Patents by Inventor David H. Swanton

David H. Swanton 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).

  • Method and apparatus for assembling refastenable absorbent garments
    Patent number: 6743321
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a refastenable absorbent garment includes moving a continuous body panel web in a machine direction and successively fixedly securing a plurality of discrete fastener pieces, spaced along the machine direction, to the body panel web. Each of the fastener pieces comprises a first and second end also spaced along the machine direction. The method further includes successively cutting said body panel web and each of the fastener pieces along a cross direction between the first and second ends of each of the fastener pieces and thereby forming a plurality of discrete body panels each comprising opposite side edges and a plurality of pairs of fastener members fixedly secured to one of the plurality of body panels and a next successive body panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2004
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel M. Guralski, Donald J. Sanders, David H. Swanton, Paul T. Van Gompel
  • Method and apparatus for assembling refastenable absorbent garments
    Publication number: 20030135192
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a refastenable absorbent garment includes moving a continuous body panel web in a machine direction and successively fixedly securing a plurality of discrete fastener pieces, spaced along the machine direction, to the body panel web. Each of the fastener pieces comprises a first and second end also spaced along the machine direction. The method further includes successively cutting said body panel web and each of the fastener pieces along a cross direction between the first and second ends of each of the fastener pieces and thereby forming a plurality of discrete body panels each comprising opposite side edges and a plurality of pairs of fastener members fixedly secured to one of the plurality of body panels and a next successive body panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2001
    Publication date: July 17, 2003
    Inventors: Daniel M. Guralski, Donald J. Sanders, David H. Swanton, Paul T. Van Gompel