Patents by Inventor Donald Barredo
Donald Barredo 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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Publication number: 20230249431Abstract: This disclosure relates to an apparatus for manufacturing a tissue paper product, such as toilet paper or household towel. The apparatus comprises an embossing unit comprising a first counter roll, a first heatable embossing roll, a second counter roll, and a second heatable embossing roll, and a marrying roll. The apparatus is configured to emboss a first ply between the first heatable embossing roll and the first counter roll, to emboss a second ply between the second heatable embossing roll and the second counter roll, and to ply-bond the first ply and the second ply between the first heatable embossing roll and the marrying roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2020Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Donald Barredo, Benoit Arnoul-Jarriault
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Patent number: 11346058Abstract: A multi-ply tissue paper product includes at least four plies made of tissue paper base-sheet or non-woven. Two inner plies are positioned between a first outer ply on one side and a second outer ply on another side. The two inner plies are flat plies. The first and second outer plies include a micro-embossing pattern. Only one of the outer plies further includes a décor embossing pattern. The multi-ply tissue paper product is configured to provide improved thickness and strength parameters with less use of paper fiber material.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2017Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAGInventors: Emilie Pleyber, Sebastien Jeannot, Donald Barredo, Yves Enggasser, Frederic Roesch, Steve Baltase
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Publication number: 20200011014Abstract: A multi-ply tissue paper product includes at least four plies made of tissue paper base-sheet or non-woven. Two inner plies are positioned between a first outer ply on one side and a second outer ply on another side. The two inner plies are flat plies. The first and second outer plies include a micro-embossing pattern. Only one of the outer plies further includes a décor embossing pattern. The multi-ply tissue paper product is configured to provide improved thickness and strength parameters with less use of paper fiber material.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2017Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Emilie Pleyber, Sebastien Jeannot, Donald Barredo, Yves Enggasser, Frederic Roesch, Steve Baltase
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Patent number: 10463204Abstract: A coreless roll of absorbent sheet products is made of a spirally wound web of absorbent substrate including at least two superposed plies of absorbent substrate, the web of absorbent substrate being wound such as to define an axial hollow passageway centrally positioned relatively to the coreless roll and extending from one edge to another edge of the coreless roll. The web of absorbent substrate further includes a stiffening insert, the stiffening insert being inserted in-between two superposed plies of absorbent substrate, the stiffening insert being positioned such as to line the axial hollow passageway, the stiffening insert having a length such that the stiffening insert extends at least around three quarter of a circumference of the passageway, preferably substantially completely around a circumference of the passageway.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: ESSITY OPERATIONS FRANCEInventor: Donald Barredo
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Patent number: 10271693Abstract: A roll of wiping paper is obtained by winding a sheet of multi-ply absorbent paper around a core. The sheet includes at least a first and a second ply of absorbent paper, each with a grammage of between 15 and 30 g/m2 and at least one of the plies incorporating a wet strength additive. The thickness of the sheet Ep being between 0.02 and 0.07 cm, the diameter of the core being less than 3.5 cm, the diameter of the roll being between 4.5 cm and 11 cm for a volume V of absorbent paper per unit length of the roll, and the absorbency A of the sheet in cm3 of water per gram of paper being greater than 6 cm3/g. The ratio E=A/(Ep*V) of the roll is greater than or equal to 3.2.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: ESSITY OPERATIONS FRANCEInventors: Pierre Graff, Gerald Duhen, Donald Barredo, Pierre Probst, Pascale Saas
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Patent number: 10213066Abstract: A coreless roll of an absorbent sheet product, such as napkins, toilet paper, towels etc., including a spirally wound continuous web of absorbent material having a first end and a second end and a coating composition comprising a specific polymer coated onto the second end is disclosed. The coreless roll has excellent resistance to collapsing, as well as excellent flexibility and elasticity. Moreover, the coreless roll has excellent disintegrability in water and can be used along its whole length. Also disclosed is a process for the manufacture of the coreless roll.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: ESSITY OPERATIONS FRANCEInventors: Nicolas Weisang, Donald Barredo
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Publication number: 20180014699Abstract: A coreless roll of absorbent sheet products is made of a spirally wound web of absorbent substrate including at least two superposed plies of absorbent substrate, the web of absorbent substrate being wound such as to define an axial hollow passageway centrally positioned relatively to the coreless roll and extending from one edge to another edge of the coreless roll. The web of absorbent substrate further includes a stiffening insert, the stiffening insert being inserted in-between two superposed plies of absorbent substrate, the stiffening insert being positioned such as to line the axial hollow passageway, the stiffening insert having a length such that the stiffening insert extends at least around three quarter of a circumference of the passageway, preferably substantially completely around a circumference of the passageway.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2015Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: SCA TISSUE FRANCEInventor: Donald BARREDO
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Publication number: 20170280946Abstract: A coreless roll of an absorbent sheet product, such as napkins, toilet paper, towels etc., including a spirally wound continuous web of absorbent material having a first end and a second end and a coating composition comprising a specific polymer coated onto the second end is disclosed. The coreless roll has excellent resistance to collapsing, as well as excellent flexibility and elasticity. Moreover, the coreless roll has excellent disintegrability in water and can be used along its whole length. Also disclosed is a process for the manufacture of the coreless roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Nicolas WEISANG, Donald BARREDO
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Patent number: 9643376Abstract: A process for manufacturing multi-ply disintegratable absorbent sheets is provided. Each said sheet includes at least five plies including two exterior plies and at least three interior plies. Each of at least three of the plies in the sheet is in at least one group of plies and each of the at least three plies is joined to another ply by mechanical deformation.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SCA TISSUE FRANCEInventors: Donald Barredo, Pierre Graff, Pierre Probst
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Patent number: 9604483Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus for printing an image on an absorbent substrate includes a print head unit and a dust removal device. The absorbent substrate includes a print side and an opposite side and is conveyed between the print-head unit and the dust removal device. The print head unit defines a print zone on the print side. The dust removal device includes a pumping chamber formed of a pre-pumping sub-chamber, a print zone sub-chamber, and a post-pumping sub-chamber, said chambers being positioned at the opposite side. The pre-pumping sub-chamber is positioned substantially upstream from the print zone. The print zone sub-chamber is positioned substantially at the print zone. The post-pumping sub-chamber is positioned downstream from the print zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: March 28, 2017Assignee: SCA TISSUE FRANCEInventors: Matti Ellonen, Yoann Denis, Donald Barredo, Damien Brendle
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Publication number: 20170037579Abstract: A sheet of absorbent material having opposite sheet side edges spaced apart from one another to define an overall width of the absorbent sheet, the sheet of absorbent material including zones of weakness spaced along the sheet of absorbent material according to a machine direction, each zone of weakness extending substantially transversally to said machine direction, each zone of weakness defining two adjacent individual absorbent sheet portions, each zone of weakness being a tear line. The tear line comprises two edge regions and a central region, a first edge region beginning at one of the sheet side edges towards the central region, a second edge region beginning at the other sheet side edges towards the central region, the central region including alternating perforated segments and unperforated segments. The edge regions are unperforated so as to constitute attachment areas within the tear line between two adjacent individual absorbent sheet portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2014Publication date: February 9, 2017Applicant: SCA Tissue FranceInventors: Julien MARIETTA-TONDIN, Gilles CATTACIN, Donald BARREDO, Rémy RUPPEL, René SIGWALT, Pierre LAURENT, Denis GENET
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Publication number: 20160375708Abstract: An inkjet printing apparatus for printing an image on an absorbent substrate includes a print head unit and a dust removal device. The absorbent substrate includes a print side and an opposite side and is conveyed between the print-head unit and the dust removal device. The print head unit defines a print zone on the print side. The dust removal device includes a pumping chamber formed of a pre-pumping sub-chamber, a print zone sub-chamber, and a post-pumping sub-chamber, said chambers being positioned at the opposite side. The pre-pumping sub-chamber is positioned substantially upstream from the print zone. The print zone sub-chamber is positioned substantially at the print zone. The post-pumping sub-chamber is positioned downstream from the print zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2014Publication date: December 29, 2016Inventors: Matti ELLONEN, Yoann DENIS, Donald BARREDO, Damien BRENDLE
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Publication number: 20160262579Abstract: A roll of wiping paper is obtained by winding a sheet of multi-ply absorbent paper around a core. The sheet includes at least a first and a second ply of absorbent paper, each with a grammage of between 15 and 30 g/m2 and at least one of the plies incorporating a wet strength additive. The thickness of the sheet Ep being between 0.02 and 0.07 cm, the diameter of the core being less than 3.5 cm, the diameter of the roll being between 4.5 cm and 11 cm for a volume V of absorbent paper per unit length of the roll, and the absorbency A of the sheet in cm3 of water per gram of paper being greater than 6 cm3/g. The ratio E=A/(Ep*V) of the roll is greater than or equal to 3.2.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: SCA Tissue FranceInventors: Pierre Graff, Gerald Duhen, Donald Barredo, Pierre Probst, Pascale Saas
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Patent number: 9375116Abstract: A roll of wiping paper is obtained by winding a sheet of multi-ply absorbent paper around a core. The sheet includes at least a first and a second ply of absorbent paper, each with a grammage of between 15 and 30 g/m2 and at least one of the plies incorporating a wet strength additive. The thickness of the sheet Ep being between 0.02 and 0.07 cm, the diameter of the core being less than 3.5 cm, the diameter of the roll being between 4.5 cm and 11 cm for a volume V of absorbent paper per unit length of the roll, and the absorbency A of the sheet in cm3 of water per gram of paper being greater than 6 cm3/g. The ratio E=A/(Ep*V) of the roll is greater than or equal to 3.2.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: SCA TISSUE FRANCEInventors: Pierre Graff, Gérald Duhen, Donald Barredo, Pierre Probst, Pascale Saas
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Patent number: 9352527Abstract: A substantially rectangular multi-ply disintegratable absorbent sheet based on tissue includes at least three plies and has certain characteristics of strength in the cross direction of the sheet, strength in the machine direction of the sheet, a basis weight of the sheet, a thickness of the sheet, a flexibility of the sheet, an absorption of the sheet and a mean thickness of one ply of the sheet.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: SCA TISSUE FRANCEInventors: Donald Barredo, Pierre Graff, Pierre Probst
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Publication number: 20160015225Abstract: An absorbent sheet products strip, the strip including a continuous succession of individual absorbent sheets separated from each other by tear lines. The absorbent sheets are made of at least two plies bonded together by bonding points or lines or curves forming pattern units. Multiple pattern units are distributed all over a surface of the individual absorbent sheets such that the pattern units of one individual absorbent sheet does not superpose with other pattern units of a determined number of successive individual absorbent sheets in the strip when said successive individual absorbent sheets are disposed on each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Emilie PLEYBER, Thomas LE GALL, Sébastien JEANNOT, Donald BARREDO
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Patent number: 9205623Abstract: A sheet of absorbent paper includes at least one first and one second embossed plies of tissue having protuberances on the inward-facing side of the sheet corresponding to cavities on the outer side, with a first type of protuberances on the first ply, the first type of protuberances on the second ply, at least some of the first type of protuberances of the first ply contacting at least some of the first type of protuberances of the second ply, the first ply and the second ply include a second type of protuberances of frustoconical form, the first type of protuberances being partly adjacent to the second type of protuberances, the first type of protuberances of the first ply are aligned in a first direction and the first type of protuberances of the second ply are aligned in a second direction, the two directions forming a non-zero angle alpha between them.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: SCA TISSUE FRANCEInventor: Donald Barredo
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Publication number: 20150335210Abstract: A stack of interfolded absorbent sheet products includes a plurality of a first group of absorbent sheet products folded according to a first type of folding wherein at least two panels are created by one folding line, and a plurality of a second group of absorbent sheet products folded according to a second type of folding wherein at least two other panels are created by at least one other folding line. The plurality of the first and second groups are orientated side by side in opposition relative to each other, the plurality of the first and second groups being interfolded into each other so that the panels of two groups positioned adjacent relative to each other overlap. Each group of absorbent sheet products includes a certain amount, at least two, of uncoupled absorbent sheet products so as to dispense the certain amount of absorbent sheet products with one grasping movement of the group.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2012Publication date: November 26, 2015Applicant: SCA TISSUE FRANCEInventors: Yoann DENIS, Matti ELLONEN, Donald BARREDO, Loic SIEBER
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Publication number: 20140117135Abstract: A roll of wiping paper is obtained by winding a sheet of multi-ply absorbent paper around a core. The sheet includes at least a first and a second ply of absorbent paper, each with a grammage of between 15 and 30 g/m2 and at least one of the plies incorporating a wet strength additive. The thickness of the sheet Ep being between 0.02 and 0.07 cm, the diameter of the core being less than 3.5 cm, the diameter of the roll being between 4.5 cm and 11 cm for a volume V of absorbent paper per unit length of the roll, and the absorbency A of the sheet in cm3 of water per gram of paper being greater than 6 cm3/g. The ratio E=A/(Ep*V) of the roll is greater than or equal to 3.2.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2012Publication date: May 1, 2014Applicant: SCA TISSUE FRANCEInventors: Pierre Graff, Gérald Duhen, Donald Barredo, Pierre Probst, Pascale Saas
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Patent number: 8383223Abstract: A product made of tissue for sanitary or domestic use is aimed in particular at products in rolls such as rolls of bathroom tissue (or sanitary paper) and similar rolls. A roll of fibrous cellulosic product includes a rolled strip of sheets of tissue separated by perforated or pre-cut lines, the individual plies of each sheet being bonded over a peripheral surface area of between 4% and 60% of the total surface area of each sheet.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2008Date of Patent: February 26, 2013Assignee: Georgia-Pacific FranceInventor: Donald Barredo