Patents by Inventor Gilles Roussel

Gilles Roussel 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: 7029546
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making a sheet of paper comprising at least two crimped cotton-wool-like cellulose plies (20, 40). It consists in: unwinding a first ply (20) in the form of a strip from a reel, embossing it on an embossing unit (10, 12) and forming protuberances at its surface, unwinding a second ply (40) in the form of a strip from a reel, guiding it downstream of the embossing unit (10, 12), superposing the two strips, with their protuberances facing inwards, and in applying a linking means (14, 16) so as to make the two strips integral with each other. Said method is characterised in that immediately upstream of said linking means (14, 16), a tension regulating means (18) is applied in the machine direction on one of the strips, such that the two strips have the same elastic deformation in the machine direction when the linking means is applied. The invention also concerns a product obtained by said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific France
    Inventors: Michel Basler, Pierre Laurent, Gilles Roussel, Rėmy Ruppel
  • Patent number: 6805766
    Abstract: The invention concerns an absorbent paper product with basic weight of about 36 to about 105 g/m2 comprising at least three pleats, a first and second outer embossed pleats each comprising raised patterns consisting at least partially of discrete protuberances oriented towards the inside of the structure and a non-embossed central pleat, the pleats being associated by linking the distal surfaces of at least part of the protuberances of each of the outer pleats to the central pleat. The invention is characterized in that each of the embossed outer pleats is linked by means of an adhesive to said central pleat, and at least one of the pleats has a pattern density more than 30 protuberances per cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2004
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific France
    Inventors: Gilles Roussel, Benoît Hoeft
  • Publication number: 20040121124
    Abstract: The invention concerns a method for making a sheet of paper comprising at least two crimped cotton-wool-like cellulose plies (20, 40). It consists in: unwinding a first ply (20) in the form of a strip from a reel, embossing it on an embossing unit (10, 12) and forming protuberances at its surface, unwinding a second ply (40) in the form of a strip from a reel, guiding it downstream of the embossing unit (10, 12), superposing the two strips, with their protuberances facing inwards, and in applying a linking means (14, 16) so as to make the two strips integral with each other. Said method is characterised in that immediately upstream of said linking means (14, 16), a tension regulating means (18) is applied in the machine direction on one of the strips, such that the two strips have the same clastic deformation in the machine direction when the linking means is applied. The invention also concerns a product obtained by said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Inventors: Michael Basler, Pierre Laurent, Gilles Roussel, Remy Ruppel
  • Patent number: 6723203
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cotton-wool-like cellulose having a basis weight of about 20 to about 80 g/m2 comprising, an embossed ply of 10 to 40 g/m2, including raised designs consisting at least partly of discrete protuberances oriented towards the inside of the structure, and a non-embossed ply. The invention is characterised in that the embossed ply has over at least a surface portion at least 30 protuberances per cm2 whereof the surface is less than 1 mm2, preferably less than 0.7 mm2, and the basis weight of the embossed ply is less than that of the non-embossed ply. Preferably, it is less by 5 to 30%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific France
    Inventors: Gilles Roussel, Michel Basler
  • Patent number: 6656569
    Abstract: The invention concerns an absorbent paper product with a basic weight ranging from about 20 to 80 g/m2 comprising an embossed ply including raised designs consisting at least partly of discrete protuberances oriented inwards of the structure and a non-embossed ply. The invention is characterised in that the embossed ply has at least over part of its surface at least 30 protuberances per cm2 whereof the top surface area is less than 1 mm2 preferably less than 0.7 mm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific France
    Inventors: Gilles Roussel, Pierre Laurent, Rémy Ruppel
  • Patent number: 6599614
    Abstract: The invention concerns an absorbent paper product with basic weight of about 36 to about 105 g/m2 comprising at least three pleats, a first and second outer embossed pleats each comprising raised patterns consisting at least partially of discrete protuberances oriented towards the inside of the structure and a non-embossed central pleat, the pleats being associated by linking the distal surfaces of at least part of the protuberances of each of the outer pleats to the central pleat. The invention is characterised in that each of the embossed outer pleats is linked by means of an adhesive to said central pleat, and at least one of the pleats has a pattern density more than 30 protuberances per cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific France
    Inventors: Gilles Roussel, Benoît Hoeft
  • Patent number: 6524683
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a sheet (1, 2) of absorbent paper, in particular made of cellulose cotton and of a specific surface weight between 10 and 40 g/m2, comprising a first embossed zone such as is provided by embossing between an undeforming cylinder (A12) fitted with protrusions and a cylinder fitted with a resilient cladding (C) in such manner that the sheet (1, 2) comprises on one side in particular frustoconical salients (120, 110) of which the tops are situated substantially in one plane. The salients (110, 120) corresponding to recesses on the opposite side, the sheet being characterized in that the first embossed zone (110) constitutes a background base pattern of which the number of salients of height H1 relative to the plane is greater than 30 per cm2, and in that it comprises at least a second pattern (G) constituted of salient-free zones of which the height H2 relative to the plane is greater than H1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific France
    Inventors: Gilles Roussel, Rémy Ruppel
  • Publication number: 20020148579
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cotton-wool-like cellulose having a basis weight of about 20 to about 80 g/m2 comprising, an embossed ply of 10 to 40 g/m2, including raised designs consisting at least partly of discrete protuberances oriented towards the inside of the structure, and a non-embossed ply. The invention is characterised in that the embossed ply has over at least a surface portion at least 30 protuberances per cm2 whereof the surface is less than 1 mm2, preferably less than 0.7 mm2, and the basis weight of the embossed ply is less than that of the non-embossed ply. Preferably, it is less by 5 to 30%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Gilles Roussel, Michel Basler
  • Patent number: 6423397
    Abstract: The invention concerns a web of absorbent paper, in particular of cellulose cotton, including on one side protrusions of which the top surfaces are less than 1 mm2 each and which correspond to cavities on the other side, the web being characterized in that the protrusions are distributed at a rate of more than 30/cm2 along mutually parallel lines in a manner such as to bound cells of which the total surface takes up at least 30% of the web surface, the cells per se being unembossed or embossed only slightly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2002
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific France
    Inventor: Gilles Roussel
  • Patent number: 6136413
    Abstract: A sheet constituted by at least two plies of cellulose wadding or other layer of cellulose fibers having a specific surface weight between 10 and 40 g/m.sup.2 and are embossed and assembled in such a manner that the protrusions defining the embossing patterns are pointing to the inside of the sheet and subtend cavities between them, the sheet being characterized in that the plies (10, 20) are embossed with different embossing patterns, a first pattern composed of first protrusions (12) having only a small surface at the tops and being at least 30/cm.sup.2 in one of the plies (10), and a second pattern composed of pattern elements (21) formed by second protrusions (22) having elongated tops, where the pattern elements are mutually spaced apart, and are present in the second ply (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2000
    Assignee: Fort James France
    Inventors: Herve Le Port, Pierre Laurent, Remy Perin, Gilles Roussel
  • Patent number: 6106928
    Abstract: A sheet of paper, in particular for a sanitary paper, consists of at least one ply of absorbent, creped paper of a specific surface weight between 12-35 g/m.sup.2 evincing first and second protrusions respectively (10, 2) respectively arrayed in a first and second pattern. The first pattern is composed of pattern elements each constituted by at least one of the first protrusions (10) and is comparatively well spaced apart mutually, while the second so-called background pattern comprises the second protrusions (2) arranged in more compact manner between the pattern elements. The sheet of paper is characterized in that the pattern elements form a graphic pattern while being arrayed at a rate of at most 0.5 element/cm.sup.2 and the first protrusions (10) constituting them evince at their top a line-shaped surface with a width between 0.1-2 mm, the second protrusions (2) being arrayed at the rate of at least 30, and preferably 40, protrusions/cm.sup.2 and ensuring the essential functional features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2000
    Assignee: Fort James France
    Inventors: Pierre Laurent, Carol Lefebvre Du Grosriez, Gilles Roussel, Remy Ruppel
  • Patent number: 5833804
    Abstract: A method for depositing an adhesive diluted in a solvent, such as water, onto a substrate, such as a paper sheet (13) illustratively of cellulose wadding, and supported on and moving with a rotary cylinder (9) using a deposition apparatus (20) comprising at least one adhesive reservoir (23) and one cylinder transferring the adhesive onto the substrate, characterized in that the cylinder (25') does not have surface asperities and comprises first zones (25a) and second zones (25b) such that the quantity of adhesive dragged by the cylinder (25') onto the second zones is greater than the quantity of adhesive dragged onto the first zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: Fort James France
    Inventors: Remy Ruppel, Remy Point, Gilles Roussel