Patents by Inventor Jane L. Clough

Jane L. Clough 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: 8230998
    Abstract: A flexible packaging bags for containing and dispensing articles. More particularly, the present invention relates to a flexible packaging bag having a hanging element, permitting hanging of the bag after the bag has been initially opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. Boldra, Jane L. Clough, Edward J. Foley, Keith R. Haen, Linda K. Lemerande
  • Patent number: 8172084
    Abstract: A package containing an article. The article includes a first article texture and a second article texture. The package includes a plastic packaging material having an outer surface. Further the first article texture and the second article texture are non-similar and at least a portion of the outer surface has a packaging texture that is a simulant of the first article texture and at least a portion of the outer surface has a packaging texture that is a simulant of the second article texture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Kellie M. Goodrich, James A. Boldra, Jane L. Clough, Edward J. Foley, Keith R. Haen, Linda K. Lemerande, Thomas W. Odorzynski, Robert E. Vogt
  • Publication number: 20110062042
    Abstract: A flexible packaging bags for containing and dispensing articles. More particularly, the present invention relates to a flexible packaging bag having a hanging element, permitting hanging of the bag after the bag has been initially opened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2010
    Publication date: March 17, 2011
    Inventors: James A. Boldra, Jane L. Clough, Edward J. Foley, Keith R. Haen, Linda K. Lemerande
  • Publication number: 20100189540
    Abstract: A package for consumable products is disclosed. The package includes a plurality of subpackages connected together by a connecting member. For instance, the package may contain two subpackages or alternatively four subpackages all connected at one end to a connecting member. The package is particularly well suited to holding relatively large quantities of the consumable product. Because the subpackages are connected at one end, the package may be draped over an adjacent structure, such as a shopping cart. In this way, the package can be placed in a shopping cart without taking up an excessive amount of space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Publication date: July 29, 2010
    Applicant: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Catherine Marguerite Hancock-Cooke, Jane L. Clough, Timothy James Blenke, Patrick Sean McNichols, Meewha Lee, Pam Thompson, Jennifer L. Marvin, Thomas Tanakon Ungpiyakul, Sheng Hsin Hu
  • Patent number: 7721887
    Abstract: A package for consumable products is disclosed. The package includes a plurality of subpackages connected together by a connecting member. For instance, the package may contain two subpackages or alternatively four subpackages all connected at one end to a connecting member. The package is particularly well suited to holding relatively large quantities of the consumable product. Because the subpackages are connected at one end, the package may be draped over an adjacent structure, such as a shopping cart. In this way, the package can be placed in a shopping cart without taking up an excessive amount of space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Catherine Marguerite Hancock-Cooke, Jane L. Clough, Timothy James Blenke, Patrick Sean McNichols, Meewha Lee, Pam Thompson, Jennifer L. Marvin, Thomas Tanakon Ungpiyakul, Sheng-Hsin Hu
  • Publication number: 20090057329
    Abstract: A dispenser system for dispensing a clip of stack sheets of a web material includes an upright carton body with a clip of the stacked sheets carried within the carton body. A first lid is non-removably attached to the carton body such that the first lid cannot be removed from the carton body without permanent deformation of the first lid or the carton body. The first lid includes a sacrificial separation portion configured to allow a user to separate at least a section of the first lid from the carton body after depletion of the initial clip. A replacement lid assembly includes lid structure and a replacement clip of stacked sheets of web material. The lid structure is attachable to the carton body or a remaining portion of the first lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2007
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventors: Jane L. Clough, Cynthia W. Henderson, Robert S. Schlaupitz, Daniel S. Grubb, JR., Leslie T. Long
  • Patent number: 5955133
    Abstract: A method for wrapping sandwich products that include a heel of bread and a crown of bread involves placing the heel of bread on a flat sheet of packaging wrap, placing the crown of bread on the packaging wrap adjacent one of the corners of the packaging wrap, dressing the heel and/or the crown of bread, and then carrying out various folding steps to produce a wrapped or packaged sandwich product. The folding steps include inwardly folding the corner of the packaging wrap on which the crown of bread has been placed together with the crown of bread to position the crown of bread on top of the heel of bread and with the corner of the wrap being positioned in overlying relation to the crown of bread. A second portion of the packaging wrap is then inwardly folded to lie adjacent the folded corner, a third portion of the packaging wrap is inwardly folded to lie adjacent the folded second portion, and then a fourth portion of the packaging wrap is inwardly folded to lie adjacent the folded third portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: Fort James Corporation
    Inventors: Debra D. Bowers, Jane L. Clough, Louann S. Mueller
  • Patent number: 4948932
    Abstract: A disposable microwave browning and crisping package comprising a flexible or semirigid substrate and a microwave interactive layer affixed over one surface of said substrate, said microwave interactive layer, when subjected to microwave energy, operating as a means for converting microwave energy to heat in an amount sufficient to brown or crisp food in heat transfer relationship therewith. The package has non-dispersed, localized microwave permeable means which allows a percentage of the available microwave energy to traverse said package so as to produce dielectric heating within the center of the food product contained herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1990
    Assignee: James River Corporation
    Inventor: Jane L. Clough