Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Courtney Eileen Shea

Randall James Palmer

Jason Sybren Fairbanks

Ann Louise McCormack

Cristian M Neculescu

Palani Raj Ramaswami Wallajapet

Stephen Michael Campbell

Prasad Shrikrishna Potnis

Sandra Marie Rogers

Richard Mark Hansen

Violet May Grube

Thomas Michael Killian

Mark John Jung

Jonathan K Rice

Rhiannon L Thoresen

Richard D Schultz

Daniel William Hesse

Michael Tod Morman

Elizabeth Deibler Gadsby

John Joseph Sayovitz

Patricia Hwang Calhoun

Gregory Todd Sudduth

Robert David Wright

Robert James Gerndt

Matthew Lee Koele

Mark G Kupelian

Thomas M Flicker

Rasha Wafik Guirguis

Angela Dobson

Richard D Schulz

Ann L Mccormack

Mark J Jung

Mark Gilbert Kupelian

Angela Grace Dobson

Breathable laminates of a film and nonwoven with increased toughness and the ability to undergo strain without splitting for applications as components of personal care products and other uses. The film is formed using a carrier/letdown resin approach where the filled carrier resin is an ethylene polymer or copolymer having a density at least 0.003 g/cc higher than the letdown resin which is also an ethylene copolymer but has a density in the range of less than about 0.915 g/cc and a melt index less than about 6. The resin phases may be dry blended, formed into a film, stretched and bonded to a nonwoven support layer.

Microporous stretch thinned film/nonwoven laminates and limited use or disposable product applications

Disclosed is an absorbent article defining a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction, the absorbent article including an outercover, the outercover comprising a laminated material including two layers; an absorbent body disposed adjacent the outercover; and a graphic associated with the outercover, wherein the laminated material exhibits a Poisson's Ratio less than 1.0 at 4 percent longitudinal strain using ASTM-E132. The laminated material optimally exhibits a Poisson's Ratio less than 0.75 at 4 percent longitudinal strain using ASTM-E132. The laminated material more optimally exhibits a Poisson's Ratio less than 0.4 at 4 percent longitudinal strain using ASTM-E132.

Absorbent article featuring a laminated material with a low Poisson's Ratio

A bonded structure including one or more substrates bonded together with a tackified amorphous poly-alpha-olefin adhesive composition. One method of making such a bonded structure is carried out by applying a tackified amorphous poly-alpha-olefin adhesive composition to one or more substrates at a temperature of about 170 degrees Celsius or lower, and joining the substrates to themselves or to one another. The bonded structure has a dynamic peel strength between about 400 and about 1000 grams per 25 millimeters. The bonding efficiency of the bonded structure renders the bonded structure suitable for incorporation into a variety of articles, including personal care products, health/medical products, and household/industrial product, for example.

Tackified amorphous-poly-alpha-olefin-bonded structures

A process for making a plurality of necked nonwoven strips having similar or identical cross-directional profiles includes the steps of slitting a neckable nonwoven web into a plurality of neckable nonwoven strips, passing the neckable nonwoven web between a first pair of nip rollers having a first surface velocity and a second pair of nip rollers having a second surface velocity greater than the first surface velocity, and necking the nonwoven web between the first pair of nip rollers and the second pair of nip rollers.

Slit neck spunbond process and material

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Courtney Eileen Shea