The Procter & Gamble Company

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The Proctor & Gamble Co.

E.i. Dupont De Nemours and Company

Tredegar Film Products Corporation

John Joseph Curro

John Brian Strube

Douglas Herrin Benson

John Lee Hammons

Robert Haines Turner

Jody Lynn Hoying

Susan Nicole Lloyd

Jill Marlene Orr

Michele A Mansfield

Charles W Chappell

Timothy Ian Mullane

Kenneth B Buell

Eugene R Sorensen

George Christopher Dobrin

Hyun Sung Lim

George Joseph Ostapchenko

Leroy Joseph Kocher

Shailaja R Vaidya

Gary Dean Lavon

Daniel Charles Peck

Kirk Wallace Lake

E Kelly Linman

J Michael McKenna

Keith Joseph Stone

Richard L Sparks

George M Vernon

Nora Liu Carroll

Anneke Margaret Kaminiski

Donald Carroll Roe

William Robert Ouellette

Richard W Lodge

James W Cree

Keith Robert Priessman

Donald L Gerth

John Jianbin Zhang

James E Pelkie

Alan J Trusty

Gary Dean LaVon

Edward Dewey Smith, Iii

Erik John Hasenoehrl

Fred Naval Desai

Eric Bryan Bond

Ronald Ray McFall

Saeed Fereshtehkhou

Theodora Beck

Jason Matthew Orndorff

Terrill Alan Young

Stephen Lebeuf Hardie

Brandon Ellis Wise

Hiroshi Nakahata

William I Mullane, Jr

James C Baird

Charles Roberson

Allison Kay Hunter

Ali Abdelaziz Alwattari

Steven Kirk Hedges

Eugene Weinshenker

Charles F Battrell

Theresa Lynn Galie

Donna Sue Phillips

Daniel Burton Sears

Luis E Ravaglia

Jessica Zingelmann Brown

Shaun Thomas Broering

Scot G Wolf

Thomas M Goens

Deborah Adamo Koehler

Kenji Ohshima

Hiroaki Shikata

Anthony Stephen Spencer

Julie W Lyons

Daniel S Alcombright

Tom Henrich

Edward Kenneth Stahl

Willie King

J Michael Mc Kenna

Michele A Maden

Anneka M Kaminski

Jianbin Zhang

Alfred Franc Baldwin, Jr

Michele Ann Mansfield

James William Cree

Luis Eduardo Ravaglia

Deformed web materials are disclosed. The web materials have discrete deformations formed therein. The deformations may be features in the form of portions of a web with apertures therein, protrusions, depressed areas, and combinations thereof. These features may extend out from the surface on one side of the web, or from both of the surfaces of the web. Different features may be intermixed with one another.

Deformed web materials

A laminate cleaning implement. The laminate cleaning implement has a backing sheet, a substrate, and a facing sheet. The backing sheet and the facing sheet are connected at a plurality of discrete bonding points to form a coherent laminate structure and the substrate is disposed between the backing sheet and the facing sheet.

Bonded laminate cleaning implement

Methods and apparatuses for deforming a web are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method involves feeding a web into a nip that is formed between at least two intermeshing rolls. The rolls are configured for deforming a web with at least two sets of deformations that are oriented in different directions relative to the surfaces of the web.

Method and apparatus for deforming a web

Absorbent members, especially bulked absorbent members, and methods of making the same are disclosed. The absorbent member may be in the form of a unitary absorbent fibrous layer comprising at least some cellulose fibers. The unitary absorbent fibrous layer is at least partially stratified through its thickness. The absorbent member may also have a plurality of discrete deformations, such as depressions and/or apertures in its surfaces. The method involves subjecting a precursor web to at least one cycle (or pass) through a mechanical deformation process. The mechanical deformation process utilizes a first forming member and a second forming member that form a nip therebetween through which the precursor web is passed. The first and second forming members are moving at different speeds relative to each other when they come together to form the nip.

Bulked absorbent members

A laminate cleaning implement with a facing sheet, a substrate, and optionally a backing sheet. The facing sheet, the substrate, and the optional backing sheet are mechanically intermeshed. The mechanically intermeshing can provide one or more discrete tufts protruding outwardly from the laminate.

Laminate cleaning implement

The present disclosure is generally directed, in part, to a selectively apertured nonwoven material forming a portion of a disposable absorbent article. The nonwoven material comprises a layer of bicomponent fibers, and a plurality of apertures formed in the layer of bicomponent fibers. Each aperture has a major axis and a minor axis. Each major axis is larger than each minor axis. Each major axis has a length of greater than about 1.5 mm and less than about 10 mm and each minor axis has a length of greater than about 0.4 mm and less than about 1.25 mm. The nonwoven material has a basis weight of less than 25 gsm, but greater than 10 gsm. The layer of bicomponent fibers has an effective open area greater than about 3% but less than about 30%. The apertures have an aperture area greater than about 0.5 mmand less than about 10 mm.

Apertured nonwoven materials and methods for forming the same

Disclosed is a fibrous web having a first region and at least one discrete integral second region, the second region having at least one portion being a discontinuity exhibiting a linear orientation and defining a longitudinal axis, and at least another portion being a deformation having a plurality of tufted fibers integral with but extending from the first region.

Tufted fibrous web

Methods of mechanically deforming a material are disclosed. The methods of mechanically deforming a material involve using forming members that are moving at different surface speeds relative to each other to form deformed web materials.

Methods of mechanically deforming materials

Methods for forming discrete deformations in web materials are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method involves feeding a web into an apparatus having nips that are formed between intermeshing rolls. The apparatus may be in the form of nested or other arrangements of multiple rolls, in which the web is maintained in substantial contact with at least one of the rolls throughout the process, and at least two of the rolls define two or more nips thereon with other rolls. In some embodiments, rolls can be used to expose a different side of the web for a subsequent deformation step. In these or other embodiments, the rolls can be used to transfer the web between rolls in such a manner that it may offset the rolls and/or web so that subsequent deformations are formed at a different cross-machine direction location than prior deformations.

Method for deforming a web

Methods of making bulked absorbent members

An extensible apertured nonwoven web, and a method for making such an apertured nonwoven web. In one embodiment the method comprises the steps of providing an apertured nonwoven web, incrementally stretching it in a direction substantially parallel to the cross machine direction, and applying tension in the machine direction such that the web width after applying tension is less than the web width after incremental stretching. In another embodiment the method comprises the steps of providing a nonwoven web; weakening the nonwoven web at a plurality of locations to create a plurality of weakened, melt-stabilized locations; applying a first tensioning force to the nonwoven web to cause the nonwoven web to rupture at the plurality of weakened, melt-stabilized locations creating a plurality of apertures in the nonwoven web coincident with the weakened, melt-stabilized locations, incrementally stretching the nonwoven web in a direction substantially parallel to the cross machine direction, and applying tension in the machine direction such that the web width after applying machine direction tension is less than the web width after incremental stretching. An apparatus for producing a web of the present invention by this method is also disclosed. The extensible apertured nonwoven web produced has a plurality of apertures each having a hole size greater than 2 mm, and a hole aspect ratio less than 6, the nonwoven web having an open area greater than 15% and being capable of at least 70% extension in the cross machine direction at a loading of 10 g/cm.

Method of making high-elongation apertured nonwoven web

The article contains a fibrous, non-woven web and having a personal care composition associated with this web. The present invention relates to disposable, personal care articles useful for cleansing and/or treating the skin, hair or other similar keratin-containing surfaces. These articles are used by the consumer by either wetting the dry article with water and then rubbing the article against the skin, hair or other similar keratin-containing surfaces, or taking a wet, disposable, personal care article and rubbing against the skin, hair or other similar keratin-containing surfaces or taking a moist, disposable, personal care article and rubbing against the skin, hair or other similar keratin-containing surfaces.

Cloth-like personal care articles

A method and apparatus is provided which uses activation members for incrementally stretching a web at a low strain rate. The activation members include an activation belt and a single activation member wherein the activation belt and single activation member comprise a plurality of teeth and grooves that complement and engage one another at a depth of engagement in a deformation zone. The depth of engagement can be controlled to increase linearly over at least a portion of the deformation zone such that a web interposed between the activation belt and the single activation member in the deformation zone is incrementally stretched at a low rate of strain.

Method and apparatus for incrementally stretching a web

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

John Joseph Curro