Patents by Inventor Bernard A. Porambo

Bernard A. Porambo 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).

  • Self-adhesive wallboard finishing tape and tape-and-wallboard panel system
    Patent number: 5333433
    Abstract: A self-adhesive tape is presented for concealing or "finishing" joints between adjacent wallboard panels in the construction of simulated monolithic wall surfaces. The finishing tape comprises an elongate substrate having opposing first and second surfaces and terminating in opposing side edges, first and second layers of a cementitious first adhesive disposed on the first surface of the substrate adjacent each opposing side edge of the substrate and a pressure-sensitive second adhesive disposed on the first surface of the substrate generally along a central portion of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Inventors: Bernard A. Porambo, Carolyn L. Usrey