Patents by Inventor Marcus Kullman

Marcus Kullman 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: 20220233031
    Abstract: Dispenser for dispensing web material from a roll, the dispenser including a housing and a spindle intended to rotatably support a roll of web material during dispensing. The spindle is movable between a loading position and a dispensing position. The dispenser further includes a deflecting member being movable between a protruding position protruding towards the spindle in dispensing position and a retracted position retracted into the housing away from the spindle in dispensing position. The deflecting member is connected to a blocking member moving in response to the movement of the deflecting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Marcus KULLMAN, Johanna ENMALM, Martina JOHANSSON, Mattias BENGTSSON, Tomas GANDEMO
  • Publication number: 20220225849
    Abstract: Dispenser for dispensing web material from a roll, the dispenser including a housing defining an interior of the dispenser and an arm hinged at a hinge point to a support member. The arm is adapted to pivot about the hinge point. The dispenser further includes a spindle attached perpendicular to the arm. The spindle is adapted to rotatably support a roll during dispensing. The arm is pivotable between a first position in which the spindle is arranged in a dispensing position within the housing of the dispenser and a second position in which the spindle is arranged in a loading position outside the housing of the dispenser in order to allow loading of a roll onto the spindle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Marcus KULLMAN, Martina JOHANSSON, Johanna ENMALM, Mattias BENGTSSON, Tomas GANDEMO
  • Publication number: 20220225848
    Abstract: A dispenser for a roll of rolled up absorbent paper web material, the dispenser, in a closed state, including an outer casing enclosing a roll compartment for housing a roll, and a dispensing opening extending from the roll compartment to the outside of the outer casing along a dispensing axis of the dispenser, the outer casing including an outer lid assuming a closed position when the dispenser is in the closed state. The dispenser further including an inner lid, which, in the closed state of the dispenser, is arranged between the roll compartment and the outer lid, wherein the inner lid defines a first threading opening through the inner lid along the dispensing axis, the first threading opening including a first dispensing opening portion; and the outer lid defines a second threading opening through the outer lid along the dispensing axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Essity Hygiene and Health Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Tomas GANDEMO, Susanne GUNGNER, Mattias BENGTSSON, Thomas GEERTSEN, Antonio KÄLLGREN, Marcus KULLMAN
  • Patent number: 10420445
    Abstract: A dispenser includes: a housing having a support axis for accommodating and rotatably supporting the paper roll, a brake shoe having a contact surface configured to abut at a face side of the paper roll and movably attached relative to the housing for adjustment of a braking force, and an elastic member urging the brake shoe in a direction toward the face side of the paper roll and having an adjustable elastic force that adjusts the braking force. The contact surface may have at least a first contact area closer to a tip of the support axis in an axial direction of the support axis and further away from the support axis in a radial direction and a second contact area further away from the tip of the support axis in the axial direction and closer to the support axis in the radial direction to provide a braking force decreasing with a decreasing diameter of the roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Mattias Bengtsson, Tomas Gandemo, Erik Hjort, Stig Pommer, Marcus Kullman
  • Publication number: 20190191939
    Abstract: A dispenser for web of absorbent paper, tissue or nonwoven material in the form of a roll is provided. The dispenser has a housing with a first dispensing opening for the web and a drive roller extending along a longitudinal axis. The drive roller is arranged in the housing in, or at, the first dispensing opening. The roll is arranged to abut the drive roller to be frictionally engaged with the drive roller. The dispenser has a feeding mechanism for rotating the roll to feed the web in a direction from the roll towards the first dispensing opening. The feeding mechanism has a bar extending at least partially along the drive roller. When the bar is pushed from a start position to rotate about the pivot axis, the drive roller and the roll are caused to rotate. The bar is biased towards the start position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Erik HJORT, Mats LIND, Joakim NORIN, Marcus KULLMAN, Ingemar EKMEFJORD
  • Patent number: 10327601
    Abstract: Dispenser includes housing for at least two rolls of tissue paper, access opening in housing, and closure selectively closing a portion of access opening. Closure includes body, first wall movably connected to body at first edge of first wall; and second wall movably connected to body at first edge of second wall. First and second wall are urged toward each other to respectively position second edges of first and second walls opposite to first edges in a blocking position in which sliding of closure into first or second position is blocked until a predetermined amount of paper of second or first roll, respectively, has been dispensed. Closure includes first and second spring urging first and second walls, respectively, toward each other, spring force of first and second springs being configured to automatically return closure into first or second position, respectively, when sliding of the closure into first or second position, respectively, is blocked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: ESSITY HYGIENE AND HEALTH AKTIEBOLAG
    Inventors: Mattias Bengtsson, Tomas Gandemo, Erik Hjort, Stig Pommer, Marcus Kullman
  • Publication number: 20180368629
    Abstract: Dispenser includes housing for at least two rolls of tissue paper, access opening in housing, and closure selectively closing a portion of access opening. Closure includes body, first wall movably connected to body at first edge of first wall; and second wall movably connected to body at first edge of second wall. First and second wall are urged toward each other to respectively position second edges of first and second walls opposite to first edges in a blocking position in which sliding of closure into first or second position is blocked until a predetermined amount of paper of second or first roll, respectively, has been dispensed. Closure includes first and second spring urging first and second walls, respectively, toward each other, spring force of first and second springs being configured to automatically return closure into first or second position, respectively, when sliding of the closure into first or second position, respectively, is blocked.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Mattias BENGTSSON, Tomas GANDEMO, Erik HJORT, Stig POMMER, Marcus KULLMAN
  • Publication number: 20180368630
    Abstract: A dispenser includes: a housing having a support axis for accommodating and rotatably supporting the paper roll, a brake shoe having a contact surface configured to abut at a face side of the paper roll and movably attached relative to the housing for adjustment of a braking force, and an elastic member urging the brake shoe in a direction toward the face side of the paper roll and having an adjustable elastic force that adjusts the braking force. The contact surface may have at least a first contact area closer to a tip of the support axis in an axial direction of the support axis and further away from the support axis in a radial direction and a second contact area further away from the tip of the support axis in the axial direction and closer to the support axis in the radial direction to provide a braking force decreasing with a decreasing diameter of the roll.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Mattias BENGTSSON, Tomas GANDEMO, Erik HJORT, Stig POMMER, Marcus KULLMAN
  • Patent number: 9456717
    Abstract: A dispenser including a housing and a door pivotally attached to the housing via a substantially vertically arranged hinge. The housing includes a hinge wall, an upper end wall, a substantially vertical wall and a lower end wall. The walls define an edge delimiting a lateral charge opening. The housing is provided with a dispensing opening at the lower end wall. The door includes an essentially vertical portion, a free end opposite the hinge and a door rim at lest partly adjacent the edge of the housing when the door is in a closed position. The edge of the housing has a free edge portion extending along the upper end wall, the substantially vertical wall and the lower end wall. The free edge portion includes a guiding element for co-operation with a region of the door rim during pivoting of the door towards the closed position and for vertically positioning the free end of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Marcus Kullman, Mats Lind, Christian Söderlund, Michael Gustafsson
  • Patent number: 9408506
    Abstract: A dispensing unit and a dispenser are provided. The dispenser is adapted for the use with continuous web material. The dispensing unit includes a first roller arranged to rotate about a first axis and a second roller arranged to rotate about a second axis. A web path is provided through the dispensing unit and a portion of the web path consists of a web passage defined between the first roller and the second roller. A drive mechanism engages with at least one of the first roller and the second roller for feeding web material through the web passage. The drive mechanism comprises a feeding ring rotatably suspended in the dispensing unit. The feeding ring extends around the web path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Erik Hjort, Matti Karonen, Marcus Kullman, Stig Pommer, Sylvia Jonsson
  • Patent number: 9386890
    Abstract: A dispensing unit and a dispenser are provided. The dispensing unit is adapted for use with continuous web material. The dispensing unit comprises a first roller arranged to rotate about a first axis and a second roller arranged to rotate about a second axis. A web path is provided through the dispensing unit and a portion of the web path includes a web passage defined between the first roller and the second roller. The first roller is displaceable between at least a first position and a second position, wherein a first distance is defined between the first roller and the second roller when the first roller is arranged in the first position, and a second distance is defined between the first roller and the second roller when the first roller is arranged in the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Stig Pommer, Erik Hjort, Marcus Kullman, Matti Karonen, Sylvia Jonsson
  • Publication number: 20150335211
    Abstract: A dispensing unit and a dispenser are provided. The dispenser is adapted for the use with continuous web material. The dispensing unit includes a first roller arranged to rotate about a first axis and a second roller arranged to rotate about a second axis. A web path is provided through the dispensing unit and a portion of the web path consists of a web passage defined between the first roller and the second roller. A drive mechanism engages with at least one of the first roller and the second roller for feeding web material through the web passage. The drive mechanism comprises a feeding ring rotatably suspended in the dispensing unit. The feeding ring extends around the web path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Erik HJORT, Matti KARONEN, Marcus KULLMAN, Stig POMMER, Sylvia JONSSON
  • Patent number: 9180474
    Abstract: A dispensing mechanism for a liquid container is arranged in liquid communication with an outlet mechanism. The dispensing mechanism is adapted to translate a user force applied to a user operated portion into a transfer force applied from a user lever to an actuation part. A relationship between a first length and a second length forms a lever ratio. The first length extends from a first pivot axis to a user operated portion and the second length extends from the first pivot axis to a point of action of the transfer force on the actuation part. The lever ratio is adapted to increase from a non-actuated position over at least the first 50% of a dispensing stroke of the actuation part such that the transfer force increases over the at least first 50% of the dispensing stroke when a constant force is applied to the user operated portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Joonas Jokitalo, Marcus Kullman, Erik Hjort
  • Publication number: 20150150423
    Abstract: A dispensing unit and a dispenser are provided. The dispensing unit is adapted for use with continuous web material. The dispensing unit comprises a first roller arranged to rotate about a first axis and a second roller arranged to rotate about a second axis. A web path is provided through the dispensing unit and a portion of the web path includes a web passage defined between the first roller and the second roller. The first roller is displaceable between at least a first position and a second position, wherein a first distance is defined between the first roller and the second roller when the first roller is arranged in the first position, and a second distance is defined between the first roller and the second roller when the first roller is arranged in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Stig Pommer, Erik Hjort, Marcus Kullman, Matti Karonen, Sylvia Jonsson
  • Patent number: 8899509
    Abstract: A device dispenser for a roll of absorbent paper, tissue or nonwoven material is provided. The dispenser has a housing with a first wall provided with a dispensing opening and a movable housing portion, which movable housing portion in an open position allows the dispenser to be refilled. The dispenser has a suspension arrangement for the roll and in which the roll is rotatable. The suspension arrangement is arranged to bias the roll towards the dispensing opening in a dispensing position when the movable housing portion is in a closed position. The suspension arrangement is connected to a pull-back mechanism linked to the movable housing portion for repositioning the suspension arrangement into a refilling position at a distance from the dispensing position when the movable housing portion is moved from the closed position to the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Erik Hjort, Mats Lind, Joakim Norin, Marcus Kullman, Ingemar Ekmefjord
  • Patent number: 8899508
    Abstract: A dispenser for web of absorbent paper, tissue or nonwoven material is provided. The dispenser has a housing with a holder arrangement for receiving the roll, the holder arrangement providing a roll rotational axis about which the roll is arranged to rotate when dispensing the web. The dispenser has a drive roller extending in a direction substantially parallel to the roll rotational axis. The dispenser has an engaging roller extending substantially parallel to the drive roller. The drive roller and the engaging roller are arranged so as to define a dispensing passage therebetween for the web. The roll of web is arranged to be biased against the drive roller. The drive roller is arranged such that a dispensing end of the web is adapted to be led from the roll over the drive roller through the dispensing passage and to frictionally engage with the drive roller and the engaging roller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Erik Hjort, Mats Lind, Joakim Norin, Marcus Kullman, Ingemar Ekmefjord
  • Publication number: 20140203133
    Abstract: A dispenser for dispensing a washroom product, the dispenser including an outer casing hingeably or detachably attached to a back portion. The dispenser includes a compartment between the outer casing and the back portion for housing the washroom product to be dispensed. The dispenser further includes a dispensing opening and the dispenser includes inner locking means positioned inside the compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2011
    Publication date: July 24, 2014
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Mikael Andersson, Yassaman Mortazavi, Björn Larsson, Mats Lind, Marcus Kullman, Lars-Olov Ahlgren
  • Patent number: 8769770
    Abstract: A hinge on a cover for a container, has a pivot axis and includes at least one first member fixed against rotation and at least one second member rotatable about the axis, which first and second members are arranged coaxially along the axis. A third member is arranged coaxial with the first and second members. A damper element is provided between the first and the third members in order to dampen the relative rate of rotation between the members. A first spring is arranged between the second and the third tubular members, which first spring is connected to the respective second and third members so that relative rotation between the tubular members is permitted in a first direction, when the cover is pivoted towards a first position, and prevented in a second direction, when the cover is pivoted towards a second position. A container provided with such a hinge is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Marcus Kullman, Robin Sundberg
  • Publication number: 20140027473
    Abstract: A dispensing mechanism for a liquid container is arranged in liquid communication with an outlet mechanism. The dispensing mechanism is adapted to translate a user force applied to a user operated portion into a transfer force applied from a user lever to an actuation part. A relationship between a first length and a second length forms a lever ratio. The first length extends from a first pivot axis to a user operated portion and the second length extends from the first pivot axis to a point of action of the transfer force on the actuation part. The lever ratio is adapted to increase from a non-actuated position over at least the first 50% of a dispensing stroke of the actuation part such that the transfer force increases over the at least first 50% of the dispensing stroke when a constant force is applied to the user operated portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: SCA HYGIENE PRODUCTS AB
    Inventors: Joonas JOKITALO, Marcus KULLMAN, Erik HJORT
  • Publication number: 20130200201
    Abstract: A portable refillable dispenser for absorbent paper, tissue or nonwoven material, has a lower housing portion and an upper housing portion. The upper housing portion is connected via a first hinge to the lower housing portion, wherein the upper and lower housing portions, in a closed position, form a compartment for the absorbent tissue or nonwoven material and an inner dispensing opening there between and, in an open position, allow refilling of the dispenser. The dispenser has a lid connected with the upper and lower housing portions for holding the upper and lower housing portions together. The lid at least partially covers the inner dispensing opening from at least one direction. The lid is provided with an outer dispensing opening. The absorbent paper, tissue or nonwoven material is dispensable via the inner and outer dispensing openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Erik Hjort, Mats Lind, Joakim Norin, Marcus Kullman, Benny Jacobsen