Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

Irina Tsareva

Franz Aschenbrenner

Priscilla Eng Choo Goh

EunJung B Kang

Gary Mastalish

Tom William VanDenBogart

Cao Hue Chi Pham

Dusan Pavlik

Lynn Ann Weggel

Anastasia Barlas

Yein Sze Ong

YeinSze Ong

In a tampon applicator, an elongated barrel has an interior chamber for housing a tampon therein, a grip region generally adjacent an outer end of the barrel, a tip region generally adjacent an inner end of the barrel, and a central region extending longitudinally between the grip region and the tip region. A plunger extends into the barrel at the outer end thereof and is moveable relative to the barrel to expel the tampon from the barrel at its inner end. The outer surface of the barrel at the grip region has a different coefficient of friction than at the central region of the barrel. In other embodiments the coefficient of friction of the barrel outer surface at the central region is different from the coefficient of friction at the tip region.

Tampon applicator

Growing community of inventors

Moscow, Russia

Irina Tsareva