Abstract: The present invention relates to three-dimensional products comprising a structure having a first surface and a z-direction perpendicular to the first surface, the structure further comprising a base, a plurality of raised protrusion areas raised at least about 300 ?m above the base of the structure, and a plurality of connecting elements, each connecting element ending at a raised protrusion and each connecting element raised above the base of the structure in the z-direction and at least partially recessed from the raised protrusions in the z-direction, wherein the connecting elements connect two of the raised protrusions areas; the plurality of raised protrusion areas and plurality of connecting elements together forming a pattern comprising at least a first sub-pattern region and second sub-pattern region; wherein the first sub-pattern region comprises a first set of parallel rows of raised protrusion areas and connecting elements and a second set of parallel rows of raised protrusions and connecting elem
Abstract: A web product including one or more plies, the web product having a first side and a second side, the web product including a plurality of discrete embossments extending from the first side to the second side; and at least one linear embossment extending from the second side to the first side, wherein the web product has an average embossment height of greater than about 650 ?m.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 8, 2005
Date of Patent:
August 31, 2010
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Donn Nathan Boatman, Kevin Benson McNeil
Abstract: A multiply tissue article having a softening lotion and an embossment of the external surface. The embossment forms a network of discrete depressions. The embossment has particular configuration and induces a ply separation force within a defined range. The multiply tissue exhibits enhanced performance for softness, strength and ply delamination. The invention also relates to the process of making such a multiply article.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 11, 2008
Date of Patent:
August 10, 2010
Assignee:
The Procter + Gamble Company
Inventors:
Klaus Hilbig, Oliver Horst Heilmann, Martin Robert Ernest Leal, Norbert Meyer, Matthias Morand
Abstract: An embossed multi-ply fibrous structure product having enhanced quilted appearance comprising: two or more plies of fibrous structure wherein at least one of the piles has a plurality of embossments thereon having a total embossment area of from about 6% to about 16%; the embossments forming a latticework defining a plurality of unembossed cells; wherein each cell has a surface area of from about 0.5 square inches to about 6 square inches, the cells being unadhered to the adjacent ply and the embossments having a height from about 350 ?m to about 1,500 ?m. Further embodiment comprise a product having a Percent Compressibility from about 1.5% to about 4.5%.
Abstract: A multiply fibrous structure product having two or more plies of fibrous structure wherein the fibrous structure has a Compression Slope from about 11 to about 30; a basis weight from about 26 lbs/3000 ft2 to about 50 lbs/3000 ft2; a Wet Caliper greater than about 18 mils; and a Flex Modulus from about 0.1 to about 0.8.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 2, 2007
Date of Patent:
June 29, 2010
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Markus Wilhelm Altmann, Osman Polat, Robert Stanley Ampulski
Abstract: A packaging device for grouping product items, especially semi-soft tissue paper packs (7), to a bundle of layered rows (L1, L2, L3) of said product items (7) having a supply line (1) including a main conveyor belt (5) constituently carrying and supplying a stream of product items (7) in a defined orientation along an infeed main path (6) to a transfer position (18), an elevator means (2) having a plurality of stack-forming receptacles (23) each receiving a grouped row (L1, L2, L3) of a specified number of said product items (7) in a chopped manner from the transfer position of said supply line (1) at an input end of the elevator means (2), wherein the elevator means (2) is adapted to successively displace the stacked grouped rows of product items (7) in a side-by-side relationship orthogonally to the infeed main path (6) to an output end of the elevator means (2), and an outfeed unit (3) engaging with the elevator means (2), commonly removing a specified number stacked grouped rows (L1, L2, L3) of said pr
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 18, 2008
Date of Patent:
June 22, 2010
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Marion Janet López Fernández, Carsten Dalsgaard Bech, André Mellin
Abstract: A fibrous structure product comprising one or more plies of fibrous structure; a basis weight from about 10 lbs/3000 ft2 to about 50 lbs/3000 ft2; from 16% to about 40% of hardwood fibers, in one embodiment eucalyptus fibers, wherein the starting hardwood fibers have a Runkel Ratio of from 4.5 to about 15 and a fiber count of from about 12 fibers/gram to about 35 fibers/gram; and a Residual Water Value from about 0.001 to about 0.18. In one embodiment the product comprises two or more plies of fibrous structure, a basis weight from about 25 lbs/3000 ft2 to about 50 lbs/3000 ft2 and from about 23% to about 40% of hardwood fibers. In another embodiment at least one of the piles of the fibrous structure product further comprises a plurality of embossments thereon comprising an embossment height of from about 600 ?m to about 1,200 ?m.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 22, 2007
Date of Patent:
June 22, 2010
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Dana Jacqueline Smith, LaRhonda Rachell Preston, Kevin Mitchell Wiwi, Ward William Ostendorf, Paul Dennis Trokhan
Abstract: A display for two or more products having two or more three-dimensional visual aspects providing visual information about two or more products. The visual aspect has a first visual product, a second visual product, a first sampling aspect for the first visual product, a second sampling aspect for the second visual product, product samples associated with both the first and the second sampling aspects, and a dispenser for dispensing the product samples.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 30, 2008
Date of Patent:
June 8, 2010
Assignee:
The Procter + Gamble Company
Inventors:
Brian John Gillespie, Patricia Ann (Kennedy) Kulich
Abstract: Multi-ply fibrous structure products, more specifically embossed multi-ply fibrous structure products and methods for making same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 8, 2008
Date of Patent:
January 10, 2012
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Michael Gomer Stelljes, Jr., Christopher Scott Kraus, George Vincent Wegele, Kevin Benson McNeil