Patents by Inventor David J. Wilks

David J. Wilks 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: 7238236
    Abstract: An apparatus for making a wet roll including a body of a roll of wet wound sheet material, where the body of the roll is connected to a tail of the roll, means for applying an adhesion promoter between the body and the tail and means for contacting the body and the tail. The body and tail of the roll contain a wetting solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: David J. Wilks, Andrew Peter Doyle, Kenneth Y. Wang, Duane K. Zacharias
  • Patent number: 6951345
    Abstract: A hitch alignment device for aligning a ball and socket of a ball and socket type hitch is disclosed. The alignment device includes a base with a winch and pivotable cable guide mounted on it. The cable guide includes a plate with an arm extending outwardly from it at an angle and an adjustable leg extending outwardly from the arm. A pulley is mounted on the leg and a cable is connected to the winch at one end, is threaded around the pulley and then through holes in the socket and ball of the hitch and is then secured. The cable is wound onto the winch to draw the ball and socket together. The cable guide can be extended and pivoted so that the pulley and therefore the cable is brought into sufficient alignment with the socket on the trailer that undue strain is not placed on the alignment device as the cable is wound onto the winch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Inventor: David J. Wilks
  • Publication number: 20040096483
    Abstract: A method of making a wet roll includes providing a body of a roll of wet wound sheet material, where the body of the roll is connected to a tail of the roll, applying an adhesion promoter between the body and the tail, and contacting the body and the tail. The body and tail of the roll contain a wetting solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventors: David J. Wilks, Andrew Peter Doyle, Kenneth Y. Wang, Duane K. Zacharias
  • Patent number: 6086083
    Abstract: A coupling device which can be readily transferred to other pairs of powered vehicles and unpowered trailer vehicles for over-the-road towing of the trailer vehicle. The device involves modified male and female contoured members such as complemental ball and socket members which can be easily brought together into mating engagement by a uniform cable member passed through continuous openings in both contoured male and female members and is capable of drawing together the paired vehicles into precise alignment and positively seating the coupled members into mating relation with minimal physical effort.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Inventor: David J. Wilks
  • Patent number: 5153992
    Abstract: A safety razor in which the blade has a plurality of sharp-edged apertures for shaving and also a sharpened rectilinear edge for trimming. Provision is made for effecting displacement of the blade relative to the razor handle so that the trimming edge which is normally in an inoperative position can be moved into an operative position. The blade is held in an arched position so that the aforesaid movement is of a rocking nature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Frank E. Brown, John Taylor, David J. Wilks