Patents by Inventor Eric E. Arrington

Eric E. Arrington 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: 5888713
    Abstract: The present invention is a method of producing a photographic support. The method includes providing a photographic paper and transporting the photographic paper through an atmospheric glow discharge zone, wherein the atmospheric glow discharge zone contains a gas with a dielectric strength which is less than air. The atmospheric glow discharge zone is subjected to an electric frequency between 40 kHz and 13.56 Mhz and an electric field such that an atmospheric glow discharge is formed; and the photographic paper is coated with a polymeric coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Eric E. Arrington, David A. Glocker, Theodore J. Tatarzyn
  • Patent number: 5824463
    Abstract: This invention describes a method for manufacturing a photographic support which includes providing a support and laminating a surface of the support with a polymer resin formulation containing from 0.001 to 1 weight percent antioxidant at a temperature of from 305.degree. to 360.degree. C. while exposing the polymer resin formulation to an ozone containing gas at a rate of greater than 0.1 mg/m.sup.2 of said support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Eric E. Arrington
  • Patent number: 5633041
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of making thermoplastic resin-coated paper which comprises coating a paper sheet with a liquid thermoplastic resin, passing the thermoplastic resin-coated paper sheet through a nip of a pressure roll and a thermally conductive medium to form a resin-medium interface, heating the interface to a temperature of from 35.degree. C. to 350.degree. C. for a nip time period of from 0.002 to 10 seconds and a pressure of from 17,500 to 1,750,000 Pa-m, cooling the interface to a temperature of -73.degree. to 32.degree. C. for a cooling time period of from 0.001 to 100 seconds, and separating the thermoplastic resin-coated paper from the medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Eric E. Arrington
  • Patent number: 5529737
    Abstract: A method of making a cellulose triacetate photographic film base which includes delivering a dope solution of from 15 to 35 wt % of cellulose triacetate in dichloromethane based on the total weight of the solution under a pressure of from 7 atmospheres to 50 atmospheres and a temperature of from 41.degree. C. to 63.degree. C. to a surface maintained at atmospheric pressure; the surface being maintained at a temperature below the boiling point of dichloromethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 25, 1996
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Eric E. Arrington, Randall J. Kehl