Patents by Inventor Thomas Hoerner

Thomas Hoerner 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).

  • Publication number: 20070062966
    Abstract: A pack of wipes including multiple wipes arranged in a stack and an external envelope enclosing the stack. The external envelope includes a dispensing orifice and the wipes are folded so as to include a leading panel, a central panel, a trailing panel, a leading fold and a trailing fold, wherein the leading fold separates the leading panel from the central panel and the trailing fold separates the central panel from the trailing panel. The stack has a first wipe and a second wipe. The first wipe is placed closest to the dispensing orifice and the second wipe is positioned next to the first wipe in the stack, wherein the removal of the first wipe through the dispensing orifice induces a portion of the central panel of the second wipe and a portion of the leading panel of the second wipe to protrude from the dispensing orifice and to stay in contact to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2006
    Publication date: March 22, 2007
    Inventors: Erwin Mark, Thomas Hoerner, Michael Kupneski, Stanley Juergens
  • Patent number: 6458450
    Abstract: A wiping implement suitable for use as a bath tissue can be formed into sheets, each sheet comprising at least one ply of a paper web having a basis weight of at least about 25 lb/3000 square feet. The sheet can have a width of at least about 4.5 inches and temporary wet tensile properties. The sheet of the present invention can have an area of at least about 30 square inches. In a multiple ply embodiment, the sheet can have an optimized basis weight of at least about 42 lb/3000 square feet while maintaining nearly the same amount of actual total fiber usage per cleaning task as current premium bath tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark John Steinhardt, Michael William Tafuri, Jr., Paul Thomas Weisman, Thomas Hoerner, Bernhard Maier, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Kenneth Douglas Vinson
  • Patent number: 6265052
    Abstract: A wiping implement suitable for use as a bath tissue can be formed into sheets, each sheet comprising at least one ply of a paper web having a basis weight of at least about 25 lb/3000 square feet. The sheet can have a width of at least about 4.5 inches and temporary wet tensile properties. The sheet of the present invention can have an area of at least about 30 square inches. In a multiple ply embodiment, the sheet can have an optimized basis weight of at least about 42 lb/3000 square feet while maintaining nearly the same amount of actual total fiber usage per cleaning task as current premium bath tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark John Steinhardt, Michael William Tafuri, Jr., Paul Thomas Weisman, Thomas Hoerner, Bernhard Maier, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Kenneth Douglas Vinson
  • Patent number: 6180216
    Abstract: A wiping implement suitable for use as a bath tissue can be formed into sheets, each sheet comprising at least one ply of a paper web having a basis weight of at least about 25 lb/3000 square feet. The sheet can have a width of at least about 4.5 inches and temporary wet tensile properties. The sheet of the present invention can have an area of at least about 30 square inches. In a multiple ply embodiment, the sheet can have an optimized basis weight of at least about 42 lb/3000 square feet while maintaining nearly the same amount of actual total fiber usage per cleaning task as current premium bath tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2001
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark John Steinhardt, Michael William Tafuri, Jr., Paul Thomas Weisman, Thomas Hoerner, Bernhard Maier, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Kenneth Douglas Vinson