Patents by Inventor Caroline L. Vernon

Caroline L. Vernon 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).

  • Patent number: 4895738
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape comprising a plurality of superimposed layers, at least one outer layer being a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, contiguous layer defining an interface therebetween, each of said layers comprising a photopolymerized matrix of polymeric chains; said polymeric chains extending from the matrix of one of said layers through said interface into the matrix of a contiguous layer; said polymeric chains comprising polymerized monomers having migrated from the matrix of each contiguous layer prior to polymerization, whereby said layers cannot be delaminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Patrick G. Zimmerman, Gordon G. Johnson, Susan L. Korpela, Caroline L. Vernon
  • Patent number: 4818610
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape comprising a plurality of superimposed layers, at least one outer layer being a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, contiguous layers defining an interface therebetween, each of the layers comprising a photopolymerized matrix of polymeric chains; the polymeric chains extending from the matrix of one of the layers through the interface into the matrix of a contiguous layer; the polymeric chains comprising polymerized monomers having migrated from the matrix of each contiguous layer prior to polymerization, whereby the layers cannot be delaminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Patrick G. Zimmerman, Gordon G. Johnson, Susan L. Korpela, Caroline L. Vernon
  • Patent number: 4557960
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive transfer tape of the prior art has an adhesive layer containing uniformly dispersed glass monofilaments which randomly cross each other but are predominantly oriented in the lengthwise direction of the tape and generally lie in straight lines. In contrast, the monofilaments of the transfer tape of the present invention are organic and have a randomly disposed, individually arcuate configuration as shown in FIG. 2. Unlike the prior tape, the novel tape can have high adhesion and shear values and yet be dispensed from an ordinary adhesive transfer gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1985
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co.
    Inventors: Caroline L. Vernon, Earl A. Stanek