Patents by Inventor Robert Stanley Ampulski
Robert Stanley Ampulski 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).
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Patent number: 6358030Abstract: A process and an apparatus for making a papermaking belt are provided, the belt comprising a reinforcing structure and a resinous framework joined together. The preferred continuous process comprises the steps of depositing a flowable resinous material onto a patterned molding surface; continuously moving the molding surface and the reinforcing structure at a transport velocity such that at least a portion of the reinforcing structure is in a face-to-face relationship with a portion of the molding surface; transferring the flowable resinous material from the molding surface onto the reinforcing structure; causing the flowable resinous material and the reinforcing structure to join together; and solidifying the resinous material thereby forming the resinous framework joined to the reinforcing structure.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2000Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 6358594Abstract: A papermaking belt comprises a reinforcing element and a resinous framework joined together. The resinous framework is formed by a plurality of resinous beads which mutually contact or cross-over. Super-knuckles extending outwardly from the reinforcing element are formed at points of contact. A preferred continuous process for making the belt comprises extruding, in a pre-selected pattern, a plurality of beads of a resinous material onto the forming surface thereby forming the resinous framework thereon, joining the resinous framework and the reinforcing element together, and then solidifying the resinous framework. The resinous material may comprise at least two chemically-active materials capable of cross-linking upon contact.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1999Date of Patent: March 19, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 6344241Abstract: A parpermaking belt comprises a reinforcing element and a resinous framework joined together. The resinous framework is formed by a plurality of resinous beads which mutually contract or cross-over. Super-knuckles extending outwardly from the reinforcing element are formed at points of contact. A preferred continuous process for making the belt comprises extruding, in a pre-selected pattern, a plurality of beads of a resinous material onto the forming surface thereby forming the resinous framework thereon, joining the resinous framework and the reinforcing element together, and then solidifying the resinous framework. The resinous material may comprise at least two chemically-active materials capable of cross-linking upon contract.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 1999Date of Patent: February 5, 2002Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Publication number: 20010051224Abstract: A papermaking belt comprises a reinforcing element and a resinous framework joined together. The resinous framework is formed by a plurality of resinous beads which mutually contact or cross-over. Super-knuckles extending outwardly from the reinforcing element are formed at points of contact. A preferred continuous process for making the belt comprises extruding, in a pre-selected pattern, a plurality of beads of a resinous material onto the forming surface thereby forming the resinous framework thereon, joining the resinous framework and the reinforcing element together, and then solidifying the resinous framework. The resinous material may comprise at least two chemically-active materials capable of cross-linking upon contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2001Publication date: December 13, 2001Applicant: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 6287641Abstract: The invention comprises a method for applying a curable resin such as a photosensitive resin, to a substrate such as a papermaker's dewatering felt. The method comprises the steps of providing a curable liquid resin, providing a substrate having a first surface and a second surface, the substrate comprising fibers defining voids intermediate the first and second surfaces, and the substrate comprising a second material different from the curable liquid resin, the second material coating at least some of the fibers, wherein the voids adjacent the coated fibers provide fluid communication from the first surface of the substrate to the second surface of the substrate; removing at least some of the second material coating at least some of the fibers; applying the curable liquid resin to the substrate; and curing at least some of the resin to provide a resin layer on the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 1996Date of Patent: September 11, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ward William Ostendorf, Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 6193839Abstract: The present invention provides method for making a wet pressed paper web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web and the imprinting member are then pressed between first and second dewatering felts in a compression nip to further deflect the papermaking fibers into the deflection conduits in the imprinting member and to remove water from both sides of the web. The first felt is positioned adjacent a first surface of the web. The imprinting member is positioned between the second surface of the web and the second felt. The second felt has an air permeability which can be greater than that of the first felt.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 1997Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Stanley Ampulski, Ward William Ostendorf
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Patent number: 6149849Abstract: A process and an apparatus for making a papermaking belt are provided, the belt comprising a reinforcing structure and a resinous framework joined together. The preferred continuous process comprises the steps of depositing a flowable resinous material onto a patterned molding surface; continuously moving the molding surface and the reinforcing structure at a transport velocity such that at least a portion of the reinforcing structure is in a face-to-face relationship with a portion of the molding surface; transferring the flowable resinous material from the molding surface onto the reinforcing structure; causing the flowable resinous material and the reinforcing structure to join together; and solidifying the resinous material thereby forming the resinous framework joined to the reinforcing structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1998Date of Patent: November 21, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CopmanyInventor: Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 6103062Abstract: The present invention provides method for making a wet pressed paper web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web, the imprinting member, and two felt layers, are then pressed in a compression nip with a foraminous backing member to mold and dewater the web.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 1998Date of Patent: August 15, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Stanley Ampulski, Ward William Ostendorf, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 6099781Abstract: The invention comprises a method for applying a curable resin to a reinforcing structure and an apparatus therefor. The apparatus comprises a working surface having a pattern of recesses therein structured and designed to at least partially receive a reinforcing structure, a means for disposing the reinforcing structure in the pattern of recesses of the working surface, a means for applying a fluid resinous material to the reinforcing structure disposed in the recesses of the working surface, and a means for solidifying the fluid resinous material to provide a patterned resinous framework joined to the reinforcing structure. The process comprises the steps of at least partially disposing the reinforcing structure in the recesses of a working surface, applying the fluid resinous material to the reinforcing structure, and then solidifying the fluid resinous material to form a patterned resinous framework joined to the reinforcing structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 1998Date of Patent: August 8, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 6051105Abstract: The present invention provides method for making a wet pressed paper web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web and the imprinting member are then pressed in a compression nip with first, second, and third dewatering felt layers.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1998Date of Patent: April 18, 2000Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 5980691Abstract: A smooth, high density tissue. The tissue has a relatively low caliper, as well as high smoothness and high density. The tissue is calendered from a multidensity, through air dried web.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1997Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Scott Thomas Loughran, Dean Van Phan, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 5972813Abstract: An impermeable papermaking belt. The papermaking belt has a back side and a sheet side. The sheet side of the papermaking belt is textured. The sheet side imparts structure, preferably differential density, to paper made on the impermeable belt. The papermaking belt may comprise photosensitive resin on the sheet side. The papermaking belt may be used in conjunction with an imprinting roll which densifies the regions of the paper coincident the knuckles of the papermaking belt. This belt is suitable for papermaking machines having or not having a Yankee drying drum.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1997Date of Patent: October 26, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Osman Polat, Ward William Ostendorf, Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 5908707Abstract: Wet-like cleaning wipes and similar articles are described. These wipes comprise a carrier that provides controlled fluid absorbency and an emulsion applied to the carrier. The emulsion comprises a continuous external lipid phase and a polar (e.g., water) internal phase. The emulsion is sufficiently brittle that it ruptures when subjected to low shear pressures during use to release the dispersed polar phase. The carrier allows the released internal phase to initially reach and remain on the surface being cleaned, but then absorbs the material at the end of the wiping process.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 1996Date of Patent: June 1, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: David William Cabell, Larry Neil Mackey, Robert Stanley Ampulski, Paul Dennis Trokhan, John William Toussant, James Edwin Cartledge, Jr., Nicholas James Nissing
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Patent number: 5904811Abstract: The present invention provides a wet pressed paper web. The web has a first relatively high density region having a first thickness K, a second relatively low density region having a second thickness P, which is a local maxima, and a third region extending intermediate the first and second regions. The third region includes a transition region having a third thickness T, which is a local minima. The present invention also provides a method of making a wet pressed web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web and the imprinting member are then pressed between first and second dewatering felts in a compression nip to further deflect the papermaking fibers into the deflection conduits in the imprinting member and to remove water from both sides of the web.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 1997Date of Patent: May 18, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Stanley Ampulski, Albert Heskel Sawdai, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 5897745Abstract: The present invention provides method for making a wet pressed paper web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web, the imprinting member, and two felt layers, are then pressed in a compression nip with a foraminous backing member to mold and dewater the web.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 1997Date of Patent: April 27, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Stanley Ampulski, Ward William Ostendorf, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 5861082Abstract: The present invention provides a wet pressed paper web. The web has a first relatively high density region having a first thickness K, a second relatively low density region having a second thickness P, which is a local maxima, and a third region extending intermediate the first and second regions. The third region includes a transition region having a third thickness T, which is a local minima. The present invention also provides a method of making a wet pressed web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web and the imprinting member are then pressed between first and second dewatering felts in a compression nip to further deflect the papermaking fibers into the deflection conduits in the imprinting member and to remove water from both sides of the web.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 1995Date of Patent: January 19, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Stanley Ampulski, Albert Heskel Sawdai
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Patent number: 5855739Abstract: The present invention provides a wet pressed paper web. The web has a first relatively high density region having a first thickness K, a second relatively low density region having a second thickness P, which is a local maxima, and a third region extending intermediate the first and second regions. The third region includes a transition region having a third thickness T, which is a local minima. The present invention also provides a method of making a wet pressed web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web and the imprinting member are then pressed between first and second dewatering felts in a compression nip to further deflect the papermaking fibers into the deflection conduits in the imprinting member and to remove water from both sides of the web.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 1997Date of Patent: January 5, 1999Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Co.Inventors: Robert Stanley Ampulski, Albert Heskel Sawdai, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 5846379Abstract: The present invention provides a wet pressed paper web. The web has a first relatively high density region having a first thickness K, a second relatively low density region having a second thickness P, which is a local maxima, and a third region extending intermediate the first and second regions. The third region includes a transition region having a third thickness T, which is a local minima. The present invention also provides a method of making a wet pressed web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web and the imprinting member are then pressed between first and second dewatering felts in a compression nip to further deflect the papermaking fibers into the deflection conduits in the imprinting member and to remove water from both sides of the web.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 1995Date of Patent: December 8, 1998Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Stanley Ampulski, Albert Heskel Sawdai, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 5830316Abstract: The present invention provides method for making a wet pressed paper web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web and the imprinting member are then pressed in a compression nip with first, second, and third dewatering felt layers.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 1997Date of Patent: November 3, 1998Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventor: Robert Stanley Ampulski
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Patent number: 5795440Abstract: The present invention provides method for making a wet pressed paper web. An embryonic web of papermaking fibers is formed on a foraminous forming member, and transferred to an imprinting member to deflect a portion of the papermaking fibers in the embryonic web into deflection conduits in the imprinting member. The web and the imprinting member are then pressed between first and second dewatering felts in a compression nip to further deflect the papermaking fibers into the deflection conduits in the imprinting member and to remove water from both sides of the web. The compression nip has an extended length, and can comprise convex and concave opposed compression surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1996Date of Patent: August 18, 1998Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Robert Stanley Ampulski, Ward William Ostendorf, Osman Polat