Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

Michelle Lynn Seabaugh

Leslie Thomas Long

Mike Thomas Goulet

Kenneth John Zwick

Michael John Rekoske

Frederick John Lang

Thomas Joseph Dyer

Alice Susan Gordon

Troy Michael Runge

Michael Ralph Lostocco

Jeffrey James Timm

Kou-Chang Liu

Deborah Joy Nickel

Darcey Ellen McCormick

Peter Booth

Perry Howard Clough

Sarah Marie McGinnis

Emory Emil Luebke

Kyle John Schuman

Alan Whiting

Megan A Winter

Bart John Rabas

John Fitzgerald Janz

Absorbent wipe

By either rotating a folded clip within a dispenser, or by folding the clip into a J-shape instead of a U-shape and then placing the clip into a dispenser, more sheets can be placed into the dispenser without causing an increase in dispensing problems. Alternatively, fewer dispensing problems result if the same number of sheets is placed into the dispenser. In one embodiment, the dispenser was an upright facial tissue carton and the clip was an interfolded stack of facial tissues.

Folded clip and dispenser

A compressible package having pair of scored sidewalls, which facilitate compression of the package into a wedge shape for storage in narrow recesses. Optionally, the compressible package may include a scored bottom flap wherein the bottom portion of the sidewalls and the bottom flap are shaped such that when the carton is compressed by a user the resulting shape of the bottom flap complements the shape of the sidewalls, maintaining a substantially closed carton. Preferably the compressible package is a carton for storing and dispensing tissue and the carton assumes a wedge shape, which allows the carton to be fit into tight spaces, such as between the seat and the center console of the automobile while maintaining a substantially closed carton.

Compressible tissue carton

Soft tissue products with a good rate of absorbency, such as facial and bath tissue, are provided by forming a tissue sheet with a non-fibrous polymeric surface structure and thereafter topically applying a softening composition comprising a polysiloxane, a fatty alkyl derivative and glycerin. The non-fibrous polymeric surface structure is created by applying an additive composition to the surface of a tissue sheet prior to or after drying. The additive composition can be an aqueous dispersion containing an alpha-olefin polymer, an ethylene-carboxylic acid copolymer, or mixtures thereof. The alpha-olefin polymer may comprise an interpolymer of ethylene and octene, while the ethylene-carboxylic acid copolymer may comprise ethylene-acrylic acid copolymer.

Tissue products containing non-fibrous polymeric surface structures and a topically-applied softening composition

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

Michelle Lynn Seabaugh