Patents Examined by Jose A. Fortuna
  • Patent number: 11751728
    Abstract: A method of making an absorbent structure including mixing ultra-high molecular weight (“UHMW”) glyoxalated polyvinylamide adducts (“GPVM”) and/or high molecular weight (“HMW”), glyoxalated polyacrylamide and/or high cationic charge glyoxalated polyacrylamide (“GPAM”) copolymers and high molecular weight (“HMW”) anionic polyacrylamide (“APAM”) with the furnish during stock preparation of a wet laid papermaking process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: First Quality Tissue, LLC
    Inventors: James E. Sealey, II, Kevin Brennan, Byrd Tyler Miller, IV, James E. Bradbury, Justin S. Pence
  • Patent number: 11753772
    Abstract: A method of making a fabric-creped absorbent cellulosic sheet. The method includes compactively dewatering a papermaking furnish to form a web having a consistency of about 30 percent to about 60 percent, creping the web under pressure in a creping nip between a transfer surface and a structuring fabric, the structuring fabric including knuckles formed on warp yarns of the structuring fabric, with the knuckles having a length in the machine direction (MD) of the absorbent sheet and a width in the cross machine direction (CD) of the absorbent sheet, wherein a planar volumetric density index of the structuring fabric multiplied by a ratio of the length of the knuckles to the width of the knuckles is at least about 43, and drying the web to form the absorbent cellulosic sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Hue Ming Sze, Xiaolin Fan, Hung-Liang Chou, Taiye Philips Oriaran, Farminder Singh Anand, Dean Joseph Baumgartner, Joseph Henry Miller
  • Patent number: 11732420
    Abstract: A fibrous structure may include a plurality of wetformed knuckles or pillows, where the plurality of wet-formed knuckles or pillows may be arranged in a pattern organized in an X-Y coordinate plane, where the wet-formed knuckles or pillows of the pattern may form a plurality of rows oriented in an X-direction and a plurality of rows oriented in a Y-direction, and the plurality of rows in the X-direction may be curved in a repeating wave pattern, where the repeating wave pattern may have an amplitude and a wavelength, and wherein the amplitude may be between about 0.75 mm and about 3.0 mm, and the wavelength may be between about 25.0 mm and about 125.0 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Osman Polat, Charles Allen Redd, Kathryn Christian Kien, Anthony Paul Bankemper
  • Patent number: 11732416
    Abstract: A method of making a molded paper web. The method includes forming a nascent web from an aqueous solution of papermaking fibers, moving a dewatered web on a transfer surface, and applying a vacuum at a molding zone defined between the transfer surface and a molding roll. The molding roll includes a permeable patterned surface on an exterior of the molding roll. The method also includes transferring the dewatered web from the transfer surface to the permeable patterned surface at the molding zone. The vacuum is applied during the transferring of the dewatered web, and the papermaking fibers of the dewatered web are (i) redistributed on the permeable patterned surface and (ii) drawn into a plurality of recess of the permeable patterned surface, in order to form the molded paper web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GPCP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: David A. Beck
  • Patent number: 11732421
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to products, such as paper and paperboard products, comprising a substrate containing cellulose and top ply comprising microfibrillated cellulose and inorganic particulate, to methods of making such paper and paperboard products, and associated uses of such paper and paperboard products. The microfibrillated cellulose and inorganic particulate material are applied at the stage when the wet substrate is in the process of being formed on the wire of a papermaking machine, thereby avoiding the additional cost of more extensive equipment and machinery as well as in separate drying of a coating. The microfibrillated cellulose facilitates the application of inorganic particulate onto the surface of a wet paper or paperboard substrate when applied thusly, by trapping the inorganic particulate on the surface of the substrate and by giving the composite sufficient strength and a suitable pore structure to make it suitable for printing and other end-use demands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: FiberLean Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Per Svending, Jonathan Stuart Phipps, Johannes Kritzinger, Tom Reeve-Larson, Tania Selina, David Skuse
  • Patent number: 11725342
    Abstract: A unitary deflection member. The unitary deflection member can have a fluid pervious reinforcing member and a patterned framework. The patterned framework can have a plurality of regularly spaced protuberances extending from the reinforcing member. At least two of said protuberances can be similar in size and shape, and can have linear segments having different cross-sectional areas along the z-direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Allen Manifold, John Leslie Brent, Jr., James Michael Singer
  • Patent number: 11718962
    Abstract: A nonwoven web, containing at least one first homogeneous layer consisting of a blend of at least one of defibrated natural plant based fibers, individualized natural plant based fibers and staple fibers is provided. The nonwoven web contains no binder, adhesive or thermal bonding fibers and a basis weight of the at least one homogeneous layer is from 20 g/m2 to 100 g/m2. When a weighted average fiber length of the blend is greater than about 4.0 mm, the nonwoven web is a non-dispersible product which does not meet the requirement for dispersibility in accordance with INDA/EDANA GD4, and when a weighted average fiber length of the blend is less than about 4.0 mm, the nonwoven web is a dispersible product as defined in accordance with INDA/EDANA GD4. Methods to prepare the nonwoven web are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Jacob Holm & Sons AG
    Inventors: Geoff Collins, Santosh Chavan
  • Patent number: 11713546
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a paper buffer tray for packaging and a buffer tray manufactured thereby, wherein a plurality of papers are laminated and processed such that some papers are cut in a length direction, wrinkles or the like are formed in the other papers, and press-molding is performed using a mold, thereby providing an eco-friendly buffer tray and overcoming a disadvantage in that it is difficult to mold a buffer tray by using an existing paper. The method for manufacturing the paper buffer tray for packaging includes: a raw material preparing step of preparing a raw material for manufacturing a buffer tray in which a plurality of papers are laminated; a molding preparing step of preparing at least one mold corresponding to a shape and size of a product to be packaged; and a molding step of press-molding the raw material by using the at least one mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: SIN WOO CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Young Pa Yoo, Jong Cheol Kang, Hong Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11708668
    Abstract: Multi-ply fibrous structures and more particularly multi-ply fibrous structures containing three or more different fibrous structure plies, and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Matthew Gary McKee, Christopher Scott Kraus, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Benjamin J. Popham
  • Patent number: 11707162
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a paper towel product that will capably separate from the paper towel roll as a full sheet, a half sheet or a quarter sheet. A method of making a paper towel with machine direction perforations is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: GPCP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Steven R. Olson, David A. Hoadley, Thomas J. Daul
  • Patent number: 11702798
    Abstract: Absorbent product including a laminate of at least two plies, wherein the absorbent product has a measured Valley Volume parameter greater than 11 microns and a Pit Density of greater than 25 pockets per sq. cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: First Quality Tissue, LLC
    Inventors: James E. Sealey, II, Justin S. Pence, Marc Paul Begin, Zachary Korkowski, Byrd Tyler Miller, IV
  • Patent number: 11692313
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a foam-formed cellulosic fibre-material comprising coarse cellulosic fibres a cellulose reinforcement fraction. Furthermore, the invention relates to a foam-formed cellulosic fibre-material, a cellulose bulk sheet for a packaging material and a laminated packaging material comprising the foam-formed cellulosic fibre-material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: TETRA LAVAL HOLDINGS & FINANCE S.A.
    Inventors: Mats Aldén, Cristian Neagu, Erkki Saharinen, Jaakko Asikainen
  • Patent number: 11686048
    Abstract: An aramid-based paper comprising at least 90 wt. % of aramid material, the aramid material including at least one of aramid shortcut and aramid fibrid, the paper including at most 40 wt. % aramid pulp, calculated on the total amount of aramid material, wherein the paper includes 0.1-10 wt. % of polyamido-amine epichlorohydrin (PAE). It has been found that the incorporation of 0.1-10 wt. % of polyamido-amine epichlorohydrin (PAE) into an aramid-based paper including at least 90 wt. % of aramid material calculated on the weight of the paper not including the PAE, the aramid material including at least one of aramid shortcut and aramid fibrid, the paper including at most 40 wt. % aramid pulp, leads to a surprising improvement of the z-strength and the tear strength of the paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: TEIJIN ARAMID B.V.
    Inventors: Antonius J. J. Hendriks, Yen Vu, Ernst Michael Winkler, Jan-Cees Tiecken
  • Patent number: 11686046
    Abstract: Provided is a moisturized tissue excellent in strength and snot wiping property. In the moisturized tissue paper, a paper thickness is 220 to 330 ?m, a basis weight is 15 to 18 g/m2 per ply, a proportion of NBKP in the pulp combination is more than 70 mass %, a chemical solution content is 26 to 32 mass %, an arithmetic mean curvature at a peak point of an outer surface in an unpressurized state (Spc (1)) is 4.0 to 4.8 (1/mm), and a developed area ratio at an interface on the outer surface (Sdr) is 0.020 to 0.030 (?).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Daio Paper Corporation
    Inventors: Shuta Yasui, Minoru Iwasaki
  • Patent number: 11680370
    Abstract: The present invention relates to porous foam materials comprising or essentially consisting of microfibrillated cellulose (“MFC”). These porous foam materials are light weight and can be tailored to specific uses. The present invention also relates to a process for making porous foam materials according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Borregaard AS
    Inventor: Otto Soidinsalo
  • Patent number: 11680371
    Abstract: A method for producing dried multilayer paper is provided comprising dewatering a first aqueous fibrous suspension, thereby creating a first fibrous web; dewatering a second aqueous fibrous suspension, thereby creating a second fibrous web; spraying one or more of a first fibrous web and a second fibrous web with a spray solution or spray suspension, thereby producing at least one sprayed fibrous web; assembling the first fibrous web with the second fibrous web; dehydrating the resulting layer compound by pressing; then dehydrating by supplying heat, which creates the dried multilayer paper. The spray solution or spray suspension contains water and at least one water-soluble polymer P. The polymer P is obtained by polymerizing: 40 to 85 mol % of a monomer of Formula I in which R1=H or C1-C6-Alkyl; and 15 to 60 mol % of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Solenis Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Christoph Hamers, Anton Esser, Frans De Bruyn, Christopher Alan Gray, Ralph Isermann
  • Patent number: 11668051
    Abstract: A web of sanitary tissue of the present disclosure may comprise a shaped line of weakness, wherein the toilet tissue exhibits a Line of Weakness Performance Factor (LWP Factor) of from about 7 to about 30, and a Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Strength of between about 8 g and about 20 g according to the Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Force Test Method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Katie Kristine Glass, Angela Marie Leimbach, Gustav Andre Mellin
  • Patent number: 11661707
    Abstract: Disclosed are multi-ply tissue products comprising a non-crosslinked binder that are durable and dispersible. The products generally have a Slosh time less than 2 minutes, such as less than about 60 seconds, such as less than about 45 seconds. Surprisingly, the foregoing Slosh times are achieved despite the tissue products having relatively high cross-machine direction (CD) wet tensile strength, such as greater than about 100 g/3?. Typically, increasing wet tensile strength, particularly wet CD tensile strength, negatively effects dispersability and increases Slosh time. Despite this trend, the present invention surprisingly provides a tissue product having a relatively high degree of wet strength and good dispersability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Joseph Vogt, Mark William Sachs, Erin Ann McCormick, Devon Gaynelle Curley, Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt, Nathan John Vogel, Christopher Steven LeCount
  • Patent number: 11661706
    Abstract: Provided are tissue webs, and products produced therefrom, that are generally durable, flexible and have improved cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as CD tensile energy absorption (CD TEA), CD stretch and CD modulus. The inventive tissue products generally comprise a single tissue ply that has been prepared by through-air drying and more preferably by through-air drying without creping. Moreover, the products may be produced using a transfer fabric positioned between the forming fabric and the through-air drying fabric where the transfer fabric imparts the nascent web with a high degree of CD strain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark W. Sachs, Lynda E. Collins, Kevin J. Vogt, Richard A. Zanon, Christopher L. Satori
  • Patent number: 11655592
    Abstract: A liquid applying apparatus for fiber products is provided, including a first liquid applying device, a second liquid applying device, and a third liquid applying device. The second liquid applying device is adjacent to the first liquid applying device and the third liquid applying device. The first liquid applying device and the second liquid applying device respectively apply and coat liquids on different surfaces of a two-layer fiber product, and the third liquid applying device applies and coats a liquid on a surface of a single-layer fiber product. The second liquid applying device and the third liquid applying device press and laminate the two-layer fiber product and the single-layer fiber product together to form a three-layer fiber product with uniformly distributed liquids therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Chan Li Machinery Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Tung-I Tsai