Patents by Inventor John D. Lunzer

John D. Lunzer 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 of preparing an article using cleanly removable veneer tape
    Patent number: 6048431
    Abstract: A method for maintaining a plurality of wood veneer substrates in fixed relation to each other that includes positioning a plurality of wood veneer substrates in relation to each other, and applying a tape to the substrates to maintain the substrates in fixed relation to each other. The tape is capable of maintaining wood veneer substrates in fixed relation to each other before and during a lamination process in which the substrates are laminated to an underlying base, and is cleanly removable from the substrates following the lamination process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2000
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: George J. Clements, Robert E. Bolitsky, Sheila F. Cox, John D. Lunzer