Patent Yard Sign in
Expired European patentEurope

Method and apparatus for space dyeing yarn

EP 0756032 B1 · Applicant: Belmont Textile Machinery Company

EPO PDF

Overview

The published document from the EPO: abstract, claims, description and drawings. Open it full size

Read the whole patent

Listed from its EPO record in Patent Yard's archive of European patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the EPO PDF and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.

Why it's free to use

  • Filed June 27, 1996 and granted March 26, 2003. A European patent lasts at most 20 years from filing, so its term ended June 27, 2016.
  • A supplementary protection certificate, which can extend a medicine or crop-protection patent, adds at most five and a half years, so even that would have ended by December 27, 2021.
  • We check European rights only. A US or other national patent in its family could still be in force: check its family on Espacenet or Google Patents.
FiledJune 27, 1996
PublishedJanuary 29, 1997
GrantedMarch 26, 2003
Term endedJune 27, 2016
Application numberEP 96110428
Classification (CPC)D06B11/0026

Timeline

Timeline From EPO dates

1997199920012003200520072009201120132015Application filedJune 27, 1996PublishedJan 29, 1997Patent grantedMarch 26, 2003Term endedJune 27, 2016

Sources & verification