Patents by Inventor Nathan Capps

Nathan Capps 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: 11781270
    Abstract: A method of making a fibrous sheet includes providing a first furnish including a primary pulp having papermaking fibers, the papermaking fibers (i) having a weight-weighted average fiber length between about two and seven tenths millimeters and about three millimeters, (ii) a coarseness of about sixteen milligrams per one hundred meters or lower, and (iii) being at least eighty percent of the papermaking fibers of the first furnish, forming a nascent web having at least two layers, one of the at least two layers being (i) a surface layer of the nascent web and (ii) formed from the first furnish, dewatering the nascent web to form a dewatered web, applying the surface layer of the dewatered web to the outer surface of a Yankee drum of a Yankee dryer, and drying the dewatered web with the Yankee dryer to form a fibrous sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Peter Gordon Anderson, Frank D. Harper, Nathan Capps
  • Patent number: 11578460
    Abstract: A belt for creping a web in a papermaking process. The belt includes a surface onto which the web is transferred during the papermaking process. A plurality of openings extend through the surface, with the openings being arranged in lines that are offset from lines in the machine direction (MD) and cross-machine direction (CD) of the belt. Paper products, such as absorbent sheets, made from the belt have hollow dome regions and connecting regions between the domes, with the domes being arranged in lines that are offset from lines in the MD and CD of the paper products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Hue Ming Sze, Frank D. Harper, Kevin Aaron Hawkins, Eric J. Lepp, Vipul Kumar, Nathan Capps, Joseph H. Miller
  • Publication number: 20210277603
    Abstract: A method of making a fibrous sheet includes providing a first furnish including a primary pulp having papermaking fibers, the papermaking fibers (i) having a weight-weighted average fiber length between about two and seven tenths millimeters and about three millimeters, (ii) a coarseness of about sixteen milligrams per one hundred meters or lower, and (iii) being at least eighty percent of the papermaking fibers of the first furnish, forming a nascent web having at least two layers, one of the at least two layers being (i) a surface layer of the nascent web and (ii) formed from the first furnish, dewatering the nascent web to form a dewatered web, applying the surface layer of the dewatered web to the outer surface of a Yankee drum of a Yankee dryer, and drying the dewatered web with the Yankee dryer to form a fibrous sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Peter Gordon Anderson, Frank D. Harper, Nathan Capps
  • Patent number: 11035078
    Abstract: Paper products and methods of making the paper products. The paper product includes a first stratified base sheet and a second stratified base sheet. At least about eighty percent of the papermaking fibers in an outer layer of each of the first stratified base sheet and the second stratified base sheet has (i) a weight-weighted average fiber length between about two and seven tenths millimeters and about three millimeters and (ii) a coarseness of about sixteen milligrams per one hundred meters or lower. An inner layer of the second stratified base sheet is attached to the inner layer of the first stratified base sheet. The paper product has a CD wet/dry tensile ratio between about twenty-five hundredths and about thirty-five hundredths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Peter Gordon Anderson, Frank D. Harper, Nathan Capps
  • Publication number: 20210087748
    Abstract: A belt for creping a web in a papermaking process. The belt includes a surface onto which the web is transferred during the papermaking process. A plurality of openings extend through the surface, with the openings being arranged in lines that are offset from lines in the machine direction (MD) and cross-machine direction (CD) of the belt. Paper products, such as absorbent sheets, made from the belt have hollow dome regions and connecting regions between the domes, with the domes being arranged in lines that are offset from lines in the MD and CD of the paper products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Hue Ming Sze, Frank D. Harper, Kevin Aaron Hawkins, Eric J. Lepp, Vipul Kumar, Nathan Capps
  • Publication number: 20190276985
    Abstract: Paper products and methods of making the paper products. The paper product includes a first stratified base sheet and a second stratified base sheet. At least about eighty percent of the papermaking fibers in an outer layer of each of the first stratified base sheet and the second stratified base sheet has (i) a weight-weighted average fiber length between about two and seven tenths millimeters and about three millimeters and (ii) a coarseness of about sixteen milligrams per one hundred meters or lower. An inner layer of the second stratified base sheet is attached to the inner layer of the first stratified base sheet. The paper product has a CD wet/dry tensile ratio between about twenty-five hundredths and about thirty-five hundredths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Peter Gordon Anderson, Frank D. Harper, Nathan Capps