Stephen H Tsiarkezos

6842921, Jan 18, 2005

Nov 18, 2003

10/716237

Stephen H. Tsiarkezos - Elkton MD, US
Dimitri P. Zafiroglu - Centreville DE, US

Xymid, L.L.C. - Chesterfield VA

A14G 902

5497, 5499

A slip resistant cover for various articles has a central, substantially non-stretchable sheet and a border of a cross-extensible strip around the perimeter of the sheet. The strip can extend incrementally from its relaxed state by at least 150% under tension of 160 g/cm of strip width or less. Preferably the strip has an open mesh net structure. The slip resistant cover is suitable for covering diverse items, including bedding materials, vehicles, equipment, furniture and the like.

6883193, Apr 26, 2005

Mar 5, 2003

10/382263

Lynwood Charles Brooks - Richmond VA, US
Erik William Spencer - Cjesterfield VA, US
Stephen Horace Tsiarkezos - Elkton MD, US

Xymid, L.L.C. - Chesterfield VA

A47G009/00
D03D015/00

5497, 442182, 112413, 28156

A form-fitting cover has a top panel that has an elastic stretch in a least one linear direction in the range of 25 to 150% and a skirt attached to and depending from the periphery of the top panel. The skirt has an upper edge that has an elastic stretch at least equal to the elastic stretch of the periphery of the top panel. The skirt further has of an elastic or inelastic stretch that is at least as large as the elastic stretch of the periphery of the top panel.

6908664, Jun 21, 2005

May 22, 2002

10/155912

Stephen Horace Tsiarkezos - Elkton MD, US

Xymid, L.L.C. - Chesterfield VA

B32B003/06
B32B027/14
D04B007/14
D04H001/74

428197, 428102, 428196, 442366, 442414, 66190, 66192

An improved process for making stitchbonded fabric in which a feed material that has a visible pattern on it is surface is multi-needle stitched with a contractible yarn and then the stitched material is contracted to form an attractive, novel surface pattern that is quite different from the original pattern on the feed material.

7007326, Mar 7, 2006

May 24, 2003

10/444755

Stephen Horace Tsiarkezos - Elkton MD, US

Xymid, L.L.C. - Chesterfield VA

A47G 9/04

5497, 5499

A wound-up cylindrical package is provided of a substantially non-stretchable fabric that has edge regions in which different amounts of elastic elements are incorporated. The fabric is subsequently removed from the package without excessive gathering or twisting for convenient use as a skirt material in the fabrication of a fitted mattress cover.

7141290, Nov 28, 2006

Dec 1, 2003

10/725238

Stephen H. Tsiarkezos - Elkton MD, US
Dimitri Peter Zafiroglu - Centreville DE, US

Xymid, LLC - Petersburg VA

B32B 3/06
B32B 5/04
B32B 5/10

428 95, 428 96, 428102, 428219, 442366, 442414

A stretchable stitch-bonded nonwoven fabric is disclosed herein. The fabric includes a nonwoven substrate having basis weight in the range from about 15 to about 150 g/m, and density in the range from about 0. 02 to about 0. 12 g/cm. The nonwoven substrate is bonded with a binder applied to the outer surfaces of the substrate in a liquid form in a sufficiently uniform manner so that no areas greater than the spaces between stitch insertion points are devoid of binder. The binder constitutes from about 2% to about 25% of the total weight of the sum of binder and nonwoven substrate weight. The substrate is stitch-bonded with yarns arranged in a stitch pattern that allows the stitch-bonded fabric to be stretched in at least one direction by a factor of about 2. 5 to about 5. 0 without forming local ruptures therein, and wherein the stitch-bonded nonwoven fabric can be washed and dried at least twenty times.

7186451, Mar 6, 2007

Mar 31, 2003

10/403254

Dimitri Peter Zafiroglu - Centreville DE, US
Stephen H. Tsiarkezos - Elkton MD, US

XYMID, LLC - Petersburg VA

D04B 7/14
B32B 3/06
B32B 27/04

428102, 66190, 66191, 428196, 428219, 428220, 428904, 442104, 442361

The invention is directed to a composite sheet suitable for use as artificial leather or a precursor to artificial leather, where both surfaces have a napped or brushed appearance. The composite sheet comprises a low-density, lightly bonded non-woven web that is stitch-bonded and bulked such that the stitch-bonding yarns are not visible to the naked eyes without the need of post-processing steps to hide the yarns. The composite sheet may have binder resin(s) dispersed therein and activated.

7264861, Sep 4, 2007

Mar 31, 2003

10/403208

Dimitri Peter Zafiroglu - Centreville DE, US
Stephen H. Tsiarkezos - Elkton MD, US

Xymid, LLC - Petersburg VA

D04H 11/00
B32B 5/02
B32B 5/06
B32B 5/22

428 85, 428 95, 442148, 442383, 442388, 442402

A composite sheet is disclosed. The composite sheet comprises an open random fibrous web having substantially vertical fibers near a top surface, a first binder resin and a second binder resin, wherein the first binder resin has a melting point lower than the melting point of the second binder resin, wherein the melting point of the second resin is lower than the melting point of the web, wherein the resins are activated in situ with the web fibers to form a resin-fiber rich region on the top surface and wherein the abrasion-resistant sheet can withstand at least about 3,000 cycles on the Wyzenbeek abrasion test using 80-grit abrasive paper. An abrasion-resistant sheet comprising a single binder resin and other abrasion-resistant sheets are also disclosed. Processes for making these abrasion-resistant sheets are further disclosed herein.

7875334, Jan 25, 2011

Aug 15, 2007

11/839348

Dimitri P. Zafiroglu - Centreville DE, US
Stephen H. Tsiarkezos - Elkton MD, US

Xymid L.L.C. - Midlothian VA

D05C 17/00
B32B 5/12
B32B 5/26

428105, 428114, 442239, 442268, 112429, 112431, 112434

A stitchbonded fabric has a substrate material of uniform composition and physical properties and stitching threads stitched through and over the extent of the substrate in which the substrate has one or more slits defined by opposite facing lips that are unparted when the fabric is stitched. The fabric can be tensioned such that the lips part and thereby produce varied performance characteristics such as increased stretch and aesthetically pleasing effects as are useful in fabric utilities such as mattress cover skirts. The lips can pucker to give the fabric texture. The fabric can be extended and/or contracted laterally to further buckle out of plane. The puckering and buckling give the fabric additional functional properties such as dust-catching ability in cleaning wipe utilities.