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Fork With Timer

A fork with timer for providing a cue to a user after an elapsed period of time for indicating that another bite of food using the fork may be taken.

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Attorney: Tulley, Jr.; Douglas H.


Number of patents: 22
Last date: February 28, 2006

NumberTitleIssue Date
7004313Disposable dispenser with fragrance delivery system
Disposable dispensers for stacks of tissue products are provided that include one or more odor control agents and one or more means for containing and releasing the odor control agents. When the means for containing and releasing the odor control agents is activated...
02/28/2006
6877634High capacity dispensing carton
A disposable dispensing carton for paper and nonwoven sheet materials is provided that can be made from paperboard blanks and includes a set or ridges, integral with the dispensing carton, that extend into the interior area of the dispensing carton adjacent the disp...
04/12/2005
6794351Multi-purpose cleaning articles
Multipurpose cleaning articles are provided comprising a porous cleaning sheet containing an aqueous cleaning composition comprising (a) water as the major component; (b) 5% to 45% by weight water-immiscible solvent; (c) less than about 1.8% by weight emulsifier; an...
09/21/2004
6784126High pulp content nonwoven composite fabric
A high pulp content nonwoven composite fabric is disclosed. The composite fabric contains 1) from more than about 0 to less than about 30 percent, by weight, of a nonwoven layer of conjugate spun filaments, the filaments containing at least one low-softening point c...
08/31/2004
6769565Dispensing cartridge and system
A dispensing system that includes a housing and a cartridge which is to be inserted into the interior area of the housing. The housing includes a plurality of intersecting exterior sidewalls, a first end wall defining a dispensing throat, a second end wall, and a me...
08/03/2004
6759356Fibrous electret polymeric articles
A thermoplastic polymer electret material comprising a porous substrate of a blend of a first thermoplastic polymer, such as a polyolefin or polyamide, and from 0.1% to about 25% by weight, of a compatible telomer. The porous substrate is electrostatically charge an...
07/06/2004
6736916Hydraulically arranged nonwoven webs and method of making same
A process of forming a nonwoven fabric is disclosed which comprises the steps of forming a precursor web of multicomponent substantially continuous filaments, exposing the precursor web to a hydraulic arrangement treatment to form apertures without causing substanti...
05/18/2004
6653523Low gauge films and film/nonwoven laminates
Disclosed herein is a low gauge, multilayer film which may be laminated to other materials such as, for example, fibrous nonwoven webs. The multilayer film may include one or more skin layers which in certain configurations comprise no more than about 15 ...
11/25/2003
6562777Sorbent material
A sorbent material is provided comprising a porous substrate, such as a nonwoven web, having a wetting chemistry distributed substantially throughout the substrate. The wetting chemistry can comprise (a) an aliphatic alcohol ethoxylate; (b) one or more of...
05/13/2003
6454989Process of making a crimped multicomponent fiber web
The present invention provides continuously crimped propylene polymer nonwoven fabrics as well as processes for forming crimped multicomponent propylene polymer fibers by melt-attenuating extruded multicomponent fibers with heated or unheated air wherein ...
09/24/2002
6417154Sorbent material
A sorbent material is provided comprising a porous substrate, such as a nonwoven web, having a wetting chemistry distributed substantially throughout the substrate. The wetting chemistry can comprise (a) an aliphatic alcohol ethoxylate; (b) one or more of...
07/09/2002
6369292Absorbent articles having reduced outer cover dampness
Absorbent articles having reduced outer cover dampness are provided and include a hydrophobic barrier layer positioned between an absorbent core and a breathable liquid impervious outer cover. The hydrophobic barrier layer, such as one or more layers of n...
04/09/2002
6315114Durable high fluid release wipers
A cleaning system is provided comprising a sealable container housing a saturated stack of durable fine spunbond fiber cleaning sheets; the cleaning sheets have an average fiber diameter less than 18 micrometers, a tensile strength of at least 140-g/g/m
11/13/2001
6245401Segmented conformable breathable films
Unitary films are provided having at least first and second film segments which extend adjacent one another and are permanently joined together. The first and second segments have different compositions whereby the unitary film includes distinct segments ...
06/12/2001
6200669Entangled nonwoven fabrics and methods for forming the same
Nonwoven webs are fabricated by forming unitary multicomponent fibers comprising a plurality of individual segments partially exposed at the surface of the fiber; bonding the multicomponent fibers, such as by thermal point bonding, and then hydroentanglin...
03/13/2001
6179939Methods of making stretched filled microporous films
Breathable barriers, comprising a thermoplastic polymer and at least 30% by weight filler, are stretched in one direction in multiple discrete steps wherein the strain rate of each discrete stretching step is less than about 100,000%/minute and wherein th...
01/30/2001
6171695Thin absorbent pads for food products
Thin absorbent food pads with a bulk under 0.5 cm are provided having an insulation layer and from 3 to 30 sheets of compressed wet resilient cellulosic material wherein the absorbent pad has an absorbent capacity of at least 10 grams fluid per gram absor...
01/09/2001
6156421Stretched-filled microporous films and methods of making the same
A breathable microporous film is prepared by extruding a film comprising about 30 to 70% by weight of a thermoplastic polymer, about 30 to 70% by weight of filler particles having an average particle size less than about 10 microns and about 100 to 1000 P...
12/05/2000
6096668Elastic film laminates
An elastic liquid impermeable laminate is disclosed having an extensible barrier film; an 8 g/m2 to 100 g/m2 elastomeric nonwoven web comprising fibers of low density polyethylene having a density less than 0.89 g/cm3 ; an...
08/01/2000
6045900Breathable filled film laminate
A breathable barrier laminate is disclosed having a first film layer comprising a microporous breathable barrier film; a second film layer comprising a breathable filled film which comprises about 50% to about 70% by weight filler and an amorphous polymer...
04/04/2000
5910224Method for forming an elastic necked-bonded material
A method of making a stretchable composite by applying an elastomeric precursor to a neckable material, neck-stretching the neckable material and heating the elastomeric precursor such as by heating, while the neckable material is in a necked condition. T...
06/08/1999
5874160Macrofiber nonwoven bundle
The present invention relates to a cleaning implement formed from spunbond fiber webs having a basis weight less than about 85 grams per square meter and wherein the fibers comprise macrofibers having an average fiber diameter greater than 50 microns and ...
02/23/1999
 
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