Patents by Inventor Craig Andrew Hawkins

Craig Andrew Hawkins 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).

  • Publication number: 20130231624
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in part, to a disposable garment having a front region, a back region, and a crotch region extending between the front region and the back region. The disposable garment comprises a chassis in the front region, the back region, and the crotch region. The chassis comprises a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The disposable garment comprises a pair of ear panels extending laterally outward from the chassis in the front region or the back region, a seam panel extending laterally outward from at least one of the ear panels, and a tab formed with the seam panel and extending laterally outward from the seam panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventors: Kenneth Barclay Buell, Gregory ASHTON, Craig Andrew HAWKINS, William Robert Vinnage, JR., Mark James KLINE
  • Patent number: 8257334
    Abstract: A disposable pull-on garment is provided having a front region, a back region and a crotch region. The garment includes a chassis having edge lines in the front and back regions. A pair of extensible front ear panels extends laterally outward from the chassis in the front region, and a pair of extensible back ear panels extends laterally outward from the chassis in the back region. Each of the panels is joined along its outermost edge line to its corresponding opposite front or back ear panel to form two overlapping seams, two leg openings and a waist opening. At least one of the overlapping seams has a substantially bonded portion and an unbonded portion such that the ratio in the length of the unbonded portion to the substantially bonded portion is between about 4:96 and about 20:80.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Barclay Buell, Gregory Ashton, Craig Andrew Hawkins, William Robert Vinnage, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20120152796
    Abstract: A blister card with a back side and a front side opposite the back side. The front side has a plurality of blisters and each blister contains a unit dose and each unit dose contains an active. Each blister card contains from about 12 hours to about 24 hours of unit doses according to the dosage instructions. The actives can be the same or different.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Inventors: Rosa Manuela Leon Alonso, Kelly Lee Schmeichel, Isabelle LaFosse-Marin, Angela Jane Deutsch, Thomas Alfred Inglin, Kurt Franklin Trombley, Diane Danheiser Powers, Eduardo de Abreu Mangione, Craig Andrew Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20120152795
    Abstract: A daily blister card housing a unit dose includes a back side and a front side opposite the back side. The front side includes a manufacturer indicator visible on the front side. A face has an outer periphery and a total planar area bounded by the outer periphery. One or more blisters extend outwardly at the face that contain at least three unit doses that are visible from outside the one or more blisters. Each of the one or more blisters includes a shoulder contacting a cavity backing surface and a projected cavity area bounded by the shoulder that is projected onto the cavity backing surface. A total projected cavity area of the one or more blisters is no more than about 45 percent of the total planar area bounded by the outer periphery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
    Inventors: Rosa Manuela Leon Alonso, Kelly Lee Schmeichel, Isabelle LaFosse-Marin, Angela Jane Deutsch, Thomas Alfred Inglin, Kurt Franklin Trombley, Diane Danheiser Powers, Eduardo de Abreu Mangione, Craig Andrew Hawkins
  • Patent number: 7901390
    Abstract: A disposable garment having a side elastomeric material and a waist elastomeric material is disclosed. The disposable garment has a front region, a back region, a crotch region between the front region and the back region. The disposable garment comprises a chassis, a waist elastomeric material, a side elastomeric material, and seams. The chassis has a topsheet, a backsheet joined with the topsheet, and an absorbent core interposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The chassis has a central panel having a waist edge and side edges, an ear panel having a waist edge, and a waistband panel in the front region and the back region. The ear panel extends laterally outwardly from each side edge of the central panel. The waistband panel extends longitudinally outwardly from the waist edge of the central panel and the waist edge of the ear panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Ashton, Craig Andrew Hawkins, Frederick Michael Langdon, Eiro Fukuda, Fumito Furukawa
  • Publication number: 20030120240
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a disposable pull-on garment having a longitudinal center line, a front region, a back region and a crotch region between the front region and the back region. The disposable pull-on garment includes a chassis provided in the front, back and crotch regions. The chassis has edge lines in the front and back regions and includes a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet associated with the topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The disposable pull-on garment further includes at least one pair of extensible ear panels extending laterally outward from the chassis in the front or back region. Each of the ear panels has an outermost edge line. Each of the ear panels are joined to the chassis along the corresponding edge lines to form a seam, thereby forming two leg openings and a waist opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2003
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Barclay Buell, Gregory Ashton, Craig Andrew Hawkins, William Robert Vinnage
  • Patent number: 6572598
    Abstract: A disposable garment having enhanced extensibility around the leg openings is disclosed. The disposable garment has a front region, a back region and a crotch region between the front region and the back region. The disposable garment comprises a chassis and seams. The chassis comprises a topsheet, a backsheet joined with the topsheet, and an absorbent core interposed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The chassis has a central panel having side edges and a waist edge, and an ear panel extending laterally outwardly from each side edge of the central panel in the front region and the back region. The ear panel is rendered extensible to form an extensible ear. The extensible ear has a higher end edge, a lower end edge, an inner side edge, and an outer side edge. The outer side edge is non-parallel to the inner side edge, and is non-parallel to a longitudinal center line of the garment, and projects laterally outwardly proximate the lower end edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2003
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Ashton, Craig Andrew Hawkins
  • Patent number: 6443940
    Abstract: A disposable pull-on garment having at least one pair of extensible car panels extending laterally outward from the chassis in the front or back region. Each ear panel has an outermost edge line and at least one outermost edge line has a non-uniform lateral distance from the longitudinal center line when the garment is in an unseamed flat condition. Seams join the ear panels to the chassis along the outermost edge lines to form two leg openings and a waist opening. In another embodiment, the garment has a pair of extensible ear panels in each of the front and back regions and at least one outermost edge line has a non-uniform lateral distance from the longitudinal center line when the garment is in an unseamed flat condition. Seams join the corresponding front and back ear panels along their outermost edge lines to form two leg openings and a waist opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Ashton, Craig Andrew Hawkins
  • Patent number: 6302871
    Abstract: The disposable pull-on garment of the present invention comprises a chassis having a front region, a back region and a crotch region between the front region and the back region. The chassis comprises a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet associated with the topsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Chikayo Nakao, Craig Andrew Hawkins
  • Patent number: 5833678
    Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article having a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet joined to the topsheet, and an absorbent core positioned therebetween, in which the absorbent core is enveloped by a primary core integrity layer comprising a continuous mesh of strands of thermoplastic material which is joined to the topsheet and/or the backsheet. The primary core integrity layer is particularly useful for improving the wet integrity of absorbent cores comprising an upper acquisition/distribution layer and a lower storage layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Ashton, John Thomas Cooper, Craig Andrew Hawkins
  • Patent number: D414262
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Ashton, Frederick Michael Langdon, Craig Andrew Hawkins, Chikayo Nakao, Takashi Hiuke, Miyuki Nakazono, Kenneth Barclay Buell