Kimberly-clark Worldwide, Inc.

Timothy James Peters

Robert Samuel Schlaupitz

George Ikuya Nukuto

Alice Susan Gordon

Ryan Leslie Fulscher

Kieron Hiuhon Tse

Laura Braunecker

Tyson Manullang

Ward Elwood, Jr

Anthony N Fedel

Kevin Peter McGrath

James Blaine Wolford

Alan Edward Wright

Wanda Walton Jackson

Elizabeth Oriel Bradley

Meghan Marie McGuire

David Michael Matela

Robert A Drew

Martin John Behling, Ii

Andrew Dale Brinkdopke

Bernard J Bangert

A lid structure for use with a container for storing personal care products is disclosed. The lid structure includes a lid-activation button that when pressed allows the lid top to rotate about the lid base giving a consumer access to the contents of the container. Additionally, the lid-activation button functions so that the lid top is released independent of where the lid-activation button is pressed by the consumer. To create better and more consistent opening of the lid top portion, an inner longitudinal edge of the lid-activation button may be attached to the lid bottom via a living hinge that is formed integrally with the lid base. A strengthening rib is attached to the living hinge that keeps the main body side of the living hinge immobile and encourages the button side of the living hinge to flex when the lid-activation button is depressed.

Dispenser with a wide lid-activation button having a stabilizing rib

A disposable air filter that includes: (a) air filtration media; (b) a substantially planar air filter frame providing three-dimensional support for the air filtration media; and (c) an inter-filter gap filler disposed along substantially the entire length of at least one side of an opposed pair of the first or second sides and integrated into the air filter frame is disclosed. The integral inter-filter gap filler reduces gaps between adjacent air filters disposed in a filter track of an air filter bank.

Air filter with integral inter-filter gap filler

Wet wipe dispenser

A disposable air filter sub-assembly that includes: (a) air filtration media; (b) a substantially planar air filter frame providing three-dimensional support for the air filtration media; and (c) an air filter frame-connecting means integrated into the air filter frame. The integrated air filter frame-connecting means are adapted to connect a plurality of identical air filter sub-assemblies into an air filter assembly with sufficient structural strength in at least one direction such that the air filter sub-assemblies resists separation when the air filter assembly is extracted from the filter track of a filter bank.

Disposable air filter sub-assembly

Wet wipes dispenser

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Neenah, WI, United States of America

Timothy James Peters