Patents by Inventor Greg Arthur Wendt

Greg Arthur Wendt 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: 6017417
    Abstract: Throughdried tissue products such as facial tissue, bath tissue, and paper towels are made using a throughdrying fabric having from about 5 to about 300 machine direction impression knuckles per square inch (per 6.45 square centimeters) which are raised above the plane of the fabric. These impression knuckles create corresponding protrusions in the throughdried sheet which impart a significant amount of cross-machine direction stretch to the sheet. In addition, other properties such as bulk, absorbent capacity, absorbent rate and flexibility are also improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Arthur Wendt, Kai F. Chiu, Mark Alan Burazin, Theodore Edwin Farrington, Jr., David Alan Heaton
  • Patent number: 5746887
    Abstract: Throughdried tissue products such as facial tissue, bath tissue, and paper towels are made using a throughdrying fabric having from about 5 to about 300 machine direction impression knuckles per square inch (per 6.45 square centimeters) which are raised above the plane of the fabric. These impression knuckles create corresponding protrusions in the throughdried sheet which impart a significant amount of cross-machine direction stretch to the sheet. In addition, other properties such as bulk, absorbent capacity, absorbent rate and flexibility are also improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Arthur Wendt, Kai F. Chiu, Mark Alan Burazin, Theodore Edwin Farrington, Jr., David Alan Heaton
  • Patent number: 5730839
    Abstract: The invention consists of soft, bulky tissue products that result from the presence of a debonder/softening agent in the outer layers of the tissue and creping under "closed" pocket conditions. The debonder/softening agents belong to a group of organic chemicals that include several imidazolinium quaternary compounds. These chemicals do not adversely interfere with adhesion, unlike most debonders, to the drying surface of the tissue machine. They can, therefore, be placed in the outer layers of the tissue that contact the dryer surface and improve creping. The tissue can then be creped off of the drying surface using a closed pocket, that is a pocket angle of less than 80 degrees. The closed pocket creping normally produces a thicker, less dense tissue but with coarse crepe. Closed pocket creping and the presence of most debonders in the dryer side layers would be expected to also produce coarse crepe structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Arthur Wendt, Gary Vance Anderson, Kelly Steven Lehl, Stephen John McCullough, Wen Zyo Schroeder
  • Patent number: 5672248
    Abstract: Throughdried tissue products such as facial tissue, bath tissue, and paper towels are made using a throughdrying fabric having from about 5 to about 300 machine direction impression knuckles per square inch (per 6.45 square centimeters) which are raised above the plane of the fabric. These impression knuckles create corresponding protrusions in the throughdried sheet which impart a significant amount of cross-machine direction stretch to the sheet. In addition, other properties such as bulk, absorbent capacity, absorbent rate and flexibility are also improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Greg Arthur Wendt, Kai F. Chiu, Mark Alan Burazin, Theodore Edwin Farrington, Jr., David Alan Heaton