Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Adrienne Rae Loyd

Renee Sue Booms

Joseph Daniel Coenen

Jian Qin

Carmen Lira

Katie Ann Boland

Deborah Snell Hannah

Garry Roland Woltman

Marcus David Weiher

Thomas William VanDenBogart

Mary Lou McDaniel

David John Enz

Candace Dyan Krautkramer

Angela Ann Johnston

Margaux Frances Boyaval

Ann Louise McCormack

Luke Hagan

Heidi Bauerlein Hopkins

Thomas Andrew Lutzow

Gerhard Andrew Foelsche

Melissa Jean Dennis

Ramona Zenkich

Channon Lee B Arteman

Marcille Faye Ruman

Dennis Joseph Boyle

Lukas Martin Scherrer

Adam Patrick Vollmer

Vivian Kate Barad

Connie May McMorrow

David Arthur Fell

Susan Elaine Shawver

Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt

William Grover Reeves

David Fleger Bishop

Richard Norris Dodge, Ii

Sarah Jane Marie Freiburger

Teresa Marie Zander

Jennifer Elizabeth Pozniak

Richard Joseph Hantke

Joseph DiPalma

Franz Aschenbrenner

Donald Eugene Waldroup

Yvette Lynn Hammonds

Theodore T Tower

Katherine Carol Wheeler

Deborah Joy Calewarts

Allan James Krueger

Kristi Jo Bryant

Dean M Wydeven

Angela Rae Heck

Stephen Carl Baumgartner

Jonathan Kyle Arendt

Paula Cardinahl Winkel

Pamela Mary Thompson

Thomas William Van Den Bogart

Roxanne Belinda Hallock

Matthew Edward Gerstle

Francis P Abuto

Mary Alice Berceau

Sheila Marie Heyrman

Betsy Charlotte Fields

Debra Ann Haase

Suzanne K Sullivan Conrad

Judy May Lee

Carmen Lira-Núñez

Devany Plentovich

Rebecca Jeanine Sinclair

Daniel Thomas LaBash

Gary John Borkowski

Kim Hoertsch

Lisha Yu

DooHong Kim

Hue Scott Snowden

Priscilla Eng Choo Goh

Meijia Ng

Carrie Nicole Pateras

Kristin Ann Goerg-Wood

Timothy James Van Himbergen

YeinSze Ong

Brian L Alberts

Brooke Ashley Berg

Katherine Carol Shaw

Russell Paul George

Jeffrey Frank Jurena

Steven John Shimon

Wendy Marie Takken

Lynn Marie Matheus

Keyur M Desai

Kwee Ling Cheng

Brooke Ashley Zimmer

Katie McMillen

David-John Enz

Suzanne K Vanderloop

Steven Anthony Moore

David J Krysiak

Thomas W Vandenbogart

Ruth A McVettie

Carrie Nicole Sinkele

Richard Norris Dodge Ii

Wendy M Takken

A packaged feminine care absorbent article has an absorbent article with an absorbent structure and a shell. The absorbent structure is configured for disposition adjacent a female wearer's vaginal region. The shell is configured for supporting the absorbent structure at the vaginal region. The shell has a body-facing surface and a garment-facing surface. The body-facing surface has an adhesive thereon for adhering the shell directly to the wearer. The absorbent structure is attached directly to the garment-facing surface. The absorbent article is configurable between a packaged configuration and a use configuration. The absorbent structure is folded longitudinally about at least one transverse fold line and transversely about at least one longitudinal fold line in the packaged configuration. A portion of the shell overlies a portion of the absorbent structure in the packaged configuration.

Packaged body adhering absorbent article

An absorbent article is disclosed. The absorbent article is a pad that includes a top cover and a lower baffle. The absorbent article also includes a shaping element. The shaping element is folded within the top cover and the absorbent article. The fold is directed toward the baffle. The top cover therefore forms a terminal seam on the lower surface of the baffle. A process is also disclosed. The process includes folding the shaping element into the edges of the top cover and the baffle as the top cover and the baffle form a single fold.

Elastic contained within a jointly folded top cover and bottom cover and process of making

The present invention provides a body adhering absorbent article which is capable of absorbing bodily fluids. In this particular embodiment of the present invention, provided is an absorbent article which is specifically designed for attachment to a wearer's skin in the vulva region of the wearer's torso.

Body adhering absorbent article

An absorbent article having improved leakage protection when the wearer of the absorbent article is lying on their side. The absorbent article has a surge layer in liquid communication with a portion of the garment facing region and a portion of a side edge of the absorbent core.

Disposable absorbent article with side lying leakage improvement

A topsheet layer material for use on an absorbent article includes a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction and a depth direction and comprises a planar sheet. The topsheet layer material includes visually and spatially coordinated embossed channels and apertures. The embossed channels are curvilinear indentations configured along either the longitudinal, the transverse direction, or a combination of longitudinal and transverse directions. The apertures are positioned along the topsheet layer material laterally adjacent to the channels such that at least a portion of the apertures have an overall shape configuration that is substantially similar or the same as at least a portion of the shape of the embossed channel. Such coordinated aperture configuration may also be generally concentric with or generally parallel to the embossed channels.

Coordinated apertured and embossed topsheet layer materials, and absorbent articles containing such

A pull-activated applicator includes a barrel, a pledget, a finger grip, and a deployment element. The pledget includes a withdrawal string and is located within the barrel. The barrel, the pledget, and the deployment element are configured such that application of a force to the deployment element in a first direction deploys the pledget and withdrawal string from the barrel in a second direction generally opposite the first direction.

Pull-activated tampon applicator

A process for manufacturing a package of folded absorbent articles is disclosed. In one embodiment, the process includes providing a plurality of absorbent cores, and embossing at least one fold line into each core, each fold line defining a fold region. The process further includes folding each core along the fold region of each fold line to create a plurality of folded absorbent garments, and placing the plurality of folded absorbent garments into a container. In particular embodiments, each core can include two transversely opposed absorbent ears. The process can include folding each core along the fold region of each fold line to move each ear closer to a longitudinal centerline of the core to create a plurality of folded absorbent garments. A package of folded absorbent articles is also disclosed.

Process for manufacturing a package of folded absorbent articles, and package made thereby

An absorbent article is configured for controlled deformation when insulted by a user and includes an absorbent body having a body-facing surface, a garment-facing surface, and a first graphic visible at the body-facing surface; and a deformable top component positioned adjacent to the body-facing surface, the top component having a longitudinal direction, a transverse direction, a longitudinally-extending centerline, a transverse-extending centerline, and a peripheral edge, wherein the top component includes an attached region and a cantilevered region, and wherein the cantilevered region includes a translucent portion through which the first graphic is at least partially visible. The article also includes a fluid shrinkable string attached to the deformable top component in a pattern capable of providing forces to the top component when insulted by a user.

Absorbent article with highlighted active barrier

A package includes a tampon and applicator assembly and a wrapper for enclosing the tampon and applicator assembly. The wrapper is selectively configurable between a sealed configuration wherein the tampon and applicator assembly are sealingly enclosed in the wrapper and an opened configuration for allowing the tampon and applicator assembly to be removed from the wrapper. The wrapper has a front panel, a back panel, two side edges, two end edges, an interior space, a longitudinal axis, and a transverse axis. The front panel has, in the opened configuration of the wrapper, a pair of spaced-apart longitudinal components extending generally parallel to each other and longitudinally of the wrapper to define an opening in the wrapper. Each of the longitudinal components is spaced inward from the respective side edge.

Packaged tampon and applicator assembly

An absorbent article includes an absorbent core, a garment-facing surface, a body-facing surface, a first graphic visible at the body-facing surface, and a top component affixed to the article body and including an attached region and a cantilevered region, wherein the cantilevered region includes a translucent portion through which the first graphic is at least partially visible. The translucent portion can include a second graphic, wherein the first graphic and the second graphic combine to form the appearance of a third graphic. The article can also include a baffle forming at least part of the garment-facing surface, wherein the baffle includes a baffle graphic, and wherein at least a portion of the article body is translucent such that the baffle graphic is visible at the body-facing surface such that the first graphic and the baffle graphic combine to form the appearance of a fourth graphic.

Absorbent article with highlighted passive barrier

A visually-coordinated absorbent product includes an absorbent article component including a garment side outer cover and a body side liner, wherein the article component has at least a first and second visual characteristic, and wherein the first visual characteristic is different from the second visual characteristic. The absorbent product also includes a first packaging component including at least first and second visual characteristics, wherein first and second visual characteristics of the absorbent article are coordinated to the first and second visual characteristics of the packaging component, and wherein at least a portion of one of the garment side outer cover and the body side liner is configured with the article component first visual characteristic and at least a portion of one of the garment side outer cover and the body side liner is configured with the article component second visual characteristic.

Visually-coordinated absorbent product

The present invention provides a body adhering absorbent articles which is capable of absorbing bodily fluids. In particular embodiment of the present invention, provided is an absorbent article which is specifically designed for attachment to a wearer's skin in the vulva region of the wearer's torso.

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Neenah, WI, United States of America

Adrienne Rae Loyd