Patents by Inventor Archie B. Lane, Jr.

Archie B. Lane, Jr. has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Embossed paper having alternating high and low strain regions
    Patent number: 4921034
    Abstract: An embossed sanitary paper product and method of making such product. The paper is embossed to form in the paper a midplane and an array of bosses extending up and down from the formed midplane. Each upward extending boss is flanked on two sides, in each of two directions, by a downward extending boss, and in at least one of the two directions, the paper between an upward extending boss tip and an adjacent downward extending boss tip on one side has a higher strain than the paper between the upward extending boss tip and an adjacent downward extending boss tip on the opposite side. The forming of a higher strain region and a lower strain region on opposite sides of a boss can be accomplished by forming asymmetric bosses with each upward extending boss rotated 180.degree. about an axis perpendicular to the plane of the paper with respect to its adjacent downward extending bosses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 1, 1990
    Assignee: Scott Paper Company
    Inventors: William H. Burgess, Kenneth Kaufman, Archie B. Lane, Jr.