Non-uniform, Irregular Or Configured Web Or Sheet Patents (Class 162/109)
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Patent number: 12203222Abstract: Toilet tissue having a dynamic surface comprising a surface material that overlays a textured web material such that the toilet tissue exhibits one or more novel properties and method for making same are provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Matthew Gary McKee, Brooke Marie Woods, Joerg Kleinwaechter, Atiya Jordan-Brown, David Warren Loebker, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 12134861Abstract: The single ply creped webs and products are generally durable, flexible and highly dispersible. The single ply creped webs and products may have a Slosh time less than 1 minute, and more preferably less than about 30 seconds, and a wet cross-machine direction (CD) tensile strength greater than about 100 g/3?. The single ply creped webs and products may be produced by a print crepe process that disposes a latex binder, particularly a non-cross linked latex binder, on at least one of the product's outer surfaces. The presence of a latex binder on the product's outer surface generally increases product durability and flexibility without negatively affecting dispersibility.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Maurizio Tirimacco, Kevin Joseph Vogt
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Patent number: 12123145Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit novel tear alone or in combination with tensile properties and methods for making same.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: William Ellis Bailey, Douglas Jay Barkey, Ward William Ostendorf
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Patent number: 12084799Abstract: According to the present invention, the curling or lifting of webs that occurs during the production nonwoven fabrics, and wrinkles that form on the surface of nonwoven fabrics are prevented. Also, the webs can be easily taken off without making grip stronger than necessary. The present invention pertains to an industrial fabric formed by weaving warp and weft, wherein an embossed pattern having a concavo-convex shape is formed in the vicinity of the apex of a knuckle portion exposed on the surface side of the warp and/or weft. In particular, the industrial fabric is characterized in that the warp and/or weft having the embossed pattern are plastic monofilaments.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: NIPPON FILCON CO., LTD.Inventors: Keisuke Inoue, Toru Egawa, Hideyuki Yanai
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Patent number: 12071729Abstract: A fibrous structure may include a plurality of wetformed knuckles or pillows, where the wet-formed knuckles or pillows of the pattern may form a plurality of rows oriented in an X-direction and/or a Y-direction, and the plurality of rows may be curved in a repeating wave pattern, where the repeating wave pattern may have an amplitude and a wavelength, and wherein the amplitude may be between about 0.75 mm and about 3.0 mm, and the wavelength may be between about 25.0 mm and about 125.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Osman Polat, Charles Allen Redd, Kathryn Christian Kien, Anthony Paul Bankemper
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Patent number: 12031275Abstract: A roll of sanitary tissue product comprising a shaped line of weakness, where the roll of sanitary tissue product may exhibit a roll compressibility of from about 4% to about 10% and a LWP Factor of greater than about 8.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Katie Kristine Glass, Angela Marie Leimbach, Gustav Andre Mellin
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Patent number: 11952723Abstract: Embossed fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 270 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and more particularly to embossed fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 270 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and a Total Dry Tensile of less than 2375 g/76.2 mm and/or a Geometric Mean Total Dry Tensile of less than 1130 g/76.2 mm as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten (NMN) Knobloch
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Patent number: 11952722Abstract: A roll of sanitary tissue product that includes a shaped line of weakness, wherein the roll of sanitary tissue product exhibits a roll compressibility of from about 7%, and the sanitary tissue product has a Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Strength of about 8 g to about 20 g, as measured by the Full Sheet Average Trapezoidal Tear Force Method.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Katie Kristine Glass, Angela Marie Leimbach, Gustav Andre Mellin
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Patent number: 11952725Abstract: Fibrous structures having a surface pattern of a continuous knuckle region and a plurality of discrete pillow regions such that the fibrous structures that retain sufficient Surface Void Volume as measured according to the Surface Void Volume Test Method described herein during use by consumers to provide consumer desirable cleaning performance after bowel movements without providing undesirable negative impacts to softness as measured according to the Emtec Test Method and/or the Plate Stiffness Test Method both described herein, methods for making same, and molding members used in such methods, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: William Ellis Bailey, Ward William Ostendorf, Anthony Paul Bankemper, Douglas Jay Barkey, J. Michael Bills, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan
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Patent number: 11952727Abstract: Fibrous structures, for example toilet tissue, having a surface including a plurality of fibrous elements, such as a plurality of hydroxyl polymer filaments that exhibit an average fiber diameter of less than 2 ?m as measured according to the Surface Average Fiber Diameter Test Method such that the fibrous structure exhibits a Dual Surface Glide Value of less than 17.7 g as measured according to the Glide Test Method—3 Inch Sample and method for making same is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Matthew Gary McKee, Brooke Marie Woods, Joerg Kleinwaechter, William Ryan Falta, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 11920307Abstract: Provided are tissue webs, and products produced therefrom, that are generally durable, flexible and have improved cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as CD tensile energy absorption (CD TEA), CD stretch and CD modulus. The inventive tissue products generally comprise multiple tissue plies, such as two or more plies, that have been prepared by through-air drying and more preferably by through-air drying without creping. Moreover, the plies may be produced in a through-air drying process that utilizes a transfer fabric positioned between the forming fabric and the through-air drying fabric where the transfer fabric imparts the nascent web with a high degree of CD strain.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventors: Mark W. Sachs, Richard A. Zanon, Lynda E. Collins, Kevin J. Vogt, Christopher L. Satori
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Patent number: 11846074Abstract: Absorbent product including a laminate of at least two plies, wherein the absorbent product has a measured Y-Connected Area parameter greater than 20 and a Surface Channel Spacing of less than 2.5 mm. The absorbent product has high strength and low machine direction stretch.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: First Quality Tissue, LLCInventors: James E. Sealey, II, Justin S. Pence, Marc Paul Begin, Zachary Korkowski, Byrd Tyler Miller, IV
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Patent number: 11767641Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit a novel combination of compressibility properties, plate stiffness properties, and slip stick coefficient of friction properties, and methods for making same.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ward William Ostendorf, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, David Warren Loebker, Ryan Dominic Maladen, John Allen Manifold, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi
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Patent number: 11700979Abstract: Sanitary tissue product rolls that exhibit novel combinations of physical properties, such as Moment of Inertia, Roll Density, and Roll Diameter, such that the sanitary tissue product rolls meet consumers' needs, and method for making such novel sanitary tissue product rolls and marketing such novel sanitary tissue product rolls are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kevin Mitchell, Robert Edward Reinerman, Douglas Jay Barkey, Mark Alan Green, Paul Dennis Trokhan, J. Michael Bills, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Thomas Weisman
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Patent number: 11702796Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for drying a pulp web, with dewatering of the pulp web by pressing and the pulp web being guided directly on the press belt to a first transfer area for transfer of the pulp web to a transfer clothing and transfer of the pulp web in a second transfer area to a dryer. It is characterized in that the pulp web undergoes thermal drying between the first transfer area and the second transfer area. This enables production of a pulp web with improved quality characteristics and low energy consumption at the same time.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: ANDRITZ AGInventors: Klaus Gissing, Boris Jancic, Lukas Gissing
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Patent number: 11633076Abstract: Sanitary tissue product rolls that exhibit novel combinations of physical properties, such as Moment of Inertia, Roll Density, and optionally Roll Diameter, such that the sanitary tissue product rolls meet consumers' needs, and method for making such novel sanitary tissue product rolls and marketing such novel sanitary tissue product rolls are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Kevin Mitchell, Robert Edward Reinerman, Douglas Jay Barkey, Mark Alan Green, Paul Dennis Trokhan, J. Michael Bills, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Thomas Weisman
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Patent number: 11622664Abstract: Fibrous structures, for example pre-moistened fibrous structures, having a novel contact surface (micro protrusion surface) and methods for using the fibrous structures and making the fibrous structures are provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus DeBeer
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Patent number: 11447914Abstract: Removal of stickies from waste paper and paperboard is obtained with the use of a modified kaolin-based stickies removal composition. The modified kaolin-based stickies removal composition is produced by modifying the kaolin clay, separating the modified kaolin clay from the non-reactive kaolin clay, and then adding a nonionic surfactant to the modified kaolin-based particles. Removal of stickies is improved by the use of this modified kaolin-based stickies removal composition during the recycling of the waste paper and paperboard.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Inventors: Cesar I. Basilio, Steven W. Sheppard
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Patent number: 11441274Abstract: Products having reducing tissue wrinkling, puckering, and bunching and improved emboss definition, emboss visibility, and perceived softness are described. The methods comprise embossing the tissue sheet with a emboss elements having segments aligned in the machine direction and including an abatement component, such as a tapered width or a multi dual-apex, that can absorb machine direction stretch during the production of the product.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLCInventors: Brian J. Schuh, Steven R. Olson, Michael D. Wishneski, Eric A. Stuart
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Patent number: 11427969Abstract: A web substrate having at least one embossed ply having a surface thereof is disclosed. The surface has surface area comprising at least about 0.2 percent line embossments and a ratio of line embossment area to dot embossment area greater than 1.5.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: André Mellin, Kevin Benson McNeil, Thomas Timothy Byrne, Jason Merrill Jones
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Patent number: 11427967Abstract: Provided are tissue webs, and products produced therefrom, that are generally durable, flexible and have improved cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as CD tensile energy absorption (CD TEA), CD stretch and CD modulus. The inventive tissue products generally comprise multiple tissue plies, such as two or more plies, that have been prepared by through-air drying and more preferably by through-air drying without creping. Moreover, the plies may be produced in a through-air drying process that utilizes a transfer fabric positioned between the forming fabric and the through-air drying fabric where the transfer fabric imparts the nascent web with a high degree of CD strain.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Mark W. Sachs, Richard A. Zanon, Lynda E. Collins, Kevin J. Vogt, Christopher L. Satori
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Patent number: 11408129Abstract: A fibrous structure includes a plurality of discrete wet-formed knuckles extending from a pillow surface of the fibrous structure, wherein the plurality of discrete wet-formed knuckles are arranged in a pattern organized in an X-Y coordinate plane, each of the wet-formed knuckles of the pattern is included within a plurality of rows oriented in an X-direction and a plurality of rows oriented in a Y-direction, and each row in the X-direction is curved in a repeating wave pattern, wherein the repeating wave pattern has an amplitude and a wavelength, and wherein the amplitude is between about 0.75 mm and about 3.0 mm, and the wavelength is between about 25.0 mm and about 125.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Osman Polat, Charles Allen Redd, Kathryn Christian Kien, Anthony Paul Bankemper
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Patent number: 11390995Abstract: A method to prepare, pulp, and bleach cannabis bast and hurd fibers to allow for the fiber to be incorporated into absorbent cellulosic structures on a wet-laid paper machine while keeping the pectin within the fibers. The wet laid paper machine can use the ATMOS, NTT, ETAD, TAD, or UCTAD method to produce the absorbent cellulosic structure. Absorbent cellulosic structures are produced with the cannabis bast and hurd fibers or with the bast fibers alone with the hurd fibers being combined with paper mill sludge or dust to form a fuel pellet.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: FIRST QUALITY TISSUE, LLCInventors: Karthik Ramaratnam, James E. Sealey, II, Byrd Tyler Miller, IV, Taras Z. Andrukh, Randy H. Elgin
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Patent number: 11293142Abstract: A method for manufacturing a paperboard structure includes passing a paperboard substrate through a hot-hard calender to yield a calendered paperboard substrate, the hot-hard calender including a nip defined by a thermo-roller and a counter roller, wherein a contact surface of the thermo-roller is heated to an elevated temperature. The method then includes applying a basecoat to the calendered paperboard substrate to yield a basecoated paperboard substrate, the basecoat includes a basecoat binder and a basecoat pigment blend. The method further includes applying a topcoat to the basecoated paperboard substrate.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: April 5, 2022Assignee: WESTROCK MWV, LLCInventors: Sergio A. Giuste, Steven Parker, Terrell J. Green
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Patent number: 11286623Abstract: Provided are tissue webs, and products produced therefrom, that are generally durable, flexible and have improved cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as CD tensile energy absorption (CD TEA), CD stretch and CD modulus. The inventive tissue products generally comprise a single tissue ply that has been prepared by through-air drying and more preferably by through-air drying without creping. Moreover, the products may be produced using a transfer fabric positioned between the forming fabric and the through-air drying fabric where the transfer fabric imparts the nascent web with a high degree of CD strain.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Mark W. Sachs, Richard A. Zanon, Lynda E. Collins, Kevin J. Vogt, Christopher L. Satori
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Patent number: 11286622Abstract: A tissue product including a laminate of at least two plies of a multi-layer tissue web, the tissue product having a softness value (HF) of 92.0 or greater, a lint value of 4.5 or less, and an Sdr of greater than 3.0.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: STRUCTURED I, LLCInventors: James E. Sealey, Byrd Tyler Miller, IV, Phillip MacDonald, Taras Z. Andrukh, Justin S. Pence
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Patent number: 11268244Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit a novel combination of compressibility properties, plate stiffness properties, and slip stick coefficient of friction properties, and methods for making same.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ward William Ostendorf, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, David Warren Loebker, Ryan Dominic Maladen, John Allen Manifold, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi
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Patent number: 11255049Abstract: The present invention provides an embossed multi-ply tissue product that is visually pleasing and has improved physical attributes. For example, the inventive multi-ply tissue products have reduced stiffness, such as a GM Flexural Rigidity less than about 600 mg*cm, improved absorbency, such as a Residual Water (WResidual) value less than about 0.15 g, and improved wet resiliency, such as a wet elastic strain ratio greater than about 32 percent.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Christopher Steven LeCount, Kevin Joseph Vogt, Sarah Ann Funk, Jeffrey Dean Holz, Jason Daniel Hanke, Mike Thomas Goulet
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Patent number: 11247431Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 11235551Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 11162225Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit novel combination of slip stick coefficient of friction and compressibility properties and methods for making same.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ward William Ostendorf, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, David Warren Loebker, Ryan Dominic Maladen, John Allen Manifold, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi
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Patent number: 11155698Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the production of a film comprising microfibrillated cellulose, wherein the method comprises the steps of; providing a suspension comprising microfibrillated cellulose, applying the suspension on a substrate to form a fibrous web, wherein the web has a first and a second side, conducting the web to a contact drying equipment wherein the first side of said web is in direct contact with of the contact drying equipment at a temperature above 100° C. whereby the web is at least partly dried forming a film. The invention also relates to a film produced according to the method.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Stora Enso OYJInventors: Isto Heiskanen, Esa Saukkonen, Kaj Backfolk
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Patent number: 11136719Abstract: A method of making a fibrous sheet. The method includes forming a nascent web from an aqueous solution of papermaking fibers, moving a dewatered web on a transfer surface, and applying a vacuum at a molding zone defined between the transfer surface and a molding roll. The molding roll includes a permeable patterned surface on an exterior of the molding roll. The method also includes transferring the dewatered web from the transfer surface to the permeable patterned surface at the molding zone. The vacuum is applied during the transferring of the dewatered web, and the papermaking fibers of the dewatered web are (i) redistributed on the permeable patterned surface and (ii) drawn into a plurality of recess of the permeable patterned surface, in order to form a molded paper web. The method further includes drying the molded paper web in a drying section to form a fibrous sheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLCInventor: David A. Beck
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Patent number: 11085150Abstract: The invention provides calendered tissue webs and products produced by passing a tissue web through a calender nip created by a patterned roll having a first pattern and a second pattern thereon and a substantially smooth roll. As the web is transported through the nip it is subjected to variable calender loads that impart variable cross-machine (CD) direction properties to the resulting calendered web. CD properties that may be varied according to the present invention include sheet caliper, sheet bulk and surface smoothness. The variable CD property may be preserved in the web as it is further converted, such as winding about a core, resulting in tissue products having physical properties that vary along at least one dimension of the product.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Maurizio Tirimacco, Christopher Steven LeCount, Daniel John Schultz
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Patent number: 11035081Abstract: The present invention provides tissue webs and products that are manufactured by non-compressive dewatering and/or drying methods, such as through-air drying, where the webs and products comprise cross-linked fiber. The non-compressively dewatered tissue webs and products have improved sheet bulk and z-direction properties. For example, in one embodiment, the invention provides through-air dried tissue products having good sheet bulk and resiliency, such as a sheet bulk greater than about 15 cc/g and Compression Energy (E) greater than about 1.30 N/m. Surprisingly the foregoing products have sufficient strength to withstand use, such as a GMT greater than about 600 g/3?, but are not overly stiff, generally having a Stiffness Index less than about 12.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2016Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Stephen Michael Lindsay, Michael Andrew Zawadzki, Cathleen Mae Uttecht, Mike Thomas Goulet, Kenneth John Zwick, Christopher Lee Satori, Donald Eugene Waldroup
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Patent number: 11035077Abstract: A method of making a fibrous sheet. The method includes forming a nascent web from an aqueous solution of papermaking fibers, dewatering the nascent web to form a dewatered web having a consistency from about ten percent solids to about seventy percent solids, moving the dewatered web on a transfer surface, and transferring the dewatered web from the transfer surface to a molding roll at a molding zone. The molding roll includes an exterior and a patterned surface on the exterior of the molding roll. Papermaking fibers of the dewatered web are redistributed on the patterned surface in order to form a molded paper web. The method also includes transferring the molded paper web to a drying section and drying the molded paper web in the drying section to form a fibrous sheet.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLCInventor: David A. Beck
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Patent number: 11015297Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit novel compressibility properties alone and in combination with plate stiffness properties and methods for making same.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ward William Ostendorf, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, David Warren Loebker, Ryan Dominic Maladen, John Allen Manifold
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Patent number: 11001970Abstract: A web forming device includes: a first material supply unit provided with a first release port that releases a first material containing a first defibrated substance and a first organic binder in a gas atmosphere; a second material supply unit provided with a second release port that releases a second material in the gas atmosphere, the second material containing a second defibrated substance and a second organic binder and being different from the first material; and a transporting unit that forms and transports an accumulated substance obtained by accumulating the first material and the second material. The second release port is positioned downstream of the first release port in a transporting direction of the transporting unit, and the accumulated substance is a laminate obtained by laminating a layer of the first material and a layer of the second material.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Inventors: Seiichi Taniguchi, Kaneo Yoda
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Patent number: 10995455Abstract: Products having improved handfeel and methods for making those products are described. The disclosed napkin product includes an emboss pattern that creates a pillow effect resulting in improved handfeel.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLCInventor: Dinesh M. Bhat
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Patent number: 10954635Abstract: A disposable tissue or paper towel product including at least two plies, an exposed outer surface of at least one of the two plies comprising a plurality of pockets, the plurality of pockets having an average volume greater than 0.4 mm3 and an average surface area of 2.5 mm2.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: First Quality Tissue, LLCInventors: James E. Sealey, II, Byrd Tyler Miller, IV, Jeffrey Grunwald, Ashley Harris, Justin S. Pence
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Patent number: 10954636Abstract: A disposable tissue or paper towel product including at least two plies, an exposed outer surface of at least one of the two plies comprising a plurality of pockets, the plurality of pockets having an average volume greater than 0.4 mm3 and an average surface area of 2.5 mm2.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: First Quality Tissue, LLCInventors: James E. Sealey, II, Byrd Tyler Miller, IV, Jeffrey Grunwald, Ashley Harris, Justin S. Pence
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Patent number: 10927502Abstract: A roll for molding a fibrous sheet. The roll includes a cylindrical shell and a vacuum box. The cylindrical shell is configured to be rotatably driven and is permeable to allow air to be moved through the cylindrical shell. The cylindrical shell has a permeable patterned surface on an exterior surface of the cylindrical shell. The permeable patterned surface has at least one of a plurality of recesses and a plurality of projections. The density of the at least one of the plurality of recesses and the plurality of projections is greater than about fifty per square inch. The vacuum box is positioned on the inside of the cylindrical shell and is configured to draw air from the exterior surface of the cylindrical shell to an interior surface of the cylindrical shell. The vacuum box is stationary with respect to the rotation of the cylindrical shell.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLCInventor: David A. Beck
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Patent number: 10895041Abstract: Fibrous structures that exhibit a Dry Burst of greater than 360 g as measured according to the Dry Burst Test Method and optionally, a Total Dry Tensile of less than 2450 g/76.2 mm and/or a Machine Direction (MD) Dry Tensile of less than 1520 g/76.2 mm and/or a Geometric Mean (GM) Total Dry Tensile of less than 1180 g/76.2 mm as measured according to the Tensile Strength Test Method are provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: John Allen Manifold, Charles Chidozie Ekenga, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kathleen Diane Sands, Thorsten Knobloch
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Patent number: 10894005Abstract: A hair care product containing one or more hair care active agents is provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Charles Gordon, Frank William Denome, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Stephen Joseph Hodson, Brian Patrick Croll, John Gerhard Michael, Andreas Josef Dreher, Paul Dennis Trokhan
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Patent number: 10851499Abstract: A web substrate having at least one embossed ply having a surface thereof is disclosed. The surface has surface area comprising at least about 0.2 percent line embossments and a ratio of line embossment area to dot embossment area greater than 1.5.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: André Mellin, Kevin Benson McNeil, Thomas Timothy Byrne, Jason Merrill Jones
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Patent number: 10794005Abstract: A paper including one or more multi-tonal watermarks having full tonality (depth), and an improved watermarking tool for manufacturing such paper, is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Crane & Co., Inc.Inventors: Nicholas G. Pearson, Giles D. Prett
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Patent number: 10745864Abstract: Fibrous structures having pillows and knuckles, wherein the fibrous structures contain two or more pillows that exhibit differential pillow height and methods for making same are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Fei Wang, Douglas Jay Barkey, James Allen Cain, Stephen John DelVecchio, Angela Marie Leimbach, Kun Piao, James Kenneth Comer, Ryan Dominic Maladen, Thomas Alan Wilker
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Patent number: 10745865Abstract: Creped fibrous structures having pillows and knuckles, wherein the creped fibrous structures exhibit improved knuckle properties, such as Knuckle Roughness Ra, Knuckle Roughness Rq, and Knuckle Creping Frequency and methods for making same are provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Fei Wang, Douglas Jay Barkey, James Allen Cain, Stephen John DelVecchio, Angela Marie Leimbach, Kun Piao, James Kenneth Comer, Ryan Dominic Maladen, Atiya Jordan-Brown, David Warren Loebker
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Patent number: 10731301Abstract: An absorbent sheet made by a process that includes the steps of forming a nascent web from an aqueous papermaking furnish, and creping the nascent web on a multilayer belt that includes (i) a first layer made from a polymeric material having a plurality of openings, and (ii) a second layer attached to the first layer, with the nascent web being deposited onto a surface of the first layer. The absorbent sheet includes a plurality of hollow domed regions projecting from a side of the absorbent sheet, with each of the hollow domed regions being shaped such that a distance from at least one first point on an edge of a hollow domed region to a second point on an edge at an opposite side of the hollow domed region is at least about 0.5 mm.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: GPCP IP Holdings LLCInventors: Daniel H. Sze, Hung Liang Chou, Xiaolin Fan
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Patent number: 10702894Abstract: An apparatus and process for cleaning seals of soluble unit dose pouches containing granular composition.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Miguel Brandt Sanz, Luis Martin De Juan