Did You Know...
...that the Eveready Battery began as an invention called the "electric flowerpot," which was a tube with a battery and light bulb inside? The idea was to fasten this gizmo to the side of a flowerpot so it would illuminate the flowers from the bottom. The idea died on the vine and the businessman who licensed the flower pot, Conrad Huber, was left with a pile of useless tubes -- until he found a way to market them as batteries to light the world!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8182907 | Multi-ply disintegratable absorbent sheet, associated roll and associated manufacturing process The invention relates to a substantially rectangular multi-ply disintegratable absorbent sheet based on tissue which comprises at least three plies, and which has a coefficient KNOVE=RSM×RST×A×G×... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8181686 | Installation for assembling two webs of tissue paper with or without marking of said webs The disclosure relates an apparatus and method for assembling at least two webs of tissue paper with or without marking of the webs. The apparatus and method utilize a multi-marrying roller configuration, which allows for assembling of the at least two webs of tissu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177938 | Method of making regenerated cellulose microfibers and absorbent products incorporating same A method of making regenerated cellulose microfibers includes forming segmented fibers with multiple longitudinally-extending segments of slightly different composition such that there is defined splittable interfaces between juxtaposed segments of the fibers which ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173718 | Resilient, water dispersible polyurethane foams and products incorporating same A soft and resilient, cold-water dispersible polyurethane foam suitable for disposable personal care products is produced by the combination of corn syrup, glycerin, polyether diamine, PEG, a diisocyanate, water and a catalyst. The formulation and reaction condition... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8146851 | Centre-feed roll and production methods thereof The invention relates to a coreless roll including of a sheet made of dry flexible material, such as an absorbent fibrous material, that is formed by the rolling of a sheet around a winding axis characterized in that it includes a center-feed (center unwinding) firs... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142617 | Apparatus and method for degrading a web in the machine direction while preserving cross-machine direction strength An embossing system for embossing and perforating at least a portion of a web is provided comprising a first embossing roll having embossing elements and at least a second embossing roll having embossing elements, wherein the elements of the first and second embossi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8132338 | Energy-efficient yankee dryer hood system A paper machine configured as a swing machine capable of producing both light and heavy grades providing a Yankee hood split into a wet end half and a dry end half, at least one hood half being a flex-hood half wherein the supply for that half is capable of being ru... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8123905 | Absorbent sheet exhibiting resistance to moisture penetration An absorbent paper sheet is treated with an aqueous wax dispersion such that the sheet includes a fused wax and emulsifier residue in an amount of from about 1 to about 20 weight percent of the sheet based on the combined weight of the fiber, wax residue and an emul... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8080130 | High basis weight TAD towel prepared from coarse furnish Kitchen roll toweling having surprising softness, absorbency and bulk is formed from a furnish comprising long cellulosic fiber having: (i) average weight-weighted fiber length of at least 2.5 mm; coarseness at least 15.5 mg/100 mm; and a Canadian Standard freeness ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8067524 | Use of hydrophobically modified polyaminamides with polyethylene glycol esters in paper products The present invention uses hydrophobically modified polyaminamide with standard wet strength agent to produce a softer and more absorbent paper material. The hydrophobically modified polyaminamide is substantive to cellulosic fibers, thus is able to carry polyethyle... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066849 | Absorbent sheet prepared with papermaking fiber and synthetic fiber exhibiting improved wet strength A wet-laid absorbent sheet includes a mixture of pulp-derived papermaking fibers and synthetic polymer fibers, a strength agent selected from carboxymethylcellulose and anionic starch as well as an epihalohydrin/amine functional wet strength resin. Also included is ... | 11/29/2011 |
| D648137 | Absorbent paper | 11/08/2011 |
| 8025764 | Multi-ply paper product with moisture strike through resistance and method of making the same A paper product with absorbency and moisture strike through resistance is disclosed. More particularly, a multi-ply paper product with improved strike through resistance is disclosed, wherein at least one ply is a wetting resistant ply comprising at least one wettin... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8012495 | Lotion-treated tissue and towel A paper towel includes: (a) a cellulosic towel web; and (b) a lotion emulsion disposed on the towel web. The lotion emulsion is substantially liquid at room temperature and includes a polar emollient and a non-polar emollient as well as a surfactant composition comp... | 09/06/2011 |
| 8012311 | Method and assembly for the manufacture of an absorbent sheet, and absorbent sheet obtained The invention relates to a process for manufacturing an absorbent sheet comprising at least two plies of cellulose wadding, consisting in combining said plies under pressure by passing between two steel cylindrical components, the first being smooth on the outside a... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7998313 | Inflated fibers of regenerated cellulose formed from ionic liquid/cellulose dope and related products Inflated fibers of regenerated cellulose and other regenerated structures are formed from ionic liquid/cellulose dope. Fibers so produced may be incorporated into absorbent sheet with other papermaking fibers to provide softness, bulk and absorbency. ... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7985321 | Absorbent sheet having regenerated cellulose microfiber network An absorbent paper sheet for tissue or towel includes from about 99 percent to about 70 percent by weight of cellulosic papermaking fiber and from about 1 percent to about 30 percent by weight fibrillated regenerated cellulose microfiber which was regenerated form a... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7981234 | Reduced ply separation tail seal Easy starting rolls of perforated tissue product which have a reduced tendency to ply separate are formed with an adhesively secured doubled over tail tab folded against the roll. The strength and location of the bonds are controlled by controlling the penetration o... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7967933 | Reduced ply separation tail seal Easy starting rolls of perforated tissue product which have a reduced tendency to ply separate are formed with an adhesively secured doubled over tail tab folded against the roll. The strength and location of the bonds are controlled by controlling the penetration o... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7951268 | Machine to produce a fibrous web An apparatus for the production of a fibrous web, especially a tissue or hygienic web, the fibrous web runs through a press nip which is formed by a press unit and a backing roll and the web is subsequently run through a creping nip which is formed by the backing ro... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7951266 | Method of producing absorbent sheet with increased wet/dry CD tensile ratio A method of making absorbent cellulosic sheet with increased wet/dry CD tensile ratio includes treating the fiber at high consistency with debonder in a pulper, for example. The process enables the use of large amounts of debonder in a wet-press process in order to ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7951264 | Absorbent cellulosic products with regenerated cellulose formed in-situ A method of making absorbent cellulosic sheet includes forming a web of papermaking fibers, extruding a cellulosic dope of underivatized cellulose, disposing the dope upon the web and regenerating the cellulose in-situ. Regenerated filaments may have a denier of fro... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7935220 | Absorbent sheet made by fabric crepe process A process for making absorbent cellulosic paper products such as sheet for towel, tissue and the like, includes compactively dewatering a nascent web followed by wet belt creping the web at an intermediate consistency of anywhere from about 30 to about 60 percent un... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7927456 | Absorbent sheet A method of making a cellulosic web includes: forming a nascent web from a papermaking furnish, the nascent web having a generally random distribution of papermaking fiber; b) transferring the web having a generally random distribution of papermaking fiber to a tran... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7918964 | Multi-ply paper towel with absorbent core A multi-ply absorbent sheet of cellulosic fiber with continuous outer surfaces is provided an absorbent core between the outer surfaces. The absorbent core includes a non-woven fiber network having: (i) a plurality of pileated fiber enriched regions of relatively hi... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7891158 | Robotic multi-product case-packing system A case packing system concurrently accumulates a plurality of different product ensembles and sequentially packs cases thereof, generally by way of (a) concurrently accumulating a plurality of different product ensembles utilizing a plurality of product conveyer lin... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7878442 | Method for making a central unwinding roll and resulting roll This invention relates to a method for the production of a coreless roll (110′) including a sheet (110) of flexible, not moist, material such as a fibrous absorbent material, produced by winding of the sheet in one direction and rolling this sheet ab... | 02/01/2011 |
| D631669 | Absorbent paper | 02/01/2011 |
| 7871485 | Reduced ply separation tail seal Easy starting rolls of perforated tissue product which have a reduced tendency to ply separate are formed with an adhesively secured doubled over tail tab folded against the roll. The strength and location of the bonds are controlled by controlling the penetration o... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7852605 | Arc-flash hazard protection system for three-phase electrical distribution system An arc-flash hazard protection system for a three-phase electrical distribution system having a plurality of switchgear interconnected with a plurality of distribution buses is disclosed. The protection system includes a plurality of first and second current transfo... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7850823 | Method of controlling adhesive build-up on a yankee dryer An improved method of controlling build-up of adhesive coating on a Yankee drying cylinder preferably includes intermittently: (a) increasing the add-on rate of resinous adhesive to the drying cylinder substantially above the steady-state add-on rate; (b) segregatin... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7810641 | Parallelepipedal flexible packaging with breakable zone The invention relates to a flexible packaging of parallelepipedal form for flexible, superposed flat elements, which may or may not be interlinked, forming a stack of axis XX, comprising a breakable zone (1) capable of constituting a dispensing opening that i... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7799161 | Tissue product with mixed inclination embosses An emboss pattern, tissue product and method of manufacturing tissue product having improved bulk and softness with minimal roll ridging. The pattern combines a plurality of aligned signature bosses with a grouping of signature bosses offset from the machine directi... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7740744 | Method and apparatus for removing residual tissue from parent rolls Cellulosic based cores used in manufacture of towel and tissue products can be effectively stripped of residual product with little damage to the core using a roll stripping air knife with a longitudinal air passageway having both primary discharge passages and inte... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7716850 | Energy-efficient yankee dryer hood system A paper machine configured as a swing machine capable of producing both light and heavy grades providing a Yankee hood split into a wet end half and a dry end half, at least one hood half being a flex-hood half wherein the supply for that half is capable of being ru... | 05/18/2010 |
| 7716846 | Bearing alignment tool and method of use A bearing alignment tool and method of use is provided for aligning inner and outer races of a roller bearing of the class wherein the inner and outer races of the roller bearing are axially displaceable with respect to each other in order to accommodate thermal gro... | 05/18/2010 |
| 5877132 | Cleaning compositions A range of novel biodegradable aqueous acid cleaning systems for removing limescale from surfaces, especially stainless steel and porcelain surfaces, wherein said system comprises a biodegradable aqueous acid system, said system having a pH of less than 7... | 03/02/1999 |
| 5869601 | Method of stabilizing the viscosity of a thickened composition A method of stabilizing a composition containing a thickening agent which is adversely affected by the increasing ionic strength of the composition, by blanketing the solution in a vessel with a sufficient amount of gas capable of diluting or displacing t... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5869440 | Peroxide activation method and peroxide composition Provided herein is a method of peroxide activation which comprises combining (1) an aqueous bleaching solution with hydrogen peroxide base, and (2) an aqueous solution containing as major components a sufficient amount of dicyandiamide for hydrogen peroxi... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5849681 | Glass cleaner with enhanced anti-streaking properties An aqueous glass cleaning composition with optimal anti-streaking properties contains a nonvolatile organic ether having the formula R1 --O--R2 wherein R1 is a C1 -C8 linear, branched or cyclic alkyl or al... | 12/15/1998 |
