Patents by Inventor Timothy Mullane

Timothy Mullane 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 and apparatus for making an apertured web
    Publication number: 20060087053
    Abstract: A method for making apertures in a web comprising providing a precursor web material; providing a pair of counter-rotating, intermeshing rollers, wherein a first roller comprises circumferentially-extending ridges and grooves, and a second roller comprises teeth being tapered from a base and a tip, the teeth being joined to the second roller at the base, the base of the tooth having a cross-sectional length dimension greater than a cross-sectional width dimension; and moving the web material through a nip of the counter-rotating, intermeshing rollers; wherein apertures are formed in the precursor web material as the teeth on one of the rollers intermesh with grooves on the other of the rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventors: Hugh O'Donnell, Robert Turner, Vincent Breidenbach, Douglas Benson, Timothy Mullane, Karen McAffry, John Hammons, Kelyn Arora