Patents by Inventor Michael J. Vander Giessen

Michael J. Vander Giessen 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).

  • Bonded fluted filter media to end cap
    Patent number: 4890444
    Abstract: A fluted filter media to end cap bonding process and fluid filters formed by the bonding process. The process comprises coating at least one end cap and/or at least one fluted edge of the filter media with a bonding composition, contacting the end cap with the edge of the fluted filter media and curing the bonding composition coating to form a strong, continuous filter media to end cap bond. The bonding composition comprises, in adhesive latex, a thermoplastic resin and an amount of ungelatinized granular starch effective to complex a major portion of the latex water during curing of the bonding composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 2, 1990
    Assignee: H. B. Fuller Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Vander Giessen, Robert M. Hume, III, Leonard C. Jannusch
  • Process of bonding fluted filter media to end caps
    Patent number: 4769096
    Abstract: A fluted filter media to end cap bonding process. The process comprises coating at least one end cap and/or at least one fluted edge of the filter media with a bonding composition, contacting the end cap with the edge of the fluted filter media and curing the bonding composition coating to form a strong, continuous filter media to end cap bond. The bonding composition comprises, in adhesive latex, a thermoplastic resin and an amount of ungelatinized granular starch effective to complex a major portion of the latex water during curing of the bonding composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 1986
    Date of Patent: September 6, 1988
    Assignee: H.B. Fuller Company
    Inventors: Michael J. Vander Giessen, Robert M. Hume, III, Leonard C. Jannusch
  • Bonding method employing an adhesive which contains in an aqueous base an effective amount of a polyvinyl alcohol and a lignin sulfonate
    Patent number: 4608111
    Abstract: An aqueous adhesive possessing sufficient adhesion, tack, open time, thermal stability, biological stability, dimensional stability, flexibility and adhesion contains in an aqueous base a polyvinyl alcohol and lignin sulfonate, wherein there are about 1 to 8 parts of the lignin sulfonate per each part of the polyvinyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: H. B. Fuller Company
    Inventors: Robert M. Hume, III, Robert A. LaBrash, Michael J. Vander Giessen
  • Polyvinyl alcohol and lignin sulfonate containing adhesive
    Patent number: 4564649
    Abstract: An aqueous adhesive possessing sufficient adhesion, tack, open time, thermal stability, biological stability, dimensional stability, flexibility and adhesion contains in an aqueous base a polyvinyl alcohol and lignin sulfonate, wherein there are about 1 to 8 parts of the lignin sulfonate per each part of the polyvinyl alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 14, 1986
    Assignee: H. B. Fuller Company
    Inventors: Robert M. Hume, III, Robert A. LaBrash, Michael J. Vander Giessen