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US 8,791,035 B2Granted
Article of manufacture for warming the human body and extremities via graduated thermal insulation
AssigneeWarmer Weave, Inc.
InventorAlvin L. Pepper Aasgaard
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Abstract
An article of manufacture for warming human extremities via graduated thermal insulation with a blanket comprised of concentrations of and transitions to and from concentrations of various types of woven thread fabric or non-woven fabric, having various properties of thermal insulation.
Claims2
A thermally graded fabric comprising:
- a length of woven fabric comprising a generally linear graduated transition of an energy property between higher and lower energy property portions of the length of woven fabric, said graduated transition of the energy property comprising one of:
- a) an outer diameter of at least one of the fibers in the fabric having a generally linearly increasing or decreasing diameter along its length;
- b) a hollow core diameter of at least one of the fibers in the fabric haying a generally linearly increasing or decreasing core diameter along its length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.