Patents by Inventor Mark D. Midkiff

Mark D. Midkiff 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 for manufacturing side panels for disposable articles
    Patent number: 5683533
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing side panels for use with disposable articles including the following steps: providing a web of material in a machine direction, the web having activation zones and designated final cut regions; activating the activation zones; making a series of intermediate cuts in the web, each of the intermediate cuts extending across at least a portion of one of the activation zones; making a folded web by folding the web along an axis that is generally parallel to said machine direction; and cutting the folded web in the designated final cut regions to provide individual extensible side panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: James A. Keighley, Donald L. Gerber, Michael G. Nease, Mark D. Midkiff
  • Process for making an absorbent article having inflected barrier leg cuff
    Patent number: 5565050
    Abstract: A process for making a wearable, absorbent article is described wherein two longitudinally extending barrier leg cuffs are attached to a chassis and the barrier leg cuffs are joined to the article so that they are directed inwardly toward a longitudinally extending centerline in the first waist region of the article and directed outwardly away from the longitudinally extending centerline in the second waist region of the article. The method describes the cuffs as being first attached in the first waist region and then in the second waist region in one embodiment and, in another embodiment, being attached in the second waist region first and then in the first waist region of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1996
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David M. Sageser, Stanley G. Juergens, Mark D. Midkiff
  • Process for making an absorbent article having inflected barrier leg cuff
    Patent number: 5496428
    Abstract: A process for making a wearable, absorbent article is described wherein two longitudinally extending barrier leg cuffs are attached to a chassis and the barrier leg cuffs are joined to the article so that they are directed inwardly toward a longitudinally extending centerline in the first waist region of the article and directed outwardly away from the longitudinally extending centerline in the second waist region of the article. The method describes the cuffs as being first attached in the first waist region and then in the second waist region in one embodiment and, in another embodiment, being attached in the second waist region first and then in the first waist region of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David M. Sageser, Stanley G. Juergens, Mark D. Midkiff