The Procter Gamble Company

Tektronix, Inc.

Rubbermaid, Inc.

Hewlett-packard Company

Minolta Company, Ltd.

The Gillette Company

Thrustmaster, Inc.

Whirlpool Corporation

Sentrol, Inc.

Ziba Design, Inc.

Textronix, Inc.

Henry Young Chin

Penelope C Yao

David L Brown

David Randall Knaub

Kouichi Miyamoto

Jason Arthur Hilbourne

Joseph Bernard Kraimer

Robert O Dillon

Charles W Craft, Jr

Keith E Brightbill

Michael Remus

Stephen P Casteel

Martin Zethoff

Niklas Gustavsson

Steve McCallion

Peter Wyatt

Scott Thorpe

Frederick Halden Simonsen

David John Sayler

Jan Hippen

Chunshik Kim

Maria Dora Lalli

Eric Justin Price

Zhang Yun

Brian Adam Rabalais

Chen Jian

Paul Jerome Crabtree

Aaron William Arbesman

Gregory Donald Berger

Richard F Halter, Ii

Krista Rijn Schwartz

Sara Berit Margarita Berggren

Meral J Middleton

Ken G Dieringer

Daniel R Dwyer

Sohrab Vossoughi

I-Chiang Sun

David M Thorpe

Yoshihiro Ichi

Lutz Kucher

Yoshitaka Isogai

Stacy L Wolff

Steve Orrin Rasmussen

Tom J Searby

Philip M Thompson

Eric Young Park

Stephen G Brown

Thomas E McCue, Jr

Richard Alan Kelley

Jonathan M Dalton

Michael Patton

Larry A Jackson

Michael K Bowen

Gene D Jones

Mark H Hoeveler

Donald R McClelland

Michael M Leon

Donald R Bloyer

Carl Behrend

John A Christianson

Sergio Escobedo

Richard E Berriman

Shinji Matsumoto

Sandra Y Okazaki

Larry G Neubauer

Yuuji Takarabe

Fred T Mattern

Thomas J Froning

Stephen D Dorow

Stephen C Brown

Tze Ming Lee

Krista Rijn Gehring Schwartz

Battery charger

A fastening member used for, e.g., a disposable absorbent article is disclosed. The fastening member extends in a longitudinal direction and in a lateral direction and has a lateral centerline. The fastening member comprises a base panel and a shaped tab extending laterally from the base panel. The shaped tab has a longitudinal centerline, a lateral centerline, a distal portion and a proximal portion. The shaped tab has a contour edge comprising a shaped upper edge and a shaped lower edge. The shaped upper edge and the shaped lower edge are symmetric with respect to the longitudinal centerline of the shaped tab when relatively shifted in the longitudinal direction and are asymmetric with respect to the lateral centerline of the fastening member.

Fastening member comprising shaped tab

Box for cosmetics

Container

An openable closure assembly including: a) a base having two end edges, a front longitudinal side and a back longitudinal side, a top surface and a bottom surface; b) an opening mechanism mounted on the top surface of the base adjacent to and spaced from both of the longitudinal side edges; c) at least one gripping aid joined to an end edge of the opening mechanism. Also disclosed are packages comprising the closure assembly. Additionally disclosed are securement loops which can be attached to the package bottom panel and into which the gripping aids can be inserted.

Openable assembly with gripping aids and folding means

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Portland, OR, United States of America

Henry Young Chin