Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

General Electric Company

Other

Borg-warner Chemicals, Inc.

Stephen Michael Campbell

Howard Martin Welch

Ketan N Shah

Mark Michael Mleziva

Cristian M Neculescu

Palani Raj Ramaswami Wallajapet

Prasad Shrikrishna Potnis

Sandra Marie Rogers

Richard Mark Hansen

Randall James Palmer

Violet May Grube

Chen-Youn Sue

Jason Sybren Fairbanks

Courtney Eileen Shea

Thomas Michael Killian

John C Wozny

Mark John Jung

Adrian Roy Eggen

Jonathan K Rice

Rhiannon L Thoresen

Richard D Schultz

Daniel William Hesse

Dave Allen Soerens

David William Koenig

Yihua Chang

Thomas Harold Roessler

Jian Qin

Ann Louise McCormack

Yung Hsiang Huang

William S Pomplun

Bryan David Haynes

David Arthur Fell

Garry Roland Woltman

Donald Eugene Waldroup

James Russell Fitts, Jr

Charles John Morell

Carol Ann Blaney

Sarah Jane Marie Freiburger

Earle Harry Sherrod

William Bela Haffner

Kent Allan Franklin

Gerald Keith Sosalla

Chinmay Suresh Betrabet

John Edward Kerins

Deborah Joy Calewarts

Linda G Harris

John Joseph Sayovitz

Daniel Lee Ellingson

Marianne Keevill Leick

Stephen Robert Kehn

Gregory Todd Sudduth

Jennifer Cappel Larson

Donald V Willitts

Todd Christopher Larson

Jeffrey Frank Jurena

Bliss Elizabeth Cohen

Wendy Marie Takken

Leslie D Dobbins

Charles Edward Edmundson

Gregory R Prince

Keyur M Desai

John C Taylor

Kile Patrick Mangan

Jisheng Shen

Larry Ned Barnett, Jr

Douglas H Tulley, Jr

Richard D Schulz

Mark J Jung

Jr James Russell Fitts

A process is disclosed for topically applying additive compositions to planar substrates, such as tissue webs. In one embodiment, the process is designed to apply relatively high viscous compositions to base sheets at high speeds in a manner that prevents the additive composition from penetrating into the sheet. The additive composition having the relatively high viscosity can be applied to the base sheet in one embodiment using an offset gravure printing process. The applicator roll includes a pattern of raised elements. The raised elements define a surface having at least one dimension that is less than 500 microns. The raised elements are also spaced closely together in order to prevent fiber buildup on the roll during relatively fast processing speeds.

Process for applying high viscosity composition to a sheet with high bulk

The present invention provides an absorbent article having longitudinal direction, a lateral direction, a second portion and a first portion. This absorbent article has a topsheet which has a first major surface that forms a body-facing surface. In addition, the absorbent article has a backsheet which has a second major surface disposed distally from the first major surface. The second major surface of the backsheet forms a garment facing surface of the absorbent article. On the second portion of the top sheet on the first major surface, a body adhesive is applied. In the first portion of the absorbent article, a garment attachment device for attaching the absorbent article to an undergarment of a user is present.

Body-adhering personal care product

A bonded structure including one or more substrates bonded together with a tackified amorphous poly-alpha-olefin adhesive composition. One method of making such a bonded structure is carried out by applying a tackified amorphous poly-alpha-olefin adhesive composition to one or more substrates at a temperature of about 170 degrees Celsius or lower, and joining the substrates to themselves or to one another. The bonded structure has a dynamic peel strength between about 400 and about 1000 grams per 25 millimeters. The bonding efficiency of the bonded structure renders the bonded structure suitable for incorporation into a variety of articles, including personal care products, health/medical products, and household/industrial product, for example.

Tackified amorphous-poly-alpha-olefin-bonded structures

An adhesive composition comprises at least a binder polymer and a water-soluble plasticizer. The binder polymer may be present in a range of about 10% to about 60% by weight of the adhesive composition, and the plasticizer may be present in the range of about 5% to about 85% by weight of the adhesive composition, such as in the range of about 40% to about 80% by weight. In some aspects, the adhesive also comprises less than 10% by weight highly-volatile component, such as about 0% to about 5% by weight. The adhesive composition can be utilized in a variety of articles, including personal care articles, health/medical articles, and household/industrial articles.

Multi-purpose adhesive composition

Disclosed is an absorbent article useful for the following purposes without limitation: as a bed pad, a baby changing pad, a bib, a table cloth, or a painter's drop cloth. The absorbent article includes a vapor-permeable liquid-impermeable bottomsheet having an interior surface and an exterior surface, an absorbent structure positioned adjacent the interior surface, and a non-adhesive skid-resistant coating applied to the exterior surface such that the bottomsheet remains vapor-permeable after application of the coating. The non-adhesive skid resistant coating improves the ability of the absorbent article to remain in position without leaving residue on surfaces while leaving the absorbent article breathable.

Non-slip absorbent article

A simplified elastic laminate is made from nonwovens and is especially suitable for side panels of training pant garments or the like. A plurality of thermoplastic adhesive elastomeric fibers are located between first and second facing webs. The fibers have an elastic core and adhesive surfaces. The facing webs, with the elastomeric fibers between them, are calendered together thus adhering the facing webs together via contact adhesion with the elastomeric fibers.

Elastic strand bonded laminate

The present invention provides a one or two step method for bonding and creping or double creping a nonwoven web. In the method of the present invention, a nonwoven web is adhered to a creping roll and bonded while on the creping roll. The bonding of the nonwoven adheres the nonwoven to the creping roll in a pattern of the bonding roll. Once creped from the creping roll, the resulting nonwoven web is creped in the pattern of the bonding roll. The creped nonwoven webs of the present invention are useful in a wide variety of application including as wipes, liners, transfer or surge layers, outercovers, other fluid handling materials and looped fastener materials.

Method for producing creped nonwoven webs

A shoe or foot covering with slip-resistant properties is disclosed. The shoe cover includes a slip-resistant material that is applied to the bottom portion of the shoe cover. The slip-resistant material may be a substantially amorphous atactic olefin polymer.

Low tack slip-resistant shoe cover

A method for ultrasonically bonding thermoplastic materials, for example melt-compatible thermoplastic materials, wherein the thermoplastic materials are preheated prior to entering an ultrasonic bonding means, thereby substantially increasing an ultimate bond strength established between the materials during the ultrasonic bonding process.

Method for obtaining improved ultrasonic bond strength

The invention relates to a plurality of wipes, separable joined together. Each wipe of the plurality of wipes is moistened with a liquid in an amount of about 25 percent to about 600 percent of a dry weight of the wipe. An adhesive joins together at least two wipes of the plurality of wipes. The adhesive joins the at least two wipes together with an adhesion strength per unit adhesive length greater than 0 g/cm and less than about 200 g/cm. Alternately or additionally, the adhesive joins the at least two wipes together with an adhesion strength per unit adhesive area greater than 0 g/cm and less than about 1000 g/cm .

Process for joining wet wipes together and product made thereby

The present invention provides a composition comprising a low-molecular weight, amorphous polyalphaolefin layer and a water-sensitive substrate layer. Preferably, the polyalphaolefin comprises either a propylene-ethylene copolymer or an ethylene-butene copolymer. Polyalphaolefin coated water-dispersible films of the present invention may be advantageously employed in the preparation of a wide variety of products designed to be contacted with aqueous fluids. Although the coated water-dispersible film of the present invention is particularly suited for personal care products, the coated water-dispersible film of the present invention may be advantageously employed in the preparation of a wide variety of consumer products other than personal care products. When the entire product is disposed of in water, the water-sensitive layer is wetted and weakens. Since the polyalphaolefin layer is already mechanically weak, hydraulic force from a toilet flow causes the composition to disperse into pieces small enough to flow through the toilet and beyond without clogging the water system.

Method of making a flushable film having barrier properties

Breathable microporous films are provided having controlled regional breathability with thick high WVTR regions and thinner low WVTR regions. The zoned breathable microporous films can be made by selectively applying heat and/or pressure to specific regions the microporous film such as by feeding a microporous film through a pair of heated nip rollers with one of the rolls having a raised surface area or by applying a focused stream of hot air. Monolayer microporous films and multilayer films having at least one microporous layer can be treated to impart zoned breathability to the film.

Microporous films having zoned breathability

There is provided a melt extrudable, moisture curable thermoplastic polymer which is produced from a silane modified elastomeric polymer and which has improved hysteresis, reduced stress decay and improved creep properties. The polymer may be processed into a nonwoven web, film or foam which may be laminated to other materials such as spunbond polyolefin layers and may be used in medical, personal care, feminine hygiene and other applications.

Process for producing a film using silane modified elastomeric

Process for producing a nonwoven web using silane modified elastomeric

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Stephen Michael Campbell