Patents by Inventor Thomas E. Dougherty

Thomas E. Dougherty 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: 5997691
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of manufacturing a web which is striped with add-on material, comprising: a first arrangement which establishes a sheet of base web from a first slurry and moves the established sheet along a first path; a second arrangement for preparing a second slurry; a moving orifice applicator operative so as to repetitively discharge the second slurry upon the moving sheet of base web, the moving orifice applicator comprising: a chamber box arranged to establish a reservoir of the second slurry across the first path; an endless belt having an orifice, the endless belt received through the chamber box; a drive arrangement operative upon the endless belt to continuously move the orifice along an endless path and repetitively through the chamber box, the orifice when communicated with the reservoir being operative to discharge the second slurry from the reservoir through the orifice; a flow distribution system for introducing the second slurry into the chamber box at spaced-apart feed locations alon
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Philip Morris Incorporated
    Inventors: Navin Gautam, Harry V. Lanzillotti, Tyrone W. Murray, D. Anh Phan, Jon R. Butt, Sr., H. Edmund Clark, Thomas E. Dougherty, Thomas L. Fillio, Vladimir Hampl, Jr., Phillip L. Ursery, Edwin L. Cutright, Ronald L. Edwards