Patents by Inventor Richard Joseph Kamps
Richard Joseph Kamps 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: 7871401Abstract: A stretchable absorbent article has a longitudinal axis, a lateral axis, a front waist region, a back waist region, a crotch region extending longitudinally between and interconnecting said front and back waist regions, a length, and a width. The absorbent article has a liquid impermeable outer cover stretchable in at least one direction and a liner in opposed relationship with the outer cover and stretchable in at least one direction. At least one of the liner and the outer cover has a width substantially equal to the width of the absorbent article along the length thereof. An absorbent structure is disposed between the liner and the outer cover and extends from the crotch region to at least one of the front waist region and the back waist region of the article. The outer cover is elastic and is configured to improve the fit of the absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2005Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Michael Donald Sperl, Richard Joseph Kamps
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Patent number: 6911573Abstract: The present invention is a method for producing an absorbent article. A wet resillient, cellulosic basesheet having elevated and depressed regions with an Overall Surface Depth of at least 0.2 mm is prepared. The cellulosic basesheet has an upper surface and a lower surface. A contiguous, fibrous nonwoven web having a plurality of openings is integrally attached onto the upper surface of the cellulosic basesheet such that a portion of the openings are superposed over the depressed regions of the cellulosic basesheet. An absorbent core and an impervious web are attached to the lower surface of the cellulosic basesheet such that the absorbent core is sandwiched between the impervious web and the cellulosic basesheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2002Date of Patent: June 28, 2005Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Patent number: 6808790Abstract: Paper sheets useful for tissues, paper towels, napkins, disposable absorbent products and the like can be made to exhibit a high degree of wet resiliency. This property is achieved by using a combination of high yield pulp fibers (such as bleached chemithermomechanical pulp fibers) and a wet strength agent in an uncreped throughdrying process. The resulting product, when wetted, can spring back after being crumpled in one's hand.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2002Date of Patent: October 26, 2004Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Mark Alan Burazin, Michael Alan Hermans, David Henry Hollenberg, Richard Joseph Kamps, Bernhardt Edward Kressner, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay
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Publication number: 20030070780Abstract: Paper sheets useful for tissues, paper towels, napkins, disposable absorbent products and the like can be made to exhibit a high degree of wet resiliency. This property is achieved by using a combination of high yield pulp fibers (such as bleached chemithermomechanical pulp fibers) and a wet strength agent in an uncreped throughdrying process. The resulting product, when wetted, can spring back after being crumpled in one's hand.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2002Publication date: April 17, 2003Inventors: Fung-Jou Chen, Mark Alan Burazin, Michael Alan Hermans, David Henry Hollenberg, Richard Joseph Kamps, Bernhardt Edward Kressner, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay
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Patent number: 6436234Abstract: Paper sheets useful for tissues, paper towels, napkins, disposable absorbent products and the like can be made to exhibit a high degree of wet resiliency. This property is achieved by using a combination of high yield pulp fibers (such as bleached chemithermomechanical pulp fibers) and a wet strength agent in an uncreped throughdrying process. The resulting product, when wetted, can spring back after being crumpled in one's hand.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 1997Date of Patent: August 20, 2002Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Mark Alan Burazin, Michael Alan Hermans, David Henry Hollenberg, Richard Joseph Kamps, Bernhardt Edward Kressner, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay
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Publication number: 20020107495Abstract: A dual-zoned, three-dimensional, resilient absorbent web is disclosed which is suitable as body-side liner for absorbent articles such as feminine pads, diapers and the like. When used as a liner in absorbent articles, the dual-zoned web combines the advantages of apertured films and soft, nonwoven cover layers in one structure while still being inherently hydrophilic. The liner comprises a web of wet-resilient, hydrophilic basesheet having a three-dimensional topography comprising elevated regions onto which hydrophobic matter is deposited or printed and a plurality of spaced apart depressed regions. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrophobic matter applied to the elevated regions of the basesheet comprises hydrophobic fibers in a contiguous nonwoven web which has been apertured or provided with slits or other openings, such that the apertures or openings overlay a portion of the depressed regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2002Publication date: August 8, 2002Inventors: Fung-Jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Publication number: 20020103469Abstract: A dual-zoned, three-dimensional, resilient absorbent web is disclosed which is suitable as body-side liner for absorbent articles such as feminine pads, diapers and the like. When used as a liner in absorbent articles, the dual-zoned web combines the advantages of apertured films and soft, nonwoven cover layers in one structure while still being inherently hydrophilic. The liner comprises a web of wet-resilient, hydrophilic basesheet having a three-dimensional topography comprising elevated regions onto which hydrophobic matter is deposited or printed and a plurality of spaced apart depressed regions. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrophobic matter applied to the elevated regions of the basesheet comprises hydrophobic fibers in a contiguous nonwoven web which has been apertured or provided with slits or other openings, such that the apertures or openings overlay a portion of the depressed regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2002Publication date: August 1, 2002Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Publication number: 20020099347Abstract: A dual-zoned, three-dimensional, resilient absorbent web is disclosed which is suitable as body-side liner for absorbent articles such as feminine pads, diapers and the like. When used as a liner in absorbent articles, the dual-zoned web combines the advantages of apertured films and soft, nonwoven cover layers in one structure while still being inherently hydrophilic. The liner comprises a web of wet-resilient, hydrophilic basesheet having a three-dimensional topography comprising elevated regions onto which hydrophobic matter is deposited or printed and a plurality of spaced apart depressed regions. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrophobic matter applied to the elevated regions of the basesheet comprises hydrophobic fibers in a contiguous nonwoven web which has been apertured or provided with slits or other openings, such that the apertures or openings overlay a portion of the depressed regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2002Publication date: July 25, 2002Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Patent number: 6395957Abstract: A dual-zoned, three-dimensional, resilient absorbent web is disclosed which is suitable as body-side liner for absorbent articles such as feminine pads, diapers and the like. When used as a liner in absorbent articles, the dual-zoned web combines the advantages of apertured films and soft, nonwoven cover layers in one structure while still being inherently hydrophilic. The liner comprises a web of wet-resilient, hydrophilic basesheet having a three-dimensional topography comprising elevated regions onto which hydrophobic matter is deposited or printed and a plurality of spaced apart depressed regions. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrophobic matter applied to the elevated regions of the basesheet comprises hydrophobic fibers in a contiguous nonwoven web which has been apertured or provided with slits or other openings, such that the apertures or openings overlay a portion of the depressed regions.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: May 28, 2002Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Patent number: 6203663Abstract: Paper sheets, such as tissue sheets useful for facial tissue, bath tissue and the like, are formed with a decorative pattern imparted to the tissue sheet by the forming fabric. The decorative pattern is incorporated into the forming fabric by a variety of means, such as stitching, silk screening, printing, weaving, or overlaying a fabric with a decorative pattern onto a conventional forming fabric. The presence of decoratively-shaped areas in the forming fabric, which are areas of relatively slow water drainage, cause corresponding areas in the resulting sheet to have a translucent appearance attributable to a relatively lower basis weight and/or different fiber composition. The decorative patterns are preferably formed in the outer or surface layer(s) of the paper sheet.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 1995Date of Patent: March 20, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Richard Joseph Kamps, Janica Sue Behnke, Fung-jou Chen, Darnell Clarence Radtke
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Patent number: 6197154Abstract: A method for making a textured tissue sheet on a conventional tissue making machine using a conventional cylindrical drum dryer creates a product that is remarkably bulky, soft, and wet resilient. A combination of rush transfer and sheet molding with three-dimensional fabrics is combined with the step of web inversion to ensure that the surface of the web which was molded onto a first textured transfer fabric is the surface which is placed against the surface of the cylinder dryer. Web inversion improves machine productivity and enhances physical properties of the web.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1997Date of Patent: March 6, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Shan Liang Chen, Michael Alan Hermans, Sheng-Hsin Hu, Richard Joseph Kamps, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay
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Patent number: 6187137Abstract: A method of using a conventional wet-pressed creped tissue machine produces a textured tissue sheet that is dried on a conventional cylindrical drum dryer to create an uncreped product with throughdried-like properties. Machine modifications and a proper balance of adhesive compounds and release agents permit a textured sheet to be dried on a Yankee drier and then pulled off without use of a crepe blade.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1997Date of Patent: February 13, 2001Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Frank Gerald Druecke, Shan Liang Chen, Michael Alan Hermans, Sheng-Hsin Hu, Richard Joseph Kamps
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Patent number: 6083346Abstract: A tissue sheet is made using a modified wet pressing process employing an integrally sealed air press. After initial formation and conventional vacuum dewatering, the wet web is conformed to the surface contour of a relatively coarse fabric to give the web a textured surface. By creating a pressure differential across the web of at least 30 inches of mercury and an air stream through the web of at least 500 SCFM/in.sup.2, the air press noncompressively dewaters the wet web to a consistency of about 30 to about 40 percent prior to a Yankee dryer. The web is dried to substantially preserve its three-dimensional, throughdried-like texture. The resulting web has an exceptionally high degree of bulk and absorbency not previously found in wet-pressed products.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 1997Date of Patent: July 4, 2000Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Michael Alan Hermans, Shan Liang-Chen, Fung-jou Chen, Frank Gerald Druecke, Robert Irving Gusky, Frank Stephen Hada, Richard Joseph Kamps, Charles Robert Tomsovic
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Patent number: 5990377Abstract: A dual-zoned, three-dimensional, resilient absorbent web is disclosed which is suitable as body-side liner for absorbent articles such as feminine pads, diapers and the like. When used as a liner in absorbent articles, the dual-zoned web combines the advantages of apertured films and soft, nonwoven cover layers in one structure while still being inherently hydrophilic. The liner comprises a web of wet-resilient, hydrophilic basesheet having a three-dimensional topography comprising elevated regions onto which hydrophobic matter is deposited or printed and a plurality of spaced apart depressed regions. In a preferred embodiment, the hydrophobic matter applied to the elevated regions of the basesheet comprises hydrophobic fibers in a contiguous nonwoven web which has been apertured or provided with slits or other openings, such that the apertures or openings overlay a portion of the depressed regions.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 1997Date of Patent: November 23, 1999Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Fung-jou Chen, Jeffrey Dean Lindsay, Richard Joseph Kamps, Andrew Michael Lake, Mark Louis Robinson
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Patent number: 5743999Abstract: Paper sheets, such as creped tissue sheets used for converting into tissue products such as facial tissue and bath tissue, can be softened with by passing the sheets through one or more fixed-gap noncompactive straining nips formed between two engraved rolls having partially-engaged small straining elements of a shape which strains the sheet in all directions. The straining treatment substantially reduces the rigidity of the tissue sheet by increasing the internal bulk without substantially reducing the tensile strength. The method provides a means for making a throughdried-like tissue sheet from a wet-pressed tissue sheet.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 1994Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Richard Joseph Kamps, Janica Sue Behnke, Fung-Jou Chen, Bernhardt Edward Kressner, Janice Gail Nielsen
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Patent number: 5702571Abstract: Tissue sheets, such as are useful for facial or bath tissue, can be embossed with a fine scale embossing pattern to increase bulk with a minimal loss in strength. The fine scale embossing pattern contains at least about 15 discrete intermeshing embossing elements per square centimeter (100 per square inch) and can enable the tissue manufacturer to produce premium quality tissues having adequate softness, bulk and strength from conventional tissue basesheets without layering or throughdrying equipment. Depending on the starting basesheet material, tissues having a unique balance of properties can be produced, especially for conventional wet-pressed basesheets.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1996Date of Patent: December 30, 1997Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Richard Joseph Kamps, Janica Sue Behnke, Fung-jou Chen, Darnell Clarence Radtke