The Procter Gamble Company

Richard Perez

Margaret Henderson Hasse

David Andrew Dalton

Devin William Baldridge

Diana Lynn Gann

Raymond Albert Sargent, Jr

Ralph R Emenaker

Louis P Burkart

Raymond Albert Sargent

An applicator having an enhanced grip portion. The applicator can include a barrel portion having an insertion end, a withdrawal end, and a barrel exterior surface, the barrel exterior surface being a barrel color, a grip portion positioned opposite the insertion end having a grip exterior surface, and a plunger having a plunger exterior surface. The applicator can further include gripping indicia disposed substantially on the grip exterior surface. The gripping indicia can include visual indicia and/or tactile indicia.

Applicator having an enhanced gripping region

A method and apparatus for continuously supplying thermoplastic webbing to an application apparatus is disclosed. In one aspect of the invention, first and second webs of thermoplastic material are held stationary and heat spliced together upstream in a line operation while a downstream segment of the thermoplastic webbing is continuously supplied to an application apparatus downstream in the operation. The heat splicing step is carried out by bringing together first and second opposable splicer clamps to form an overlapping area between the first and second webs and applying a heat impulse to the overlapping area to bond the webs together.

Heat splicing of thermoplastic film

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Richard Perez