Patents by Inventor Leon R. Flesburg

Leon R. Flesburg 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).

  • Cross-machine-direction nested absorbent pads with minimal waste geometries
    Patent number: 6702917
    Abstract: A method is provided for making absorbent pads that may have a longitudinally asymmetric shape. The pads may be used in various consumer absorbent articles. The method includes delivering a supply of an absorbent web material in a machine-direction and cutting the absorbent web material in a cross-direction to form a repeating nested pattern of generally identically shaped and oppositely oriented absorbent pads, the pads being disposed longitudinally in the cross-direction of the absorbent web. The pads are longitudinally asymmetric and nested such that the crotch portion of one pad is oriented towards the back portions of immediately adjacent pads, and adjacent nested pads share defining cut lines such that there is no wastage of absorbent web material between the nested pads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2004
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael B. Venturino, Leon R. Flesburg, Mark C. Jacobs, David W. Heyn, Jennifer L. Dopke
  • CROSS-MACHINE-DIRECTION NESTED ABSORBENT PADS WITH MINIMAL WASTE GEOMETRIES
    Publication number: 20040040650
    Abstract: A method is provided for making absorbent pads that may have a longitudinally asymmetric shape. The pads may be used in various consumer absorbent articles. The method includes delivering a supply of an absorbent web material in a machine-direction and cutting the absorbent web material in a cross-direction to form a repeating nested pattern of generally identically shaped and oppositely oriented absorbent pads, the pads being disposed longitudinally in the cross-direction of the absorbent web. The pads are longitudinally asymmetric and nested such that the crotch portion of one pad is oriented towards the back portions of immediately adjacent pads, and adjacent nested pads share defining cut lines such that there is no wastage of absorbent web material between the nested pads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Applicant: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael B. Venturino, Leon R. Flesburg, Mark C. Jacobs, David W. Heyn, Jennifer L. Dopke