At Opposed Marginal Edges Patents (Class 428/126)
  • Publication number: 20100200155
    Abstract: A strip for tamper evidencing has a first layer and one or more reinforcing layers. An adhesive is provided on a first portion of the strip to selectively adhere the first portion of the strip onto the first layer of a second portion of the strip, wherein the first layer is such that removal or attempted removal of the first portion of the strip from the second portion of the strip will be evidenced by the first layer. The reinforcing material may be arranged such that portions of it are bonded to each other at a plurality of locations spaced along the length of the strip. A security system may include a tamper evidencing device and a receipt portion having corresponding unique identifiers, wherein the receipt portion includes a zip tab securing portion for securing zip tabs or luggage locking points and the evidencing device includes a trackable identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Applicant: SECUROSEAL PTY LTD
    Inventors: Dion Mrocki, Ben Talintyre, Rod Anthony Wiebenga
  • Patent number: 7763338
    Abstract: A retaining apparatus for retaining a liquid-absorptive sheet includes a lower layer and an upper layer having substantially the same dimensions as the lower layer. Sandwiched between the two layers are first plurality of magnetic members arranged along the perimeter of the lower layer and a second plurality of magnetic members, opposite in polarity to said first plurality of magnetic members, arranged adjacent to the first plurality of magnetic members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Inventor: Rick Olivadoti
  • Patent number: 7678469
    Abstract: A decorative sheet that may be attached to a surface of an object includes a base member, which has first and second opposed principal surfaces; a protective layer, which is arranged over the first principal surface of the base member; and a coloring layer, which is arranged either over the second principal surface of the base member or between the base member and the protective layer and which includes a pigment. The protective layer has a thickness of about 30 ?m to about 60 ?m and includes about 1.4 wt % to about 4.0 wt % of UV absorbent material. The coloring layer has a thickness of about 15 ?m to about 80 ?m and includes about 1.0 wt % to about 4.0 wt % of UV absorbent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naohiro Morozumi, Yasuo Suzuki
  • Publication number: 20100055391
    Abstract: An array of sheet materials includes a first sheet, a second sheet, and an interior sheet located between the first sheet and the second sheet, each sheet having a centrally located medial primary fold formed therein and a secondary off-fold transverse thereto, the medial fold and the transverse off-fold defining four panels in each sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
    Inventor: Robert Michael Penfield
  • Publication number: 20100025420
    Abstract: A stack of interfolded absorbent sheet products comprises a plurality of absorbent sheets each of which is itself folded at least twice about axes that are perpendicular to one another. The absorbent sheets have an embossed surface relief of a predetermined pattern or design. Each of the absorbent sheets within the stack comprises at least one pair of panels sandwiched between a pair of adjacent panels of another of the absorbent sheets in the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: SCA TISSUE NORTH AMERICA LLC
    Inventors: Robert C. HOCHTRITT, Andrew M. Conger
  • Patent number: 7631812
    Abstract: A transaction card system comprising a foldable transaction card and a foldable housing is disclosed. The foldable transaction card has a folded state and an unfolded state. The foldable housing for housing the foldable transaction card when the foldable transaction card is in a folded state, wherein the foldable housing further comprises a hinge for folding and closing the housing, wherein the second section of the foldable transaction card unfolds outside the housing when the housing is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Inventors: Troy P. Williams, Peter A. Vaughn, Lisa Ann Morrill Web
  • Patent number: 7611765
    Abstract: A stack of interfolded absorbent sheet products comprises a plurality of absorbent sheets each of which is itself folded at least twice about axes that are perpendicular to one another. The absorbent sheets have an embossed surface relief of a predetermined pattern or design. Each of the absorbent sheets within the stack comprises at least one pair of panels sandwiched between a pair of adjacent panels of another of the absorbent sheets in the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: SCA Tissue North America LLC
    Inventors: Robert C. Hochtritt, Andrew M. Conger
  • Publication number: 20090110879
    Abstract: A composite panel with a bend therein is formed by first and second adjacent panel sections having a common facesheet forming an outer radius of the bend, and a substantially void-free joint between the adjacent panel sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Inventors: Michael S. Lewis, Guy W. Roets
  • Publication number: 20080269036
    Abstract: A label product in web form has alternating, oppositely indented creases in the liner of the product to produce a fan-folded stack having alternating, reversely folded plies. Each crease is substantially, if not entirely, perforation-free to maximize the strength of the liner at the fold lines. The product is preferably produced on a narrow web press in a creasing station that includes a stack of rolls wherein a first die roll is on the bottom of the stack, a second die roll is on the top of the stack, and a pair of base rolls are located in the middle of the stack between the die rolls. A blade on each die roll cooperates with a cushion on the corresponding base roll to produce a crease during every other rotation of the die roll, each of the base rolls having a smaller circumference than its corresponding die roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: EXPRESS CARD AND LABEL CO., INC.
    Inventor: John W. George
  • Patent number: 7413999
    Abstract: A corner fitting and a method of forming a corner fitting including steps of providing a flat woven fabric including a first woven portion having first and second direction woven fibers, a second woven portion adjacent the first woven portion having first direction fibers and sacrificial second direction fibers and a third semi-woven portion having first direction fibers selectively engaged by the sacrificial second direction yarns. The method further comprising steps of folding the flat woven fabric in at least one direction, and removing the sacrificial second direction fibers, wherein during removal, the sacrificial second direction fibers are replaced in the second woven portion by the first direction fibers of the third semi-woven portion and form a corner fitting having continuous fibers connecting all sides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2008
    Assignee: Albany Engineered Composites, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Goering
  • Patent number: 7393577
    Abstract: A fiber reinforced core panel is formed from strips of plastics foam helically wound with layers of rovings to form webs which may extend in a wave pattern or may intersect transverse webs. Hollow tubes may replace foam strips. Axial rovings cooperate with overlying helically wound rovings to form a beam or a column. Wound roving patterns may vary along strips for structural efficiency. Wound strips may alternate with spaced strips and spacers between the strips enhance web buckling strength. Continuously wound rovings between spaced strips permit folding to form panels with reinforced edges. Continuously wound strips are helically wrapped to form annular structures, and composite panels may combine both thermoset and thermoplastic resins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: Webcore Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen W. Day, G. Scott Campbell, Danny E. Tilton, Frederick Stoll, Michael Sheppard, Paul L. Galloway
  • Patent number: 7381456
    Abstract: A kraft paper sheet contains and/or is coated with a fungi growth-inhibiting agent that causes the kraft paper sheet to be fungi growth resistant. The kraft paper sheet alone or as part of a layered sheet material is used as a central field portion of facings for various faced building insulation assemblies. The facings, as part of an insulation assembly, are fungi growth resistant; may be perforated to provide the facing with a selected water vapor permeance; and/or may include a bonding layer, such as a heat activated bonding layer, that bonds the facing to an insulation layer of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: Johns Manville
    Inventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Anthony E. Moore, Timothy D. Logsdon, Blake Boyd Bogrett
  • Patent number: 7374803
    Abstract: A band-like matter fastening seal for fixing a wound end of a band-like matter that is wound in a roll form to the body of said band-like matter, includes: a first attaching part adhered to said end of the band-like matter; a second attaching part having an attaching side adhered to the body of the matter in order to fasten the end to the body of the matter; and a handle part extended from the second attaching part, the attaching side being exposed when the attaching side is lifted from a masking side covering the attaching side, wherein the handle part rises up along the tangent line of the roll when a portion of the band-like matter fastening seal in the vicinity of the handle part is curved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masaharu Tabuchi, Takashi Komine, Yukio Seto, Hironori Sasaki, Akihiro Sanda, Nobuo Sugiyama, Yasuko Sano, Naoki Yoshikawa, Mototada Yasui
  • Patent number: 7351458
    Abstract: A plastics bag has at least one seal (34, 36) extending parallel to the mouth of the bag to close the sides. Preferably, a reclosable zipper seal (36) is provided below a top seal (34). A novel tag is provided, secured to the zipper seal (36) and extending through the top seal (34). The tag (11) is generally M-shaped in cross-section with its outside legs secured to the seals and with an inner tuck which the consumer can withdraw from the mouth of the bag and break open to make an access hole through the seal or seals into the interior of the bag to facilitate full opening of the mouth of the bag. Methods of manufacturing such bags are also described, particularly for use with form-fill-seal machines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
    Inventor: Murray Edward Bruce Leighton
  • Patent number: 7351466
    Abstract: A dunnage conversion machine is characterized by a forming assembly which causes lateral edge portions of a substantially continuous sheet stock material to crumple and to fold upon themselves, leaving an unfolded central portion between the laterally spaced apart folded portions. The layers of sheet stock material in the folded portions are fixed by a feeding/fixing assembly having two pairs of laterally spaced feed assemblies to form a dunnage product which does not come apart as it is manipulated. A severing assembly severs discrete dunnage products from the continuous strip of dunnage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Ranpak Corp.
    Inventor: James A. Simmons, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20070269635
    Abstract: A decorative sheet that may be attached to a surface of an object includes a base member, which has first and second opposed principal surfaces; a protective layer, which is arranged over the first principal surface of the base member; and a coloring layer, which is arranged either over the second principal surface of the base member or between the base member and the protective layer and which includes a pigment. The protective layer has a thickness of about 30 ?m to about 60 ?m and includes about 1.4 wt % to about 4.0 wt % of UV absorbent material. The coloring layer has a thickness of about 15 ?m to about 80 ?m and includes about 1.0 wt % to about 4.0 wt % of UV absorbent material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Naohiro Morozumi, Yasuo Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7278584
    Abstract: Convenient transaction cards are provided that may be attached or interconnected with portable electronic music devices, such as MP3 players, the iPodâ„¢ digital music device, and other like portable electronic music devices. The transaction cards may be foldable to provide for convenient storage and access of the transaction card when utilized. In addition, the transaction cards may be provided within a case or a housing that may be removable from the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Priscilla Gandel, Ellen Lasch, Lisa Ann Morrill Webb
  • Patent number: 7250205
    Abstract: A backing sheet, and a system and method of manufacturing a backing sheet with stapling tabs. The system includes a roller device configured to apply an adherent material to a first side of the backing sheet continuously fed from a feed roll. The sheet is then fed to a first pair of folders configured to fold the backing sheet along the edges such that the adherent material holds the first fold in place. The sheet passes through a second pair of folders that form a second fold along the edges of the sheet by folding in the opposite direction as in the first fold. Advantageously, an applicator device is configured to apply a tacky substance, such as a starch solution, between the contacting portions of the second fold, prior to the formation of the second fold. The tacky substance maintains the second fold and prevents the stapling tab from opening during further manufacturing and packaging processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Certainteed Corporation
    Inventors: David Suda, Tom Cuthbertson, Mark Buscher, Larry Clevenstine
  • Patent number: 7238252
    Abstract: A method of operating on a flexible donor sheet, before or after organic material has been transferred to such sheet, to form a rigid edge frame to facilitate its mounting, including cutting notches in each of the four corners of the sheet, and folding the four notched edge portions of the sheet and securing the folded portions to the main body of the sheet to form at least four rigid edges so as to provide a rigid edge frame which can be readily mounted in an OLED device manufacturing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventor: Bradley A. Phillips
  • Patent number: 7211311
    Abstract: The present invention provides a sheet material (2) comprising a first fold line and a second fold line, the first and second fold lines being defined by a series of at least partial perforations (4,8) in the sheet material (2), wherein there is one or fewer at least partial perforations at an intersection of the first fold line and the second fold line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2007
    Inventor: George Wallace McDonald
  • Patent number: 7204390
    Abstract: A stack of material sheets, which material sheets have a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and which material sheets are folded at least once in the transverse direction along a transverse folding line and at least once in the longitudinal direction along a longitudinal folding line. The material sheets are interlinked such that, when a first material sheet is extracted, a predetermined part of the next material sheet is fed out. Two consecutive material sheets in the stack are folded into one another and are in this way interlinked by panels of the respective material sheets. The said panels constitute rectangles each having two delimiting edges namely a longitudinal fold edge and a transverse fold edge. The two consecutive material sheets lie stacked with the longitudinal fold edge of a first material sheet arranged in the opposite direction in relation to the corresponding longitudinal fold edge of the next, second material sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2007
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventor: Urban Widlund
  • Patent number: 7097896
    Abstract: A stack of interleaved towels is provided wherein each towel is configured from a sheet of material having a first fold to generate a first panel, a second fold in the sheet substantially parallel to the first fold and creating a second panel, and a third fold substantially parallel to the first and second folds and creating a lead flap and a trailing flap. The lead flap is defined between the first fold and the third fold such that the first fold presents a leading edge for grasping by a user. The trailing flap is defined between the second fold and the third fold. Prior to interfolding, the first panel is positioned directly adjacent the second panel. Additionally, the trailing flap of each sheet of material is disposed between the lead flap and the trailing flap of an adjacent sheet of material such that the sheets of material are interleaved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Glenn Merrill
  • Patent number: 7078087
    Abstract: The invention provides a wipe. The wipes include at least one non-woven web. The web includes an edge portion adjoining a main portion. The web has a top surface and a spaced apart opposite bottom surface and is defined by a width of the web which is perpendicular to a length of the web. The top surface of the main portion defines a top plane and the bottom surface of the main portion defines a bottom plane. The top and bottom planes are parallel to one another and a z-directional dimension of the web extends through the top and bottom planes and is orthogonal to the top and bottom planes. The edge portion includes and edge treatment wherein the edge treatment comprises at least a portion of the edge portion being permanently deformed in a non-random pattern in the z-directional dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2006
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence James Romano, III, Kenneth Bradley Close, Larry Edgerton Brown, Steven R. Kalmanson
  • Patent number: 6986930
    Abstract: A seal for a container opening includes a seal layer for connecting to and covering an opening of the container. A pull-tab forming layer is bonded to the seal layer. The pull-tab forming layer has a heat resistant surface joined to the seal layer, and a hinge disposed near the center of the seal. A portion of the pull-tab forming layer defines a pair of opposed pull-tabs extending from the hinge, in which the heat resistant surface covers a top surface of each of the pull-tabs, a surface of the pull-tabs opposite the top surface, and a portion of the pull-tab forming layer facing the surface of the pull-tabs opposite the top surface. A method of forming the seal and a material blank for forming a plurality of the seals are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2006
    Assignee: Selig Sealing Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph M. Giles
  • Patent number: 6979484
    Abstract: A fan-folded insulating board laminate comprises an extended length of synthetic resin foam board having longitudinal edges and protective skins adhered to each surface of the foam board. Reinforcing strips are spaced along both of the longitudinal edges of the laminate and are bonded to both of the skins. They extend about the longitudinal edges, and the laminate has a series of longitudinally spaced cuts through the board and alternately through one of the protective skins. The uncut skin and strip act as a hinge between adjacent sections of the board to enable fan-folding of the laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Inventor: David L. Lewis
  • Patent number: 6974617
    Abstract: An absorbent pad for use in absorbing motor fluids, especially for use in absorbing and collecting motor fluids leaking from a motor/engine. The absorbent pad comprises a bottom liquid impermeable support layer, a layer of absorbent material and a top liquid permeable layer, wherein a portion of the top liquid permeable layer is bonded to a portion of the bottom liquid impermeable support layer with an adhesive strip thereby enclosing the absorbent material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2005
    Assignee: New World Environmental Products, LLC
    Inventor: Gary L. Kingery
  • Patent number: 6967046
    Abstract: An adhesive-based sticker for adhering to a surface and incorporating a pocket between the surface and the sticker for insertion of objects into the pocket and removal therefrom. A sticker substrate is provided with a first section and a flap section with a fold line therebetween. An adhesive is provided on at least a portion of the back surface, and upon folding the flap section at the fold line, the back surface of the flap section is adhered to a portion of the back surface of the first section. When the sticker substrate is applied to a mounting surface, a pocket is formed between the sticker substrate and the mounting surface in registry with at least the portion of the flap section adhered to the first section. The pocket so formed may be bound around the entire perimeter excluding the fold line or may be a through-pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Inventors: Marilyn Bollinger, Howard Bollinger
  • Patent number: 6962748
    Abstract: A masking tape comprising: a) a heat resistant adhesive tape comprising a flexible sheet backing and a pressure sensitive adhesive composition, b) a masking material, which is laminated in an edge region of the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, said masking material being capable of adhering to paint and absorbing paint, c) a masking sheet, which is laminated onto the very same edge region of the pressure-sensitive adhesive composition, d) the masking sheet covering the masking material on a side thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Tesa AG
    Inventor: Oliver Nickel
  • Patent number: 6951592
    Abstract: Cover pads for use on upright walls, wherein the pad provides an improved internal support which is of simplified construction, for example the center support and the surrounding frame being made of a one-piece monolithic support structure which permits a flexible covering or fabric to be attached to the center support and the exterior side surfaces of the edge frame while the fabric and support structure are in a flat and planar condition, following which the edge frame is folded and secured into position around the center support. The internal support structure for the pad, when in a flat condition, has voids at the corners so that the fabric can be easily tucked into the corners prior to the edge frame being folded into its closing or frame-defining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2005
    Assignee: Haworth, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony McConnell, Randolph Woellper
  • Patent number: 6929839
    Abstract: An elongated fibrous insulation blanket is pre-cut for custom fitting the insulation blanket into wall, floor, ceiling and roof cavities of different widths formed by the framework of a building. The blanket has at least one, preferably two or three, series of cuts extending between major surfaces of the blanket with successive cuts of each series of cuts being separated by a series of separable connectors located intermediate the major surfaces of the blanket. Each series of separable connectors hold together adjacent sections of the blanket for handling, but are separable by hand so that the blanket can be handled as a unit for insulating a cavity having a predetermined width or easily separated by hand into two or more sections at one or more of the series of separable connectors for insulating a cavity having a lesser width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry J. Weinstein, Robert J. Allwein
  • Patent number: 6901711
    Abstract: The facing of a faced insulation layer has Z-folded, double-folded, or single-folded lateral tabs extending the length of the facing sheet along or spaced inwardly from lateral edges of the facing sheet. Each lateral tab has multiple segments. One of the segments of each lateral tab has an adhesive thereon that can be exposed and extended beyond one of the lateral edges of the insulation layer for bonding the faced insulation layer to a framing member. Where the blanket is separable into sections, the facing has pairs of separable tabs that separate when the blanket is separated to expose surfaces of the separable tabs with adhesive thereon. The adhesive may be microencapsulated or have microencapsulated constituent(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2005
    Assignee: Johns Manville International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Michael Fay, John Brooks Smith, William David Blalock, Blake Boyd Bogrett, Timothy G. Swales
  • Patent number: 6887554
    Abstract: A multi-ply tissue product has several plies (2, 3, 4, 5) The multi-ply configuration is made by at least one folding (a; b; c) of at least one ply sheet (P) of tissue material in order to reduce the possibilities of delamination and to make the product flexible simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products GmbH
    Inventors: Urban Widlund, Emmanuelle Morin, Anders Gustafsson
  • Patent number: 6887553
    Abstract: A roll of masking material comprising a coiled elongate thin flexible sheet, which sheet has longitudinal folds defining, in some embodiments with elongate edges of the sheet, edges of longitudinally extending portions of said sheet. Those longitudinally extending portions of the sheet include pleat-like portions of the sheet each having opposite major surfaces generally parallel with the axis of the roll, which pleat-like portions are superimposed major surfaces to major surfaces to form a laminate with outermost ones of the superimposed pleat like portions defining the opposite outer surfaces of the laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Robert H. Heil, James F. Pitzen, Jeffrey J. Schwab
  • Patent number: 6863949
    Abstract: The invention relates, on the one hand, to a prismatic, especially panel-formed thermal insulation element which is enveloped in a gas-tight foil and evacuated, whereby a stable core pre-formed from a porous material is completely enveloped in a single cut sheet of the gas-tight foil; as well as a manufacturing process for same comprising the following steps: a) Manufacture of a prismatic core corresponding to the desired form of the thermal insulation element from a porous material; b) Enveloping of the principal faces of this core with a single sheet of the gas-tight foil; c) At least partial welding together of the foil which is drawn tight around the core along the face of the core; d) Folding-in of the welded seam area of the foil against the face of the core; e) Stress-free folding-together of the areas of the cut sheet of gas-tight foil projecting beyond the core, covering and in flat contact with the end surface(s) of the core; f) Welding together of the folded-together areas of foil on at least on
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2005
    Assignee: Va-Q-tec AG
    Inventor: Michael E. Ehrmanntraut
  • Patent number: 6848595
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stack of wipes for use in a wipes dispenser. The stack includes a plurality of wipes, each wipe of the plurality of wipes formed from a portion of a common material. Each wipe includes a leading edge portion with a pleat-like zone located along at least a portion of a length of the leading edge portion and the pleat-like zone is distinct from an adjoining main portion of each wipe. Each wipe is folded upon itself at least once and each wipe is positioned relative to adjacent wipes to form the stack of wipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2005
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Richard Lange, Kenneth Bradley Close
  • Patent number: 6842934
    Abstract: An adhesive roller construction for detritus removal having an elongated strip. The elongated strip includes a backing layer and an adhesive layer overlying and covering one side of the backing layer. The other side of the backing layer has an adhesive release surface. The strip includes a first end, a second and two spaced-apart side edges. A portion of at least one side edge of the strip is retrorsely folded over and adhesively attached to the adhesively coated side of the strip. The strip is then wound from one end to the other end into a cylindrical roll with the adhesive layer facing outwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: The Evercare Company
    Inventors: Nicholas D. McKay, Jr., Mark Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20040185225
    Abstract: A faced building insulation assembly includes a first facing forming a first major surface of the assembly with a central field portion having one or more spunbond continuous polymeric filament mat layers. Preferably, the facing is fungi growth resistant and has a selected water vapor permeance rating as applied to an insulation layer of the assembly. The facing may also include one or more polymeric film layers, a fungi growth inhibiting agent, a pesticide, and/or a heat activated bonding agent that bonds the facing to the insulation layer of the assembly. The insulation assembly may also include a second facing forming a second major surface of the assembly that has a water vapor permeance rating equal to or differing from the first facing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Blake Boyd Bogrett
  • Publication number: 20040185210
    Abstract: The facing of a faced building insulation assembly includes a central field portion that is or includes a kraft paper sheet. The kraft paper sheet contains a fungi growth-inhibiting agent that causes the kraft paper sheet to be fungi growth resistant. The kraft paper sheet may be perforated to provide the facing with a selected water vapor permeance, and/or may include a heat activated bonding agent that bonds the facing to the insulation layer of the assembly. The field portion of the facing may include a coating to stiffen the facing and/or decrease the flame spread and smoke formation characteristics of the facing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: Johns Manville International, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Michael Fay, Anthony E. Moore, Timothy D. Logsdon, Blake Boyd Bogrett
  • Publication number: 20040180592
    Abstract: A multiple layer, thermoformable acoustic sheet material useful for manufacturing acoustic absorption, acoustic barrier and/or vibration damping components includes a barrier layer of synthetic fibers having an area weight of from about 40 grams per square foot to about 100 grams per square foot, and an absorber layer of vertically-lapped synthetic fibers, natural fibers or a combination of synthetic and natural fibers. The thermoformable acoustic sheet materials may include additional layers, with certain embodiments including an impermeable polymer film layer disposed between the barrier layer and the absorber layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2003
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventor: Kyle A. Ray
  • Patent number: 6780489
    Abstract: An absorbent pad for use in absorbing motor fluids, especially for use in absorbing and collecting motor fluids leaking from a motor/engine. The absorbent pad comprises a bottom liquid impermeable support layer, a layer of absorbent material and a top liquid permeable layer, wherein a portion of the top liquid permeable layer is bonded to a portion of the bottom liquid impermeable support layer with an adhesive strip thereby enclosing the absorbent material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: New World Environmental Products, LLC
    Inventor: Gary L. Kingery
  • Publication number: 20040142146
    Abstract: An absorbent pad for use in absorbing motor fluids, especially for use in absorbing and collecting motor fluids leaking from a motor/engine. The absorbent pad comprises a bottom liquid impermeable support layer, a layer of absorbent material and a top liquid permeable layer, wherein a portion of the top liquid permeable layer is bonded to a portion of the bottom liquid impermeable support layer with an adhesive strip thereby enclosing the absorbent material layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventor: Gary L. Kingery
  • Patent number: 6761955
    Abstract: Disclosed is an absorbent article including a topsheet, a backsheet and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet, and having leakage-preventing side walls on a liquid-receiving side of the article. The leakage-preventing side walls extend in a longitudinal direction of the article and lie opposite one another in a width direction of the article. At least a liquid-receiving face of each leakage-preventing side wall is made of a fibrous sheet that contains hydrophobic fibers thermally bonded to one another and hydrophilic fibers shorter than the hydrophobic fibers. At least a part of the hydrophilic fibers form aggregates which are dispersed in the fibrous sheet and are bonded to the hydrophobic fibers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Uni-Charm Corporation
    Inventors: Satoshi Mizutani, Makoto Suekane, Etsuko Tagami, Kazuya Nishitani
  • Patent number: 6753058
    Abstract: A pile of a plurality of panels includes at least one web of a hygiene- or wiping material. The web has a web width and a web length and is divided in its length direction in closely adjacent or partly overlapping separate or partly interconnected sheets, which in the longitudinal direction of the web extend between transverse separations or perforations. The web as well as the sheets are folded in accordion-like manner about transverse folding lines forming panel edges, so that panels are formed and piled on top of each other. The pile has a panel width constituting the distance between adjacent folding lines and a panel length which is the same as the panel width. The majority of the sheets comprised in a pile have a length, which is not divisible with the panel width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventor: Anna Mänsson
  • Publication number: 20040115394
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stack of wipes for use in a wipes dispenser. The stack includes a plurality of wipes, each wipe of the plurality of wipes formed from a portion of a common material. Each wipe includes a leading edge portion with a pleat-like zone located along at least a portion of a length of the leading edge portion and the pleat-like zone is distinct from an adjoining main portion of each wipe. Each wipe is folded upon itself at least once and each wipe is positioned relative to adjacent wipes to form the stack of wipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2002
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Richard Lange, Kenneth Bradley Close
  • Publication number: 20040109970
    Abstract: A folded disposable towel (1, 10) which is folded and attached to like towels with serrated edges (5a, b, 11, 12) can be dispensed from a conventionally sized paper towel roll (2). Once each towel is removed from the roll, it can be opened to form a much larger towel for use as a cleaning towel, beach towel, and so forth. The towel may have one fold one side to open into a two-section towel or folded on both sides into three layers so that when it's opened it forms a towel having three sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventor: Joan Forsyth
  • Patent number: 6746750
    Abstract: The present invention provides a generally planar closed envelope device formed from material having vapor barrier properties, which envelope comprises a base layer (1) and a cover layer (4) applied to the base layer (1) and a continuous or discontinuous seal (4) therebetween, characterized in that: a) each of the base (1) and cover (3) layers carries a fluid composition (2) containing a liquid volatile material upon a selected area of the opposed faces thereof; f) the base (1) and cover (3) layers are formed by folding over a single piece of sheet material so as to bring the selected areas of the base (1) and cover (3) layers into opposing register with one another; and g) there is separable and reformable seal (4) between the base (1) and cover (3) layers to retain them in the folded configuration. The invention also provides a method for making such a device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Assignee: AKI, Inc.
    Inventor: Derek Albert Bishopp
  • Patent number: 6730185
    Abstract: An adhesive leaflet assembly is provided having a carrier web and a plurality of lengthwise oriented leaflet sub-assemblies releasably adhered on the web. The leaflet sub-assemblies have adhesive wing-like extensions that are oriented in a longitudinal direction relative to the carrier web. Longitudinal orientation of these wing-like extensions facilitates application of the leaflet sub-assemblies onto articles having a flat or planar surface in a high-speed continuous labeling operation. A method of providing a leaflet assembly, as well as a method for applying leaflet sub-assemblies are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: Rock Ridge Technologies Co.
    Inventor: Michael Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20040071934
    Abstract: A seal for a container opening includes a seal layer for connecting to and covering an opening of the container. A pull-tab forming layer is bonded to the seal layer. The pull-tab forming layer has a heat resistant surface joined to the seal layer, and a hinge disposed near the center of the seal. A portion of the pull-tab forming layer defines a pair of opposed pull-tabs extending from the hinge, in which the heat resistant surface covers a top surface of each of the pull-tabs, a surface of the pull-tabs opposite the top surface, and a portion of the pull-tab forming layer facing the surface of the pull-tabs opposite the top surface. A method of forming the seal and a material blank for forming a plurality of the seals are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Applicant: Selig Sealing Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph M. Giles
  • Patent number: 6709729
    Abstract: The invention is concerned with a three-dimensional protective pad which is constructed from a laminate structure having a first top layer of a neoprene/nylon skin combination which is stretchable in all directions. There is a second layer of a non-stretchable neoprene adhered under the first layer. Then there is a third layer of a polyurethane foam of a viscoelastic nature adhered under the second layer. Finally, there is a fourth layer of a neoprene/nylon skin combination which is stretchable in all directions adhered under the third layer. This laminated material is now structured into a three-dimensional shape. Therefore, prior to laminating all of the layers, the second and the third layers are adhered to each other first and then a sectional cut is made through layers, the cut surfaces are then closed by cross stitching through the second layer into the third layer and the cut edges are now glued together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2004
    Inventor: Alan Baruch
  • Patent number: 6705352
    Abstract: The label has two non-folded longitudinal sides (1) and two foldable narrow sides (2) and consists of a backing fabric (11) with warp threads (4) and basic picks (5), in addition to embroidery picks (12) made of a fusible thread material forming the pattern. The embroidery picks (12) forming the pattern extend parallel and at a distance to the unfolded longitudinal sides (1) of the backing fabric (11). The non-folded longitudinal side (1) is an edge of a cut formed in the backing fabric outside the area (13) of the pattern. The label has the advantage that the edges of the cuts on the longitudinal sides are soft and skin friendly thereby substantially improving wearing comfort. Due to the fact that the edge of the cuts produced by the basic picks have practically no brows and the picks extend parallel in relation to the longitudinal side of the labels, and even appearance is achieved on the entire length of the label since the picks cover evenly the back part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2004
    Assignee: Textilma AG
    Inventor: Francisco Speich