Patents by Inventor Wendy Marie Takken

Wendy Marie Takken 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).

  • Method for producing creped nonwoven webs
    Patent number: 6835264
    Abstract: The present invention provides a one or two step method for bonding and creping or double creping a nonwoven web. In the method of the present invention, a nonwoven web is adhered to a creping roll and bonded while on the creping roll. The bonding of the nonwoven adheres the nonwoven to the creping roll in a pattern of the bonding roll. Once creped from the creping roll, the resulting nonwoven web is creped in the pattern of the bonding roll. The creped nonwoven webs of the present invention are useful in a wide variety of application including as wipes, liners, transfer or surge layers, outercovers, other fluid handling materials and looped fastener materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: John Joseph Sayovitz, Gregory Todd Sudduth, Charles Edward Edmundson, Howard Martin Welch, Stephen Michael Campbell, Wendy Marie Takken
  • Method for creping nonwoven webs
    Publication number: 20030116259
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for creping a nonwoven web using a hot melt adhesive as the creping adhesive. As a second aspect of the present invention, an internal adhesive is added to the polymers used to produce the nonwoven web during the nonwoven web forming process and this internal adhesive adheres the nonwoven web to the creping roll. Using the processes of the present invention, more energy efficient methods are provided for creping nonwoven webs. The creped nonwoven webs of the present invention are useful in a wide variety of application including as wipes, liners, transfer or surge layers, outercovers, other fluid handling materials and looped attachment materials for hook and loop fasteners.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: John Joseph Sayovitz, Gregory Todd Sudduth, Charles Edward Edmundson, Howard Martin Welch, Stephen Michael Campbell, Wendy Marie Takken, James Randall Morgan, Cherie Hartman Everhart, Jason Douglas Hadley, Susan Elaine Shawver
  • Method for producing creped nonwoven webs
    Publication number: 20030119412
    Abstract: The present invention provides a one step method for bonding and creping a nonwoven web. In the method of the present invention, a nonwoven web is adhered to a creping roll and bonded while on the creping roll. The bonding of the nonwoven adheres the nonwoven to the creping roll in a pattern of the bonding roll. Once creped from the creping roll, the resulting nonwoven web is creped in the pattern of the bonding roll. The creped nonwoven webs of the present invention are useful in a wide variety of application including as wipes, liners, transfer or surge layers, outercovers, other fluid handling materials and looped fastener materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2001
    Publication date: June 26, 2003
    Inventors: John Joseph Sayovitz, Gregory Todd Sudduth, Charles Edward Edmundson, Howard Martin Welch, Stephen Michael Campbell, Wendy Marie Takken