324 patents
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Utility
Absorbent article with a fluid entangled body facing material including a plurality of projections
8 Nov 22
An absorbent article having improved handling of body exudates.
Scott S. C. Kirby, David Glen Biggs, Andrew Thomas Hammond, Eric Donald Johnson, Candace Dyan Krautkramer, Robert Lee Popp, Leila Joy Roberson, Daniel Robert Schlinz, Kendell Jean Williams, Niall Finn, Andy R. Butler
Filed: 9 Oct 19
Utility
Absorbent article with body conforming structure
25 Oct 22
An absorbent article has a top sheet, a back sheet, and an absorbent assembly positioned between the back sheet and the top sheet.
Suzanne Marie Schmoker, Heidi Bauerlein Hopkins, Sohyun Sara Park, Christopher Peter Olson
Filed: 19 May 20
Utility
Multi-ply tissue product produced from a single ply tissue web
11 Oct 22
In general, the present invention is directed to a process for producing multi-ply tissue products from a single ply tissue web and the resulting multi-ply products, which have good softness and strength characteristics.
Maurizio Tirimacco
Filed: 27 Apr 18
Utility
Woven papermaking fabric having converging, diverging or merging topography
13 Sep 22
Provided are woven papermaking fabrics having a web contacting surface having protuberances formed from woven warp and shute filaments.
Lynda Ellen Collins, Mark Alan Burazin
Filed: 27 Sep 18
Utility
System and method for managing product usage from dispensers
13 Sep 22
A system and method are provided for improving product usage prior to refill of product dispensers in service areas that include a plurality of such dispensers.
Babak R. Ghazi, Frederick J. Williams, Stephen Becker
Filed: 21 Aug 20
Utility
Method of manufacturing an absorbent article having fully encircling bodyside and garment-side waistband
6 Sep 22
A method for manufacturing absorbent articles comprises delivering a continuous web assembly including a backsheet material, a liquid permeable bodyside liner material, and an absorbent structure interposed between the backsheet material and the bodyside liner material, the web assembly having a body-facing side and a garment-facing side; attaching a discrete segment of first waist elastic material to the body-facing side of the web assembly; attaching a discrete segment of second waist elastic material to the garment-facing side of the web assembly such that the web assembly is interposed between the discrete segments of first and second waist elastic materials; and cutting the web assembly to form a plurality of absorbent articles.
Joseph J. Sina, Kathleen Irene Bennett, Marcille Faye Ruman, Thomas Harold Roessler
Filed: 29 Dec 20
Utility
Adaptive sheet caliper control system and apparatus and methods
6 Sep 22
The present invention provides an adaptive control system to control a plant using direct output feedback in which a function of the full plant state, as opposed to estimates thereof, is used for feedback control of the plant.
Ryan A. Petras, Matthew W. Trautschold, Mark G. Dollevoet, Vivek M. Karandikar, Julie A. Hansen, Walter F. Montgomery, Antwain Taylor, Kevin B. Sartain, Justin P. Stergar
Filed: 10 Jun 20
Utility
Flexible polymeric material with shape retention properties
6 Sep 22
A shaped polymeric material having a three-dimensional configuration with one or more angular displacements is provided.
Vasily A. Topolkaraev, Ryan J. McEneany, Neil T. Scholl
Filed: 6 Jun 14
Utility
Absorbent article having a fastening system with a visual cue
30 Aug 22
An absorbent article has a chassis having an outer cover at least in part defining the outer surface of the article, a pair of ears extending transversely outward from opposite sides of the chassis, and a fastening system comprising a primary fastening system and a secondary fastening system.
Janet E. Collins, David Biggs, Eric D. Johnson, Alanna Haessler
Filed: 15 Mar 19
Utility
Perforator lubrication system
30 Aug 22
The lubrication device delivers a lubricant to the perforating device which provides intermittently spaced cuts to a moving web, also referred to as perforations.
Robert E. Krautkramer, Matthew R. Wilson, James L. Baggot
Filed: 3 Dec 20
Utility
Non-planar nonwoven fabrics and methods of making the same
30 Aug 22
The present invention provides a method of making a nonwoven fabric of continuous fibers that includes forming a nonwoven web on a highly porous woven or knitted forming fabric that defines a pattern of recesses that are bordered by spaced apart filaments extending between the outer surfaces of the fabric and that allows air to pass both downwardly and sidewardly through the forming fabric.
Laura E. Keck, John H. Conrad, Susan E. Shawver
Filed: 29 Sep 17
Utility
Multi-ply tissue products having improved cross-machine direction properties
30 Aug 22
Provided are tissue webs, and products produced therefrom, that are generally durable, flexible and have improved cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as CD tensile energy absorption (CD TEA), CD stretch and CD modulus.
Mark W. Sachs, Richard A. Zanon, Lynda E. Collins, Kevin J. Vogt, Christopher L. Satori
Filed: 31 Aug 20
Utility
Creped multi-ply tissue product
30 Aug 22
Disclosed are multi-ply tissue products comprising a non-crosslinked binder that are durable, smooth and with low levels of Slough.
Kevin Joseph Vogt, Mark William Sachs, Erin Ann McCormick, Devon Gaynelle Curley, Sara Jane Wille Stabelfeldt, Nathan John Vogel, Christopher Steven LeCount
Filed: 27 Mar 20
Utility
Soft textured tissue
23 Aug 22
Provided are tissue webs and products that have a modest degree of surface texture, but are still soft.
Michael John Rekoske, David Matthew VanBergen, John Paul David, Jessica Jan O'Connor, Gary Lee Shanklin
Filed: 30 Nov 17
Utility
Tear resistant wiper
9 Aug 22
An improved tear resistant wiper is provided having a repeating pattern of thin, closely spaced curvilinear embossed elements adjacent the leading edge of the wipe and which pattern extends inwardly less than a third of the length of the wipe.
Lauren Munoz, David A. Palzewicz, Kristina M. Bloy, Dylan L. Wudtke, Alejandro Romero Villarreal
Filed: 8 Jun 17
Utility
Container having a push-button activated, pop-open lid
2 Aug 22
A container for dispensing product includes a housing having an interior space.
Bryan Eliot Rolfs, Jeremy Thaddeus Gauger, Maggie VanderHeiden Berger, Amanda Ann Gantz, Heidi Ellen Gehrke
Filed: 31 Aug 17
Utility
Laminated papermaking belt
2 Aug 22
Disclosed is a two layered belt useful in the manufacture of tissue products comprising a first woven layer and a second nonwoven layer joined together in a laminated arrangement.
Mark Alan Burazin, Geoffrey Fenn Carlow, Richard Alan Zanon
Filed: 24 Jan 20
Utility
Layered tissue comprising long, high-coarseness wood pulp fibers
12 Jul 22
The present invention provides multi-layered tissue webs, and tissue product comprising the same, comprising long, high-coarseness wood pulp fibers selectively deposited in one or more outer layers of the multi-layered web.
Thomas Gerard Shannon, Stephen Michael Lindsay, Brent Merrik Thompson, Richard Louis Underhill
Filed: 18 Jan 19
Utility
Water soluble farnesol analogs and their use
12 Jul 22
Farnesol analogs, along with their related products (e.g., treatment compositions, wipes, absorbent articles, etc.) and their methods of formation, are provided.
David William Koenig, Mary Kay Foegen, Corey Thomas Cunningham, Aimin He, Yang Huang
Filed: 14 Jan 20
Utility
Hydroembedded film-based composites
12 Jul 22
A substrate has an elastomeric film having surfaces and a nonwoven web having fibers, wherein a plurality of fibers is partially embedded in one surface of the film.
Kaiyuan Yang, Carl Gerard Rippl, Peiguang Zhou, Yiming Weng, Michael Andrew Zawadzki, Stephen Michael Lindsay, James Benjamin Harvey, Joel Brostin
Filed: 24 Feb 16