Patents by Inventor Carl Gerard Rippl
Carl Gerard Rippl 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).
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Patent number: 11383480Abstract: A substrate has an elastomeric film having surfaces and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film. In addition, a substrate has an elastomeric film and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film, and wherein the substrate is essentially free of adhesives and film-based microfibers. A method for making a film/nonwoven composite includes providing an elastomeric film traveling in a machine direction; providing a nonwoven web traveling in the machine direction in face-to-face contact with the film, wherein the nonwoven web includes fibers; and impinging the elastomeric film with hydro jets such that at least some of the fibers become embedded in the film.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Kaiyuan Yang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Peiguang Zhou, Yiming Weng, Michael Andrew Zawadzki, Stephen Michael Lindsay, James Benjamin Harvey, Joel Brostin
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Patent number: 10433700Abstract: A nonwoven material includes a backing substrate and a functional layer affixed to the backing substrate, the functional layer including thermal-setting fibers. The functional layer can be a nonwoven web including thermal-setting fibers, where the nonwoven web is affixed to the backing substrate. The functional layer can also include thermal-setting fibers and a thermal-setting polymer disposed on the backing substrate. The thermal-setting fibers can be melamine. Thermal-setting fibers can be rigidly fixed within the functional layer. The functional layer can further include a polymer resin.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Kaiyuan Yang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Gregory Daniel Samek, Joel Brostin, Joseph Kenneth Baker
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Publication number: 20180056624Abstract: A substrate has an elastomeric film having surfaces and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film. In addition, a substrate has an elastomeric film and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film, and wherein the substrate is essentially free of adhesives and film-based microfibers. A method for making a film/nonwoven composite includes providing an elastomeric film traveling in a machine direction; providing a nonwoven web traveling in the machine direction in face-to-face contact with the film, wherein the nonwoven web includes fibers; and impinging the elastomeric film with hydro jets such that at least some of the fibers become embedded in the film.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2016Publication date: March 1, 2018Inventors: Kaiyuan Yang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Peiguang Zhou, Yiming Weng, Michael Andrew Zawadzki, Stephen Michael Lindsay, James Benjamin Harvey, Joel Brostin
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Publication number: 20150143647Abstract: A nonwoven material includes a backing substrate and a functional layer affixed to the backing substrate, the functional layer including thermal-setting fibers. The functional layer can be a nonwoven web including thermal-setting fibers, where the nonwoven web is affixed to the backing substrate. The functional layer can also include thermal-setting fibers and a thermal-setting polymer disposed on the backing substrate. The thermal-setting fibers can be melamine. Thermal-setting fibers can be rigidly fixed within the functional layer. The functional layer can further include a polymer resin.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Applicant: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Kaiyuan Yang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Gregory Daniel Samek, Joel Brostin, Joseph Kenneth Baker
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Patent number: 7958590Abstract: A cleaning tool is disclosed for cleaning adjacent surfaces. In one embodiment, for instance, the cleaning tool may be used as a toilet bowl brush. The cleaning tool includes a handle comprised of a first handle member pivotally attached to a second handle member. Each handle member terminates in a clamping plate. The clamping plates move towards and away from each other as the handle members are likewise moved towards and away from each other. The handle can include a locking member that engages the first handle member with the second handle member in order to clamp or hold a cleaning pad in between the clamping plates. The clamping plates can include raised wave-like protrusions that further assist in gripping a cleaning pad.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2006Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Susan M. Trefethren, Craig M. Thoms, Brian James Ludka, Maggie VanderHeiden Berger, Christopher James Uecker, Carl Gerard Rippl, Peter Laurence
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Patent number: 7921497Abstract: A floor scrubbing apparatus that is particularly well suited to scrubbing carpet materials is disclosed. The floor scrubbing apparatus is manually operated and includes a drive roller coupled to a scrub roller. In one embodiment, the drive roller is coupled to the scrub roller using a gear arrangement that causes the scrub roller to rotate faster than the drive roller. If desired, the apparatus can include a cleaning fluid dispensing system. For instance, the apparatus can include one or more nozzles that dispense a cleaning fluid onto a carpet material as the material is being cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2006Date of Patent: April 12, 2011Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Stephen B. Cook, Brian James Ludka, Gregory J. Rajala, Carl Gerard Rippl
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Publication number: 20080250590Abstract: A cleaning tool is disclosed for cleaning adjacent surfaces. In one embodiment, for instance, the cleaning tool may be used as a toilet bowl brush. The cleaning tool includes a handle comprised of a first handle member pivotally attached to a second handle member. Each handle member terminates in a clamping plate. The clamping plates move towards and away from each other as the handle members are likewise moved towards and away from each other. The handle can include a locking member that engages the first handle member with the second handle member in order to clamp or hold a cleaning pad in between the clamping plates. The clamping plates can include raised wave-like protrusions that further assist in gripping a cleaning pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2006Publication date: October 16, 2008Inventors: Susan M. Trefethren, Craig M. Thoms, Brian James Ludka, Maggie VanderHeiden Berger, Christopher James Uecker, Carl Gerard Rippl, Peter Laurence
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Publication number: 20080078042Abstract: A floor scrubbing apparatus that is particularly well suited to scrubbing carpet materials is disclosed. The floor scrubbing apparatus is manually operated and includes a drive roller coupled to a scrub roller. In one embodiment, the drive roller is coupled to the scrub roller using a gear arrangement that causes the scrub roller to rotate faster than the drive roller. If desired, the apparatus can include a cleaning fluid dispensing system. For instance, the apparatus can include one or more nozzles that dispense a cleaning fluid onto a carpet material as the material is being cleaned.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2006Publication date: April 3, 2008Inventors: Stephen B. Cook, Brian James Ludka, Gregory J. Rajala, Carl Gerard Rippl
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Patent number: 6336922Abstract: An absorbent article includes at least one fit panel which is located in one of the waist sections of the absorbent article adjacent an end edge of the absorbent article. The fit panel extends laterally beyond both of the side edges of an absorbent chassis of the absorbent article. The fit panel may include a center bridge panel and a pair of laterally opposed side panels which are connected to opposed lateral edges of the bridge panel. Desirably, the bridge panel and side panels provide individual zones of elasticity across the width of the fit panel which have different elastic properties.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 1996Date of Patent: January 8, 2002Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Paul Theodore VanGompel, Timothy James Blenke, Nancy Ellen Dawson, Yung Hsiang Huang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Barbara Oakley Sauer, Georgia Lynn Zehner
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Publication number: 20010031954Abstract: An absorbent article includes an outer cover graphic that appears brighter and more noticeable than present outer cover graphics. The outer cover includes a liquid impermeable inner layer and a fibrous outer layer which layers jointly define a graphic region where the inner and outer layers are intimately bonded together. The fibrous outer layer has a Light Transmittance Value in the graphic region of about 80 percent or higher, and an outer cover graphic is disposed on the inner layer in a location corresponding to the graphic region.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2000Publication date: October 18, 2001Inventors: Joy Francine Jordan, Julie Ann George, Raymond Jeffrey May, Jennifer Leigh Skabroud Misek, Carl Gerard Rippl
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Patent number: 6075178Abstract: An absorbent article (10) has a front waistband portion (14), a back waistband portion (12) and an intermediate portion (16). The article comprises a flexible backsheet member (30), and a liquid permeable topsheet layer (28). An absorbent body structure (32), with a retention portion (48), is sandwiched between the backsheet member (30) and the topsheet layer (28), and a wetness indicator (40) visually shows a presence of liquid in selected areas of the article. The wetness indicator is provided by at least one indicator section of the backsheet member (30) which includes a polymer sheet layer (96). Desirably, The wetness indicator is provided by at least one indicator section of the backsheet member (30) which includes a backsheet laminate material having a fibrous nonwoven web (94) attached to a polymer sheet layer (96).Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 1998Date of Patent: June 13, 2000Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Hoa La Wilhelm, Jennifer Marie Bauerle, David Willis Heyn, Allen Todd Leak, Dale Arthur Peterson, Carl Gerard Rippl, Diane Michele Underhill, Jerome James Workman, Jr.
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Patent number: D621188Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2009Date of Patent: August 10, 2010Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Lynn Brock, Jonathan Kyle Arendt, Maggie VanderHeiden Berger, Sarah Lee Christoffel, Katie Rose Lodholz Hinrichs, Lorrie Lynn Krynock, Christine Marie Mau, Duane Lyle McDonald, James D. McManus, George I. Nukuto, Carl Gerard Rippl, Marci Elizabeth Sojka