Patents by Inventor James P. Pfau

James P. Pfau 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).

  • Publication number: 20230415462
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza BARZEGARI, James P. PFAU, Bei-Hong LIANG
  • Patent number: 11752736
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza Barzegari, James P. Pfau, Bei-Hong Liang
  • Publication number: 20220288898
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder resin, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder. The coupling agent is believed to increase the hydrophilicity (wettability) of the lipophilic cellulosic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza BARZEGARI, James P. PFAU, Bei-Hong LIANG, Elizalde EXCONDE
  • Patent number: 11345122
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder resin, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder. The coupling agent is believed to increase the hydrophilicity (wetability) of the lipophilic cellulosic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza Barzegari, James P. Pfau, Bei-Hong Liang, Elizalde Exconde
  • Publication number: 20210323281
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza BARZEGARI, James P. PFAU, Bei-Hong LIANG
  • Patent number: 11046057
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza Barzegari, James P. Pfau, Bei-Hong Liang
  • Publication number: 20200290320
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder resin, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder. The coupling agent is believed to increase the hydrophilicity (wetability) of the lipophilic cellulosic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza BARZEGARI, James P. PFAU, Bei-Hong LIANG, Elizalde EXCONDE
  • Patent number: 10668700
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder resin, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder. The coupling agent is believed to increase the hydrophilicity (wetability) of the lipophilic cellulosic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza Barzegari, James P. Pfau, Bei-Hong Liang, Elizalde Exconde
  • Publication number: 20190136015
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a tackifier, and a binder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza BARZEGARI, James P. PFAU, Bei-Hong LIANG
  • Publication number: 20180319135
    Abstract: The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder resin, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder. The coupling agent is believed to increase the hydrophilicity (wetability) of the lipophilic cellulosic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Mohamad Reza BARZEGARI, James P. PFAU, Bei-Hong LIANG, Elizalde EXCONDE
  • Publication number: 20140260080
    Abstract: Reinforced door skins, a door including one or more of the reinforced door skins, and methods of making the reinforced door skins and door are provided. The reinforced door skin as made by providing a reinforcement backing having a fibrous substrate layered with a solid-state thermoplastic hot melt adhesive, pressing the reinforcement backing and a preformed board having a door skin shape against one another at a temperature above a melt temperature of the thermoplastic hot melt adhesive and at sufficiently high pressure to conform the reinforcement backing to the door skin shape of the preformed board, and cooling the thermoplastic hot melt adhesive to form a reinforced door skin, the thermoplastic hot melt adhesive fusing the fibrous substrate to the preformed board of the reinforced door skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Masonite Corporation
    Inventors: Steven SWARTZMILLER, James P. PFAU, James BRYANT, Kurt LILLIE
  • Patent number: 5484825
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a water-resistant, aqueous base-dispersible article which comprises a pulp-filled binder, one of which is an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylated (e.g. acrylic) polymer soluble in base, the other of which is water-resistant. Accordingly, the pulp can be water-resistant while the binder is base-dispersible or the converse can be true. Cellulosic and polymeric pulp are ideally suited for filling an base-soluble acrylic polymer. Water-soluble resins can be incorporated into the article for controlling the properties for special purposes. The method for forming such an article comprises yet another aspect of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1996
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Richard J. Dick, Nancy J. Fulton, James P. Pfau, Philip E. Bailey, John D. Booton