Patents by Inventor ABBY C. CASE

ABBY C. CASE has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11820538
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to methods, systems and packages for packaging the coreless paper products and accessory products. Embodiments include receiving paper products, receiving a container used for packaging the paper products, and packaging the paper products into the container. Embodiments also include inserting accessory products into a cavity formed by the paper products packaged in the container, and applying a label on the container to cover the cavity where the accessory products are inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Scott B. Farkas, Austin T. Ketterhagen, Guy W. Wolff, Abby C. Case
  • Patent number: 11297984
    Abstract: The present application provides a napkin dispenser for dispensing a number of folded napkins from a sheet material to an end user. The napkin dispenser may include a loading station for loading the sheet material, a folding station for folding a napkin from the sheet material, and a presentation station for presenting one or more of the folded napkins to the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: GPCP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Abby C. Case, David James Gennrich, Kent J. Kallsen, Stephen Andrew Latham, Christopher Timothy Strahm
  • Publication number: 20220097882
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to methods, systems and packages for packaging the coreless paper products and accessory products. Embodiments include receiving paper products, receiving a container used for packaging the paper products, and packaging the paper products into the container. Embodiments also include inserting accessory products into a cavity formed by the paper products packaged in the container, and applying a label on the container to cover the cavity where the accessory products are inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Scott B. Farkas, Austin T. Ketterhagen, Guy W. Wolff, Abby C. Case
  • Patent number: 10993591
    Abstract: The present application provides a tucker fold dispenser for folding and dispensing a sheet of material. The tucker fold dispenser may include an outer shell, a removable roller cassette positioned within the outer shell, a paper path therethrough, a number of loading rollers positioned about the paper path, a number of folding rollers positioned about the paper path, and a tucker bar mechanism positioned about the folding rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Abby C. Case, David James Gennrich, Stephen Andrew Latham, Christopher Timothy Strahm, Kent J. Kallsen, Ted Allen Casper
  • Publication number: 20200113393
    Abstract: The present application provides a napkin dispenser for dispensing a number of folded napkins from a sheet material to an end user. The napkin dispenser may include a loading station for loading the sheet material, a folding station for folding a napkin from the sheet material, and a presentation station for presenting one or more of the folded napkins to the end user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Abby C. Case, David James Gennrich, Kent J. Kallsen, Stephen Andrew Latham, Christopher Timothy Strahm
  • Patent number: 10531770
    Abstract: The present application provides a napkin dispenser for dispensing a number of folded napkins from a sheet material to an end user. The napkin dispenser may include a loading station for loading the sheet material, a folding station for folding a napkin from the sheet material, and a presentation station for presenting one or more of the folded napkins to the end user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: GPCP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Abby C. Case, David James Gennrich, Kent J. Kallsen, Stephen Andrew Latham, Christopher Timothy Strahm
  • Publication number: 20190335962
    Abstract: The present application provides a tucker fold dispenser for folding and dispensing a sheet of material. The tucker fold dispenser may include an outer shell, a removable roller cassette positioned within the outer shell, a paper path therethrough, a number of loading rollers positioned about the paper path, a number of folding rollers positioned about the paper path, and a tucker bar mechanism positioned about the folding rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: ABBY C. CASE, DAVID JAMES GENNRICH, STEPHEN ANDREW LATHAM, CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY STRAHM, KENT J. KALLSEN, THEODORE CASPER
  • Patent number: 10383489
    Abstract: The present application provides a tucker fold dispenser for folding and dispensing a sheet of material. The tucker fold dispenser may include an outer shell, a removable roller cassette positioned within the outer shell, a paper path therethrough, a number of loading rollers positioned about the paper path, a number of folding rollers positioned about the paper path, and a tucker bar mechanism positioned about the folding rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Abby C. Case, David James Gennrich, Stephen Andrew Latham, Christopher Timothy Strahm, Kent J. Kallsen, Ted Allen Casper
  • Publication number: 20190119023
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cutlery dispenser for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The cutlery dispenser may include a wrapped cutlery band comprising a plurality of cutlery packets separably connected to one another in a serial manner. The cutlery dispenser also may include a nozzle assembly configured to allow the cutlery packets to be dispensed therethrough. The present disclosure also provides a method for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The method may include the step of providing a cutlery dispenser comprising a nozzle assembly and a wrapped cutlery band, wherein the wrapped cutlery band comprises a plurality of cutlery packets separably connected to one another in a serial manner. The method also may include the step of dispensing the cutlery packets through the nozzle assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Shawn A. Oakes, Abby C. Case
  • Publication number: 20190119022
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cutlery dispenser for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The cutlery dispenser may include a wrapped cutlery band comprising a plurality of cutlery packets separably connected to one another in a serial manner. The cutlery dispenser also may include a nozzle assembly configured to allow the cutlery packets to be dispensed therethrough. The present disclosure also provides a method for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The method may include the step of providing a cutlery dispenser comprising a nozzle assembly and a wrapped cutlery band, wherein the wrapped cutlery band comprises a plurality of cutlery packets separably connected to one another in a serial manner. The method also may include the step of dispensing the cutlery packets through the nozzle assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Shawn A. Oakes, Abby C. Case
  • Patent number: 10220997
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cutlery dispenser for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The cutlery dispenser may include a wrapped cutlery band comprising a plurality of cutlery packets separably connected to one another in a serial manner. The cutlery dispenser also may include a nozzle assembly configured to allow the cutlery packets to be dispensed therethrough. The present disclosure also provides a method for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The method may include the step of providing a cutlery dispenser comprising a nozzle assembly and a wrapped cutlery band, wherein the wrapped cutlery band comprises a plurality of cutlery packets separably connected to one another in a serial manner. The method also may include the step of dispensing the cutlery packets through the nozzle assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: GPCP IP HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Shawn A. Oakes, Abby C. Case
  • Patent number: 9957127
    Abstract: A pinch roller assembly for a sheet product dispenser includes a roller body and a plurality of clips. The roller body includes a plurality of grooves. The roller body is rotatably associated with the plurality of clips, each clip being disposed in one of the plurality of grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Roy J. Rozek, Abby C. Case
  • Publication number: 20160060064
    Abstract: A pinch roller assembly for a sheet product dispenser includes a roller body and a plurality of clips. The roller body includes a plurality of grooves. The roller body is rotatably associated with the plurality of clips, each clip being disposed in one of the plurality of grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Roy J. Rozek, Abby C. Case
  • Patent number: 9241601
    Abstract: A dispenser suitable for dispensing a rolled product includes a housing having a back plate and a cover openably engaged with the back plate. Each of a pair of roll holder appliances disposed within the housing include a leg having a first end and a second end, and a first side and a second side. The first end has an attachment feature, and the second end has a first roll holder on the first side, and a second roll holder on the second side opposing and different from the first roll holder. The attachment feature of each appliance is removably attached to the back plate, each appliance being oriented with associated roll holders facing each other and suitably spaced apart so as to receive the rolled product therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
    Inventors: Abby C. Case, Alexander Trampolski, Kathleen A. Jordan, Andrew Jackman
  • Patent number: 9211042
    Abstract: A pinch roller assembly for a sheet product dispenser includes a roller body and a plurality of clips. The roller body includes a plurality of grooves. The roller body is rotatably associated with the plurality of clips, each clip being disposed in one of the plurality of grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
    Inventors: Roy J. Rozek, Abby C. Case
  • Publication number: 20150102048
    Abstract: The present application provides a tucker fold dispenser for folding and dispensing a sheet of material. The tucker fold dispenser may include an outer shell, a removable roller cassette positioned within the outer shell, a paper path therethrough, a number of loading rollers positioned about the paper path, a number of folding rollers positioned about the paper path, and a tucker bar mechanism positioned about the folding rollers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: ABBY C. CASE, DAVID JAMES GENNRICH, STEPHEN ANDREW LATHAM, CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY STRAHM, KENT J. KALLSEN, TED ALLEN CASPER
  • Publication number: 20150028046
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cutlery dispenser for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The cutlery dispenser may include a wrapped cutlery band comprising a plurality of cutlery packets separably connected to one another in a serial manner. The cutlery dispenser also may include a nozzle assembly configured to allow the cutlery packets to be dispensed therethrough. The present disclosure also provides a method for dispensing wrapped cutlery. The method may include the step of providing a cutlery dispenser comprising a nozzle assembly and a wrapped cutlery band, wherein the wrapped cutlery band comprises a plurality of cutlery packets separably connected to one another in a serial manner. The method also may include the step of dispensing the cutlery packets through the nozzle assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Inventors: Shawn A. Oakes, Abby C. Case
  • Patent number: 8802211
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a web of sheet product, with a discontinuous perforation arrangement such that manufacture of a web of sheet product provides for an increase in the breaking strength of the web of sheet product while feeding the web in a machine direction, thereby reducing the risk of breaking and maintaining the yield and throughput of the production of the perforated web as an intermediate product, yet providing a low breaking force for individual strips produced from the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
    Inventors: Gilles Cattacin, Pierre Laurent, Julien Marietta-Tondin, Remy Ruppel, Ann M. Andres, Abby C. Case
  • Patent number: 8608023
    Abstract: A sheet product dispenser includes a body portion defining an inner cavity arranged to support a stack of sheet products and a faceplate attached to the body portion. The faceplate portion is arranged to support and dispense the sheet products, has an opening comprising a rectangular portion with a centrally disposed arcing triangular portion having a centrally disposed arced apex, the rectangular portion extends from an upper edge of the faceplate to the arced apex, the opening is arranged to expose a plurality of the sheet products on one end of the body portion through the rectangular portion and to expose a planar surface of a single sheet product through the arcing triangular portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
    Inventors: Abby C. Case, Matthew K. F. Williquette
  • Publication number: 20120241548
    Abstract: A pinch roller assembly for a sheet product dispenser includes a roller body and a plurality of clips. The roller body includes a plurality of grooves. The roller body is rotatably associated with the plurality of clips, each clip being disposed in one of the plurality of grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: GEORGIA-PACIFIC CONSUMER PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Roy J. Rozek, Abby C. Case