Bill graduated from Century College in White Bear Lake, Minnesota
with an Associate Degree in Chemistry. In 1975, he joined the H.B. Fuller Company in
St. Paul, Minnesota as a laboratory technician in the Hot Melt R&D Laboratory.
During the next 28 years Bill proved himself to be an exceptional product development
chemist, and developed many of the first products for such applications as diaper
construction and elastic attachment adhesives.
In 1990, Bill became H.B. Fuller’s first Hot Melt Research
Fellow, the company’s highest technical rank, and in 2002 he received the
company’s Annual Technical Achievement Award.
Some of Bill’s career highlights include:
- Inventor of more than two dozen patents
- Developed glue stick formulations with unique
temporary PSA properties
- Developed first truly multi-purpose nonwoven
adhesive based on patented ultra-high molecular weight SBC technology
- Developed novel wetness indicating hot melt
- Developed state of the art elastic attachment hot
melts for bonding Lycra elastic thread in baby diapers
- Developed high wet strength hot melts for core
integrity of disposable articles
- Developed unique hot melt adhesives with
controllable property changes using patented re-crystallizing plasticizer technology
- Developed patented water-soluble hot melt adhesive
technology
- Assisted in the development of patented novel epoxy
adduct technology for adhesion promotion in hot melt adhesives
- Developed novel water sensitive hot melt polyesters
- Developed patented hot melt moisture cure adhesives
with unique properties
- Developed water removable composition used in the
manufacture of intra-ocular lens
- Developed first SBC based elastic attachment
adhesives for disposable diapers
- Developed first SBC based hot melt adhesive for
diaper construction
- Developed patented thermoplastic elastomeric
compositions for use in the manufacturing of disposable articles
United States
Patents
|
PAT. NO. |
Title |
| 1 |
6,660,376 |
Method
of bonding permeable substrates with hot melt moisture cure adhesive having low viscosity
and high green strength |
| 2 |
5,853,864 |
Composite
article resistant to moisture-induced debonding |
| 3 |
5,627,229 |
Hot
melt adhesive having controlled property change |
| 4 |
5,624,986 |
Hot
melt adhesive having controlled property change |
| 5 |
5,534,575 |
Hot
melt adhesive composition |
| 6 |
5,508,418 |
Intermediates
for the preparation of
enantiomerically-pure-3-methyl-5-(1-C1-C3-alkyl)-2-pyrrolidinyl)isoxazol e |
| 7 |
5,459,184 |
Moisture-actuated
hot melt adhesive |
| 8 |
5,424,444 |
Method
of preparing enantiomerically-pure 3-methyl-5-(1-alkyl-2(S)-pyrrolidinyl) isoxazoles |
| 9 |
5,143,961 |
Hot
melt adhesive comprising water soluble polyalkyloxazoline and water insoluble polymer |
| 10 |
5,090,861 |
Book
or other graphic arts construction using adhesive resistant to cold flow |
| 11 |
5,089,548 |
Hot-melt
moisture indicator material for disposable articles |
| 12 |
5,071,914 |
Thermoplastic
hot melt adhesive containing epoxy adduct |
| 13 |
5,057,571 |
Disposable
article construction adhesive |
| 14 |
5,037,411 |
Disposable
article multi-line construction adhesive |
| 15 |
5,035,691 |
Hot-melt
moisture indicator material for disposable articles |
| 16 |
5,024,667 |
Disposable
article construction |
| 17 |
4,990,339 |
Dermal
treatment film |
| 18 |
4,891,269 |
Bonding
method employing thermally stable hot melt moisture-cure polyurethane adhesive composition
|
| 19 |
4,871,803 |
Hot
melt adhesives containing an additive derived from epoxy reactive hydrogen containing
polymers and compounds and a polyepoxy compound |
| 20 |
4,820,368 |
Thermally
stable reactive hot melt urethane adhesive composition having a thermoplastic polymer, a
compatible, curing urethane polyalkylene polyol prepolymer and a tackifying agent |
| 21 |
4,808,255 |
Thermally
stable reactive hot melt urethane adhesive composition having a thermoplastic polymer, a
compatible, curing urethane polyester polyol prepolymer and a tackifying agent |
| 22 |
4,775,719 |
Thermally
stable hot melt moisture-cure polyurethane adhesive composition |
| 23 |
4,719,261 |
Hot
melt adhesive for elastic banding and method for utlizing the same |
| 24 |
4,543,099 |
Method
for imparting elastic properties to a flexible substrate |
| 25 |
4,418,123 |
Extrudable
self-adhering elastic and method of employing same |
| 26 |
4,259,220 |
Hot
melt adhesive for elastic banding |
Pending
Patents
- Hot melt thermoplastic elastomer composition and
articles including same