Patents by Inventor Richard Wallace Hoefer

Richard Wallace Hoefer 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).

  • Controlled loft and density nonwoven webs and method for producing same
    Patent number: 6998164
    Abstract: A lofty, nonwoven material having a nonwoven web having a plurality of substantially continuous fibers oriented in a z-direction of the nonwoven web and a method for producing the lofty, nonwoven material from as-formed z-direction fibers. The method is fast, having no mechanical manipulation of the fibers to slow it down, easily adjustable and allows for in-line processing. The material can be varied from preponderantly open to preponderantly closed in its web structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2006
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: James Richard Neely, Edward Jason White, Kurtis Lee Brown, John Herbert Conrad, Richard Wallace Hoefer
  • Controlled loft and density nonwoven webs and method for producing same
    Publication number: 20030213109
    Abstract: A lofty, nonwoven material having a nonwoven web having a plurality of substantially continuous fibers oriented in a z-direction of the nonwoven web and a method for producing the lofty, nonwoven material from as-formed z-direction fibers. The method is fast, having no mechanical manipulation of the fibers to slow it down, easily adjustable and allows for in-line processing. The material can be varied from preponderantly open to preponderantly closed in its web structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: November 20, 2003
    Inventors: James Richard Neely, Edward Jason White, Kurtis Lee Brown, John Herbert Conrad, Richard Wallace Hoefer
  • Controlled loft and density nonwoven webs and method for producing
    Patent number: 6588080
    Abstract: A lofty, nonwoven material having a nonwoven web having a plurality of substantially continuous fibers oriented in a z-direction of the nonwoven web and a method for producing the lofty, nonwoven material from as-formed z-direction fibers. The method is fast, having no mechanical manipulation of the fibers to slow it down, easily adjustable and allows for in-line processing. The material can be varied from preponderantly open to preponderantly closed in its web structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: James Richard Neely, Edward Jason White, Kurtis Lee Brown, John Herbert Conrad, Richard Wallace Hoefer