Patents by Inventor Ray A. Hunder

Ray A. Hunder 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: 5183297
    Abstract: A pad of regular hexagonal flexible sheets each having a front surface adapted to be written on, and a coating of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive over a portion of its rear surface releasably adhering the sheet to an underlying sheet in the pad. Information can be written on the front of the sheets, and the individual written on sheets can be adhered to a planar surface in side by side relationship with edge portions of up to six adjacent sheets in contact to represent relationships between the information on the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
    Inventors: Douglas P. Bodziak, Steven L. Grovender, Ray A. Hunder, Robert P. Molenda, Steven P. Roth
  • Patent number: 5052872
    Abstract: A method for binding a stack of fan folded sheets including manually disposing the stack of sheets with spine edges of the sheets generally aligned in a plane generally at a right angle to the side surfaces of the sheets in the stack; manually positioning a thick layer of pressure sensitive adhesive already adhered to a generally planar portion of a highly flexible backing having low resiliency over the spine edges; and manually pressing the side of the backing against the spine edge of the sheets to cause conformation of the backing and adhesion of the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive to the spine edges of the sheets, which is most easily done by manually pressing the spine edges of the sheets toward an edge of a structure such as a table or desk with the edge disposed transverse of the spine edges of the sheets along the surface of the backing opposite the layer of pressure sensitive adhesive while moving the spine edges longitudinally to bring the majority of the side of the backing opposite the layer
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1991
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Ray A. Hunder, Stephen H. Dwyer, George J. Clements, Michael K. Martin
  • Patent number: 5013200
    Abstract: A binding system including a method for binding sheets in which a stack of the sheets is shingled to disclose narrow side surface portions along their spine edges, a uniform layer of pressure sensitive adhesive is adhered to those spine edges and narrow side surface portion after which the spine edges are moved into alignment at a right angle to the side surfaces of the sheets to re-form the pressure sensitive adhesive along the spines of the sheets, and a flexible backing is adhered over the re-formed adhesive along the spine edges and at the side surfaces of the sheets to retain the spine edges of the sheets in that alignment. The system also includes a novel cover structure which facilitates the method and includes cover plates, the pressure sensitive adhesive and the backing; and a novel device for holding and positioning the sheets during binding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 7, 1991
    Inventors: Ray A. Hunder, Alden R. Miles, Stephen H. Dwyer, Dorman N. Thompson
  • Patent number: 5011186
    Abstract: A pad of regular hexagonal flexible sheets each having a front surface adapted to be written on, and a coating of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive over a portion of its rear surface releasably adhering the sheet to an underlying sheet in the pad. Information can be written on the front surfaces of the sheets, and the individual written on sheets can be adhered to a planar surface in side by side relationship with edge portions of up to six adjacent sheets in contact to represent relationships between the information on the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Douglas P. Bodziak, Ray A. Hunder, Steven P. Roth, Steven L. Grovender, Robert P. Molenda
  • Patent number: 5011187
    Abstract: A binding system including a method for binding connected fan folded sheets in which a stack of the sheets is shingled to disclose narrow side surface portions along their spine edges, a layer of pressure sensitive adhesive on a highly flexible backing is adhered to those spine edges and narrow side surface portion after which the spine edges are moved into alignment at a right angle to the side surfaces of the sheets to cause the backing and layer of pressure sensitive adhesive to pleat around the spines of the sheets. The system also includes a novel cover structure which facilitates the method and includes cover plates, the pressure sensitive adhesive and the backing; and a novel device for holding and positioning the sheets during binding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Ray A. Hunder, Larry A. Bettenhausen, Alden R. Miles, William A. Mittelstadt, Stephen H. Dwyer, Gary R. Hanson
  • Patent number: 4793758
    Abstract: A cover for the machine-less binding of pages into a booklet comprises a cover having a longitudinal edge of a strip of pressure sensitive tape adhered inside the cover along the central fold line to accept shingled edges of the pages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1986
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Gary R. Hanson, Ray A. Hunder, George R. Rabuse