With Printing And/or Variegated Coloring Patents (Class 162/134)
  • Patent number: 11730639
    Abstract: A web having a first surface and a second surface, a plurality of apertures extending through the web from the first surface to the second surface, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of apertures are treated with a composition and at least a portion of the apertures are untreated is disclosed. The treated apertures form a plurality of treated aperture zones, and the untreated apertures form a plurality of untreated aperture zones. Each of the plurality of treated aperture zones has one or more apertures, and each of the plurality of untreated aperture zones has one or more apertures. The plurality of treated aperture zones includes between about 25 percent to about 75 percent of the plurality of apertures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Misael Omar Aviles, Martin Ian James
  • Patent number: 11383154
    Abstract: A security-enhanced document including a substrate, variable indica applied to an area of a first side of the substrate, a scratch-off-coating applied over the variable indicia to maintain the variable indicia unreadable until the scratch-off-coating is removed by being scratched off, and digital imaging applied to an area of a reverse side of the substrate from the variable indicia, wherein the digital imaging applied to the area of the reverse side of the substrate includes the same materials as the variable indicia, is uniformly spread over the area of the reverse side of the substrate, and such that the digital imaging overlaps at least 50% of the variable indica applied to the area of the first side of the substrate, such that the variable indicia exhibits an insufficient signal-to-noise ratio relative to the signal-to-noise ratio of the digital imaging on the reverse side of the substrate so that the variable indicia cannot be discerned so long as the scratch-off-coating remains intact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Hydragraphix LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth Earl Irwin, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11028537
    Abstract: A dispersible wet wipe includes a layer of cellulosic fibers. In one embodiment, a first binder is applied in a coating comprising randomly distributed deposits of the binder. A second binder is applied in an intermittent pattern on the surface to define first regions on the surface that include first binder but no second binder and to define second regions on the surface that include both first binder and second binder. The first and second binders can have the same chemical composition. In a second embodiment, a first binder is applied to a web surface in a first pattern, and, after applying the first binder, a second binder is applied to the web surface in a second pattern that is different than the first pattern. In a third embodiment, a binder is applied to a web surface in a pattern, the pattern having first regions and second regions, wherein the add-on level of the binder in the first regions is lower than the add-on level of the binder in the second regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Nathan John Vogel, Amanda Ann Gantz, Nicholas Scott Walker, David James Sealy Powling, Carly Elizabeth Herr
  • Patent number: 10947672
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides high bulk tissue products, as well as an apparatus and methods for manufacturing the same. The tissue products provided herein not only have high bulk, but they also have improved surface smoothness, particularly compared to tissue products of similar basis weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Alan Burazin, Lynda Ellen Collins, Jeffrey Dean Holz, Mark William Sachs, Peter John Allen, Kevin Joseph Vogt
  • Patent number: 10914036
    Abstract: The present disclosure is drawn to ink fixative solutions, which can consist essentially of a polyvalent metal salt, a holdout additive, and water. The polyvalent metal salt can be present in an amount from about 1 wt % to about 5 wt %, with respect to the entire weight of the ink fixative solution. The holdout additive can be present in an amount from about 2 wt % to about 20 wt %, with respect to the entire weight of the ink fixative solution. The holdout additive can be polyethylene glycol, glycerol, carboxy methyl cellulose, hydroxy ethyl cellulose, a fatty acid, a fatty acid ethoxylate, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Christopher Toles, Xulong Fu, Kimberly Zargarian
  • Patent number: 9618901
    Abstract: A sheet humidification apparatus includes a detect sensor that detects a position of a sheet which is being conveyed; a humidifier that changes a humidification amount and humidifies the sheet; and a controller that controls the humidifier such that a first region on a front end side of the sheet in a conveyance direction is humidified with a first humidification amount, and a second region of the sheet other than the first region is humidified with a second humidification amount larger than the first humidification amount in accordance with a position of the sheet detected by the detect sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Teruhiko Toyoizumi, Kenji Tamaki, Hirofumi Nakajima, Tadashi Matsudaira, Masaaki Uchiyama, Kosuke Sasaki
  • Patent number: 8920905
    Abstract: A fibrous product (10, 20, 20b, 30), especially tissue paper product, non-woven products or a hybrid thereof, and preferably hygiene and cleaning product has at least one first ply (42; 62; 84; 104) with at least one embossing pattern including embossed depressions starting from a base plane of the ply; the embossed pattern being characterized by the following features: the embossing pattern has a minimum motive surface area of at least 3 cm×3 cm; the pattern includes a high number of embossed depressions which are sized and/or positioned such as to form a motive element covering the motive surface area; wherein at least some of the embossed depressions are sized and/or positioned such that minimum distances between pairs of consecutively arranged embossed depression vary. A method for producing such a fibrous product is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Jurgen Sauter, Philippe Albouze
  • Publication number: 20140356597
    Abstract: Water-soluble, printable paper is disclosed. Methods of making and using water-soluble, printable paper are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: Eastern Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: John B. Steward
  • Patent number: 8758560
    Abstract: A paper product having at least one ply, a basis weight of greater than 18 g/m2, and indicia having L*a*b* color values disposed thereon is disclosed. The indicia disposed upon the web substrate has a color value defined by the CIELab coordinate values disposed inside the boundary described by the MacAdam 3-D gamut and CIELab coordinate values disposed outside the boundary described by the Kien 3-D gamut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Scott Prodoehl, Thomas Timothy Byrne
  • Publication number: 20140137880
    Abstract: A filter wrapper paper for a smoking article is shown, the paper having a content of long-fiber pulp of at least 30 wt %, preferably at least 40 wt %, relative to the pure fiber mass of the paper. The freeness of the long-fiber pulp as per ISO 5267, Schopper-Riegler method, is between 80° SR and 100° SR, preferably between 85° SR and 95° SR. The filter wrapper paper has a filler content of less than 10 wt %, preferably less than 8 wt %, and especially preferably less than 6 wt % relative to the total mass of the paper and is impregnated with a material that is suitable for forming an aqueous composition, more particularly an aqueous solution or an aqueous suspension. The oil-resistance of the filter wrapper paper has a KIT level of at least 4, preferably at least 5, according to TAPPI T559 cm-02.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: DELFORTGROUP AG
    Inventors: Roland Zitturi, Dietmar Volgger, Dieter Möhring
  • Patent number: 8691041
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite multi-layered absorbent article. At least two of the layers include a colored region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventor: David Christopher Oetjen
  • Publication number: 20130330751
    Abstract: The invention discloses a sample preservation method which comprises the following steps: a) providing a paper substrate comprising ligands, where the ligands comprise charged groups, b) applying a sample comprising at least one analyte and at least one contaminant on the paper substrate, c) drying the sample on the paper substrate and, d) extracting at least part of the paper substrate to provide a solution of the analyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Applicant: GE HEALTHCARE UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Philip Robert Mallender, Douglas Mark Green, Sarah Janet Clegg, Barry Edmund Johnson, Jimmy Hedin Dahlstrom, Mattias Algotsson, Ronnie Palmgren
  • Patent number: 8460756
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a topographical pattern from polymer material on an endless strip with a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction extending perpendicularly thereto, in which method a cylindrical rotary screen is used to apply the polymer material by the screen printing process to a circumferential side of the endless strip to be printed, wherein, when producing the pattern, the rotary screen, rotating repeatedly about its longitudinal axis, rolls on the circumferential side of the endless strip, whereby the pattern is applied to the circumferential side in at least one path running at least once uninterruptedly around the circumferential side in such a way that the beginning and the end of each revolution of the path are arranged along a common straight line, wherein, when rolling, the rotary screen performs N revolutions about its longitudinal axis during each revolution of the path on the circumferential side of the endless strip and N is a positive integer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Voith Patent GmbH
    Inventors: John Jeffery, David Stuart Ponton, Douglas Stephen, Andrew Allum, Antony Morton
  • Patent number: 8419878
    Abstract: Laminates and methods of making them are generally provided. The methods of making a laminate for use as a clothing tag can include laminating a first fibrous web to a second fibrous web. Both the first and second fibrous webs can include cellulosic fibers and a binder composition present in the respective fibrous web from about 10% by weight to about 100% by weight of the dry weight of the fibrous web. Both the first and second binder composition can include a curable latex polymer and a crosslinker. The second fibrous web can be creped and can have a thickness less than 10 mils. The laminate can be aged for at least about 1 hour at an aging temperature of greater than about 150° F. The resulting laminated and their use in clothing are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2013
    Assignee: Neenah Paper, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheryl B. Rueckert, Rhonda S. Lassila
  • Patent number: 8409705
    Abstract: Fibers having a plurality of colored regions printed on front and rear sides of said fiber are disclosed, wherein the colors are visible only under ultra-violet light. The regions may be in the form of stripes or may be arranged in a pseudo-random pattern. The regions may be differently colored. Such fibers can be incorporated into paper products as a form of counterfeit protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: D.W. Spinks (Embossing) Ltd.
    Inventor: Gary D Spinks
  • Patent number: 8372764
    Abstract: A highly transparent fiber composite material is provided that can be manufactured through a simplified process using reduced amounts of raw materials and that has high flexibility and low thermal expansivity and retains good functionality of the fiber material. The fiber composite material includes: a fiber assembly having an average fiber diameter of 4 to 200 nm and a 50 ?m-thick visible light transmittance of 3% or more; and a coating layer that coats and smoothes the surface of the fiber assembly, wherein the fiber composite material has a 50 ?m-thick visible light transmittance of 60% or more. With this fiber assembly, the scattering of light caused by the irregularities on the surface can be suppressed by coating the surface with the coating layer to smooth the surface, whereby a highly transparent fiber composite material can be obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: Rohm Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroyuki Yano, Masaya Nogi, Kentaro Abe, Shinsuke Ifuku, Noriyuki Shimoji, Yoshiaki Oku, Suguru Okuyama
  • Patent number: 8334966
    Abstract: A watermark formed of a bistable material, and a method of forming the watermark, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Xiang-Dong Mi, Stanley W. Stephenson, III
  • Patent number: 8330932
    Abstract: A watermark formed of a bistable material, and a method of forming the watermark, are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Industrial Technology Research Institute
    Inventors: Xiang-Dong Mi, Stanley W. Stephenson, III
  • Publication number: 20120308790
    Abstract: The invention relates to a surface treatment composition for paper, board or other fibrous webs. The composition of the invention comprises particles which comprise an active material and a supporting material. The active material comprises a salt or a multivalent metal, such as a divalent or trivalent metal. In accordance with the invention, the supporting material is adapted to release the active material from the particles when subjected to heat and/or pressure and/or a change in pH. Consequently, the active material's adverse effects on the rheology of the composition are avoided while its desired effects on the surface characteristics are retained or enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2011
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: STORA ENSO OYJ
    Inventors: Kaj Backfolk, Isto Heiskanen, Nina Miikki
  • Patent number: 8221586
    Abstract: The invention relates to improvements in security substrates and in particular to fibrous security substrates, such as paper, incorporating a watermark. The security substrate comprises a fibrous base layer, having a normal base fiber density, said base layer incorporating a watermark consisting of a plurality of alphanumeric characters. Each character comprises dark and/or light regions, the dark regions being formed by more densely deposited fibers than the normal base fiber density and the light regions being formed by less densely deposited fibers than the normal base fiber density. The density of the fibers in any region is substantially uniform such that there is no gradual change of tone between the light and dark regions. Each dark and light region adjoins at least one light and dark region respectively and an area of normal fiber density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: De La Rue International Limited
    Inventor: John Martin Haslop
  • Patent number: 8163132
    Abstract: An absorbent paper product is disclosed. The absorbent paper product has an MD modulus of less than about 20,000 g/cm at a load of about 15 g. The absorbent paper product further has indicia provided by five or more process colors. The process colors have L*a*b* color values. The a* and b* values are outside the boundary described by the following system of equations: {a*=?29.0 to ?5.2; b*=14.0 to 49.5}?b*=1.4916a*+57.2563 {a*=?5.2 to 35.3; b*=49.5 to 38.9}?b*=?0.261728a*+48.139 {a*=35.3 to 38.3; b*=5.3 to 38.9}?b*=?11.2a*+434.26 {a*=38.3 to 36.3; b*=5.3 to ?0.70}?b*=3a*?109.6 {a*=36.3 to 11.3; b*=?0.70 to ?26.0}?b*=1.012a*?37.4356 {a*=11.3 to ?20.0; b*=?26.0 to ?29.3}?b*=0.105431a*?27.1914 {a*=?20.0 to ?29.0; b*=?29.3 to 14.0}?b*=?4.81111a*?125.522 wherein L* is from 0 to 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Kathryn Christian Kien
  • Patent number: 8158253
    Abstract: Fibers (2, 14) having a plurality of colored regions printed on front and rear sides of said fiber are disclosed, wherein the colors are visible only under ultra-violet light. The regions may be in the form of stripes (4, 6, 8, 10 and 12) or may be arranged is a pseudo-random pattern (16, 18, 20, 22, 24). The regions may be differently colored. Such fibers can be incorporated into paper products as a form of counterfeit protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2012
    Assignee: D W Spinks (Embossing) Ltd.
    Inventor: Gary D. Spinks
  • Patent number: 8066848
    Abstract: An absorbent paper product comprising indicia wherein the indicia comprise L*a*b* color wherein the L*a*b* values are outside of the boundary described by the following system of equations: {a*=?29.0 to ?5.2; b*=14.0 to 49.5}?b*=1.4916 a*+57.2563 {a*=?5.2 to 35.3; b*=49.5 to 38.9}?b*=?0.261728 a*+48.139 {a*=35.3 to 38.3; b*=5.3 to 38.9}?b*=?11.2 a*+434.26 {a*=38.3 to 36.3; b*=5.3 to ?0.70}?b*=3 a*?109.6 {a*=36.3 to 11.3; b*=?0.70 to ?26.0}?b* =1.012 a*?37.4356 {a*=11.3 to ?20.0; b*=?26.0 to ?29.3}?b*=0.105431 a*?27.1914 {a*=?20.0 to ?29.0; b*=?29.3 to 14.0}?b*=?4.81111 a*?125.522 wherein L* is from 0 to 100.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventor: Kathryn Christian Kien
  • Patent number: 8062477
    Abstract: A method of forming a moulded and printed product from pulp material including the steps of: forming a pre-form mould to have one or more planar surfaces, compound conjoined planar surfaces and/or two dimensional curved surfaces; transferring an amount of pulp slurry material to the pre-form mould; forming a moulded pre-form from the transferred pulp slurry material; applying printing to the planar and/or dimensional curved surfaces in a pre-distorted configuration; and moulding the printed pre-form to a different final shape whereby the printed surfaces retain the printing without running and the printing conforms to a desired post distortion configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Varden Process Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Mark Appleford, Stuart Gordon
  • Patent number: 7998592
    Abstract: A recording paper used for an electrophotographic system is provided, wherein, in a gas chromatograph generated using a headspace method by holding two pieces of the paper of dimensions about 1 cm×about 1 cm at about 120° C. for about 3 minutes, the quantity of aldehyde compounds generated having a straight-chain alkyl chain of about 5 to about 20 carbon atoms is equivalent to a peak surface area ratio of no more than about 65% and a peak surface area of no more than about 40,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chizuru Koga, Tsukasa Matsuda, Toshiyuki Kasahara, Kouzou Ohta
  • Patent number: 7988828
    Abstract: Tissue webs, such as are useful for making bath tissue, can be surface-treated in a pattern with selected papermaking chemicals, such as debonders and strength agents, to selectively improve the directional properties of the resulting tissue product, particularly the cross-machine direction strength properties. The pattern can be applied to the tissue sheet by spraying the selected chemical outwardly through a pattern of open areas in the shell of a rotating hollow roll, where the pattern of open areas corresponds to the desired pattern of chemical deposited on the surface of the tissue web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Alan Hermans, Patrick Pachih Chen, Claudia H. Javenkoski, Robert Eugene Krautkramer, Daniel Robert Sprangers
  • Publication number: 20110012336
    Abstract: A security sheet that includes an information to be exposed and a preferably fibrous substrate in which is preferably totally embedded a ribbon that has a surface A and a surface B and is strippable along the surface B thereof, the information to be exposed being carried by and/or opposite the surface B of the ribbon, a method for making said security sheet, and a security document or article including such a sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: January 20, 2011
    Applicant: ARJOWIGGINS SECURITY
    Inventor: Henri Rosset
  • Patent number: 7862689
    Abstract: Information (particularly, water content) of a sheet material which changes during progression of processing is estimated with higher accuracy and information output or (image formation) processing is performed. The water content estimation method of the present invention includes: detecting a first information regarding moisture contained in a sheet material; detecting a second information regarding a factor affecting information regarding the moisture contained in the sheet material; predicatively computing an estimation of a water content of the sheet material based on the first information and the second information; and adjusting processing conditions for image formation based on the estimation of the water content which is computed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Takehiko Kawasaki, Norio Kaneko
  • Publication number: 20100252216
    Abstract: The invention provides a low density paperboard material and associated method for use in producing an insulated container, and is especially well-suited for making cups. The paperboard material comprises a paperboard web including wood fibers and expanded microspheres, and has a relatively low density ranging from about 6 to about 10 lb/3 MSF/mil (0.38 to about 0.64 g/cm3), a relatively high caliper ranging from about 24 to about 35 mil (609 to about 889 ?m), and an internal bond strength of at least about 80×10?3 ft-lbf (168×10?3 kj/m2), preferably at least 100×10?3 lft-lbf (210×10?3 kj/m2). For applications such as cups the material is also coated on one or both sides with a barrier coating, preferably low density polyethylene, to limit liquid penetration into the web. The low density paperboard material of the invention is convertible for manufacture of containers, particularly cups, and exhibits insulative properties comparable to higher cost materials conventionally used to make cups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: Intemational Paper Company
    Inventors: Kosaraju Krishna Mohan, Alexander A. Koukoulas, Peter Matthew Froass, David Verd Reed
  • Patent number: 7799168
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for manufacturing a hygiene paper product includes: providing a continuous paper web, moving the continuous web in the direction of its longitudinal extension, applying a repetitive creative structure relative to the longitudinal extension of the web as a first pattern to the web with a first roll, applying a repetitive functional structure relative to the longitudinal extension of the web as a second pattern to the web with a second roll, while enabling the first pattern to be in register with the second pattern by concurrently controlling the repetitive surface speed of continuous web and the phasing between the first roll and the second roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products GmbH
    Inventors: Gunther Zoller, Bernhard Reichling
  • Patent number: 7794850
    Abstract: A method for increasing the long term storageability of a cellulosic paper or paperboard product. The method includes providing a paper or paperboard product made from cellulosic fibers having a basis weight ranging from about 80 to about 300 pounds per 3000 square feet. A holdout material is applied to at least one surface of the paper or paperboard product. The web is then coated with an ink receptive material selected from the group consisting of an aqueous acrylic polymer coating material, an aqueous biocidal agent and a combination of aqueous acrylic polymer coating material and aqueous biocidal agent and dried to provide a paper or paperboard product having enhanced long term storageability. Webs made according to the invention are suitable for making file folders which exhibit improve long term storageability by resisting damage from moisture and/or biological activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Sandeep Kulkarni, Yuan Ling, Rick Williams, Victor P. Holbert
  • Patent number: 7794567
    Abstract: Disclosed is an uncoated facestock product having enhanced printability, holdout, and edge wick properties, which are attained through a combination of manufacturing techniques including increased refining of the furnish, sizing, increased hard nip calendering, and the use of extended nip calendering. The resulting uncoated facestock product has the following properties: a density between about 0.7 and 1.0 g/cc and/or an ash content of less than about 15% as measured by the 525° C. standard test method; and a finished surface having a Sheffield smoothness between about 50 and 150 Sheffield units and a Parker Print Surf roughness (PPS-10) less than about 5.0 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2010
    Assignee: International Paper Co.
    Inventors: Dennis W Anderson, Kristine Butts
  • Patent number: 7758934
    Abstract: In web/ink-jet operations in which ink jet data is over-printed on forms prepared by offset litho, undesirable interactions between the surface size and litho-fountain are controlled by use of a PCC basesheet having a size press coating of starch and alum, the alum amount being at least 0.75% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP
    Inventors: Lyle A. Bays, Bruce J. Kokko, Michael A. Schmelzer, Gary L. Schroder
  • Patent number: 7740740
    Abstract: The invention provides a low density paperboard material and associated method for use in producing an insulated container, and is especially well-suited for making cups. The paperboard material comprises a paperboard web including wood fibers and expanded microspheres, and has a relatively low density ranging from about 6 to about 10 lb/3 MSF/mil, a relatively high caliper ranging from about 24 to about 35 mil, and an internal bond strength of at least about 80×10?3 ft-lbf., preferably at least 100×10?3 lft-lbf. For applications such as cups the material is also coated on one or both sides with a barrier coating, preferably low density polyethylene, to limit liquid penetration into the web. The low density paperboard material of the invention is convertible for manufacture of containers, particularly cups, and exhibits insulative properties comparable to higher cost materials conventionally used to make cups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Kosaraju Krishna Mohan, Alexander A Koukoulas, Peter Matthew Froass, David Verd Reed
  • Patent number: 7666495
    Abstract: Disclosed is an uncoated facestock product having enhanced printability, holdout, and edge wick properties, which are attained through a combination of manufacturing techniques including increased refining of the furnish, sizing, increased hard nip calendering, and the use of extended nip calendering. The resulting uncoated facestock product has the following properties: a density between about 0.7 and 1.0 g/cc and/or an ash content of less than about 15% as measured by the 525° C. standard test method; and a finished surface having a Sheffield smoothness between about 50 and 150 Sheffield units and a Parker Print Surf roughness (PPS-10) less than about 5.0 microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2010
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Dennis W Anderson, Kristine Butts
  • Patent number: 7648746
    Abstract: An ink jet recording paper capable of compatible with high speed ink jet printers is provided. By using, as a fiber material, mercerized pulp obtained by applying an alkali treatment to pulp, an ink jet recording paper of high ink absorption speed and high ink coloring density is formed. Since the paper itself has excellent ink absorption speed, there is no requirement for applying coating for improving the ink absorption and it can be used as non-coated type ink jet recording paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Tokushu Paper MFG. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiaki Tomotake, Naoko Mouri
  • Patent number: 7632380
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an article formed from at least one ply of fibrous material comprising at least one region of zero thickness, characterized in that said region is covered on at least one of its faces with an at least partly transparent or translucent structure placed so as to reveal a transparent or translucent window in the paper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2009
    Assignee: Arjowiggins Security
    Inventor: Pierre Doublet
  • Publication number: 20090272505
    Abstract: Process for finishing paper and paper products by treating the surface of paper or paper products with at least one finishing agent, at least one finishing agent being applied in the form of a pattern on the top and/or bottom of paper or paper products, and the papers and paper products obtainable by the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Simon Champ, Roland Ettl
  • Patent number: 7591926
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of nonuniformly intensely colored paper with improved printing or lettering features, and paper produced by this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: M-real Oyj
    Inventors: Franz Josef Becker, Viktor Uerlings
  • Publication number: 20090229773
    Abstract: A method of forming a moulded and printed product from pulp material including the steps of: forming a pre-form mould to have one or more planar surfaces, compound conjoined planar surfaces and/or two dimensional curved surfaces; transferring an amount of pulp slurry material to the pre-form mould; forming a moulded pre-form from the transferred pulp slurry material; applying printing to the planar and/or dimensional curved surfaces in a pre-distorted configuration; and moulding the printed pre-form to a different final shape whereby the printed surfaces retain the printing without running and the printing conforms to a desired post distortion configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2007
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Applicant: VARDEN PROCESS PTY LTD
    Inventors: Mark Appleford, Stuart Gordon
  • Patent number: 7588662
    Abstract: Soft tissue products with a good rate of absorbency, such as facial and bath tissue, are provided by forming a tissue sheet with a non-fibrous polymeric surface structure and thereafter topically applying a softening composition comprising a polysiloxane, a fatty alkyl derivative and glycerin. The non-fibrous polymeric surface structure is created by applying an additive composition to the surface of a tissue sheet prior to or after drying. The additive composition can be an aqueous dispersion containing an alpha-olefin polymer, an ethylene-carboxylic acid copolymer, or mixtures thereof. The alpha-olefin polymer may comprise an interpolymer of ethylene and octene, while the ethylene-carboxylic acid copolymer may comprise ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2009
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick John Lang, Perry Howard Clough, Thomas Joseph Dyer, Mike Thomas Goulet, Kou-Chang Liu, Michael Ralph Lostocco, Deborah Joy Nickel, Michael John Rekoske, Troy Michael Runge, Michelle Lynn Seabaugh, Jeffrey James Timm, Kenneth J. Zwick
  • Publication number: 20090114354
    Abstract: An absorbent paper product comprising indicia wherein the indicia comprise L*a*b* color wherein the L*a*b* values are outside of the boundary described by the following system of equations: {a*=?29.0 to ?5.2; b*=14.0 to 49.5}?b*=1.4916a*+57.2563 {a*=?5.2 to 35.3; b*=49.5 to 38.9}?b*=?0.261728a*+48.139 {a*=35.3 to 38.3; b*=5.3 to 38.9}?b*=?11.2a*+434.26 {a*=38.3 to 36.3; b*=5.3 to ?0.70}?b*=3a*?109.6 {a*=36.3 to 11.3; b*=?0.70 to ?26.0}?b*=1.1012a*?37.4356 {a*=11.3 to ?20.0; b*=?26.0 to ?29.3}?b*=0.105431a*?27.1914 {a*=?20.0 to ?29.0; b*=?29.3 to 14.0}?b*?4.81111a*?125.522 wherein L* is from 0 to 100.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2008
    Publication date: May 7, 2009
    Inventor: Kathryn Christian Kien
  • Patent number: 7520959
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a light barrier paper packaging material and the light barrier paper package container with low cost, no need of an ink removing apparatus at reproduction step and easily recycle are provided. A light barrier paper packaging material which comprises the paper substrate and the laminate layers on the paper substrate comprises: the paper substrate having a clay coat layer applied to the paper substrate; a light barrier layer printed with black ink on the clay coat layer; cover-up layers printed with white color ink to the light barrier layer a plurality of times; an outside laminate layer of thermoplastic resin formed on the cover-up layer, and design printed to the outside laminate layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Tetra Laval Holdings & Finance S.A.
    Inventor: Hideyo Kikuchi
  • Patent number: 7431798
    Abstract: Security paper adapted to resist fraudulent alteration of toner-printed information thereon and to make such alteration or attempts at alteration evident has a maximum Scott-Bond strength of 150 J m?2; a Bendtsen roughness of not more than about 150 ml min?1; and is size press or otherwise treated with a thermally-softenable polymer composition, for example acrylic polymer or copolymer, a polyvinyl acetate polymer, a vinyl acetate/ethylene copolymer, or a vinyl acetate/vinyl chloride/ethylene terpolymer. Preferably the paper has filler content of about 15% to about 20% by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 7, 2008
    Assignee: Arjo Wiggins Fine Papers Ltd.
    Inventor: Mark Victor Watson
  • Patent number: 7429308
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of manufacturing an article comprising a fiber layer and at least one electronic chip, the fiber layer being formed by depositing fibers on a surface immersed in a dispersion of fiber material. The method includes the following step: Using an elongate flexible support to bring the electronic chip into contact with the fiber layer that is being formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2008
    Assignee: Arjo Wiggins Security SAS
    Inventors: Sandrine Rancien, Jacques Terliska
  • Patent number: 7419570
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a process and a method providing a high bulk tissue which is both strong and soft. Specifically, it has been discovered that certain low pressure printing technologies may be used to deliver a bonding material to the surface of a high bulk paper web such as an uncreped, through-dried web. The bonding material may be applied to the web either before, during or after the web is softened with a mechanical straining process which will decrease the web bulk by no more than 20% of the initial bulk in order to increase the web softness. The web may be softened by any of a variety of mechanical straining processes such as, for instance, microcreping, microstraining, rush transfer, or other low-compressive softening methods. The cured bonding material on the web may not only increase the bulk of the web when dry and wet, but also increase the wet resiliency and the wet strength of the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2008
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Fung-Jou Chen, Jeffrey D. Lindsay, Thomas F. Hunt, Maurizio Tirimacco, John J. Urlaub
  • Publication number: 20080163992
    Abstract: The invention provides a low density paperboard material and associated method for use in producing an insulated container, and is especially well-suited for making cups. The paperboard material comprises a paperboard web including wood fibers and expanded microspheres, and has a relatively low density ranging from about 6 to about 10 lb/3 MSF/mil, a relatively high caliper ranging from about 24 to about 35 mil, and an internal bond strength of at least about 80×10?3 ft-lbf., preferably at least 100×10?3 lft-lbf. For applications such as cups the material is also coated on one or both sides with a barrier coating, preferably low density polyethylene, to limit liquid penetration into the web. The low density paperboard material of the invention is convertible for manufacture of containers, particularly cups, and exhibits insulative properties comparable to higher cost materials conventionally used to make cups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Kosaraju Krishna Mohan, Alexander A. Koukoulas, Peter Matthew Froass, David Verd Reed
  • Patent number: 7384505
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for manufacturing a hygiene paper product includes: providing a continuous paper web, moving the continuous web in the direction of its longitudinal extension, applying a repetitive creative structure relative to the longitudinal extension of the web as a first pattern to the web with a first roll, applying a repetitive functional structure relative to the longitudinal extension of the web as a second pattern to the web with a second roll, while enabling the first pattern to be in register with the second pattern by concurrently controlling the repetitive surface speed of continuous web and the phasing between the first roll and the second roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products GmbH
    Inventors: Gunther Zoller, Bernhard Reichling
  • Patent number: 7335279
    Abstract: The invention provides a low density paperboard material and associated method for use in producing an insulated container, and is especially well-suited for making cups. The paperboard material comprises a paperboard web including wood fibers and expanded microspheres, and has a relatively low density ranging from about 6 to about 10 lb/3MSF/mil, a relatively high caliper ranging from about 24 to about 35 mil, and an internal bond strength of at least about 80×10?3 ft-lbf., preferably at least 100×10?3 lft-lbf. For applications such as cups the material is also coated on one or both sides with a barrier coating, preferably low density polyethylene, to limit liquid penetration into the web. The low density paperboard material of the invention is convertible for manufacture of containers, particularly cups, and exhibits insulative properties comparable to higher cost materials conventionally used to make cups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: International Paper Company
    Inventors: Kosaraju Krishna Mohan, Alexander A. Koukoulas, Peter Matthew Froass, David Verd Reed
  • Patent number: 7306699
    Abstract: A method for application of compositions onto non-woven webs, such as paper webs, and to products made from the process. In general, the method includes applying a composition to a non-woven web using a non-impact printer, such as an ink jet printer. The composition is applied, in one embodiment, as droplets that remain as discrete shapes on the substrate. In this manner, treated areas and untreated areas are formed on the web. Through this process, the water absorption and control properties of the web can be adjusted as desired while simultaneously treating the web with a composition that improves the physical properties of the web, improves the chemical properties of the web and/or can provide a benefit to a user if transferred from the web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Urlaub, Thomas G. Shannon