Patents by Inventor Paul Theodore Van Gompel

Paul Theodore Van Gompel 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).

  • Apparatus for making an absorbent article with asymmetric leg elastics
    Patent number: 5743994
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an elasticized article includes a delivering mechanism for supplying a substrate web having a longitudinal direction and a lateral cross-direction. A first connecting mechanism attaches an inboard elastic member to said substrate web, and a second connecting mechanism attaches an outboard elastic member to the substrate web, with the outboard elastic member located laterally outboard of the inboard elastic member. A dividing mechanism separates away a portion of the substrate web and a portion of the outboard elastic member to thereby provide a set of elastics which are arranged in a staggered overlapping relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Harold Roessler, Paul Theodore Van Gompel, Daniel Robert Schlinz, Mark Gordon Heath, Geoffrey Walter Frost
  • Method for making an absorbent article with asymmetric leg elastics
    Patent number: 5683531
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for making an elasticized article includes a delivering mechanism for supplying a substrate web having a longitudinal direction and a lateral cross-direction. A first connecting mechanism attaches an inboard elastic member to said substrate web, and a second connecting mechanism attaches an outboard elastic member to the substrate web, with the outboard elastic member located laterally outboard of the inboard elastic member. A dividing mechanism separates away a portion of the substrate web and a portion of the outboard elastic member to thereby provide a set of elastics which are arranged in a staggered overlapping relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 4, 1997
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Harold Roessler, Paul Theodore Van Gompel, Daniel Robert Schlinz, Mark Gordon Heath, Geoffrey Walter Frost
  • Absorbent article having dual asymmetric leg elastics
    Patent number: 5649919
    Abstract: An absorbent article has a lateral width, a longitudinal length, longitudinally extending side margins, a front waistband portion, a back waistband portion, and an intermediate portion which interconnects the front and back waistband portions. The article comprises a backsheet layer and an absorbent retention portion superposed on the backsheet layer. A liquid permeable topsheet layer is superposed on the retention portion to sandwich the retention portion between the topsheet layer and the backsheet layer. An elasticizing means form elasticized gathers at leg opening portions of the article. The elasticizing means include a front set of laterally opposed, longitudinally extending leg elastic members located in the article side margins in at least the intermediate portion of the article. The front elastic members are arranged asymmetrically with respect to the article length and have a selected offset toward the front waistband portion of the article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Harold Roessler, Paul Theodore Van Gompel, Georgia Lynn Zehner, Daniel Robert Schlinz, Apiromraj Srisopark
  • Disposable absorbent article
    Patent number: D421802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1999
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Theodore Van Gompel, Thomas Harold Roessler, Jody Dorothy Suprise, Robert Eugene Vogt, Timothy James Blenke