
Applicants:
David Isaac Lutz, Newark, DE (US);
Norman Ernest Clough, Landenberg, PA (US);
Inventors:
David Isaac Lutz, Newark, DE (US);
Norman Ernest Clough, Landenberg, PA (US);
Assignee:
Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc., Newark, DE (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D02G 3/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Unique PTFE structures comprising islands of PTFE attached to an underlying expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (ePTFE) structure and to methods of making such structures is disclosed. The ePTFE material may or may not have been exposed to amorphous locking temperatures. These unique structures exhibit islands of PTFE attached to and raised above the expanded PTFE structures.