Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Lawrence James Romano, Iii

Lisa LaRae Bushman

John Joseph Sayovitz

Renee Sue Booms

Stephen Harding Primm

Nancy Jane Zimmerman

Alison Cecile Bates

Richard Daniel Pike

Samuel Edward Marmon

Darcey Ellen McCormick

Philip A Sasse

Kenneth Bradley Close

Paul William Christoffel

Lisa Maria Kocourek

Larry Edgerton Brown

Billy Dean Arnold

Danial Owen Fischer

Zachary J Lee

Joel Muniz De Los Santos

Daniel Owen Fischer

Joel Muniz Los Santos

Steven R Kalmanson

A dispensing container includes a plurality of sheets of products stored within a housing. The container includes a dispensing orifice having a length that extends along a longitudinal axis from a first end to a second end. In particular embodiments, the dispensing orifice has a maximum width disposed not less than 20% and not more than 49% of the distance from the first end to the second end, a midpoint width disposed halfway between the first end and the second end, the midpoint width being less than the maximum width, and a third width disposed 80% of the distance from the first end to the second end, the third width being no greater than 80% of the maximum width. In particular embodiments, the dispensing orifice is symmetrical about a longitudinal axis but asymmetrical about a transverse axis. In particular embodiments, the dispensing orifice has an ovoid shape.

Storing and dispensing container for product having improved dispensing orifice

Wipe with pattern for embossing

The invention provides a wipe. The wipes include at least one non-woven web. The web includes an edge portion adjoining a main portion. The web has a top surface and a spaced apart opposite bottom surface and is defined by a width of the web which is perpendicular to a length of the web. The top surface of the main portion defines a top plane and the bottom surface of the main portion defines a bottom plane. The top and bottom planes are parallel to one another and a z-directional dimension of the web extends through the top and bottom planes and is orthogonal to the top and bottom planes. The edge portion includes and edge treatment wherein the edge treatment comprises at least a portion of the edge portion being permanently deformed in a non-random pattern in the z-directional dimension.

Wipes with an edge treatment along a leading edge portion

Repeating pattern for a bonded fabric with background

Repeating pattern for a bonded fabric

There is provided a process which comprises the step of subjecting a just produced spunbond web to a high flow rate, heated stream of air across substantially the width of the web to very lightly bond the fibers of the web together. Such bonding should be the minimum necessary in order to satisfy the needs of further processing yet not detrimentally affect the web. The fibers of the web may be monocomponent or biconstituent and the web should be substantially free of adhesives and not subjected to compaction rolls.

Compaction-free method of increasing the integrity of a nonwoven web

The present invention provides a method for reducing a nonwoven fabric to flakes which can be recycled into the spinning system of a meltblowing, spunbonding or carding process. The process according to this invention is a noncontact one, involving the use of a hot air knife. The hot air knife emits a jet, or stream, of heated air under pressure at a high flow rate. A nonwoven fabric is contacted with the jet of air and as a consequence, the nonwoven web is physically broken into small pieces, or flakes. The resultant flakes are brushed off the conveyor and collected in a reclaim hopper; they are readily reprocessable due to their small size.

Method of nonwoven reclaim

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

Lawrence James Romano, Iii