Patents by Inventor Charles W. Graves

Charles W. Graves 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: 8329292
    Abstract: A method of using an absorbent article where the method includes adhering at least a portion of an absorbent article to a surface of a window through a pressure sensitive adhesive composition. The absorbent article includes an exterior surface, an acquisition layer, superabsorbent polymer, a first layer that has an exterior surface and an interior surface, and a pressure sensitive attachment adhesive composition, the superabsorbent polymer being disposed between the acquisition layer and the interior surface of the first layer, and the pressure sensitive attachment adhesive composition being disposed on the exterior surface of the absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: H.B. Fuller Company
    Inventors: James E. Toonen, Sharf U. Ahmed, Stephen G. Rippe, Charles W. Graves
  • Patent number: 5635331
    Abstract: Blocking is substantially reduced between individual sheets having a thermal adhesive coated thereon by including a release agent with the thermal adhesive. Preferred release agents are materials which have previously been used as low-adhesion backsize (LAB) coatings in pressure-sensitive adhesive applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 3, 1997
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Steven L. Kangas, Charles W. Graves, Ramesh C. Kumar
  • Patent number: 5232814
    Abstract: Metallic appearing images may be produced with a color proofing sheet which comprises a temporary carrier layer, a metallic appearance pigment-filled layer, a color pigment filled layer, a photoresist layer, and an optional adhesive layer. There may be a barrier layer between the optional adhesive and the resist layer and a release layer coating may be on the temporary carrier layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1991
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Charles W. Graves, Timothy W. Olson
  • Patent number: 4561696
    Abstract: Mineral values, particularly uranium, are recovered "in situ" from a subsurface earth formation by completing at least one well in the mineralized formation adjacent either the top or the bottom of the mineralized formation, completing at least one second well in the mineralized formation adjacent the opposite of the top and the bottom of the mineralized formation, forming a horizontally-oriented fracture in the mineralized formation adjacent at least one of the top and the bottom of the mineralized formation, each of which fractures is in open communication with that well which has been completed at a corresponding vertical level, injecting a leach solution, adapted to solvate the mineral values, into the first or the second well, which thus becomes an injection well, and thence into that fracture which is in communication with the injection well and producing the leach solution, containing solvated mineral values, from the other of the first and second wells, which thus becomes the production well, whereby
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1982
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1985
    Assignee: Phillips Petroleum Company
    Inventor: Charles W. Graves