Patents by Inventor Paul Douglas Beuther
Paul Douglas Beuther 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).
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Patent number: 7811418Abstract: A papermaking machine for making paper includes a forming section, a press section, and a drying section. The paper web is pressed between two press members while enclosed between a press felt and a transfer belt having non-uniformly distributed microscopic depressions in its surface, the web following the transfer belt from the press to a transfer point at which the web is transferred via a suction transfer device onto a structuring fabric, the web then being dried on a drying cylinder. The transfer point is spaced a distance D from the press nip selected based on machine speed, a basis weight of the web, and the surface characteristics of the transfer belt, such that within the distance D a thin water film between the web and the transfer belt at least partially dissipates to allow the web to be separated from the transfer belt.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2007Date of Patent: October 12, 2010Assignee: Metso Paper Karlstad ABInventors: Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Hans Ivarsson, Johan Ulf Ragard, Frank Stephen Hada, Paul Douglas Beuther, Jeffrey Dean Holz
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Publication number: 20100230430Abstract: A tissue product, which includes a carton and a stack of tissues, is provided with a flattened arched-shaped sheet that supports the stack of tissues. As the tissues are withdrawn from the carton and the weight of the tissue stack is reduced, the flattened arch-shaped sheet gradually assumes its normal arched shape, thereby raising the stack of tissues within the carton. Raising the stack substantially reduces or eliminates “fall-back”, which is a common dispensing problem, as the stack height is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2009Publication date: September 16, 2010Inventor: Paul Douglas Beuther
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Publication number: 20100139881Abstract: An apparatus for transferring a wet paper web from a press nip to a drying cylinder (52) of a papermaking machine, and for structuring the web, comprises an impermeable transfer belt (35) having a web-contacting surface, the wet paper web passing through the press nip enclosed between a press felt (33) and the transfer belt, and a permeable structuring fabric (37) for transfer of the web onto the drying cylinder, the structuring fabric having a structured surface and being arranged in a loop within which a suction transfer device (38) is disposed, said suction transfer device having a suction zone (41).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2007Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: METSO PAPER KARLSTAD ABInventors: Paul Douglas Beuther, Frank Stephen Hada, Jeffrey Dean Holz, Hans Ivarsson, Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Johan Ulf Ragard
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Patent number: 7661622Abstract: A reel for winding a paper roll including: a frame supporting a reel drum and a pair of rails; a reel spool supported for translation by the rails and upon which a paper roll is wound; an endless flexible belt wrapping a portion of the periphery of the reel drum and a portion of the periphery of the paper roll; and a loading member for loading the paper roll against the reel drum and the endless flexible belt.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2005Date of Patent: February 16, 2010Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Frank Stephen Hada, Paul Douglas Beuther, Allen Arthur Hammerstad, Mike John Rekoske
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Publication number: 20090242154Abstract: A soft, layered, single-ply wet-pressed tissue can be made with improved softness by providing one or both outer layers of the tissue with polysiloxane-treated pulp fibers. A particularly suitable wet-pressing process includes pressing a wet tissue web between a felt and a transfer belt to dewater the web, followed by transfer of the dewatered web to a texturizing fabric where the wet web is provided with a three-dimensional texture. Thereafter the texturized web is transferred to a Yankee dryer, dried and creped. The combination of the polysiloxane fibers and the texturizing step provides a particularly effective combination of surface feel, low stiffness and high bulk (caliper).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2008Publication date: October 1, 2009Inventors: Paul Douglas Beuther, Young Ko, Paulin Pawar, William James Raynor, JR., Michael John Rekoske, Terrance David Ries
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Patent number: 7563344Abstract: Wet-pressed creped tissue sheets exhibit continuous undulating valleys separated by continuous mono-planar macro-ridges running in the machine direction of the sheet, the macro-ridges being of a lower fiber density relative to the fiber density of the undulating valleys. The tissue structure can be created by pressing a densified tissue web against the surface of a Yankee dryer while the web is supported by a texturizing (molding) fabric having a web-supporting surface having highly topographic continuous or substantially continuous ridges and valleys and thereafter creping the web.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2006Date of Patent: July 21, 2009Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Paul Douglas Beuther, Cristina Asensio Mullally, Jeffrey Dean Holz
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Publication number: 20080156450Abstract: A papermaking machine for making paper includes a forming section, a press section, and a drying section. The paper web is pressed between two press members while enclosed between a press felt and a transfer belt having non-uniformly distributed microscopic depressions in its surface, the web following the transfer belt from the press to a transfer point at which the web is transferred via a suction transfer device onto a structuring fabric, the web then being dried on a drying cylinder. The transfer point is spaced a distance D from the press nip selected based on machine speed, a basis weight of the web, and the surface characteristics of the transfer belt, such that within the distance D a thin water film between the web and the transfer belt at least partially dissipates to allow the web to be separated from the transfer belt.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2007Publication date: July 3, 2008Inventors: Ingvar Berndt Erik Klerelid, Hans Ivarsson, Johan Ulf Ragard, Frank Stephen Hada, Paul Douglas Beuther, Jeffrey Dean Holz
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Patent number: 7384506Abstract: Embossing regularly textured sheets with an appropriate regular, discrete embossing pattern to improve softness can result in a combined texture that creates an interference pattern that camouflages the original texture pattern and the embossing pattern. The resulting pattern is more appealing to the eye and is more random in appearance than the initial textured sheet or the embossing pattern individually. This result is particularly advantageous for paper towels.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2006Date of Patent: June 10, 2008Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Richard Louis Underhill, Paul Douglas Beuther, Robert Irving Gusky, Kevin Joseph Vogt
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Publication number: 20080099169Abstract: Wet-pressed creped tissue sheets exhibit continuous undulating valleys separated by continuous mono-planar macro-ridges running in the machine direction of the sheet, the macro-ridges being of a lower fiber density relative to the fiber density of the undulating valleys. The tissue structure can be created by pressing a densified tissue web against the surface of a Yankee dryer while the web is supported by a texturizing (molding) fabric having a web-supporting surface having highly topographic continuous or substantially continuous ridges and valleys and thereafter creping the web.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2006Publication date: May 1, 2008Inventors: Paul Douglas Beuther, Cristina Asensio Mullally, Jeffrey Dean Holz
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Patent number: 7169458Abstract: Embossing regularly textured sheets with an appropriate regular, discrete embossing pattern to improve softness can result in a combined texture that creates an interference pattern that camouflages the original texture pattern and the embossing pattern. The resulting pattern is more appealing to the eye and is more random in appearance than the initial textured sheet or the embossing pattern individually. This result is particularly advantageous for paper towels.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2006Date of Patent: January 30, 2007Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Richard Louis Underhill, Paul Douglas Beuther, Robert Irving Gusky, Kevin Joseph Vogt
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Publication number: 20040191486Abstract: Embossing regularly textured sheets with an appropriate regular, discrete embossing pattern to improve softness can result in a combined texture that creates an interference pattern that camouflages the original texture pattern and the embossing pattern. The resulting pattern is more appealing to the eye and is more random in appearance than the initial textured sheet or the embossing pattern individually. This result is particularly advantageous for paper towels.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2003Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Richard Louis Underhill, Paul Douglas Beuther, Robert Irving Gusky, Kevin Joseph Vogt
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Patent number: 6701637Abstract: A web treatment device is disclosed capable of heating and creping a fibrous web with control systems for uniform operation. The web is pressed between two belts in a compression zone, where is it also subject to a temperature gradient that can assist in water removal. Durable coatings on the press belts can assist in maintaining good performance. The system can be used to apply texture to a fibrous web or drive chemical reactions or other physical changes in the web.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2001Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Kenneth Curtis Larson, Charles Herbert Goerg, Timothy Maurice McFarland, Michael Alan Hermans, Paul Douglas Beuther, Thomas Gerard Shannon
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Publication number: 20020152630Abstract: A web treatment device is disclosed capable of heating and creping a fibrous web with control systems for uniform operation. The web is pressed between two belts in a compression zone, where is it also subject to a temperature gradient that can assist in water removal. Durable coatings on the press belts can assist in maintaining good performance. The system can be used to apply texture to a fibrous web or drive chemical reactions or other physical changes in the web.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2001Publication date: October 24, 2002Inventors: Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Kenneth Curtis Larson, Charles Herbert Goerg, Timothy Maurice McFarland, Michael Alan Hermans, Paul Douglas Beuther, Thomas Gerard Shannon
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Patent number: 6375801Abstract: In manufacturing a moving web, such as a tissue sheet, the web is transported at very high speeds, often in an unsupported manner, which can result in unstable operations regarding handling and winding of the web. This is particularly true in the region between the creping blade and the reel for a lightweight, low modulus tissue sheet that is characteristic of a high-quality, soft tissue basesheet. To provide an improved means of controlling the tissue web during manufacture and to improve the manufacturing rate, an apparatus and method of stabilizing the moving web that incorporates a creping blade foil, one or more aerodynamic sheet stabilizing foils, and a roll foil in a specific relationship to each other is disclosed. This method has been shown to improve the stability of a moving tissue web, allow for a higher rate of operation, and enable the production of softer tissue basesheets.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2001Date of Patent: April 23, 2002Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Percival John McGary, Scott A. Baum, Paul Douglas Beuther, Robert Paul Guarnotta, Richard Martin Urquhart
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Publication number: 20020005264Abstract: In manufacturing a moving web, such as a tissue sheet, the web is transported at very high speeds, often in an unsupported manner, which can result in unstable operations regarding handling and winding of the web. This is particularly true in the region between the creping blade and the reel for a lightweight, low modulus tissue sheet that is characteristic of a high-quality, soft tissue basesheet. To provide an improved means of controlling the tissue web during manufacture and to improve the manufacturing rate, an apparatus and method of stabilizing the moving web that incorporates a creping blade foil, one or more aerodynamic sheet stabilizing foils, and a roll foil in a specific relationship to each other is disclosed. This method has been shown to improve the stability of a moving tissue web, allow for a higher rate of operation, and enable the production of softer tissue basesheets.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2001Publication date: January 17, 2002Inventors: Stephen Percival John McGary, Scott A. Baum, Paul Douglas Beuther, Robert Paul Guarnotta, Richard Martin Urquhart
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Patent number: 6328852Abstract: In manufacturing a moving web, such as a tissue sheet, the web is transported at very high speeds, often in an unsupported manner, which can result in unstable operations regarding handling and winding of the web. This is particularly true in the region between the creeping blade and the reel for a lightweight, low modulus tissue sheet that is characteristic of a high-quality, soft tissue base sheet. To provide an improved means of controlling the tissue web during manufacture and to improve the manufacturing rate, an apparatus and method of stabilizing the moving web that incorporates a creeping blade foil, one or more aerodynamic sheet stabilizing foils, and a roll foil in a specific relationship to each other is disclosed. This method has been shown to improve the stability of a moving tissue web, allow for a higher rate of operation, and enable the production of softer tissue basesheets.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2000Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Percival John McGary, Scott A. Baum, Paul Douglas Beuther, Robert Paul Guarnotta, Richard Martin Urquhart
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Patent number: 6294051Abstract: An apparatus and method for forming a thin fibrous mat, such as a tissue sheet, with improved edge strength is disclosed. The apparatus includes a headbox having a top, a bottom, a pair of lateral sides, a back with an inlet formed therein and a front with an outlet formed therein. A first conduit is connected to the inlet of the headbox and flow therethrough is regulated to convey a first aqueous slurry at a desired flow rate into the headbox. The first aqueous slurry has a predetermined fiber consistency. A second conduit is connected to one of the lateral sides of the headbox and a second aqueous slurry is directed therethrough into the headbox at a different flow rate than through the first conduit. The apparatus also includes a mechanism for drying or draining water from the aqueous slurry exiting the outlet to form a thin fibrous mat. The thin fibrous mat has increased strength adjacent to an edge located downstream from the second conduit.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 1999Date of Patent: September 25, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Richard Martin Urquhart, Paul Douglas Beuther
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Patent number: 5779965Abstract: The crispness or clarity of embossed tissue is improved by embossing the tissue twice in two successive embossing nips formed between a rigid engraved embossing roll and a resilient backing roll. The hardness of the resilient backing roll in the first embossing nip is less than the hardness of the resilient backing roll in the second embossing nip. This form of double nip embossing is particularly effective for embossing tissue webs having high bulk and resiliency, such as soft uncreped throughdried tissues, which cannot be satisfactorily embossed by conventional methods.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 1996Date of Patent: July 14, 1998Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Paul Douglas Beuther, Tammy Lynn Baum, Anthony Mark Gambaro, David Robert Gruber, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay