Patents by Inventor Frances W. Mayfield
Frances W. Mayfield 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).
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Patent number: 10729189Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The sleeves and legs are shorted and held in a donning configuration by releaseably affixing at least a portion of upper and lower segments of the interior surface of each limb. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2016Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Drake Smith, Frances W. Mayfield, Theresa M. McCoy, Ruthlyn M. Reyes, Normand Gagnier, Dennis Yi-Der Lee
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Publication number: 20160165971Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The sleeves and legs are shorted and held in a donning configuration by releaseably affixing at least a portion of upper and lower segments of the interior surface of each limb. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2016Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Aaron Drake Smith, Frances W. Mayfield, Theresa M. McCoy, Ruthlyn M. Reyes, Normand Gagnier, Dennis Yi-Der Lee
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Patent number: 9265292Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The sleeves and legs are shorted and held in a donning configuration by releaseably affixing at least a portion of upper and lower segments of the interior surface of each limb. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2008Date of Patent: February 23, 2016Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Aaron Drake Smith, Frances W. Mayfield, Theresa M. McCoy, Ruthlyn M. Reyes, Normand Gagnier, Dennis Yi-Der Lee
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Patent number: 7841020Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The garment includes one or more foreshortening structures within the garment that allows for the arms and legs to be shorted into a donning configuration. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment or allowing any portion of the garment to touch another surface. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2007Date of Patent: November 30, 2010Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Frances W. Mayfield, Christina Mae Chingren Seward, Alice Susan Gordon, Theresa M. McCoy
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Patent number: 7789927Abstract: A portable partition system includes an air permeable nonwoven sheet material as the primary isolation material. An elongated support member with an attachment device are used to erect the sheet material. The attachment device includes a head with opposed separable clamping surfaces having a hook material provided thereon. The sheet material is inserted between the clamping surfaces so as to be engaged directly by the hook material on opposite sides of the sheet material upon erecting the system into a portable partition.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2007Date of Patent: September 7, 2010Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Paul F. Tramontina, Richard P. Lewis, Jeffrey J. Krueger, Charles H. Goerg, Frances W. Mayfield, Ann L. McCormack, Jacqueline B. Martin, David Lilley
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Publication number: 20090019622Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The garment includes one or more foreshortening structures within the garment that allows for the arms and legs to be shorted into a donning configuration. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment or allowing any portion of the garment to touch another surface. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2007Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventors: Frances W. Mayfield, Christina Mae Chingren Seward, Alice Susan Gordon, Theresa M. McCoy
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Publication number: 20090019616Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The sleeves and legs are shorted and held in a donning configuration by releaseably affixing at least a portion of upper and lower segments of the interior surface of each limb. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2008Publication date: January 22, 2009Inventors: Aaron Drake Smith, Frances W. Mayfield, Theresa M. McCoy, Ruthlyn M. Reyes, Normand Gagnier, Dennis Yi-Der Lee
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Publication number: 20090007529Abstract: A portable partition system includes an air permeable nonwoven sheet material as the primary isolation material. An elongated support member with an attachment device are used to erect the sheet material. The attachment device includes a head with opposed separable clamping surfaces having a hook material provided thereon. The sheet material is inserted between the clamping surfaces so as to be engaged directly by the hook material on opposite sides of the sheet material upon erecting the system into a portable partition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2007Publication date: January 8, 2009Inventors: Paul F. Tramontina, Richard P. Lewis, Jeffrey J. Krueger, Charles H. Goerg, Frances W. Mayfield, Ann L. McCormack, Jacqueline B. Martin, David Lilley
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Publication number: 20040124206Abstract: A stacked paper product dispensing cartridge includes a plurality of walls including side walls and at least one end wall. The side walls and end wall define an interior area that contains stacked paper products oriented so as to extend substantially perpendicular to at least one of the side walls. The cartridge further includes a bulk dispensing opening defined within at least one of the side walls. The cartridge may further include at least one limited-access dispensing opening. The cartridge may further include removable sections defined in the cartridge walls, removal of at least a portion of the removable portions creating openings in the cartridge. Additional openings could be provided for controlling the dispensing and alignment of the paper products within the cartridge.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2002Publication date: July 1, 2004Inventors: Paul F. Tramontina, David A. Lilley, Frances W. Mayfield, Neal G. Moro, Carrie F. Dix
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Patent number: 6550115Abstract: The present invention desirably provides a fabric including a synthetic fiber structure first zone, a synthetic fiber structure second zone, and a short fiber third zone. The first zone may include a spunbond web layer and a meltblown web layer. The synthetic fiber structure second zone may be positioned proximate to the synthetic fiber structure first zone and the short fiber third zone may be positioned substantially between the first and second zones. Desirably, the first and second zones are entwined.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2000Date of Patent: April 22, 2003Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Henry Skoog, Fred R. Radwanski, Terry R. Cleveland, Frances W. Mayfield, Lawrence M. Brown
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Patent number: 6177370Abstract: The present invention desirably provides a fabric including a synthetic fiber structure first zone, a synthetic fiber structure second zone, and a short fiber third zone. The first zone may include a spunbond web layer and a meltblown web layer. The synthetic fiber structure second zone may be positioned proximate to the synthetic fiber structure first zone and the short fiber third zone may be positioned substantially between the first and second zones. Desirably, the first and second zones are entwined.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 1998Date of Patent: January 23, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Henry Skoog, Fred R. Radwanski, Terry R. Cleveland, Frances W. Mayfield, Lawrence M. Brown
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Patent number: 5622734Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a crimp-bonded fibrous cellulosic laminate. The process includes the steps of: 1) providing at least two superposed plies of a fibrous cellulosic material; 2) passing the superposed plies through a crimp roll arrangement including a rotating crimp element and a rotating anvil element; and 3) applying a pressure load against the rotating elements sufficient to crimp bond the fibrous cellulosic material plies into a laminate. The crimp element has protruding members configured in a discontinuous pattern aligned on an axis that is parallel to the cross-machine direction to provide a substantially continuous uniform area of localized surface contacts between the rotating crimp and anvil elements across the width of the plies. Also disclosed is an overall crimp-bonded fibrous cellulosic laminate and an apparatus for crimp-bonding multiple superposed plies of a fibrous cellulosic material.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 1995Date of Patent: April 22, 1997Assignee: Kimberly-Clark CorporationInventors: Harry E. Clark, Cynthia W. Henderson, Robert C. Marcinek, Frances W. Mayfield, Thad W. Perkins, Jorg F. Voss
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Patent number: 5543202Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a crimp-bonded fibrous cellulosic laminate. The process includes the steps of: 1) providing at least two superposed plies of a fibrous cellulosic material; 2) passing the superposed plies through a crimp roll arrangement including a rotating crimp element and a rotating anvil element; and 3) applying a pressure load against the rotating elements sufficient to crimp bond the fibrous cellulosic material plies into a laminate. The crimp element has protruding members configured in a discontinuous pattern aligned on an axis that is parallel to the cross-machine direction to provide a substantially continuous uniform area of localized surface contacts between the rotating crimp and anvil elements across the width of the plies. Also disclosed is an overall crimp-bonded fibrous cellulosic laminate and an apparatus for crimp-bonding multiple superposed plies of a fibrous cellulosic material.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 1994Date of Patent: August 6, 1996Assignee: Kimberly-Clark CorporationInventors: Harry E. Clark, Cynthia W. Henderson, Robert C. Marcinek, Frances W. Mayfield, Thad W. Perkins, Jorg F. Voss
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Patent number: D837535Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Alice S. Gordon, Frances W. Mayfield, Carlos E. Roldan-Posada, Phillip L. Hutchison, Darcey E. McCormick, Sarah M. McMahon
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Patent number: D853132Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Alice S. Gordon, Frances W. Mayfield, Carlos E. Roldan-Posada, Phillip L. Hutchison, Darcey E. McCormick, Sarah M. McMahon