Patents by Inventor Lee Travis

Lee Travis 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).

  • Convertible prefastened diaper/pant with reduced leakage when applied as a pant
    Publication number: 20020165518
    Abstract: A convertible pant-like, prefastened, disposable absorbent article having a back waist region and a front waist region forming a waist opening and two leg regions each forming a leg opening. A ratio of an elastic tension of the back waist region to an elastic tension of each of the leg region is at least about 0.6. Thus, the convertible pant-like, prefastened disposable absorbent article of the present invention is effective in reducing undesired leakage when it is applied to the wearer in a manner similar to a conventional training pant rather than a conventional diaper article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2001
    Publication date: November 7, 2002
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Joseph Datta, Gary Lee Travis, Linda Mary Dorschner, Michael Francis Drymalski, Sarah Jane Marie Freiburger
  • Pre-fastened adjustable mechanical fastener garment
    Patent number: 6454752
    Abstract: A pant-like, prefastened, refastenable, disposable absorbent article includes a pair of fasteners which provide refastenable side seams and at least one waist size adjustment means. The prefastened absorbent article defines a pair of laterally opposed side edges and a pair of longitudinally opposed waist edges. The fasteners are permanently attached to the side edges of one of the waist edges and engage the side edges of the opposed waist edges to form the refastenable side seams defining a waist opening and a pair of leg openings in the prefastened absorbent article. The fasteners are further configured to provide a waist size adjustment means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Yung Hsiang Huang, Thomas Harold Roessler, Gary Lee Travis, Paul Theodore VanGompel
  • Absorbent article having an improved fastening system
    Patent number: 6296629
    Abstract: An absorbent or other article including a tensioning system for joining portions of the article together. The system includes a plurality of hook members attached on one portion of the article, and a plurality of loop members attached to a loop panel wherein the loop panel may be intermittently attached to the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide
    Inventors: Bruce Michael Siebers, Gary Lee Travis, Thomas Walter Odorzynski
  • Absorbent article having an improved fastening system
    Patent number: 5984911
    Abstract: An absorbent or other article including a tensioning system for joining portions of the article together. The system includes a plurality of hook members attached on one portion of the article, and a plurality of loop members attached to a loop panel wherein the loop panel may be intermittently attached to the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1994
    Date of Patent: November 16, 1999
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Michael Siebers, Gary Lee Travis, Thomas Walter Odorzynski
  • Prefastened absorbent article
    Patent number: D456508
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Kristi Jo Schroeder, Stephen Carl Baumgartner, Paul Joseph Datta, Linda Mary Dorschner, Michael Francis Drymalski, Barbara Ann Gossen, Catherine Marguerite Hancock-Cooke, David Andrae Justmann, Thomas Harold Roessler, Gary Lee Travis