Patents by Inventor Charles E. Dunning

Charles E. Dunning 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: 6658833
    Abstract: An apparatus for collection and reduction of yard debris combining a frontally facing rotor-assisted vacuum pick up with a chipper-shredder-blower unit to induce airflow for entraining debris collected at the vacuum pick up; reduce the entrained debris to a more manageable volume; and impel the reduced debris to a free-flow-separator device for removing the debris from the air in which it is entrained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: BestRake, LLC
    Inventors: Charles E. Dunning, Richard B. Saathoff
  • Publication number: 20020113152
    Abstract: An apparatus for collection and reduction of yard debris comprising a combination of a frontally facing rotor-assisted vacuum pick up, a chipper-shredder-blower unit which (i) induces an airflow for entraining the debris collected at said pick up; (ii) reduces the debris entrained in the airflow to a more manageable volume; and (iii) impels the reduced debris to a free-flow-separator device for removing the debris from the air in which it is entrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2001
    Publication date: August 22, 2002
    Inventors: Charles E. Dunning, Richard B. Saathoff
  • Publication number: 20020079320
    Abstract: A beverage container equipped with a top and a pop-up straw inside for a convenient and sanitary drinking purpose. The straw has an upper end and a lower end and is placed in the container. The straw has substantially lower density than a liquid in the container to urge the upper end through an openable portion of the top. Preferably, a bonding agent fixes the straw temporarily to the container at the time of filling the container with the liquid and closing the container with the top, and releases the straw automatically to allow flotation of the straw within the container after closing the container. The beverage container with the pop-up straw facilitates sanitary drinking and is compatible with the current high-speed canning and bottling processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Donald C. McCarthy, David H. Hollenberg, Charles E. Dunning
  • Patent number: 5904316
    Abstract: Apparatus for holding and dispensing a coreless roll of toilet tissue and for retrofit to a wall-mounted dispenser normally employed to support and dispense a conventional roll of toilet tissue having a central core. The apparatus includes a receptacle having two spaced projections which are inserted in spaces of the wall-mounted dispenser which normally receive the ends of a support spindle for supporting a conventional roll of toilet tissue having a central core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Fort James Operating Company
    Inventors: Charles E. Dunning, Rudolph W. Schutz
  • Patent number: 4166001
    Abstract: A process for directly forming multiple layer web, and creping such webs to provide absorbent, soft and bulky, creped tissue. The process produces a laminar fibrous formation with outer layers of strongly bonded fibers separated by an intermediate central section of weakly bonded fibers, which outer layers are creped such that the crepe in one outer layer is independent of the crepe in the other outer layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1979
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Dunning, William D. Lloyd, Joseph G. Bicho
  • Patent number: 3976734
    Abstract: A method of forming a lightweight, airlaid web of wood fibers suitable for tissue and toweling applications comprises airlaying a wood fiber continuum onto a foraminous carrier, bringing the continuum into contact with a transfer member printed with an adhesive in a preselected pattern, the adhesive being disposed in a low viscosity fluid, and removing the fluid to provide an airlaid, adhesively bonded web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1976
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Dunning, Winterton U. Day
  • Patent number: 3949035
    Abstract: A method of forming an airlaid web at high speeds, the web being suitable for tissue and toweling applications, includes air forming a flimsy continuum on to a foraminous surface, wetting the continuum in a prescribed fashion, employing the wetted surface of the continuum to achieve stripping from the foraminous surface and transfer to a transfer surface and bonding the continuum to yield a coherent web while the wetted continuum remains adhered to the transfer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1973
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1976
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
    Inventors: Charles E. Dunning, Stanley R. Kellenberger