Patents by Inventor Earl Tate, Jr.

Earl Tate, Jr. 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).

  • Pressure-sensitive adhesive and disposable diaper closure system
    Patent number: 5468237
    Abstract: A pressure-sensitive adhesive and tape are provided having a rubber component (30-60 weight percent) of polyisoprene (4-55 weight percent) blended with a styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer (96-45 weight percent) and a tackifying component (70-40 weight percent) to provide an adhesive that exhibits superior adhesion performance to low surface energy substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 21, 1995
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: John A. Miller, Ruben E. Velasquez Urey, Earl Tate, Jr.
  • Frontal tape-based diaper closure system
    Patent number: 5300057
    Abstract: A tape closure system exhibiting high shear and high non-shocky peel to a low adhesion backsize coated substrate is disclosed. The adhesive used on the fastening tape used in the closure system comprises a high diblock (.gtoreq.25 percent) styrene-isoprene-styrene elastomer component with a composite midblock glass transition temperature of 244 to 264 Kelvin with 30 to 60 percent elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: John A. Miller, Earl Tate, Jr., Ruben E. Velasquez Urey, Yasuhiro Kono, Yoshihiro Akiyama, Robert S. Mulder