Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Blake A Hondl

Justin M Mueller

Jason Robert Boon

Duane Lyle McDonald

Sarah A Kleuskens

Brian Keith Rhodes

Jeremy T Gauger

KyungSik Jang

Jaehong Lee

William Joseph Meyer

William George Stoeger

WenTong Lay

Gabriel F Botero

Richard Andre Hookong

Brian K Rhodes

William J Meyer

An absorbent article having a front region, a back region, and a crotch region extending between and connecting the front region and the back region generally includes an absorbent assembly extending longitudinally between the front region and the back region, and a waist assembly attached to the absorbent assembly along the front region and the back region. The absorbent assembly includes an inner layer for facing a wearer, an outer layer for facing away from the wearer, and an absorbent structure disposed between the inner and outer layers. The waist assembly defines a waist opening of the absorbent article when the article is in a wear configuration, and includes an elastic laminate including a non-apertured body-facing layer, an apertured garment-facing layer, and an elastic layer disposed between the body-facing layer and the garment-facing layer.

Waist assembly having apertured layer and non-apertured layer for absorbent articles

A method of manufacturing an absorbent article includes feeding a first web of material in a machine direction, feeding a second web of material in the machine direction, the second web being spaced from the first web by a gap, attaching an absorbent assembly to the first web and the second web such that the absorbent assembly spans the gap between the first and second webs, forming a partial cut line through the second web, folding the first web into face-to-face relationship with the second web after forming the partial cut line, and cutting the first and second webs after folding the first web into face-to-face relationship with the second web to separate the absorbent article from the first and second webs. The partial cut line defines at least one finger tab on the absorbent article.

Absorbent article having finger tabs and methods of manufacturing same

A flexible package, such as a facial tissue pocket pack, is provided with a rigid mirror, affixed to the package with an overlying adhesive label, to enable a user to clearly see his/her reflection.

Facial tissue pack with mirror

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Neenah, WI, United States of America

Blake A Hondl