Playtex Products, Inc.

Edgewell Personal Care Brands, LLC

Eveready Battery Company, Inc.

Avent, Inc.

Platex Products, Inc.

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

O&m Halyard International Unlimited Company

Keith J Edgett

Robert T Jorgensen

Jessica Elizabeth LeMay

Eugene P Dougherty

Kathryn Bennett

Dane R Jackson

George S Jarmon

Mario A Turchi

Patrick Gorham

Susanne Weber

Frank Steven Glaug

Phillip Ebert

Wayne David Melvin

Jessica E Lemay

Jessica Elizabeth Lemay

Rosemary Knuth

Eugene P Doughtery

Yinka Abdul

Kathryn G Bennett

Scott D Salmon

Ajay Yashvantrao Houde

Peter M Preisner

Lih-Sheng Turng

Karla E Williams

Wojtek Drewnowski

Xiaofei Sun

Patrick Gorton

Paul Siracusa

Jessica Lemay

Eugene Dougherty, Jr

Jose Luis Coronado

James Wittig

Robert Roman

Adam J Kramschuster

Steven O Bordley

Rejai Jamshid

Jungjoo Lee

Chris Lacey

Denise E O'Connor

James B Robinson

Jeffrey S Robinson

Douglas L Tackett

Peter Preisner

Jr Eugene P Dougherty

Jamshid Relai

Eugene Jr Dougherty

Denise E O'connor

There is provided a tampon pledget that includes one or more enhanced features that result in the pledget exhibiting increased bypass leakage prevention. These enhanced features may include, but are not limited to, geometry, absorption, and any combinations thereof. There is also provided one or more methods for constructing a tampon pledget having increased bypass leakage protection.

Tampon pledget for increased bypass leakage protection

Provided is a tampon applicator having one or more insertion indicators to gauge and/or control the insertion depth of a tampon. The one or more insertion indicators may be located on the tampon applicator barrel, plunger, tampon, removal string, or any combinations thereof. As a result of the one or more insertion indicators, a woman can adjust the insertion depth of the tampon to her body's requirements ensuring leakage protection, comfort, or both.

Tampon assembly providing proper bodily placement of a pledget

A tampon assembly having a barrel, a plunger, and a pledget is provided. The plunger is slidably received in the barrel. The pledget is in the barrel between the insertion tip and the plunger so that a force applied on the plunger can expel the pledget from the barrel. The barrel has a plurality of petals defining an insertion tip, which has a first taper ratio of more than about 0.3 to less than 1.0. The pledget has a shaped tip that is disposed in the insertion tip.

Tampon assembly having a shaped pledget

The present invention provides a tampon pledget with one or more of the following properties: increased absorbency rate; high absorbent capacity and fluid retention; rapid expansion potential; and ease of ejection of the pledget from the applicator. Surprisingly, the one or more properties are achieved by using a modified dual cross-pad, folded, compressed tampon pledget design.

A tampon pledget is made by assembling one or more pads in a pad compression configuration, radially compressing the pad compression configuration in a traverse direction into a cylindrical form, and axially compressing the cylindrical form in a direction along a vertical axis to form the tampon pledget. In one embodiment, the axial compression is performed as a pressure is applied to at least one of a first and a second end of the cylindrical form. In one aspect of the present invention, the formed tampon pledget has an absorbent capacity as measured by the syngyna test of between about 6.0 grams to 9.0 grams and a density of about 0.4603 grams/cubic centimeter. In another aspect of the invention, the formed tampon pledget has an absorbent capacity as measured by the syngyna test of between about 9.0 grams to 12.0 grams and a density of about 0.4755 grams/cubic centimeter.

Tampon pledget with improved by-pass leakage protection

A tampon applicator barrel includes an insertion tip at a forward end of the barrel, a main body section that extends from the insertion tip, and a reverse taper section that is joined to the main body section so that the main body section is between the insertion tip and the reverse taper section. The main body section tapers toward the insertion tip section. The reverse taper section tapers in a direction away from the insertion tip section. A finger grip section extends from the reverse taper section to a plunger receiving end of the barrel opposite the forward end. The barrel is straight from the forward end to the plunger receiving end that receives a plunger.

Ergonomic tampon applicator

Tampon assembly providing proper bodily placement of pledget

The present invention provides a tampon applicator assembly having an applicator barrel with an insertion tip with a maximum of three petals. Additionally, the tampon applicator assembly can be provided with a tapered insertion tip. A shaped pledget can be housed in the applicator barrel, which provides support to the petals.

A tampon has two pledgets or one pledget with an absorbent layer and a leak shield located therebetween. The pledgets or pledget with the absorbent layer and the leak shield are folded such that the leak shield covers a portion of the surface of at least one of the pledgets. Both pledgets or the one pledget with the absorbent layer have absorbencies that are each greater than an absorbency of the leak shield. In another embodiment of the tampon, the leak shield comprises a fluid impervious or fluid repellent material(s). In another embodiment of the tampon, the leak shield comprises of an absorbent or hydrophilic material. Yet in another embodiment, the leak shield comprises of multiple layers of materials that are hydrophilic, hydrophobic, or a combination thereof. A method of fabricating a tampon includes forming a pledget, combining a fluid-impervious polymer material with an absorbent material to define a polymer laminate, ramming the pledget and the laminate into an oven tube, and stitching the laminate to the pledget.

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Middletown, DE, United States of America

Keith J Edgett