The Procter Gamble Company

Ronald Joseph Zink

Gary Dean LaVon

Sarah Marie Wade

Kaoru Ishihara

Michael Bernard Dugas

Ward William Ostendorf

Diana W Juratovac

Michael Scott Prodoehl

Tina Marie Glahn

Donald Carroll Roe

Uwe Schneider

Rachael Eden Walther

Koichi Morimoto

Masaharu Nishikawa

Amanda Margaret Bicking

Nicholas Paul Goyette

Darrell Ian Brown

Anna Elizabeth Macura

Chunmin Cheng

Brian David Douglas

Lisa Craft Blanton

Jennifer Lynne Brown

Amy Lynn Tally

Farihah Ibrahim

Susan Joy Ludwig

Ellyne Elizabeth Prodoehl

Jennifer Joan Gustin

Albert Choy So

Rachel Eden Walther

Gary Dean Lavon

Diana Woehnl Juratovac

An absorbent article includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region, and a fully removable fastening member configured to join a portion of the first waist region to the second waist region. The fastening member includes a first end region comprising a first end, a second end region comprising a second end, a first fastener on a first surface of the fastening member and in the first end region, and a second fastener on the first surface and in the second end region. The fastening member includes a grasp region either partially laterally outboard of the first fastener or laterally outboard of the first fastener in the first end region. The grasp region has a different physical property than a remainder of the fastening member.

Absorbent articles having fully removable fastening members

A method of making a laminate for an absorbent article is provided. The laminate comprises elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate two substrates. The first substrate has a primary fiber bond pattern formed therein and comprising a plurality of primary fiber bonds. The method comprises forming densified regions in the first substrate. A perimeter of each of the densified regions is larger than a perimeter of each of the primary fiber bonds. The densified regions together form a pattern of densified regions in the first substrate. The method comprises adhesively attaching the elastic elements to the first substrate, joining the second substrate to the first substrate or to some of the elastic elements, and forming a plurality of rugosities in the first substrate by allowing the elastic elements to at least partially contract. The frequency and amplitude ranges of the rugosities result from the pattern of the densified regions.

Methods of making laminates for absorbent articles

The present disclosure is directed, in part, to an absorbent article comprising a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and a core disposed at least partially intermediate the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent article comprises a belt portion extending from the chassis. The belt portion comprises a first substrate, a second substrate joined to the first substrate, and a plurality of elongate elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion comprises a texture zone having a texture ratio of greater than about 5.

Absorbent articles having a belt portion with a texture zone having a texture ratio

An absorbent article comprises a chassis having a belt portion extending therefrom. The belt portion comprises a side edge, a waist opening edge, a leg opening edge, first and second substrates engaged with each other, and elastic elements disposed intermediate the first substrate and the second substrate. The belt portion also comprises a first texture zone comprising a first portion of the substrates and the elastic strands and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the waist opening edge and a second texture zone comprising a second portion of the substrates and the elastic elements and disposed adjacent to the side edge and the leg opening edge. The first texture zone extends at least partially along a first lateral extent of the belt portion and the second texture zone extends at least partially along a second lateral extent of the belt portion.

Absorbent articles having textured zones

An absorbent article comprises first and second substrates and one or more elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the substrates. The second substrate is attached to the first substrate and/or to portions of the elastic elements. The absorbent article comprises an adhesive having a first and second pattern of elements disposed on first substrate, and first and second texture zones. The first texture zone comprises a first portion of the substrates, a first portion of the elastic elements, and the first pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a background pattern in the first portion of the substrates. The second texture zone comprises a second portion of the substrates, a second portion of the one or more elastic elements, and the second pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a macro pattern in the second portion of the substrates.

Absorbent articles having texture zones forming background patterns and macro patterns

This invention relates to a scrub pad comprising a scrubbing layer having a periphery along the edges of the layer; a wiping layer having a periphery along the edges of the layer; and an absorbent core layer having a periphery along the edges of the layer comprising at least one absorbent material selected from the group consisting of short-fiber, air-laid nonwoven material, nonwoven plastic batting, cellulosic fibrous web materials, wax coated paper, corrugated paper, fluff pulp, cotton balls, cotton batting, or mixture thereof; wherein the absorbent core layer is located intermediate to the scrubbing layer and the wiping layer and wherein the scrubbing layer, the absorbent core layer and the wiping layer are joined at the periphery of each layer.

Multilayer scrub pad

A scrub pad comprising a scrubbing layer having a periphery along the edges of the layer, a wiping layer having a periphery along the edges of the layer, and an absorbent core layer having a periphery along the edges of the layer. The scrub pad has at least one absorbent material selected from: short-fiber, air-laid nonwoven material, nonwoven plastic batting, cellulosic fibrous web materials, wax coated paper, corrugated paper, fluff pulp, cotton balls, cotton batting, and mixtures thereof The absorbent core layer is located intermediate to the scrubbing layer and the wiping layer and wherein the scrubbing layer, the absorbent core layer and the wiping layer are joined at the periphery of each layer to form a bonded edge. The scrubbing layer comprises at least one ply further comprising a material selected from: polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon, and mixtures thereof, the scrubbing layer being shaped as a mesh, or scrim of filaments, wherein the mesh or scrim further comprises filaments having a diameter of from about 0.1 mm to about 1.0 mm. The filaments of the mesh form cells bounded by the filaments that have an area of from about 2 mmto about 25 mm, intersect at one or more points, and are sealed at one or more of the intersecting points to form one or more nodes that are from about 0.2 mm to about 1.0 mm in size.

A multi-layer article comprised of a first and second layers bonded together. The first layer is comprised of two plies and a third material between the two plies. The two plies are bonded together at a plurality of discrete bond sites. The bonding of the plies form an interior region between the plies. The third material of the first layer is disposed between and substantially fills the interior region between the plies. The third material differs from the first and second plies by at least one material property selected from thermal properties, elongation properties, elastic properties, or conductive properties. The third material is apertured in regions coincident with the bond sites of the first layer and the first and second plies are joined to each other through the apertures. The second layer of the article comprises a cellulosic web.

Multi-layer wiping device

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Cincinnati, OH, United States of America

Ronald Joseph Zink