Patents by Inventor Frances W. Mayfield

Frances W. Mayfield 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: 10729189
    Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The sleeves and legs are shorted and held in a donning configuration by releaseably affixing at least a portion of upper and lower segments of the interior surface of each limb. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Drake Smith, Frances W. Mayfield, Theresa M. McCoy, Ruthlyn M. Reyes, Normand Gagnier, Dennis Yi-Der Lee
  • Publication number: 20160165971
    Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The sleeves and legs are shorted and held in a donning configuration by releaseably affixing at least a portion of upper and lower segments of the interior surface of each limb. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Aaron Drake Smith, Frances W. Mayfield, Theresa M. McCoy, Ruthlyn M. Reyes, Normand Gagnier, Dennis Yi-Der Lee
  • Patent number: 9265292
    Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The sleeves and legs are shorted and held in a donning configuration by releaseably affixing at least a portion of upper and lower segments of the interior surface of each limb. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Drake Smith, Frances W. Mayfield, Theresa M. McCoy, Ruthlyn M. Reyes, Normand Gagnier, Dennis Yi-Der Lee
  • Patent number: 7841020
    Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The garment includes one or more foreshortening structures within the garment that allows for the arms and legs to be shorted into a donning configuration. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment or allowing any portion of the garment to touch another surface. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2010
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Frances W. Mayfield, Christina Mae Chingren Seward, Alice Susan Gordon, Theresa M. McCoy
  • Patent number: 7789927
    Abstract: A portable partition system includes an air permeable nonwoven sheet material as the primary isolation material. An elongated support member with an attachment device are used to erect the sheet material. The attachment device includes a head with opposed separable clamping surfaces having a hook material provided thereon. The sheet material is inserted between the clamping surfaces so as to be engaged directly by the hook material on opposite sides of the sheet material upon erecting the system into a portable partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul F. Tramontina, Richard P. Lewis, Jeffrey J. Krueger, Charles H. Goerg, Frances W. Mayfield, Ann L. McCormack, Jacqueline B. Martin, David Lilley
  • Publication number: 20090019622
    Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The garment includes one or more foreshortening structures within the garment that allows for the arms and legs to be shorted into a donning configuration. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment or allowing any portion of the garment to touch another surface. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Frances W. Mayfield, Christina Mae Chingren Seward, Alice Susan Gordon, Theresa M. McCoy
  • Publication number: 20090019616
    Abstract: A protective garment configured to facilitate easy donning of the garment is described. The sleeves and legs are shorted and held in a donning configuration by releaseably affixing at least a portion of upper and lower segments of the interior surface of each limb. This allows the garment to be handled and donned by the wearer, without the wearer touching an exterior surface of the garment. A method of preparing a protective garment for donning and a method of donning such a garment is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Aaron Drake Smith, Frances W. Mayfield, Theresa M. McCoy, Ruthlyn M. Reyes, Normand Gagnier, Dennis Yi-Der Lee
  • Publication number: 20090007529
    Abstract: A portable partition system includes an air permeable nonwoven sheet material as the primary isolation material. An elongated support member with an attachment device are used to erect the sheet material. The attachment device includes a head with opposed separable clamping surfaces having a hook material provided thereon. The sheet material is inserted between the clamping surfaces so as to be engaged directly by the hook material on opposite sides of the sheet material upon erecting the system into a portable partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Publication date: January 8, 2009
    Inventors: Paul F. Tramontina, Richard P. Lewis, Jeffrey J. Krueger, Charles H. Goerg, Frances W. Mayfield, Ann L. McCormack, Jacqueline B. Martin, David Lilley
  • Publication number: 20040124206
    Abstract: A stacked paper product dispensing cartridge includes a plurality of walls including side walls and at least one end wall. The side walls and end wall define an interior area that contains stacked paper products oriented so as to extend substantially perpendicular to at least one of the side walls. The cartridge further includes a bulk dispensing opening defined within at least one of the side walls. The cartridge may further include at least one limited-access dispensing opening. The cartridge may further include removable sections defined in the cartridge walls, removal of at least a portion of the removable portions creating openings in the cartridge. Additional openings could be provided for controlling the dispensing and alignment of the paper products within the cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Paul F. Tramontina, David A. Lilley, Frances W. Mayfield, Neal G. Moro, Carrie F. Dix
  • Patent number: 6550115
    Abstract: The present invention desirably provides a fabric including a synthetic fiber structure first zone, a synthetic fiber structure second zone, and a short fiber third zone. The first zone may include a spunbond web layer and a meltblown web layer. The synthetic fiber structure second zone may be positioned proximate to the synthetic fiber structure first zone and the short fiber third zone may be positioned substantially between the first and second zones. Desirably, the first and second zones are entwined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Skoog, Fred R. Radwanski, Terry R. Cleveland, Frances W. Mayfield, Lawrence M. Brown
  • Patent number: 6177370
    Abstract: The present invention desirably provides a fabric including a synthetic fiber structure first zone, a synthetic fiber structure second zone, and a short fiber third zone. The first zone may include a spunbond web layer and a meltblown web layer. The synthetic fiber structure second zone may be positioned proximate to the synthetic fiber structure first zone and the short fiber third zone may be positioned substantially between the first and second zones. Desirably, the first and second zones are entwined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Henry Skoog, Fred R. Radwanski, Terry R. Cleveland, Frances W. Mayfield, Lawrence M. Brown
  • Patent number: 5622734
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a crimp-bonded fibrous cellulosic laminate. The process includes the steps of: 1) providing at least two superposed plies of a fibrous cellulosic material; 2) passing the superposed plies through a crimp roll arrangement including a rotating crimp element and a rotating anvil element; and 3) applying a pressure load against the rotating elements sufficient to crimp bond the fibrous cellulosic material plies into a laminate. The crimp element has protruding members configured in a discontinuous pattern aligned on an axis that is parallel to the cross-machine direction to provide a substantially continuous uniform area of localized surface contacts between the rotating crimp and anvil elements across the width of the plies. Also disclosed is an overall crimp-bonded fibrous cellulosic laminate and an apparatus for crimp-bonding multiple superposed plies of a fibrous cellulosic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 22, 1997
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
    Inventors: Harry E. Clark, Cynthia W. Henderson, Robert C. Marcinek, Frances W. Mayfield, Thad W. Perkins, Jorg F. Voss
  • Patent number: 5543202
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a crimp-bonded fibrous cellulosic laminate. The process includes the steps of: 1) providing at least two superposed plies of a fibrous cellulosic material; 2) passing the superposed plies through a crimp roll arrangement including a rotating crimp element and a rotating anvil element; and 3) applying a pressure load against the rotating elements sufficient to crimp bond the fibrous cellulosic material plies into a laminate. The crimp element has protruding members configured in a discontinuous pattern aligned on an axis that is parallel to the cross-machine direction to provide a substantially continuous uniform area of localized surface contacts between the rotating crimp and anvil elements across the width of the plies. Also disclosed is an overall crimp-bonded fibrous cellulosic laminate and an apparatus for crimp-bonding multiple superposed plies of a fibrous cellulosic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1996
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Corporation
    Inventors: Harry E. Clark, Cynthia W. Henderson, Robert C. Marcinek, Frances W. Mayfield, Thad W. Perkins, Jorg F. Voss
  • Patent number: D837535
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Alice S. Gordon, Frances W. Mayfield, Carlos E. Roldan-Posada, Phillip L. Hutchison, Darcey E. McCormick, Sarah M. McMahon
  • Patent number: D853132
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Alice S. Gordon, Frances W. Mayfield, Carlos E. Roldan-Posada, Phillip L. Hutchison, Darcey E. McCormick, Sarah M. McMahon