Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

Jason Sybren Fairbanks

Courtney Eileen Shea

Cristian M Neculescu

Palani Raj Ramaswami Wallajapet

Stephen Michael Campbell

Prasad Shrikrishna Potnis

Sandra Marie Rogers

Richard Mark Hansen

Randall James Palmer

Violet May Grube

Thomas Michael Killian

Jonathan K Rice

Mark John Jung

Rhiannon L Thoresen

Daniel William Hesse

Richard D Schultz

John Gavin MacDonald

David Martin Jackson

Ann Louise McCormack

Elizabeth Deibler Gadsby

Frank Paul Abuto

Wing-Chak Ng

Matthew Lee Koele

Timothy Ray Martin

Thomas M Flicker

Stephen F Borengasser

Richard D Schulz

Ann L Mccormack

Mark J Jung

Charles Herman Ellison

Jose Enrique Maldonado Pacheco

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

The present invention provides a crimped multicomponent fiber containing at least two polymer components arranged in a crimpable configuration in distinct zones or segments across the cross-section of the fiber wherein one component comprises a dielectrically susceptible material. The invention also provides methods for producing the crimped multicomponent fibers and for forming web materials containing the crimped multicomponent fibers, and provides absorbent articles comprising the crimped multicomponent fibers and web materials.

Crimped thermoplastic multicomponent fiber and fiber webs and method of making

Disclosed herein is a method for making fibrous web materials which may be used in or as absorbent core materials for absorbent products. The method involves providing loose fibers, entraining the fibers in a moving airstream, treating the fibers with an energy-activatable pre-polymer composition and subjecting the fibers to activation energy to initiate cross-linking of the composition. The fibers are collected on forming surface to form a fibrous web. The fibers may be treated with the composition while entrained in the moving air or after being collected on the forming surface, or in an alternate embodiment by treating with the composition a mat of fibers from which the loose fibers are provided. The fibrous web material may comprise cellulosic fibers such as pulp, and/or synthetic fibers such as staple fibers, and/or super absorbent materials.

Method for making fibrous web materials

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Gainesville, GA, United States of America

Jason Sybren Fairbanks