Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

The Procter Gamble Company

Andrew Peter Bakken

Mark Alan Burazin

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay

Peter John Allen

Kevin Joseph Vogt

Kenneth John Zwick

Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt

Bernhardt Edward Kressner

Troy Michael Runge

Robert Eugene Krautkramer

Julie Ann Paveletzke

Jessica Annette Ives Dieringer

Cristina Asensio Mullally

Jordyn Kaylee Somerville

Cristina Asensio Muilally

Michael Stephen Vance

Christopher Scott Kowalski

Michael Alan Hermans

Thomas Gerard Shannon

Christopher Peter Olson

Frank Stephen Hada

Yousef Georges Aouad

Eric Donald Johnson

Corey Thomas Cunningham

Jason C Cohen

Cynthia Watts Henderson

Duane Lyle McDonald

Jeffrey David Mathews

Kathryn J Sirovatka

Irene Beatrice Strohbeen

Steven R Kehn

Gacia Coronado

Rudolfo Delgado

Cristina Asensio Mullalhy

Raymond Paul Pitsch

Shiva Nicole Scotti

Allen Jerry Marquardt

Timothy Patrick Clare

The invention provides a sheet material dispenser and more particularly a dispenser for storing and dispensing a compact stack of folded tissue products. The compact stack of folded tissues may be secured by the tension of a pair of opposed side panels having a generally elliptical shape. The elliptically shaped side panels result in a rigid, resilient frame-work such that the dispenser has sufficient resiliency to maintain its shape even after a portion of the folded tissue products have been dispensed.

Flexible dispenser for compact stack of folded tissues

Sheet material dispenser

A training device for nasal hygiene comprises a facial tissue sheet; where the facial tissue sheet has a first side, and where the facial tissue sheet also has a second side having an opposing planar relationship to the first side. A first-side tissue graphic is visible on the first side of the facial tissue sheet. The first-side tissue graphic comprises a permanent graphic and/or an active graphic. In addition, the first-side tissue graphic is a training mark.

Hygiene training device and method

Textured non-woven webs, papermaking fabrics and tissue sheets made using the textured papermaking fabrics can contain design elements set in highlight areas which make the design elements more visible.

Method of making textured tissue sheets having highlighted designs

Forming fabrics for making tissue webs are provided with structural icons on the side of the fabric that does not contact the tissue web during formation. The resulting tissue web has good formation without pinholes, yet contains a watermark corresponding to the shape of the structural icon.

Decorative tissue sheets

Fabrics for forming decorative tissue sheets

Throughdried tissue sheets can be made using a linkbelt throughdrying fabric and/or transfer fabric. In particular, linkbelts can be modified with topically-applied materials, such as extruded or printed silicone materials, in a pattern that provides an overall background texture and/or a decorative design that is imparted to the resulting tissue.

Modified linkbelt molding and throughdrying fabrics

Woven throughdrying fabric having highlighted design elements

Method of forming decorative tissue sheets

One embodiment of the present invention is an endless non-woven tissue making fabric having a three-dimensional texture suitable for use as a fabric for producing three-dimensional fibrous webs. The endless non-woven tissue making fabric comprises a plurality of substantially parallel adjoining sections of non-woven material. Each section of non-woven material has a width substantially less than the width of the non-woven tissue making fabric. Each section of non-woven material may be joined to at least one other adjoining section of non-woven material. The non-woven tissue making fabric has a machine direction, a cross-machine direction, a tissue contacting surface and a tissue machine contacting surface. The tissue contacting surface comprises solid matter at a plurality of heights such that the tissue contacting surface of the non-woven tissue making fabric has an Overall Surface Depth of at least 0.2 mm in regions of solid matter on the tissue contacting surface.

Non-woven through air dryer and transfer fabrics for tissue making

A tissue product having a combination of substantially equal tensile energy absorbed (TEA) in the machine direction and the cross-machine direction of the tissue sheet and a significant level of stretch in both directions provides improved perception of strength and resistance to 'poke through' in use.

Tissue products having substantially equal machine direction and cross-machine direction mechanical properties

Papermaking fabrics, particularly those fabrics useful for making tissue and towel products, can be modified to alter their structure, such as surface texture, and re-used to make a different product. The fabrics can be modified after removal from the paper machine or while on the paper machine, including while the machine is running, so that down time between making different products can be eliminated or greatly reduced.

Method of making paper using reformable fabrics

Highly textured tissue sheets, particularly suitable for use as bath tissue, are produced by throughdrying and have a low number and/or low amount of pinholes. The low number or amount of pinholes is provided by using a throughdrying fabric having parallel wide ridges with a height suited to the particular tissue sheet being produced.

Wide wale papermaking fabrics

'Products made from a process for increasing the tactile properties of a base web without adversely affecting the strength of the web is disclosed. In general, the process includes the steps of placing a base web in between a first moving conveyor and a second moving conveyor. The conveyors are then wrapped around a shear inducing roll which creates shear forces that act upon the base web. The shear forces disrupt the web increasing the softness and decreasing the stiffness of the web. The shear inducing roll typically has a relatively small diameter. In some applications, more than one shear inducing roll may be incorporated into the system.'

Single ply webs with increased softness having two outer layers and a middle layer

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

Andrew Peter Bakken