Patents by Inventor Robert P. Molenda

Robert P. Molenda 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).

  • Patent number: 6013149
    Abstract: A pad comprising a plurality of flexible sheets in a stack, and padding means for releasably adhering parts of the major surfaces of adjacent sheets in the stack together to maintain the sheets in the stack. That padding means is provided in that at least some of said sheets having patterns of coadhesive coated on their major surfaces, which patterns of coadhesive are adhered to patterns of coadhesive on adjacent sheets in the stack and releasably adhere parts of the major surfaces of adjacent sheets in the stack together in surface to surface relationship until the patterns of coadhesive are peeled apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2000
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Lee A. Timmerman, Randall M. Mills, Michael S. Groess, Robert P. Molenda
  • Patent number: 5755355
    Abstract: A pad comprising a plurality of flexible sheets in a stack, and padding means for releasably adhering parts of the major surfaces of adjacent sheets in the stack together to maintain the sheets in the stack. That padding means is provided in that at least some of said sheets having patterns of coadhesive coated on their major surfaces, which patterns of coadhesive are adhered to patterns of coadhesive on adjacent sheets in the stack and releasably adhere parts of the major surfaces of adjacent sheets in the stack together in surface to surface relationship until the patterns of coadhesive are peeled apart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Lee A. Timmerman, Randall M. Mills, Michael S. Groess, Robert P. Molenda
  • Patent number: 5183297
    Abstract: A pad of regular hexagonal flexible sheets each having a front surface adapted to be written on, and a coating of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive over a portion of its rear surface releasably adhering the sheet to an underlying sheet in the pad. Information can be written on the front of the sheets, and the individual written on sheets can be adhered to a planar surface in side by side relationship with edge portions of up to six adjacent sheets in contact to represent relationships between the information on the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1991
    Date of Patent: February 2, 1993
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing
    Inventors: Douglas P. Bodziak, Steven L. Grovender, Ray A. Hunder, Robert P. Molenda, Steven P. Roth
  • Patent number: 5011186
    Abstract: A pad of regular hexagonal flexible sheets each having a front surface adapted to be written on, and a coating of repositionable pressure sensitive adhesive over a portion of its rear surface releasably adhering the sheet to an underlying sheet in the pad. Information can be written on the front surfaces of the sheets, and the individual written on sheets can be adhered to a planar surface in side by side relationship with edge portions of up to six adjacent sheets in contact to represent relationships between the information on the sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1991
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Douglas P. Bodziak, Ray A. Hunder, Steven P. Roth, Steven L. Grovender, Robert P. Molenda
  • Patent number: 4842303
    Abstract: An advertising insert for ad signatures in magazines is convenient when comprised of a readily peelable and adhesively repositionable sheet bearing a coupon, phone number or the like which is part of a backer which can be removed along perforations from an edge adhered to the ad signature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 27, 1989
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Robert P. Molenda
  • Patent number: 4409057
    Abstract: A staple-supporting strip for use with staples when binding documents together which affords removal and retention of the staples. The staple-supporting strip comprises a narrow elongate strip of tough polymeric material between 0.1 and 0.15 mm thick. The strip may be colored or printed with a window identifying the area for reception of the staples. A narrow coating of a low-tack pressure-sensitive adhesive facilitates positioning of the strip on the uppermost sheet of the documents to be stapled together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1983
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Robert P. Molenda, George R. Rabuse