Abstract: Crosslinking systems suitable for use in a polymer melt composition wherein the polymer melt composition comprises a hydroxyl polymer; polymeric structures made from such polymer melt compositions; and processes/methods related thereto are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 15, 2011
Date of Patent:
January 3, 2012
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble company
Inventors:
Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Linda Evers Smith, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, John Gerhard Michael, Mark Ryan Richards
Abstract: The disclosure relates to pre-moistened webs and wipes having visible compressed sites that provide the perception of a cloth-like texture. The disclosure also relates to a nonwoven web made of non-thermoplastic fibers with at least one compressed site on the surface of the web that remains visible when the web is pre-moistened.
Abstract: Hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions, especially hydroxyl polymer-containing compositions that can be processed into polymeric structures, especially polymeric structures in the form of fibers are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
March 25, 2010
Date of Patent:
December 6, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Paul Arlen Forshey, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, Mark Ryan Richards
Abstract: A method for individualizing a trichome from an epidermis of a non-seed portion of a trichome-bearing plant is provided. The method includes the step of contacting the trichome-bearing plant with a device such that the trichome is separated from the epidermis of the trichome-bearing plant. The device can be a mill device.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 6, 2010
Date of Patent:
November 15, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Teresa Jean Franklin
Abstract: Fibrous structures, especially fibrous structures that exhibit softness and strength, sanitary tissue products employing such fibrous structures and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided. More particularly, fibrous structures that have a long fiber furnish that comprises less than 10% by weight of fibers having a coarseness of less than 20 mg/100 m, sanitary tissue products employing such fibrous structures and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 20, 2007
Date of Patent:
November 15, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Kenneth Douglas Vinson, Eric James Watkins, Dale Gary Kavalew
Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Wet Burst of greater than 30 g as measured according to the Wet Burst Test Method and that may also exhibit a Geometric Mean (“GM”) Modulus and/or CD Modulus of less than 1320 at 15 g/cm and/or less than 875 at 15 g/cm as measured according to the Modulus Test Method are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 30, 2009
Date of Patent:
October 11, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Angela Marie Leimbach, Michael Scott Prodoehl, John Allen Manifold
Abstract: Patterned fibrous structures, more particularly to fibrous structures that comprise a pattern that conveys to a user a characteristic of the fibrous structure and/or single- or multi-ply sanitary tissue product comprising such a patterned fibrous structure and methods for making same are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 28, 2005
Date of Patent:
October 11, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Thorsten Knobloch, Luis Bernardo De La Rosa, Gregg Thomas Weaver, Jennifer Hope Dolan
Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Geometric Mean Elongation of greater than 15.8% as measured according to the Elongation Test Method are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 29, 2008
Date of Patent:
September 27, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch, Robert Lenord Powers, Christopher Gerald Donner
Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 360 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and optionally, a Total Dry Tensile of less than 2450 g/76.2 mm and/or a Machine Direction (MD) Dry Tensile of less than 1520 g/76.2 mm and/or a Geometric Mean (GM) Total Dry Tensile of less than 1180 g/76.2 mm as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 23, 2010
Date of Patent:
August 2, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch
Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a pore volume distribution such that greater than about 40% of the total pore volume present in the fibrous structure exists in pores of radii of from about 121 ?m to about 200 ?m, and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 10, 2008
Date of Patent:
July 5, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer
Abstract: Crosslinking systems suitable for use in a polymer melt composition wherein the polymer melt composition comprises a hydroxyl polymer; polymeric structures made from such polymer melt compositions; and processes/methods related thereto are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 19, 2009
Date of Patent:
June 14, 2011
Assignee:
The Procter & Gamble Company
Inventors:
Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Linda Evers Smith, Gregory Charles Gordon, Larry Neil Mackey, John Gerhard Michael, Mark Ryan Richards