Patents by Inventor Alson Robert Harm

Alson Robert Harm 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: 3980289
    Abstract: An apparatus for simultaneously folding and interfolding a multiplicity of webs of flexible material such as facial tissue paper in the machine direction to form an endless bundle of interfolded webs which endless bundle can be cut into discrete bundles and packaged in pop-up dispensing containers. The apparatus comprises a fan-shape, horizontally disposed folding table comprising a set of tapered elongate guides having inverted V-shape cross sections. The elongate guides are disposed in side-by-side relation and thereby form tapered V-shape troughs therebetween. The webs are directed in convergent relation onto the radially outwardly disposed edge of the fan-shape table in partially overlapped relation and are drawn radially inwardly thereacross and thence about a turning guide whereupon the folds of the webs are alternately V-folded upwardly in said troughs and downwardly about the ridges of the elongate guides so that an edge fold of each web is disposed intermediate two folds of an adjacent web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: September 14, 1976
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Alson Robert Harm