Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.

Scott Leslie Williams

Thomas David Ehlert

Patrick Sean McNichols

Georgia Lynn Zehner

Robert Eugene Vogt

Paul John Serbiak

Bruce Michael Siebers

John Gerard Hein

Rebecca Lyn Dilnik

Michael A Snyder

Timothy Raymond Heindel

Tim Joseph Janssen

Allen Todd Leak

Scott Lee Pennings

Kathleen Ann Peterson

Robert John Leveille

Mark Michael Mleziva

Teresa Marie Zander

A dispensing aid is disclosed for facilitating removal of an individual product from a compressed package. The compressed package has multiple sides and contains a plurality of compressed products arranged in a row. Each of the products has first and second major surfaces. An opening is formed in the compressed package and is aligned perpendicular to the first major surface of at least one of the products. The opening is sized to allow the products to be individually withdrawn. A sheath is sized to contain one of the products to be withdrawn from the compressed package. The sheath to an adjacent sheath has an average coefficient of friction value which is lower than the average coefficient of friction value of a first product to an adjacent product. The sheath functions to reduce the force needed to remove the contained product from the compressed package.

Dispensing aid for facilitating removal of individual products from a compressed package

Disclosed is an improved fastening tape for use on a disposable absorbent garment. The fastening tape comprises a first substrate and an interlocking material attached to said first substrate. The interlocking material extends the entire width of the fastening tape, and the interlocking material is longitudinally spaced from both transverse edges of the fastening tape. Also disclosed is a process for manufacturing the fastening tape. The process involves providing a continuous length of an interlocking material having a width and traveling in a first direction. The interlocking material is attached to a first substrate to form a composite. The composite is then cut along a second direction to form fastening tapes suitable for attachment on a disposable absorbent garment. The second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction.

Mechanical fastening tapes and method for their construction

Mechanical fastening tapes

Method for construction of mechanical fastening tapes

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Neenah, WI, United States of America

Scott Leslie Williams