Patents by Inventor Mark Gordon Heath

Mark Gordon Heath 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).

  • Method and apparatus for making an elastomeric laminate web
    Patent number: 5964973
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for making an elastomeric web. Generally stated, the process includes moving a first web (26) along an appointed machine-direction (28) of the process, and delivering a plurality of elastomeric strands (30) moving along the machine-direction. The elastomeric strands (30) have been elastomerically stretch to an elongation of at least about 50 percent, and the plurality of elastomeric strands (30) have been laterally distributed along an appointed cross-direction (32) of the process. The elastomeric strands (30) are positioned at a spaced distance (34) from the first web (26), and an adhesive is applied to the elastomeric strands (30) and the first web (26) while the elastomeric strands are at the spaced distance (34) from the first web (26). A second web (36) is laminated to the first web (26) with the elastomeric strands (30) sandwiched between the first and second webs to provide an elastomeric laminate, composite web (24) attached together with the adhesive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 12, 1999
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Gordon Heath, James Louis Cahall, Timothy Alan French, Eric Donald Johnson, Michael A Snyder
  • Apparatus for making an absorbent article with asymmetric leg elastics
    Patent number: 5743994
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an elasticized article includes a delivering mechanism for supplying a substrate web having a longitudinal direction and a lateral cross-direction. A first connecting mechanism attaches an inboard elastic member to said substrate web, and a second connecting mechanism attaches an outboard elastic member to the substrate web, with the outboard elastic member located laterally outboard of the inboard elastic member. A dividing mechanism separates away a portion of the substrate web and a portion of the outboard elastic member to thereby provide a set of elastics which are arranged in a staggered overlapping relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Harold Roessler, Paul Theodore Van Gompel, Daniel Robert Schlinz, Mark Gordon Heath, Geoffrey Walter Frost
  • Method for making an absorbent article with asymmetric leg elastics
    Patent number: 5683531
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an elasticized article includes a delivering mechanism for supplying a substrate web having a longitudinal direction and a lateral cross-direction. A first connecting mechanism attaches an inboard elastic member to said substrate web, and a second connecting mechanism attaches an outboard elastic member to the substrate web, with the outboard elastic member located laterally outboard of the inboard elastic member. A dividing mechanism separates away a portion of the substrate web and a portion of the outboard elastic member to thereby provide a set of elastics which are arranged in a staggered overlapping relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Harold Roessler, Paul Theodore Van Gompel, Daniel Robert Schlinz, Mark Gordon Heath, Geoffrey Walter Frost