Thomas A Hershberger, Age 60242 Carillon Dr, Madison, WI 53705

2012006, Mar 22, 2012

Aug 22, 2011

13/215199

Robert C. Gibson - Madison WI, US
Thomas S. Ohnstad - Salem OR, US
Matthew H. Noble - McMinnville OR, US
Trent J. Garber - Albany OR, US
Thomas A. Hershberger - Madison WI, US
John R. Hillman - Wilmette IL, US

Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc. - Salem OR

E04C 5/07
B29C 65/78
B32B 37/14
E04C 3/00
E04C 5/20

5230913, 52853, 52834, 156294, 156423

Elongate, composite-material, hollow rebar structure, along with associated components, related fabrication apparatus, and apparatus-implemented, rebar-structure-making methodology. The rebar structure has a long axis, and includes (a) an elongate, hollow core centered on that long axis, (b) an elongate, hollow sleeve having inner and outer surfaces, circumsurrounding the core along the core's length, with the sleeve's inner surface bonded to the core's outer surface along the length thereof, and (c) longitudinally distributed, radial-dimensionality, external-purchase-enhancing structure formed unitarily with the sleeve's outer surface along the length thereof. The bond existing between the core and the sleeve takes the form of a single-cure, reverse-temperature-gradient-cure, plastic-material, molecular bond.

5418045, May 23, 1995

Sep 22, 1994

8/310559

Richard D. Pike - Norcross GA
Kurtis L. Brown - Woodstock GA
Sharon W. Gwaltney - Woodstock GA
Thomas A. Hershberger - Appleton WI
Scott D. Siegel - Thomasville NC

Kimberly-Clark Corporation - Neenah WI

B32B 2714

428198

A process for making nonwoven fabric including the steps of meltspinning continuous multicomponent polymeric filaments, drawing the multicomponent filaments, at least partially quenching the multicomponent filaments so that the multicomponents have latent helical crimp, activating the latent helical crimp, and thereafter, forming the crimped continuous multicomponent filaments into a first nonwoven fabric web. By crimping the filaments before the web formation, shrinkage of the web after formation is substantially reduced and the resulting fabric is substantially stable and uniform. In addition, the resulting fabric can have a relatively high loft. The crimp activating step can include heating the multicomponent filaments and preferably includes drawing the multicomponent filaments with a flow of heated air to activate the latent helical crimp. The resulting fabric can form relatively high loft materials useful as a fluid management layer for personal care absorbent articles or can form cloth-like fabric useful as cover materials and garment material. In addition, a nonwoven fabric comprising continuous single and multicomponent filaments and proces for making same are provided.

2017021, Aug 3, 2017

Apr 17, 2017

15/489642

- Portland OR, US
Thomas S. Ohnstad - Salem OR, US
Thomas A. Hershberger - Madison WI, US
Gregory A. Zjaba - Verona WI, US
Richard A. Schulte - Madison WI, US
Sean Walsh - Carrboro NC, US

Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc. - Portland OR

E04C 5/07
B29C 47/06
B29C 70/52
B29C 47/00

A rebar structure for concrete reinforcement may include an elongate tubular central wall portion having an inside surface and an outside surface. The central wall portion may be formed circumferentially around a core axis and may include glass or carbon fibers mostly being oriented longitudinally parallel to the core axis. The rebar structure may include an inner wall portion bonded to the inside surface of the central wall portion. The inner wall portion may include glass or carbon fibers and may have a higher percentage of fibers oriented non-parallel to the core axis as compared to the central wall portion.

2016007, Mar 17, 2016

Sep 17, 2015

14/857722

- Portland OR, US
Thomas S. Ohnstad - Salem OR, US
Thomas A. Hershberger - Madison WI, US
Gregory A. Zjaba - Verona WI, US
Richard A. Schulte - Madison WI, US
Sean Walsh - Carrboro NC, US

Composite Rebar Technologies, Inc. - Portland OR

E04C 5/07
B29C 47/06
B29C 47/00

A rebar structure for concrete reinforcement may include an elongate tubular central wall portion having an inside surface and an outside surface. The central wall portion may be formed circumferentially around a core axis and may include glass or carbon fibers mostly being oriented longitudinally parallel to the core axis. The rebar structure may include an inner wall portion bonded to the inside surface of the central wall portion. The inner wall portion may include glass or carbon fibers and may have a higher percentage of fibers oriented non-parallel to the core axis as compared to the central wall portion.

2014033, Nov 13, 2014

Jul 30, 2014

14/447496

- Salem OR, US
Thomas S. Ohnstad - Salem OR, US
Matthew H. Noble - Lebanon OR, US
Trent J. Garber - Albany OR, US
Thomas A. Hershberger - Madison WI, US

B29C 70/74
B29D 23/00

156294

A method of making an elongate, composite-material, hollow rebar structure including (a) forming an elongate, composite-material, hollow core, (b) in association with such forming, preparing along the core's length an elongate, composite-material, core-circumsurrounding, hollow sleeve having inner and outer surfaces, (c) in association with such preparing, creating, unitarily with the sleeve, and in a manner distributed along the length of the sleeve's outer surface, an external-purchase-enhancing structure possessing radial-dimensionality, and (d) bonding the inner surface of the sleeve to the outer surface of the core.

2014033, Nov 13, 2014

Jul 30, 2014

14/447513

- Salem OR, US
Thomas S. Ohnstad - Salem OR, US
Matthew H. Noble - Lebanon OR, US
Trent J. Garber - Albany OR, US
Thomas A. Hershberger - Madison WI, US

B29C 70/52

425505

Apparatus possessing elongate, long-axially aligned componentry for making hollow, composite-material rebar including (a) a hollow mandrel disposed upstream in the apparatus, (b) a hollow pultrusion die circumsurrounding the mandrel for forming a composite-material hollow core in the space between it and the mandrel, and (c) a hollow, continuous-transfer-molding die spaced downstream from the pultrusion die, having a central long axis about which it is rotatable, operable to form, along the length of a core which has been formed in the pultrusion die, (1) an elongate, composite-material, core-circumsurrounding, hollow sleeve having an outer surface, and (2), unitarily with the sleeve, and in a manner distributed along the length of the sleeve's outer surface, an external-purchase-enhancing structure possessing radial-dimensionality.