Patents Represented by Attorney E. Kelly Linman

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  • Process for including a fine particulate filler into tissue paper using starch
    Patent number: 5672249
    Abstract: A process for incorporating a fine particulate filler such as kaolin clay into tissue paper is disclosed. The process results in strong, soft, and low dusting tissue paper webs useful in the manufacture of soft, absorbent sanitary products such as bath tissue, facial tissue, and absorbent towels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Douglas Vinson, John Paul Erspamer, Charles William Neal, Jonathan Andrew Ficke, Jeffress Paul Halter
  • Core for core wound paper products having preferred seam construction
    Patent number: 5671897
    Abstract: A core for core wound paper products. The core is made by wrapping dual plies in a spiral pattern and adhering the plies together. The edge of one ply overlaps the ply gap of the other ply, preventing a single ply thickness from occurring anywhere on the core. Alternatively, the edge of each ply may overlap the ply gap of that respective ply. In yet another embodiment, the overlap may be formed by a separate ply applied to either ply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Randy Gene Ogg, Martin Henry Stark
  • Absorbent members for body fluids having good wet integrity and relatively high concentrations of hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer
    Patent number: 5669894
    Abstract: Absorbent members useful in the containment of body fluids such as urine, that have at least one region containing hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer in a concentration of from about 60 to 100% by weight and providing a gel-continuous fluid transportation zone when in a swollen state. This hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer has: (a) a Saline Flow Conductivity (SFC) value of at least about 30.times.10.sup.-7 cm.sup.3 sec/g; (b) a Performance under Pressure (PUP) capacity value of at least about 23 g/g under a confining pressure of 0.7 psi (5 kPa); and (c) a basis weight of at least about 10 gsm. In addition, the region where this hydrogel-forming absorbent polymer is present has, even when subjected to normal use conditions, sufficient wet integrity such that the gel-continuous zone substantially maintains its ability to acquire and transport body fluids through the gel-continuous zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stephen Allen Goldman, Nancy Ann Haynes, Todd Leon Mansfield, Manfred Plischke, Herbert Louis Retzsch, Trevor Walker, Gerald Alfred Young
  • Method for making three-dimensional macroscopically-expanded webs having improved functional surfaces
    Patent number: 5670110
    Abstract: The present invention provides a process for forming a three-dimensional, macroscopically-expanded, fluid pervious web having an improved functional surface comprised of a sheet of polymeric material having a first surface and a second surface. A plurality of discrete deposits of a water resistant resinous material having a pre-determined open time are deposited on the first surface of the sheet. The deposits of resinous material are drawn upwardly from the first surface of the sheet to form corresponding fibrils during the open time. After resinous material has cured, the sheet is fed onto a forming structure having opposed surfaces such that the sheet is in contact with the forming structure. The forming structure exhibits a multiplicity of apertures which place the opposed surfaces of the forming structure in fluid communication with one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Raymond John Dirk, Nicholas Albert Ahr
  • Turret winder mandrel cupping assembly
    Patent number: 5667162
    Abstract: A web winding apparatus and a method of operating the apparatus include a turret assembly, a core loading apparatus, and a core stripping apparatus. The turret assembly supports rotatably driven mandrels for engaging hollow cores upon which a paper web is wound. Each mandrel is driven in a closed mandrel path, which can be non-circular. The core loading apparatus conveys cores onto the mandrels during movement of the mandrels along the core loading segment of the closed mandrel path, and the core stripping apparatus removes each web wound core from its respective mandrel during movement of the mandrel along the core stripping segment of the closed mandrel path. The turret assembly can be rotated continuously, and the sheet count per wound log can be changed as the turret assembly is rotating. The apparatus can also include a mandrel having a deformable core engaging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kevin Benson McNeil, James Robert Johnson
  • Diaper having expulsive spacer
    Patent number: 5667503
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article such as a diaper. The diaper has a topsheet, backsheet, and an intermediate core. Affixed to the outwardly oriented surface of the topsheet is an expulsive spacer. The spacer receives and collects fecal material from the wearer. The spacer may be removable from the diaper, or may be articulable relative to the diaper. By expelling the spacer from the diaper, fecal material can be easily flushed into the toilet, rather than discarded into a waste receptacle where it presents a sanitation hazard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Kimberly Ann Dreier
  • Dispensing package for discrete stage compressed diapers compressed diapers therefor, and method of dispensing such diapers
    Patent number: 5666787
    Abstract: A tissue package comprising a plurality of tissues and a dispensing package. The plurality of tissues is compressed in two discrete stages, each of which stage can be released independently from the other. The first stage of compression is less than the second stage compression. The user releases the second stage of compression, whereby the tissues can expand up to the first stage of compression. The user releases the first stage of compression just before installing the plurality of tissues into a dispensing package or dispenses the tissues through a restraint while they are held in the first stage compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Young, John Paul Erspamer, Mark Edwin Forry, Charles John Berg, Jr.
  • Three-dimensional, macroscopically expanded, apertured laminate webs
    Patent number: 5665452
    Abstract: The present invention provides a three-dimensional, macroscopically expanded, apertured, laminate web suitable for use as a topsheet on an absorbent article and a method for making the same. The web includes a first layer of substantially transparent, polymeric material having an inner surface and an outer surface. A nonwoven web is secured to the inner surface of the substantially transparent polymeric material and is visible through the substantially transparent polymeric material. The presence of the nonwoven web creates the appearance of a fibrous web which is perceived as soft and skin friendly while still maintaining the fluid transport benefits of prior art plastic webs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 9, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fred M. Langdon, G. Chris Dobrin
  • Method of winding logs with different sheet counts
    Patent number: 5660350
    Abstract: A web winding apparatus and a method of operating the apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus can include a turret assembly, a core loading apparatus, and a core stripping apparatus. The turret assembly supports rotatably driven mandrels for engaging hollow cores upon which a paper web is wound. Each mandrel is driven in a closed mandrel path, which can be non-circular. The core loading apparatus conveys cores onto the mandrels during movement of the mandrels along the core loading segment of the closed mandrel path, and the core stripping apparatus removes each web wound core from its respective mandrel during movement of the mandrel along the core stripping segment of the closed mandrel path. The turret assembly can be rotated continuously, and the sheet count per wound log can be changed as the turret assembly is rotating. The apparatus can also include a mandrel having a deformable core engaging member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Timothy Byrne, Frederick Edward Lockwood, Kevin Benson McNeil
  • Process for forming a apertured, three-dimensional, macroscopically expanded, plastic web for absorbent articles having a textured wearer-contacting surface
    Patent number: 5660788
    Abstract: A fluid pervious topsheet suitable for use on an absorbent article is disclosed. The topsheet includes an apertured, three-dimensional, macroscopically expanded, fluid pervious web having a textured wearer-contacting surface. The composite web permits liquids to penetrate while providing an improved, less plastic-like feel and visual aesthetics. The process of the present invention, in one embodiment, comprises extruding a polymeric film onto a forming structure, applying a pneumatic pressure to the film to cause the film to be urged into substantial conformance with the forming structure, and depositing a particulate material on said film while the film is in a semi-molten state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Brian F. Gray, Michael J. Schettler, Gregory Ashton
  • Shipping/display container
    Patent number: 5657872
    Abstract: The present invention provides a shipping/display container which includes a tray portion having a bottom panel, two opposed end panels, and two opposed side panels One of the side panels comprises a float side panel and the other of the side panels comprises a rear side panel. The container further includes a cover portion attached to the container and disposed so as to engage the end panels and the side panels. More particularly, the front side panel includes a line of weakness defining a severable portion of the front side panel which extends in at least an intermediate portion downward to the lowermost edge of the front side panel. The severable portion includes a preformed aperture located adjacent to the lowermost edge of the front panel for initiating removable of the severable portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company, Stone Container Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Blake Leftwich, Linda Susan Matthews, Timothy Paul Burda
  • Temporary wet strength polymers from oxidized reaction product of polyhydroxy polymer and 1,2-disubstituted carboxylic alkene
    Patent number: 5656746
    Abstract: A temporary wet strength polymer and compositions for paper products, e.g., toilet tissue, is disclosed. The temporary wet strength polymer is the oxidation product of an esterified polyhydroxy polymer, more preferably of an esterified polysaccharide. The esterified polymer compound is formed by reacting the polyhydroxy polymer with a 1,2-disubstituted alkene compound that has at least one carboxylic acid group. The temporary wet strength polymer provides paper products having an initial wet strength that enables use of the product in the moistened condition, along with a suitable wet strength decay rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David Jay Smith, Michael Martyn Headlam
  • Absorbent article having angular upstanding transverse partition
    Patent number: 5653703
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article having a transverse partition. The transverse partition is upstanding from the topsheet and presents an abrupt discontinuity out of the plane of the disposable absorbent article and obstructs fecal material deposited in the rear portion of the disposable absorbent article from migrating to the from portion of the disposable absorbent article. This obstruction minimizes soiling of the genitalia of the wearer. The disposable absorbent article may have upstanding barrier leg cuffs. The transverse partition may connect the barrier leg cuffs to form an H-shape. The transverse partition forms an acute angle with the rear portion of the disposable absorbent article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Michael Payne, John Joseph Litchholt
  • Cellulosic fibrous structures having discrete regions with radially oriented fibers therein
    Patent number: 5654076
    Abstract: A cellulosic fibrous structure having two regions distinguished from one another by basis weight. The first region is an essentially continuous high basis weight network. The second region comprises a plurality of discrete low basis weight regions. The cellulosic fibers forming the plurality of second regions are generally radially oriented within each region. The cellulosic fibrous structure may be formed by a forming belt having zones of different flow resistances arranged in a particular ratio of flow resistances. The zones of different flow resistances provide for selectively draining a liquid carrier through the different zones of the belt in a radial flow pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 5, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Dennis Trokhan, Dean Van Phan, Larry Leroy Huston
  • Process for making thin-wet absorbent foam materials for aqueous body fluids
    Patent number: 5652194
    Abstract: Relatively thin, collapsed, i.e. unexpanded, polymeric foam materials that, upon contact with aqueous body fluids, expand and absorb such fluids, are disclosed. A process for consistently obtaining such relatively thin, collapsed polymeric foam materials by polymerizing a specific type of water-in-oil emulsion, commonly known as High Internal Phase Emulsions or "HIPE", is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Collins Dyer, Thomas Allen DesMarais, Keith Joseph Stone, Paul Seiden, Stephen Allen Goldman, Herbert Louis Retzsch
  • Absorbent foam materials for aqueous fluids made from high internal phase emulsions having very high water-to-oil ratios
    Patent number: 5650222
    Abstract: Low density collapsed absorbent foams materials that, upon contact with aqueous fluids, in particular urine, can expand and absorb these fluids. These low density foams typically have an expanded thickness from about 6 to about 10 times the thickness of the foams in their collapsed state. These low density foams are made by polymerizing high internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) where the volume to weight ratio of the water phase to the oil phase is in the range of from about 55:1 to about 100:1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Allen DesMarais, Keith Joseph Stone, John Collins Dyer, Bryn Hird, Stephen Allen Goldman, Paul Seiden
  • Sanitary napkin having barrier means
    Patent number: 5649917
    Abstract: A sanitary napkin (210) is provided with a barrier means (107) to provide a barrier against lateral migration of body fluids. The barrier means (107) can be provided on a sanitary napkin (210) which has no wings and comprises in this core a distal edge (278, 278') which is located within the perimeter of the absorbent core (212) during use of the sanitary napkin. The barrier means (107) can also be provided on a sanitary napkin (210) having wings (224, 224') and can be formed of a unitary part of the napkin's topsheet (214) or can be formed by a separate strip of material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 22, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John David Roberts, Claude Paul Mancel
  • Personal care compositions and wipe products containing the compositions
    Patent number: 5648083
    Abstract: Personal care compositions that are especially suitable for personal cleansing of the perineal area and protection against perineal dermatitis are disclosed. Preferred compositions include water, dimethicone, a polymeric emulsifier and optionally a water-soluble polyol, a pH-adjusting agent, an anti-microbial agent, and a chelating agent. Also disclosed are disposable wipe products containing a nonwoven or other substrate impregnated with the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 15, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kathleen Clare Blieszner, George Endell Deckner
  • Dispensing package for discrete stage compressed tissues, compressed tissues therefor, and method of dispensing such tissues
    Patent number: 5644897
    Abstract: A tissue package comprising a plurality of tissues and a dispensing package. The plurality of tissues is compressed in two discrete stages, each of which stage can be released independently from the other. The first stage of compression is less than the second stage of compression. The tissues are transported and stored while under the second stage of compression. The user releases the second stage of compression, whereby the tissues can expand up to the first stage of compression. The user releases the first stage of compression just before installing the plurality of tissues into a dispensing package or dispenses the tissues through a restraint while they are held in the first stage compression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Douglas Young, John Paul Erspamer, Mark Edwin Forry, Charles John Berg, Jr.
  • Gluteal groove blocking device for diapers
    Patent number: H1687
    Abstract: A diaper including a part for blocking movement of fecal material rearwardly out of the gluteal groove. The diaper comprises a core of absorbent material covered by top and back sheets, and a back area covering the gluteal groove. The diaper further comprises a blocking part in the back area, the blocking part being operable to create pressure in the gluteal groove to prevent the flow of fecal material rearwardly through the groove. The blocking part conforms to the shape of the groove, and it has compression and recovery ratios which enhance the conformity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Donald Carroll Roe, Kimberly Ann Dreier