Kimberly-clark Corporation

Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Norman K Fox

Diego H DaPonte

Robert A Funk

Dennis Stein Everhart

Leslie Thomas Long

Terry K Timmons

Lori A Morell

William Conn

Jon Christensen

Steve R Stopper

A system and method for matching lids to cartons includes a carton feed conveyor having a plurality of cartons carried at individual flight positions defined along the conveyor, with each of the cartons having a mark applied thereto indicating a type of lid to be applied to the respective carton. A reader is operatively disposed relative to the carton feed conveyor to read the marks. A lid feed conveyor has a plurality of individual flight positions defined thereon, with each flight position on the carton feed conveyor having an assigned flight position on the lid feed conveyor. A lid placer station is supplied with different types of lids from respective separate lid magazines and is disposed along the lid feed conveyor. The lid placer station is in communication with the reader and is configured to select and place lids dictated by the marks from the magazines onto the flight positions on the lid feed conveyor that are assigned to the flight positions on the carton feed conveyor containing the carton and associated mark read by the reader.

System and method for matching colored lids to cartons

There is disclosed a nonwoven fabric laminate formed from an olefin copolymer, olefin terpolymer, or a blend of olefin polymers. Particularly, the improved fabric laminate is formed from a polymer having a crystallinity of less than 45% and preferably between 31-35% and most preferably about 32%. The fabric laminates formed from layers that are spun-bonded or melt-blown have improved characteristics including higher tear strength, greater tensile energy, greater abrasion resistance, better fabric drape and softness, and less particulate emission. There is also disclosed a low particle emission, sterilizable garment for use in clean rooms, paint rooms, and operating rooms.

Nonwoven fabric laminates

There is disclosed nonwoven composite fabric comprising a central melt-blown web preferably formed of collected, entangled, elastic or adhesive nonwoven fibers comprising poly (ethylene-vinyl acetate), where the central web is polar and of relatively low melting point. This central web is positioned next to or bonded to two other insulative nonwoven webs of non-polar, melt-blown fibers, which in turn are positioned next to or bonded to two outer nonwoven webs of spun-bonded fibers. The composites are useful for health care fabrics such as drapes, protective covers, and the like.

Health care laminate

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Appleton, WI, United States of America

Norman K Fox