Patents by Inventor Galyu Schulz

Galyu Schulz 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).

  • Cross-machine direction embossing of absorbent paper products having an undulatory structure including ridges extending in the machine direction
    Patent number: 7294231
    Abstract: A method of embossing an absorbent web with a machine direction undulatory structure is described. The web has a plurality of ridges extending in its machine direction occurring at a frequency, F, across the web and the method includes providing the web to an embossing station where the web is embossed between a first and second embossing roll, each of which rolls may be provided with a plurality of embossing elements configured to define a plurality of embossing nips. At least a portion of the embossing nips are substantially oriented in a cross-machine direction with respect to the web and have a cross direction length, L. The product F×L is from about 0.1 to about 5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2007
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Operations LLC
    Inventors: Thomas N. Kershaw, Dale Gracyalny, Paul Ruthven, Galyu Schulz