Patents by Inventor Sandra Goepfert

Sandra Goepfert 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).

  • Pack with overlapping dispensing orifice created by laminated packaging material
    Patent number: 7334682
    Abstract: A pack for products that can be dispensed from the pack, such as a pack for paper handkerchiefs and a method of making such a pack. The pack includes a flexible film material wherein the body of the pack has a first thickness and overlapping portions of film material providing the orifice have second and third thicknesses. The second and third thicknesses are each less than the first thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Sandra Goepfert
  • Pack with overlapping dispensing orifice created by laminated packaging material
    Publication number: 20050109652
    Abstract: A pack for products that can be dispensed from the pack, such as a pack for paper handherchiefs and a method of making such a pack. The pack includes a flexible film material wherein the body of the pack has a first thickness and overlapping portions of film material providing the orifice have second and third thicknesses. The second and third thicknesses are each less than the first thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventor: Sandra Goepfert
  • Pack for paper handkerchiefs with a convenient and hygienic dispensing
    Publication number: 20040195256
    Abstract: A pack of paper handkerchiefs or tissues. More specifically, a pack of paper handkerchiefs having a dispensing orifice delimited by its peripheral edge, and having a closure means, such as a flap, the closure means being able to cover at least the dispensing orifice, and having an unconnected peripheral portion. The closure means extends beyond the peripheral edge of the dispensing orifice by about 2 mm or more along the unconnected peripheral portion and remains attached to the pack during the operation of dispensing a handkerchief.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Sandra Goepfert, Angela Schliebner, Andreas Stephanus Lambertus Messerschmidt
  • Soft pocket package for absorbent tissue sheets having a sail shaped opening
    Publication number: 20030127352
    Abstract: Packages for absorbent tissue sheets, such as handkerchiefs or cosmetic tissues having an opening that is asymmetric in at least two cartesian coordinates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: July 10, 2003
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dorothea Susanne Buschkiel, Sandra Goepfert