James Carroll Miles

61550841, Dec 5, 2000

Oct 10, 1997

8/948635

Mark A. Andrews - Concord NC
Gregory V. Andrews - Concord NC
James B. Miles - Kannapolis NC

World Fibers, Inc - Concord NC

D04B 734
D04B 958
A41D 1308

66174

Protective articles that provide an unprecedented level of safety and comfort are made of a composite fabric in a continuous, one-step process. The composite fabric incorporates two or more dissimilar yarns or materials, such as thermoplastics, elastomers, metals and other materials not commonly viewed as textiles, each having dissimilar mechanical properties and characteristics that provide optimum protection against the threats of injury associated with a particular application. The continuous, one-step manufacturing process overcomes the disadvantages of the existing labor intensive, costly process of piecing together a protective article from a plurality of separate fabrics made of different materials. Thus, the invented process is both cost effective and minimizes the inefficient use of a heavy weight fabric in regions of the article where exceptional protection is not critical to avoid the accompanying loss of tactile sensitivity and increase in the stiffness and rigidity of the article. In preferred embodiments, the article is a protective garment, such as a glove or a sleeve, which is made of a composite fabric comprising at least one region including a cut-resistant yarn or material and at least one other region including a yarn or material designed to provide tactile sensitivity, or to provide protection against the harmful effects of electromagnetic energy (such as is emitted from wireless communication devices), chemical exposure, abrasion, repetitive motion injury, blunt instrument trauma and cumulative trauma injury from exposure to, for example, vibration.

61812617, Jan 30, 2001

Jun 24, 1999

9/339291

James R. Miles - Alexandria VA
Robert L. Monroe - Daleville AL

The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army - Washington DC

G01C 2100
G01C 2300

340971

An airfield hazard automated detection device having a radar for scanning the airfield for obstacles and an automated target recognition system, operably connected to the radar, for comparing the images of the scans of the obstacles to images of known potential hazards and for instructing a directed imaging system to verify the potential hazard by scanning the potential hazard and indicating the result.

59652233, Oct 12, 1999

Oct 10, 1997

8/948636

Mark A. Andrews - Concord NC
James B. Miles - Kannapolis NC

World Fibers, Inc. - Concord NC

B32B 2700
B32B 1700
B32B 704

428 345

The present invention is a composite layered protective fabric having an outer primary layer composed of an abrasive material and an inner primary layer composed of an inherently cut-resistant material positioned below the outer primary layer and when assembled into a garment is positioned proximate to the wearer's skin. In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, a secondary layer is added to the inner and outer layer framework. The secondary layer is composed of a material that provides additional protection against potential threats other than cuts, that increases comfort or that improves aesthetics. The invented composite fabric is continuously manufactured in a one-step process which plates the layers of yarn. Thus formed, the invented composite fabric can be formed into cut-resistant apparel and articles that provide a high level of protection against sharp objects.