Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

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Scott Richard Lange

Kenneth Bradley Close

Charles Allen Smith

David Jon Baer

Ann Louise McCormack

Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt

Richard Daniel Pike

Nathan John Vogel

Pamela Jean Mayberry

Gordon Allen Shaw

Stanley Michael Gryskiewicz

Yung Hsaing Huang

Douglas Bryan Cole

Wanda Walton Jackson

Andrew Edsel Huntoon

Daniel Lee Ellingson

Frank Andrew Rosch, Iii

James Arthur Davis

Leslie Warren Collier, Iv

Gerald Lewis Clark

Mark George Everson

Janet Elaine Collins

Mark Charles Jacobs

Walter Andrew Mattingly

Stephen Harding Primm

Mary Garvie Weber

Richard C Beck

Dylan Lee Wudtke

Marshall Kenneth Bryant

Susan Marie Vanage

Kenneth B Close

A storing and dispensing container includes a stack of moist wipes, a film pouch, and a rigid flip top that has a lid connected to a flange by a hinge. The flange is affixed to an outer surface of the pouch and surrounds a dispensing orifice. The flange can assume bent and unbent states. The flange has first and second hinges that each extend along a first bending axis, such than when a top wipe is extracted from the package through the dispensing orifice, the first bending axis is pulled away from the stack, and the flange bends about the first bending axis to assume the bent state. In particular embodiments, the hinges can be defined by areas of reduced flange thickness, reduced flange width, and/or reduced flange rigidity. The flange can include a plurality of strengthening ribs, and hinges can be defined by gaps in the ribs.

Storing and dispensing container for wipes

An absorbent article includes a fit system having fasteners and friction elements. The fasteners are located in the front waist area and the back waist area and are adapted to fasten the article about the waist of a wearer to define a waist opening, a pair of leg openings, and a pair of overlap regions. The friction elements are located in the overlap regions and are adapted to provide friction between the front waist area and the back waist area in the overlap regions. The friction elements have an upper portion oriented towards the waist opening and a lower portion oriented towards the leg opening. The upper portion and the lower portion have different concentrations of surface treatment, thicknesses, and/or surface areas.

Fit maintenance system

The invention relates to a stack of wipes for use in a wipes dispenser. The stack includes a plurality of wipes, each wipe of the plurality of wipes formed from a portion of a common material. Each wipe includes a leading edge portion with a pleat-like zone located along at least a portion of a length of the leading edge portion and the pleat-like zone is distinct from an adjoining main portion of each wipe. Each wipe is folded upon itself at least once and each wipe is positioned relative to adjacent wipes to form the stack of wipes.

Process and apparatus for producing wipes with a pleat-like zone along the leading edge portion

The present invention provides a wet-wipe comprising a non-woven composite elastic material comprising a non-woven elastic layer; and a non-woven gatherable layer. The gatherable layer is bonded to the elastic layer at at least two points; and is gathered between the bonded points. These wet-wipes have a softer more cloth like feel.

Composite material with cloth-like feel

Wipes with a pleat-like zone along the leading edge portion

The present invention provides a process for heat treatment of non-woven composite elastic material including a non-woven elastic layer; a non-woven gatherable layer. The process includes stretching the material, heating the material and cooling the material. The material has a softer more cloth-like feel.

Method for controlling retraction of composite materials

Stacks of wet wipes having improved dispensability are provided. The stacks comprise a first clip of wet wipes and a second clip of wet wipes positioned on top of the first clip of wet wipes. Clips of wet wipes generally include a last wet wipe comprising a bottom portion having a surface area that is greater than the surface area of the top portion. Clips of wet wipes also generally include a next-to-last wet wipe comprising a bottom portion having a surface area that is less than the surface area of the top portion. Individual wet wipes in stacks of the present invention have less tendency to stick together than wet wipes in stacks found in the prior art.

Wet wipe dispensing

A 3-dimension thermoformed bicomponent fiber nonwoven material comprising a lofty bicomponent material layer forming a plurality of peaks separated from one another by channels and having a basis weight in the range of about 0.5 to 7.0 ounces per square yard. The bicomponent material layer comprises a structural component and a heat activatable adhesive component suitable for thermoforming. Also disclosed are various configurations of this material suitable for use in absorbent personal care articles such as sanitary napkins, disposable diapers, incontinent-care pads and the like.

Ultra resilient three-dimensional nonwoven fiber material and process

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Oshkosh, WI, United States of America

Scott Richard Lange