Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Kimberly-clark Corporation

Carl Gerard Rippl

George Ikuya Nukuto

Robert J Henshaw

Russell J Kroll

MeeWha Lee

Mark Londborg

Cameron Ray Morris

Stephanie Ann Rossignol

Denis R Grimard

Paul Woon

William S Pomplun

Frank Paul Abuto

Richard Warren Tanzer

David Louis Zenker

Stanley Roy Kellenberger

Lorry F Sallee

Mark Louis Robinson

Kiran K Reddy

Sandra M Yarbrough

Brian K Nortman

Daniel R Laux

Kaiyuan Yang

Wen Zyo Schroeder

Maggie VanderHeiden Berger

Thomas Glenn Merrill

Jose Ricardo Rubio-Flores, Jr

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay

Fung-jou Chen

David John Tyrrell

Duane Lyle McDonald

David Grant Midkiff

Joseph Kenneth Baker

Mary Jo Meyer

James D McManus

Joel Brostin

Sarah Lee Christoffel

Marci Elizabeth Sojka

Jonathan Kyle Arendt

Kim Ellefson

Brian James Ludka

Jin Seong Heo

Dave Allen Soerens

David William Koenig

Gregory John Rajala

Peiguang Zhou

Georgia Lynn Zehner

Yung Hsiang Huang

Timothy James Blenke

Sridhar Ranganathan

Andrew Thomas Baker

Fred R Radwanski

Charles Wilson Colman

Barbara Oakley Sauer

Paul Theodore VanGompel

Frank Gerald Druecke

Joseph R Feldkamp

Timothy M McFarland

Stephen Michael Lindsay

WanDuk Lee

Hoa La Wilhelm

Thomas M Ales, Jr

Michael Andrew Zawadzki

Christine Marie Mau

David W Heyn

Jose Kollakompil Abraham

Nancy E Dawson

Eric Francis Wagner

Kathleen C Engelbrecht

Allen Todd Leak

Diane Michele Underhill

Waihong Leong

Divesh Bhatt

Jerome James Workman, Jr

Dale Arthur Peterson

Joseph G Neuwirth

Susan Marie Trefethren

Andrew B Clement

Christopher James Uecker

Lorrie Lynn Krynock

Joseph D Wahlquist

Dennis Y Lee

Craig M Thoms

Stephen Bradford Cook

James Benjamin Harvey

Nancy D Twyman

Yiming Weng

Gregory Daniel Samek

Jennifer Marie Bauerle

Chi Hao P Duong

Peter Laurence

Richard E Hansen

Jennifer Lynn Brock

Katie Rose Lodholz Hinrichs

Nathan P Hendon

Fred Robert Radwanski

Duane L Mcdonald

James D Mcmanus

Jose Ricardo Rubio-Flores Jr

Andrew Clement

A substrate has an elastomeric film having surfaces and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film. In addition, a substrate has an elastomeric film and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film, and wherein the substrate is essentially free of adhesives and film-based microfibers. A method for making a film/nonwoven composite includes providing an elastomeric film traveling in a machine direction; providing a nonwoven web traveling in the machine direction in face-to-face contact with the film, wherein the nonwoven web includes fibers; and impinging the elastomeric film with hydro jets such that at least some of the fibers become embedded in the film.

Hydroembedded film-based composites

A nonwoven material includes a backing substrate and a functional layer affixed to the backing substrate, the functional layer including thermal-setting fibers. The functional layer can be a nonwoven web including thermal-setting fibers, where the nonwoven web is affixed to the backing substrate. The functional layer can also include thermal-setting fibers and a thermal-setting polymer disposed on the backing substrate. The thermal-setting fibers can be melamine. Thermal-setting fibers can be rigidly fixed within the functional layer. The functional layer can further include a polymer resin.

Multi-purpose tough stain removal articles

A cleaning article includes a cleaning article sheet comprising a fabric substrate, wherein the fabric substrate includes pores therein, and wherein the fabric substrate has a background moisture percentage by weight, and liquid water disposed substantially and disconnectedly within the pores, wherein the liquid water is at moisture percentage by weight that is 5 to 150 percentage points higher than the background moisture percentage. The nonwoven substrate can include pores formed between and/or within the fibers and can have a background moisture percentage by weight. The substrate can include a treatment to increase the dielectric constant from the dielectric constant of the substrate without the treatment. The moisture of the article can be configured to exhibit a dielectric constant of at least 50% and up to 600% higher than the dielectric constant of the same article with only background moisture.

Low-moisture cloud-making cleaning article

A sheet dispenser is defined by at least six panels having outwardly facing surfaces, wherein at least one of the panels is oriented at an oblique angle with respect to the other panels. Sheets may be dispensed from an opening located on the oblique surface. The sheet dispenser may sit on a surface such as a countertop for dispensing, or may be placed between a wall and other structure attached to the wall such as a towel bar. Furthermore, the sheet dispenser may be hung from a structure using a strap attached to the towel dispenser.

Slanted sheet dispenser

A device including a base layer; a wipe layer attached to the base layer to define an interior space between the wipe and base layers; a plurality of blisters positioned within the interior space, each blister having a blister volume, wherein the sum of the blister volumes is a total blister volume; and an indication disposed on the wipe layer or the base layer corresponding to a single blister or a group of blisters indicating the ratio of the blister volume of that single blister or the sum of the blister volumes of that group of blisters to the total blister volume is disclosed.

Disposable wipe with substance-filled blisters

A cleaning tool is disclosed for cleaning adjacent surfaces. In one embodiment, for instance, the cleaning tool may be used as a toilet bowl brush. The cleaning tool includes a handle comprised of a first handle member pivotally attached to a second handle member. Each handle member terminates in a clamping plate. The clamping plates move towards and away from each other as the handle members are likewise moved towards and away from each other. The handle can include a locking member that engages the first handle member with the second handle member in order to clamp or hold a cleaning pad in between the clamping plates. The clamping plates can include raised wave-like protrusions that further assist in gripping a cleaning pad.

Cleaning tool handle for use with a disposable toilet brush

A floor scrubbing apparatus that is particularly well suited to scrubbing carpet materials is disclosed. The floor scrubbing apparatus is manually operated and includes a drive roller coupled to a scrub roller. In one embodiment, the drive roller is coupled to the scrub roller using a gear arrangement that causes the scrub roller to rotate faster than the drive roller. If desired, the apparatus can include a cleaning fluid dispensing system. For instance, the apparatus can include one or more nozzles that dispense a cleaning fluid onto a carpet material as the material is being cleaned.

Carpet stain removal device

A floor-cleaning apparatus includes a cleaning head having a cleaning device, a control handle connected to the cleaning head for controlling the cleaning head and a micro power source in communication with the cleaning device. The micro power source is lightweight, compact, and rechargeable or replaceable for generating energy to power the cleaning device.

Micro powered floor cleaning device

Dispenser with textured surface pattern

A reversible mop head assembly for use with a mop handle is disclosed. The mop head assembly includes a transverse support shaft, a pair of end caps positioned at opposite ends of the transverse support shaft, a pair of opposed substrate support surfaces positioned between and supported by the end caps, and a head mount coupled to the transverse support shaft centrally between the end caps.

Mop assembly with reversible head

A gas dispenser includes a reservoir for holding a liquid, and a chamber in communication with the reservoir. The chamber receives the liquid, and a micro power source generates energy for conversion of the liquid disposed in the chamber. A nozzle defining an orifice in selective communication with the chamber. The nozzle is used to release the converted liquid from the chamber through the orifice.

Micro powered gas-forming device

A mop head assembly for use with a handle and a cleaning substrate is disclosed. The mop head assembly includes a lower substrate support surface, at least one fastener channel associated with the lower substrate support surface, and a fastener strip that can be inserted into the fastener channel. Such a fastener strip is configured to couple the lower substrate support surface to a cleaning substrate. The mop head assembly may include a cross-member configured such that forces applied from the handle through a central portion of mop head are distributed toward the end edges of the lower substrate support surface.

Mop assembly with fastener channels

A wet mop head assembly for use with a mop handle is disclosed. The mop head includes a laminate mop substrate having a first layer of scrubbing material, a second layer of scrubbing material and an absorbent foam layer sandwiched between the scrubbing material layers. At least one bond is present to join the scrubbing and absorbent foam layers together.

Wet mop with multi-layer substrate

An adjustable-size mop head assembly that may be used with a handle and a disposable cleaning substrate is disclosed. The mop head assembly includes a central frame section with a central portion and a lower substrate support surface configured to hold a disposable cleaning substrate. The mop head assembly also includes at least one adjunct frame section configured to be operably coupled to the central frame section and configured to move between a stored configuration, where the adjunct frame section is stored by the central frame section, and an extended configuration where the adjunct frame section extends from the central frame section to add width to the central frame section and the lower substrate support surfaces. A continuous web of disposable cleaning substrate that may be used with the adjustable-size mop head assembly is also disclosed. The continuous web of disposable cleaning substrate includes lines of weakness at regular intervals configured such that various widths of cleaning substrate are removable via the lines of weakness.

Adjustable-size mop head and selectable-size cleaning substrate

A quick-release handle for use with the working head of a cleaning tool is disclosed. The handle includes a quick-release coupling assembly positioned on one end of the handle and a button actuator positioned on the opposite end of the handle. The coupling assembly is configured to releaseably couple with a working head. The button actuator is operably connected to the coupling assembly such that coupling assembly may be disengaged from a working head through manipulation of the button actuator.

Quick-release handle and interchangeable cleaning system

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

Carl Gerard Rippl