The Procter Gamble Company

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The Proctor 'gamble Company

Patrick Jay Allen

Donald Carroll Roe

Edward Paul Carlin

Mattias Schmidt

Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger

Mary Elaine Freeland

Karl Patrick Ronn

William Robert Vinnage, Jr

David M Weirich

Oleg N Khomjakov

Simon S Litvin

Louis John Viltro

Mark James Kline

Margaret Henderson Hasse

Mary Elizabeth Davis

Mikhail K Kruchinin

Namy M King

Beverly Jean Bross-Kelly

Joseph Raymond Diehl

Daniel Charles Peck

Jerry L Dragoo

Tracey Elaine Beckman

Oliver Edwin Clarke Mason

Bret A Sims

John Michael Blevins

Mikhail L Kruchinin

Namy Mariottoni King

An absorbent article for wearing about the torso and including a member that supports the movement of urine in an x-y plane to enhance the wearer's awareness that urination has occurred by increasing the wetted area contacting the wearer's skin. The member has a permeable body-facing layer and an impermeable layer disposed in a face-to-face arrangement with the permeable layer and preferably is held in close contact with the wearer's skin during use.

Wearable article enhancing awareness of urination

A wearable article useful for facilitating toilet training. The wearable article includes a temperature change element providing a cool/wet signal when wetted which causes discomfort to the wearer. The temperature change element comprises a temperature change substance disposed on an impermeable material in order to maximize the thermal signal provided to the skin of the wearer.

Wearable article having a temperature change element

A wearable article comprising a dehydration indicator adapted to measure a urine ionic strength correlated to a specific gravity of the wearer's urine and provide a visible signal when the urine ionic strength reaches a value corresponding to a predetermined threshold of the specific gravity. The wearable article may be a disposable absorbent article. The dehydration indicator may also be comprised in an insert for use with a wearable article. The dehydration indicator may provide qualitative or quantitative information about the ionic strength of the wearer's urine.

Absorbent article having a dehydration indicator

A disposable absorbent article including a wetness sensation member and visible highlighting indicating the presence of the wetness sensation member to facilitate an opportunity for the toilet training of the wearer. The wetness sensation member includes a permeable layer and a flow control layer. Urine deposited on the wetness sensation member can penetrate through the permeable body-facing layer in a z direction away from the wearer to the flow control layer. The flow control layer retards the passage of the urine through the wetness sensation member in the z direction while supporting the movement of the urine in an x-y plane to increase the wetted area contacting the wearer's skin and thereby enhance the wearer's awareness that urination has occurred. The visible highlighting is visible when viewing a body-facing surface of the article and may be associatively correlated with an externally visible marking and/or with the concept of toilet training.

Disposable absorbent article having a visibly highlighted wetness sensation member

A wearable article including a fever indicator disposed on at least a portion of the article for indicating the body temperature of a wearer. The fever indicator may be used in conjunction with a disposable absorbent article and provides a signal indicating qualitative or quantitative information about the body temperature of the wearer based on the temperature of the wearer's urine.

Absorbent article having a fever indicator

A tool for making locking tapered sliding dovetail joints and a kit including the tool. The tool includes a pin guide having a minor end having a minor width and a major end having a major width that is larger than the minor width such that the template has a taper in width from the major end to the minor end. The tool also includes a locking section configured such that the tool forms an area of increased friction in the joint relative to the rest of the joint. The tool may also include at least one stabilizing member for holding the template in place while the sliding dovetail pin is being formed from the workpiece.

Locking tapered sliding dovetail joint and tool and method for making the joint

A tool for making locking tapered sliding dovetail joints and a kit including the tool. The tool includes a guide plate having a guide groove including a locking section disposed on at least one of edges of the groove guide, wherein at least a portion of the locking section is disposed in a plane that is different from the plane of the groove edge corresponding to the groove edge on which the locking section is located.

A tool for making tapered sliding dovetail joints. The tool includes a guide plate having a guide groove and a stabilizing member for holding the guide plate to a workpiece while in use. The pin guide has a minor end having a minor width and a major end having a major width that is larger than the minor width such that the template has a taper in width from the major end to the minor end. The pin guide also includes at least one stabilizing member for holding the template in place while the sliding dovetail pin is being formed from the workpiece.

Tapered sliding dovetail tool and kit including such tool

A template for making tapered sliding dovetail pins from a workpiece. The template includes a longitudinal centerline, a pair of side edges, a workpiece side, a tool side, a minor end having a minor width and a major end having a major width that is larger than the minor width such that the template has a taper in width from the major end to the minor end, and at least one stabilizing member disposed on the workpiece side of the template for holding the template in place while the sliding dovetail pin is being formed from the workpiece.

A wearable article useful for facilitating toilet training is provided. The wearable article includes a temperature change element providing a cool/wet signal when wetted which causes discomfort to the wearer. The temperature change element comprises a temperature change substance disposed on an impermeable material in order to maximize the thermal signal provided to the skin of the wearer.

A wearable article useful for facilitating toilet training is provided. The wearable article includes a wetness sensation member held in close contact with a wearer's skin during use that enhances the wearer's awareness that urination has occurred. The wetness sensation member includes a permeable layer and an impermeable layer. During insults of urine, the permeable layer allows urine to penetrate in the z-direction and provides a medium for the flow of urine in the x-y plane via wicking. The impermeable layer supports the flow of liquid between the permeable and impermeable layers and retains the liquid thereby increasing the wetted area contacting the wearer's skin.

Wearable article having a wetness sensation member

An absorbent article comprising a topsheet, a backsheet joined with at least a portion of the topsheet, an absorbent core disposed between at least a portion of the topsheet and the backsheet; and an adhesive capable of adhering of the absorbent article to the skin of the wearer during use or a portion of the absorbent article to itself during use. The adhesive is deactivatable by the wearer or caregiver to facilitate easy and comfortable removal of the product from the wearer.

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Patrick Jay Allen