Patents by Inventor Pierluigi Cappellini
Pierluigi Cappellini 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: 11911252Abstract: An elastic panel for use in an absorbent article including a first nonwoven web layer, a second nonwoven web layer and an elastomeric film layer disposed between the first and second nonwoven layers. At least one of the first and second nonwoven web layers includes at least one group of folded portions. Each folded portion includes a first fold line and a second fold line so that the folded portion is divided into a proximal section, a distal section and a medial section disposed between the proximal and distal sections. The proximal section is directly attached to the elastomeric film layer and the medial and distal sections are not directly attached to the elastomeric film layer so that the folded portions extend to allow the web panel to stretch elastically.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: First Quality Products, Inc.Inventor: Pierluigi Cappellini
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Publication number: 20230225908Abstract: A system for manufacturing elastic strand nonwoven panels including an unwind module, a lamination module and a folding module. Elastic strand material is fed from cores disposed on the unwind module through rollers towards the lamination module, where the elastic strand material is attached to a nonwoven web to form an elastic strand nonwoven web. At the folding module, the elastic strand nonwoven web is folded over itself by operation of plates underneath which the elastic strand nonwoven web is fed under tension.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventor: Pierluigi Cappellini
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Patent number: 11617686Abstract: A system for manufacturing elastic strand nonwoven panels including an unwind module, a lamination module and a folding module. Elastic strand material is fed from cores disposed on the unwind module through rollers towards the lamination module, where the elastic strand material is attached to a nonwoven web to form an elastic strand nonwoven web. At the folding module, the elastic strand nonwoven web is folded over itself by operation of plates underneath which the elastic strand nonwoven web is fed under tension.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: FIRST QUALITY BABY PRODUCTS, LLCInventor: Pierluigi Cappellini
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Publication number: 20220040007Abstract: A system for manufacturing elastic strand nonwoven panels including an unwind module, a lamination module and a folding module. Elastic strand material is fed from cores disposed on the unwind module through rollers towards the lamination module, where the elastic strand material is attached to a nonwoven web to form an elastic strand nonwoven web. At the folding module, the elastic strand nonwoven web is folded over itself by operation of plates underneath which the elastic strand nonwoven web is fed under tension.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventor: Pierluigi Cappellini
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Patent number: 10913253Abstract: A process for making an elastomeric laminated product including the steps of laminating an elastomeric film between a first spunbond nonvowen layer and a second spunbond nonwoven layer so as to form a laminated web, transporting the laminated web through intermeshing rollers so as to strain portions of the laminated web to form activated regions in the laminated web, and transporting the activated laminated web to a first portion of a rotating wheel, the first portion of the wheel having a cross direction width that is smaller than a cross direction width at a second portion of the wheel, so that the laminated web follows rotation of the wheel and is stretched in the cross direction at the second portion of the wheel before separating from the wheel at the first portion in a relaxed state.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: First Quality Baby Products, LLCInventors: Jeremy A. Doyle, Richard Eugene Kelley, Jr., Pierluigi Cappellini
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Publication number: 20200246202Abstract: An elastic panel for use in an absorbent article including a first nonwoven web layer, a second nonwoven web layer and an elastomeric film layer disposed between the first and second nonwoven layers. At least one of the first and second nonwoven web layers includes at least one group of folded portions. Each folded portion includes a first fold line and a second fold line so that the folded portion is divided into a proximal section, a distal section and a medial section disposed between the proximal and distal sections. The proximal section is directly attached to the elastomeric film layer and the medial and distal sections are not directly attached to the elastomeric film layer so that the folded portions extend to allow the web panel to stretch elastically.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventor: Pierluigi Cappellini, IV
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Patent number: 10588794Abstract: An elastic panel for use in an absorbent article including a first nonwoven web layer, a second nonwoven web layer and an elastomeric film layer disposed between the first and second nonwoven layers. At least one of the first and second nonwoven web layers includes at least one group of folded portions. Each folded portion includes a first fold line and a second fold line so that the folded portion is divided into a proximal section, a distal section and a medial section disposed between the proximal and distal sections. The proximal section is directly attached to the elastomeric film layer and the medial and distal sections are not directly attached to the elastomeric film layer so that the folded portions extend to allow the web panel to stretch elastically.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: First Quality Products, Inc.Inventor: Pierluigi Cappellini
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Publication number: 20200070487Abstract: A process for making an elastomeric laminated product including the steps of laminating an elastomeric film between a first spunbond nonvowen layer and a second spunbond nonwoven layer so as to form a laminated web, transporting the laminated web through intermeshing rollers so as to strain portions of the laminated web to form activated regions in the laminated web, and transporting the activated laminated web to a first portion of a rotating wheel, the first portion of the wheel having a cross direction width that is smaller than a cross direction width at a second portion of the wheel, so that the laminated web follows rotation of the wheel and is stretched in the cross direction at the second portion of the wheel before separating from the wheel at the first portion in a relaxed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Jeremy A. Doyle, Richard Eugene Kelley, JR., Pierluigi Cappellini
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Patent number: 10507633Abstract: A process for making an elastomeric laminated product including the steps of laminating an elastomeric film between a first spunbond nonwoven layer and a second spunbond nonwoven layer so as to form a laminated web, transporting the laminated web through intermeshing rollers so as to strain portions of the laminated web to form activated regions in the laminated web, and transporting the activated laminated web to a first portion of a rotating wheel, the first portion of the wheel having a cross direction width that is smaller than a cross direction width at a second portion of the wheel, so that the laminated web follows rotation of the wheel and is stretched in the cross direction at the second portion of the wheel before separating from the wheel at the first portion in a relaxed state.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: First Quality Baby Products, LLCInventors: Jeremy A. Doyle, Richard Eugene Kelley, Jr., Pierluigi Cappellini
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Publication number: 20170231838Abstract: An elastic panel for use in an absorbent article including a first nonwoven web layer, a second nonwoven web layer and an elastomeric film layer disposed between the first and second nonwoven layers. At least one of the first and second nonwoven web layers includes at least one group of folded portions. Each folded portion includes a first fold line and a second fold line so that the folded portion is divided into a proximal section, a distal section and a medial section disposed between the proximal and distal sections. The proximal section is directly attached to the elastomeric film layer and the medial and distal sections are not directly attached to the elastomeric film layer so that the folded portions extend to allow the web panel to stretch elastically.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventor: Pierluigi Cappellini
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Publication number: 20160311209Abstract: A process for making an elastomeric laminated product including the steps of laminating an elastomeric film between a first spunbond nonvowen layer and a second spunbond nonwoven layer so as to form a laminated web, transporting the laminated web through intermeshing rollers so as to strain portions of the laminated web to form activated regions in the laminated web, and transporting the activated laminated web to a first portion of a rotating wheel, the first portion of the wheel having a cross direction width that is smaller than a cross direction width at a second portion of the wheel, so that the laminated web follows rotation of the wheel and is stretched in the cross direction at the second portion of the wheel before separating from the wheel at the first portion in a relaxed state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: Jeremy A. Doyle, Richard Eugene Kelley, JR., Pierluigi Cappellini
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Publication number: 20070098984Abstract: Fibers with release-material sheaths, methods and systems for making such fibers, papermaking belts incorporating such fibers, and papermaking processes using belts incorporating such fibers are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2005Publication date: May 3, 2007Inventors: James Peterson, Pierluigi Cappellini, Kambiz Damaghi
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Publication number: 20040264899Abstract: Substantially flat plastic optical fibers with uniform core cross sections, methods and systems for making such fibers, and illumination devices incorporating such fibers are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Inventors: James F. Peterson, Pierluigi Cappellini, Hassan Bodaghi
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Publication number: 20040251567Abstract: A method and system are described for continuously producing plastic optical fiber. The method involves melting a polymeric starting material in a continuous screw extruder and then extruding the melted polymer vertically upward (i.e., against the force of gravity) to form a plastic optical fiber with a uniform core cross section.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2003Publication date: December 16, 2004Inventors: Pierluigi Cappellini, Hassan Bodaghi, James F. Peterson