Paper making and fiber liberation inventions 11/07

20070272376 - Method and apparatus for pre-treatment of fibre material to be used in the manufacture of paper, board or the like: A method and apparatus for pretreating fibre material to be used in manufacturing paper or the like, for example, by precipitating mineral substances to the fibres. During precipitation, fibre material, which is advantageously pretreated in a through-flow mixer operating on the principle of an impact mill, is fed to the... Agent: James C. Lydon

20070272377 - Fully closed, zero discharge, clean oxidizing pulping technology and process: The aim of the present invention is to provide a close-loop, zero discharge and clean oxidation pulping method and technology. In accordance with present invention, it takes advantage of active oxygen free radical generated by reduction reaction of molecular oxygen in process reactor to transform and separate lignin to change... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070272378 - Method for reducing the extractives content of high-yield pulps and method for producing bleached high-yield pulps: The invention relates to a method for reducing the content of extractives of a high-yield pulp in a peroxide bleaching stage, said stage including peroxide bleaching and a subsequent dewatering or washing, said method comprising contacting the pulp in the peroxide bleaching with an organic stabilizer and in or after... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070272379 - Support band: A support band for a drying arrangement for drying one of a paper, a board, a tissue and a fibrous web in a papermaking machine for at least one of producing and finishing the same, the support band including a water-impermeable sealing layer and at least one water-absorbing storage layer.... Agent: Todd T. Taylor Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20070272380 - Method of making a non compacted paper web containing refined long fiber using a charge controlled headbox and a single ply towel made by the process: A method of forming a cellulosic web is discussed, the product of which may, for example, possess at least one of increased softness, strength, and absorbency. The method measures the total anionic charge and controls the net charge of an aqueous stream.... Agent: Patent Group Ga030-43 Georgia-pacific LLC

20070272381 - Embossed multi-ply fibrous structure product: A multi-ply fibrous structure product having two or more plies of fibrous structure where at least one of the plies has a plurality of domes formed during the papermaking process and there are from about 10 to about 1000 domes per square inch of the product. At least one of... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070272382 - Coated paper as a printed material: The present invention relates to a paper which contains a paper substrate and a preparation applied to at least one side of the paper substrate over the entire surface. The preparation contains at least one surfactant and at least one pigment having a particle diameter of from 1 to 500... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070272383 - Paper production with modified silica sols as microparticles: Use of silica sols containing sulfonic acid groups and/or mercapto groups as nicroparticles in paper production, in particular for paper retention.... Agent: Cantor Colburn, LLP

20070272384 - Suction or ventilation roll: The invention relates to a suction or ventilation roll of a machine for producing and/or finishing a paper, cardboard, tissue or other fibrous material web (2). Said roll comprises a rotatable, perforated roll jacket (1) and at least one pressure zone (9), which only extends over part of the roll... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20070272385 - Structured forming fabric: A fabric for use by a papermaking machine, the fabric including a plurality of weft yarns, a plurality of warp yarns, and a woven fabric resulting from a repeating pattern of the weft yarns and warp yarns. Each of the weft yarn in the repeating pattern having a sequence of... Agent: Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20070272386 - Machine for producing a material web: The present invention provides a method and a press in a machine for producing or processing a material web, in particular a fibrous web, the press including a roller whose outer jacket is jointly enwrapped, at least in one wrap zone, respectively by at least a press belt, a support... Agent: Todd T. Taylor Taylor & Aust, P.C.

20070267156 - Method for degassing and supplying a fibrous suspension to a headbox or a filter device and degassing device: The invention serves to feed a fibrous suspension (S) to a headbox (1) of a paper or cardboard machine (2) or to a filter device. The fibrous suspension (S) can be generated, e.g., by mixing a high-consistency suspension (4) with a diluting liquid (5). The method uses at least one... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070267157 - Papermaking machine for forming tissue employing an air press: A web of tissue is formed in a twin wire former, followed by an air press for water removal in the pressing section, passing onto a Yankee dryer. A headbox injects stock between upper and lower dryer fabrics brought together on a breast roll. The fabrics moves over vacuum boxes,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070267158 - Art material: An art material which resembles the texture of molding clay, said material being made from paper, preferably crepe paper, newspaper, tissue paper and the like and made by the process of soaking in hot water the paper until softened and slowly mashing it until it becomes pulp, agitating by hands... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070267159 - Bamboo fibre and its manufacture: The present invention is related to a bamboo fiber, which uses bamboo as raw material, providing a kind of raw materials for making face fabric instead of cotton, chemical fiber, hemp and silk, and the production method of this kind of fiber includes the procedures of bamboo pretreatment, bamboo separation,... Agent: Raymond Y. Chan

20070267160 - Method and system in a paper machine and software product: The invention comprises a method and a system in a paper machine, and also a software product, allowing one or more tools to be generated for indicating the state of the paper production process in terms of energy consumption to the operating staff of the paper machine. This allows continual... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane

20070267161 - Machine and method for the production of a web of fiber material with an increased volume: A machine for the production of a web of paper or other fiber material (1, 6, 17, 37), comprising a belt (14, 26, 43), wherein the length of the belt (14, 26, 43) is elastically extendable, the web of fiber material (1, 6, 17, 37) can be fed to the... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.

20070267162 - Apparatus and method in a paper machine and a paper machine: The invention comprises an apparatus and a method in a paper machine and a paper machine. According to the invention at least one deckle rail with strip form body of the forming table comprises openings for leading water between the deckle rail with strip form body and the stock layer... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070267163 - Used paper recycling apparatus and its constitutent devices: A used paper recycling apparatus being installed in a room of a small shop or the like, friendly to the environment, low in running cost, and capable of maintaining a high confidentiality. The apparatus includes, in an apparatus case of furniture size, a pulp making section for manufacturing used paper... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20070267164 - Headbox and stock delivery system for a papermaking machine: A headbox including a stock dilution profiling arrangement and associated stock delivery systems are provided, which together deliver to the forming section of a papermaking machine a uniform stock flow with more consistent basis weight and fiber orientation profiles than has previously been possible. These improvements in basis weight uniformity... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C. Dept Aj

20070261806 - Treatment of pulp stocks using oxidative enzymes to reduce pitch deposition: Methods of treating pulp stocks with an enzyme formulation containing one or more oxidative enzymes, to reduce pitch deposition, control pitch related problems, modify the physical and/or chemical properties of tri, di-, and mono-glycerides, fatty acids, resin acids, esters of fatty acids and resin acids, and metal soaps of fatty... Agent: Patrea L. Pabst Pabst Patent Group LLP

20070261807 - Use of polyvinylamine to improve oil and water sizing in cellulosic products: The presence of both a water sizing agent and an oil sizing agent in a paper making furnish is detrimental in that each has an adverse effect on the sizing property of the other. It has now been found that this adverse effect can be counteracted or lessened by the... Agent: Gary A. Samuels Hercules Incorporated

20070261808 - Method for making bio-degradable paper board: A method for making the paper board includes a step of pre-heating and the paper roll and removing static electricity from the paper roll by way of corona treatment; a step of pre-heating the bio-degradable material to be liquid status; a step of extruding the bio-degradable material to be foam... Agent: Hsi-ching Chang

20070261809 - Method for making bio-degradable paper board: A method for making the paper board includes a step of pre-heating and the paper roll and removing static electricity from the paper roll by way of corona treatment; a step of pre-heating the bio-degradable material to be liquid status; a step of extruding the bio-degradable material to be foam... Agent: Hsi-ching Chang

20070256801 - Alkaline process and system for producing pulp: A process and an apparatus are provided for producing pulp from lignocellulosic material by an alkaline cooking process, in which process preheated chips are treated in an impregnation stage with impregnation liquor, which is taken from the impregnation stage, and concentrated to obtain both a high inorganic and organic dry... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070256802 - Fibrous structure product with high bulk: A fibrous structure product having two or more plies of fibrous structure having a High Load Caliper from 17 mils to about 45 mils. In addition a multiply fibrous structure product having two or more plies, a High Load Caliper from about 17 mils to about 45 mils; a basis... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070256803 - Fibrous structure product with high softness: A multiply fibrous structure product having two or more plies of fibrous structure wherein the fibrous structure has a Compression Slope from about 11 to about 30; a basis weight from about 26 lbs/3000 ft2 to about 50 lbs/3000 ft2; a Wet Caliper greater than about 18 mils; and a... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070256804 - Light-coloured to white wooden material panels: Light to white wood-base boards which are produced from bleached wood fibers and/or beater dyed with a white pigment.... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070256805 - Paperboard material with expanded polymeric microspheres: The present invention is related to a paperboard product having a basis weight in a range of 100 to 350 pounds per 3,000 square feet. The paperboard comprises at least one coated surface suitable for printing. The at least one coated surface comprising cellulosic fibers and from about 0.05 to... Agent: International Paper Company

20070256806 - Advanced dewatering system: A system for drying one of a tissue and a hygiene web including a drying apparatus, a permeable structured fabric, a permeable dewatering fabric and a mechanism for applying pressure. The permeable structured fabric carries the web over the drying apparatus. The permeable dewatering fabric contacts the web and is... Agent: Max W. Garwood Taylor & Aust

20070251656 - Processes for foreshortening fibrous structures: Papermaking processes and more particularly to papernaking processes for foreshortening fibrous structures are provided.... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070251657 - Temporary wet strength additives: and X is —O—, —NH—, or —NCH3—, and R2 is substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic groups; and Y3 is —H, —CH3, or a halogen, fibrous structures including such temporary wet strength additives, sanitary tissue products containing such fibrous structures and processes for making such fibrous structures and/or such sanitary tissue product... Agent: The Procter & Gamble Company Intellectual Property Division - West Bldg.

20070251658 - In situ formation of catalytic cigarette paper: Methods for the in situ formation of catalyst particles in cigarette paper are provided. A catalyst precursor, which can be incorporated into the cigarette papermaking process or can be combined with cigarette paper after formation of the paper, can be decomposed to form catalyst particles that are incorporated within the... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20070251660 - Dewatering tissue press fabric for an atmos system and press section of a paper machine using the dewatering fabric: A dewatering fabric for an ATMOS system or a TAD machine that includes a caliper of between approximately 0.1 mm and approximately 15 mm, a permeability value of between approximately 1 cfm and approximately 500 cfm, an overall density of between approximately 0.2 g/cm3 and approximately 1.10 g/cm3, and a... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070251659 - Forming fabric and/or tissue molding belt and/or molding belt for use on an atmos system: A forming fabric for an ATMOS system or a TAD machine. The forming fabric includes a permeability value of between approximately 100 cfm and approximately 1200 cfm, a paper surface contact area of between approximately 0.5% and approximately 90% when not under pressure and tension, and an open area of... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070251661 - Paper machine comprising a single nip press: The invention relates to a machine for producing and/or further processing a fibrous web, said machine comprising a press part and a drying part. The press part comprises only one press nip, and the first or second drying group of the dry part comprises an air-flow drying unit.... Agent: Bachman & Lapointe, P.C.