Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Charles Herbert Goerg

Joseph D Mitchell

Ronald Raymond Padak

Cheryl Lynn York

Dixon Ng

Jeffrey Dean Lindsay

Paul Francis Tramontina

Michael Alan Hermans

Thomas Gerard Shannon

Richard Paul Lewis

James Leo Baggot

Ann Louise McCormack

Robert Lewis Clarke

Paul Douglas Beuther

Timothy M McFarland

Steven James Wojcik

Kenneth Allen Pigsley

Kenneth Curtis Larson

Frances Wynn Mayfield

Robert James Seymour

Thomas Garrett Neal, Jr

Jennifer L Marvin

Jeffrey Jennings Krueger

John Hanson

David A Lilley

Gregory James Hess

Randall James LeValley

James Morgenstern

E Kent Isom

Jacqueline B Martin

Frances W Mayfield

John R Hanson

Kenneth A Pigsley

Randall J Levalley

Steven J Wojcik

Robert J Seymour

Cheryl L York

Ann L Mccormack

An apparatus for the dispensing of product is provided. The apparatus includes a dispenser that is configured for dispensing product and a sensor in communication with an electrical circuit carried by the dispenser. The sensor is configured for detecting identification information about the product when the electrical circuit is completed by the product. Additional exemplary embodiments are also provided in which the sensor operates through optical detection, smell, physical contact with the product, or vibration instead of or in addition to the completion of an electrical circuit.

Apparatus for dispensing and identifying product in washrooms

A portable partition system includes an air permeable nonwoven sheet material as the primary isolation material. An elongated support member with an attachment device are used to erect the sheet material. The attachment device includes a head with opposed separable clamping surfaces having a hook material provided thereon. The sheet material is inserted between the clamping surfaces so as to be engaged directly by the hook material on opposite sides of the sheet material upon erecting the system into a portable partition.

Portable breathable dust partition system

The method of the present invention allows inventors to orally document innovative concepts. The method reduces the need to have inventors write out details of an invention in an invention disclosure form. The method also assists inventors in quickly and conveniently recording ideas and preparing invention disclosure forms based on the ideas. In some example forms, inventors are able to pick up a telephone and connect to a network. Once connected to the network an inventor can dictate the concepts of the idea over the network. The dictation is converted into text, such as by a voice analysis program, and then inserted into an invention disclosure form which is dated and archived.

Method of recording invention disclosures

A method for directly forming and finishing a web product is provided. The method includes forming a web on a forming apparatus, continuously transferring the formed web to a conveyor, performing a converting step on the web as the web is continuously supported and advanced on the conveyor, and finishing the web into a product substantially ready for packaging. A system for performing the method is also provided.

Methods and system for manufacturing and finishing web products at high speed without reeling and unwinding

A web treatment device is disclosed capable of heating and creping a fibrous web with control systems for uniform operation. The web is pressed between two belts in a compression zone, where is it also subject to a temperature gradient that can assist in water removal. Durable coatings on the press belts can assist in maintaining good performance. The system can be used to apply texture to a fibrous web or drive chemical reactions or other physical changes in the web.

Systems for tissue dried with metal bands

A multi-ply tissue product is described in which the two outer plies are layered such that the inwardly-facing layer of each outer ply contains a chemical debonder to impart softness while confining lint and slough from that layer to the inside of the tissue product.

Soft low lint tissue

A garment includes a garment shell defining a first waist section, an opposite second waist section, and a crotch section therebetween. At least one loop fastening element is attached to the first waist section. A plurality of tactile position indicators are operatively associated with the loop fastening element. The wearer can properly align and secure the garment on himself or herself by identifying the location of the tactile position indicators and releasably connecting portions of the second waist section to the loop fastening element. The invention is particularly useful with disposable absorbent articles worn by adults, and may alternately be employed with tape members.

Garment with tactile position indicators

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

Charles Herbert Goerg