Patents by Inventor Richard Ignatius Wolkowicz

Richard Ignatius Wolkowicz 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: 7004313
    Abstract: Disposable dispensers for stacks of tissue products are provided that include one or more odor control agents and one or more means for containing and releasing the odor control agents. When the means for containing and releasing the odor control agents is activated the odor control agents are released into the surrounding environment. The odor control agents include fragrant materials, odor-absorbing materials and materials that yield chemically active vapors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Mitchell, Debra Nell Welchel, Richard Ignatius Wolkowicz, Ning Yang
  • Publication number: 20040124101
    Abstract: Disposable dispensers for stacks of tissue products are provided that include one or more odor control agents and one or more means for containing and releasing the odor control agents. When the means for containing and releasing the odor control agents is activated the odor control agents are released into the surrounding environment. The odor control agents include fragrant materials, odor-absorbing materials and materials that yield chemically active vapors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2002
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Joseph Mitchell, Debra Nell Welchel, Richard Ignatius Wolkowicz, Ning Yang
  • Patent number: 6447641
    Abstract: The present invention encompasses a machine direction extensible noncalendered fibrous web produced by a transfer system of at least eight percent negative draw including a matrix of fibrous web material having a wet mullen burst at least about 10 percent greater than a convex transfer system produced web. In addition, the matrix of fibrous material has a wet mullen burst of at least about 74500 pascals. Moreover, the matrix of fibrous web material has a GMBL ranging from about 2047 to about 2704. Furthermore, the matrix of fibrous web material includes fibers, which may be selected from the group consisting of a bonded carded web, spunbonded web, meltblown fiber web, and multi-ply fibrous web. Moreover, the matrix of fibrous web material may have an elmendorf tear greater than about 66.5 centinewton. Also, the matrix of fibrous web material may have a tensile modulus of at least about 1544 gram per centimeter squared.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2002
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Ignatius Wolkowicz, Kenneth Kaufman
  • Publication number: 20020084046
    Abstract: The present invention includes a process for making paper. The process may include the steps of providing pulp fibers in a chest and adding an enzymatic material to the pulp fibers at a storing stage for decreasing cellulose crystals. Furthermore, the process may include adding a strength agent to the pulp fibers at the storing stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 1998
    Publication date: July 4, 2002
    Inventors: JAY CHIEHLUNG HSU, RICHARD IGNATIUS WOLKOWICZ
  • Patent number: 6210528
    Abstract: A low density, wet-creped paper web having improved levels of tensile strength, tear strength and thickness. The web has a distribution of densified regions corresponding to the distribution of knuckles on a drying fabric. Generally speaking, these densified regions should be distributed so that the distance between at least a portion of the densified regions is less than or equal to the length of the longest fiber in the furnish (e.g., pulp fibers and/or other fibers) used to make the paper web. The wet-creped paper web is removed from a Yankee dryer at a dryness of between 45 and 65% and then passed to the after dryer section of a paper machine. An after dryer fabric is pressed into the wet base web to transfer the topography of the after dryer fabric to the web and to generate improved tensile strength, tear strength and thickness. The wet base web is pressed into the drying fabric utilizing a nip before the web is 70% dry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard Ignatius Wolkowicz
  • Patent number: 5725734
    Abstract: A transfer configuration for a paper making machine, the transfer configuration being composed of: 1) a first carrier fabric having a first surface on which a fibrous web is transported to the transfer configuration at a first velocity; 2) a second carrier fabric having a second surface on which the fibrous web is transported away from the transfer configuration at a second velocity that is less than the first velocity; 3) a lengthened transfer zone that begins at a transfer shoe and terminates at a portion of a transfer head and has a machine direction oriented length ranging from about 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1998
    Assignee: Kimberly Clark Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bruce Herman, John Ghordis Trumbull, Richard Ignatius Wolkowicz