Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Kimberly-clark Corporation

Velcro Industries B.v.

Arthur Edward Garavaglia

Jaime Braverman

Yvette Lynn Hammonds

Herb F Velazquez

Susan Jean Moder

Jayne B Nelson

Tamara Lee Mace

Ali Yahiaoui

Michael Allen Daley

Eugenio Go Varona

Christopher M Gallant

William P Clune

Scott M Filion

Ernesto S Tachauer

Timothy M McFarland

Wallace L Kurtz, Jr

David Michael Matela

Brian J Vanbenschoten

Joseph Earl Pierce

Nadezhda Efremova

Nancy Donaldson Kollin

David Wayne Primm

John Gavin MacDonald

Ronald S Nohr

Garry Roland Woltman

Michael Donald Sperl

Kuo-Shu Edward Chang

Susan Carol Paul

David Charles Potts

Jay Sheldon Shultz

Michael David Powers

Clifford Jackson Ellis

Connie Lynn Hetzler

Jack Nelson Lindon

Alexander J Neeb

Cheryl A Perkins

Jon Edward Tinsley

Roland Columbus Smith, Jr

Karen Lynn English

Oomman Painumoottil Thomas

Reginald Smith

Hristo Angelov Hristov

Mark Bruce Majors

Gregory A Zelazoski

Laura Jane Walker

Glen Thomas Mildenhall

Rebecca Willey Griffin

Crystal Sutphin Leach

Monica Lynn Bontrager

Ann Marie Giencke

Sharon Rymer

Robert C Diluccio

Methods and systems including an engageable material with a lane of plastic resin extending across an interface of first and second ends of an article, wherein the plastic resin is bonded to the first and second ends such that the first and second ends are joined by the resin; and an array of fastener elements extending from one side of the plastic resin. The fastener elements include engageable heads on stems integrally formed with the lane of the plastic resin such that the two ends releasably engage the engageable material to secure the article.

Composite fastener products

A method of manufacturing a composite fastener material, the composite fastener material, and products derived from the composite fastener material. The method includes providing two longitudinally continuous sheets of material, positioning the two sheets to form a longitudinal, continuous interface between the two sheets, joining the two sheets by introducing one or more molten plastic resins in at least one lane, one lane of the resin extending across the interface under conditions that cause the resin to bond to the two sheets, molding an array of stems from at least one lane of the resin, the stems extending from an exposed surface of the composite material, and forming engageable heads on the stems to form fastener elements, wherein the two sheets differ from one another by one of material composition, thickness, texture, stretchability, breathability, and compressability.

Disclosed herein are elastic laminate materials. The elastic laminate materials are laminates of extensible nonwoven fibrous webs and thermoplastic elastic materials. The laminate may be a two-layer composite material having a single nonwoven fibrous web bonded to one side of the thermoplastic elastic material, or it may be a three-layer composite having a nonwoven fibrous web bonded to each side of the thermoplastic elastic material. The extensible nonwoven fibrous webs may be staple fiber webs. The thermoplastic elastic material may be single-layer or multi-layer elastic films, or elastic fibrous layers. Where single- or multi-layer elastic films are used, the films may be breathable films. The elastic material, or some of the staple fibers, or both, may be selected such that the staple fiber webs are thermally compatible with the thermoplastic elastic material to facilitate laminate bonding. Processes for forming the elastic laminate material are also disclosed.

Low-cost elastic laminate material

An elastic laminate is provided which has an elastic layer and one or two outer facing layers. The elastic layer is formed from an improved styrene-(ethylene-butylene)-styrene-(ethylene-butylene) tetrablock copolymer, or a blend of the copolymer. The copolymer has a number average molecular weight of at least about 70,000. The two ethylene-butylene blocks have number average molecular weights which together constitute more than 75% of the number average molecular weight of the copolymer.

High performance elastic laminates made from high molecular weight styrenic tetrablock copolymer

There is provided a resilient, three dimensional material having fibrous texture and appearance and capable of fluid handling. It consists of a top surface and a bottom surface wherein fiber-like elements typically extend from one surface to the other forming flat to undulating surfaces characterized by a multiplicity of interconnected fluid passageways. Deformed, discontinuous film-like or encapsulated regions connect fiber-like elements and stabilize the material. The material of this invention is unique based on the three principle characteristics which are communicated in this application: 1) f(&#x3c8;)&#x3c;0.87, 2) SA/VV&#x3c;186 cm/cm, and 3) caliper&#x3c;0.150 inches. This material is useful for a number of purposes, such as for use as a liner for personal care products like diapers, absorbent underpants, swim wear, feminine hygiene products, adult incontinence products and the like. The properties of the material may be tailored within the ranges of this invention to deliver optimal material performance for use in specific personal care products.

Creped materials

A feminine care absorbent article includes an outer cover and an absorbent structure in superposed relation to the outer cover and defining a bodyfacing surface. A lotion formulation is deposited on the bodyfacing surface in discrete locations targeted for specific regions of the wearer's body.

Feminine care product with discrete areas of a skin wellness additive

A personal care absorbent article having a fluid intake/distribution layer, a fluid transfer delay layer disposed beneath said fluid intake/distribution layer, said fluid transfer delay layer enabling the transfer of fluid from the fluid intake/distribution layer(s) to a pad layer disposed beneath the fluid transfer delay layer while still allowing fluid distribution by the fluid intake/distribution layer along the machine direction of the article resulting in saturation levels of less than or equal to about 0.86 g/g/in of fluid in the intake/distribution layer(s) and/or essentially equal to or greater than 0.06 g/g/in. of fluid in the pad layer.

Transfer delay for increased access fluff capacity

A film cover for use in absorbent materials such as feminine care products, surgical drapes, fenestration reinforcement, absorbent pads and the like including a polymeric film having a top planar surface and a bottom planar surface and forming a plurality of apertures, at least a portion of which have an aperture region having a higher wettability than a portion of the top planar surface of the polymeric film.

Apertured film covers with localized wettability and method for making the same

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Alpharetta, GA, United States of America

Arthur Edward Garavaglia