Patents by Inventor Steven Lee Barnholtz

Steven Lee Barnholtz 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).

  • FIBROUS STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20110104444
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a pore volume distribution such that at least 25% and/or at least 43% of the total pore volume present in the fibrous structures exists in pores of radii of from 91 ?m to 140 ?m, and to methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Douglas Jay Barkey, Christopher Michael Young, Michael Donald Suer
  • FIBROUS ELEMENTS AND FIBROUS STRUCTURES EMPLOYING SAME
    Publication number: 20110104419
    Abstract: Fibrous elements, such as filaments, and more particularly to fibrous elements employing a polymer and a wetting agent, methods for making such fibrous elements, fibrous structures employing such fibrous elements, methods for making such fibrous structures and packages containing such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Michael Donald Suer, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Alan Howard Ullman
  • POLYPROPYLENE FIBROUS ELEMENTS AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20110104493
    Abstract: Polypropylene fibrous elements and more particularly polypropylene microfiber fibrous elements, fibrous structures including polypropylene fibrous elements, and processes for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • FIBROUS STRUCTURES THAT EXHIBIT CONSUMER RELEVANT PROPERTY VALUES
    Publication number: 20110100574
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a 4-Factor Consumer Relevant Property Value and more particularly to fibrous structures that exhibit a 5-Factor and/or 6-Factor Consumer Relevant Property Value are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2010
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Christopher Michael Young, Douglas Jay Barkey
  • CLOTHLIKE NON-WOVEN FIBROUS STRUCTURES AND PROCESSES FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20100326612
    Abstract: Fibrous structures, more particularly non-woven fibrous structures that exhibit properties that consumers associate with cloths, sanitary tissue products incorporating such fibrous structures and processes for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2010
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Inventors: Matthew Todd Hupp, Charles Allen Redd, Steven Lee Barnholtz
  • Clothlike non-woven fibrous structures and processes for making same
    Patent number: 7789994
    Abstract: Fibrous structures, more particularly non-woven fibrous structures that exhibit properties that consumers associate with cloths, sanitary tissue products incorporating such fibrous structures and processes for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Matthew Todd Hupp, Charles Allen Redd, Steven Lee Barnholtz
  • Dispersible fibrous structure and method of making same
    Patent number: 7776772
    Abstract: A dispersible fibrous structure having an in-use wet tensile strength of at least about 40 g/cm; a disposable wet tensile decay of at least about 35% and a method of making the structure. The structure has at least one property selected from a group consisting of: a wet CD maximum slope of less than about 12 kg/7.62 cm, a wet CD Elongation of greater than about 50%, a low elongation CD modulus of less than about 5.0 kg/7.62 cm, and a wet CD Bending of less than about 0.05 gf cm/cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, James Edwin Cartledge, Jr., Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Fibrous structures comprising a tuft
    Patent number: 7754050
    Abstract: Fibrous structures comprising a tuft. More particularly, the present invention relates to fibrous structures comprising at least two chemically different compositions wherein less than all of the chemically different compositions present in the fibrous structures forms a tuft, and processes for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: The Procter + Gamble Company
    Inventors: Charles Allen Redd, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Lois Jean Forde-Kohler, Kevin Benson McNeil, Matthew Todd Hupp, Gregory William Duritsch
  • FIBROUS STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20090084513
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit improved consumer recognizable properties, especially a VFS of greater than about 11 g/g, and to methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: April 2, 2009
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer
  • DISPERSIBLE FIBROUS STRUCTURE AND METHOD OF MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20090075546
    Abstract: A dispersible fibrous structure having an in-use wet tensile strength of at least about 40 g/cm; a disposable wet tensile decay of at least about 35% and a method of making the structure. The structure has at least one property selected from a group consisting of: a wet CD maximum slope of less than about 12 kg/7.62 cm, a wet CD Elongation of greater than about 50%, a low elongation CD modulus of less than about 5.0 kg/7.62 cm, and a wet CD Bending of less than about 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Publication date: March 19, 2009
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, James Edwin Cartledge, JR., Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • FIBROUS STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20090025894
    Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a pore volume distribution such that greater than about 40% of the total pore volume present in the fibrous structure exists in pores of radii of from about 121 ?m to about 200 ?m, and methods for making such fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer
  • FIBROUS STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20090022983
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing a mixture of three or more different fibrous elements (filaments and/or fibers) are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Steven Lee Barnholtz
  • FIBROUS STRUCTURES AND METHODS FOR MAKING SAME
    Publication number: 20090022960
    Abstract: Fibrous structures and more particularly convolutedly wound rolls of fibrous structures having end edges including bond regions and methods for making such convolutedly wound rolls of fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Michael Donald Suer, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • PROCESS FOR MAKING FIBROUS STRUCTURES
    Publication number: 20090023839
    Abstract: Processes for making fibrous structures and more particularly processes for making fibrous structures comprising filaments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2008
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer, Douglas Jay Barkey, Jonathan Paul Brennan, Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Dispersible fibrous structure and method of making same
    Patent number: 7476631
    Abstract: A dispersible fibrous structure having an in-use wet tensile strength of at least about 40 g/cm; a disposable wet tensile decay of at least about 35% and a method of making the structure. The structure has at least one property selected from a group consisting of: a wet CD maximum slope of less than about 12 kg/7.62 cm, a wet CD Elongation of greater than about 50%, a low elongation CD modulus of less than about 5.0 kg/7.62 cm, and a wet CD Bending of less than about 0.05 gf cm/cm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, James Edwin Cartledge, Jr., Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Papermachine clothing having reduced void spaces
    Patent number: 7332451
    Abstract: Paper-machine clothing comprising a woven structure and a filling component. A filament and a second filament of the woven structure intersect in a weave pattern contact each other. Void spaces produced by the intersection of the first filament and the second filament are substantially filled by a durable filling component. The durable component adheres to at most one of the first and second filaments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Jr., Douglas Jay Barkey, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad
  • Web comprising a tuft
    Publication number: 20080008853
    Abstract: Webs, such as fibrous structures, having a tuft, sanitary tissue products employing same and methods for making same are provided. More particularly, webs, such as fibrous structures, having a tuft employing a non-extensible material, such as non-extensible fibers, sanitary tissue products employing same and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: January 10, 2008
    Inventors: Matthew Todd Hupp, Charles Allen Redd, Steven Lee Barnholtz
  • Embossed multi-ply fibrous structure product
    Publication number: 20070272381
    Abstract: A multi-ply fibrous structure product having two or more plies of fibrous structure where at least one of the plies has a plurality of domes formed during the papermaking process and there are from about 10 to about 1000 domes per square inch of the product. At least one of the plies of the multi-ply fibrous structure has a plurality of embossments thereon with a total embossment area of from about 3% to about 15%. The embossments may be arranged such that they define non-geometric foreground patterns of unembossed cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Ahmed Kamal Elony, Osman Polat, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Markus Wilhelm Altmann, Ward William Ostendorf, Kevin Mitchell Wiwi, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Douglas Jay Barkey
  • Dispersible fibrous structure and method of making same
    Publication number: 20040198114
    Abstract: A dispersible fibrous structure having an in-use wet tensile strength of at least about 40 g/cm; a disposable wet tensile decay of at least about 35% and a method of making the structure. The structure has at least one property selected from a group consisting of: a wet CD maximum slope of less than about 12 kg/7.62 cm, a wet CD Elongation of greater than about 50%, a low elongation CD modulus of less than about 5.0 kg/7.62 cm, and a wet CD Bending of less than about 0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, James Edwin Cartledge, Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Multiple ply tissue paper
    Patent number: RE40724
    Abstract: A multiple ply tissue paper structure is disclosed. The multiple ply tissue paper has plies having different texture values. In one embodiment, the multiple ply tissue paper has two plies having different calipers and macrodensities. In another embodiment, the multiple ply tissue paper has three plies, including a relatively untextured ply disposed between two relatively highly textured plies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Steven Lee Barnholtz