Laura A Walker

US Patent:

6348253, Feb 19, 2002

Filed:

Feb 9, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/500503

Inventors:

Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Jaime Braverman - Atlanta GA
Rebecca Lyn Dilnik - Neenah WI
Ronald Lee Edens - Appleton WI
Yvette Lynn Hammonds - Fond du Lac WI
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA
Alexander Manfred Schmidt-Foerst - Erlangen, DE
Laura Jane Walker - Appleton WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

428138, 428137, 428131, 428152, 428913, 60438501, 604378, 604358, 604383

Abstract:

There is provided a feminine hygiene pad comprising a cover adjacent a capillarity fabric having regions of high and low capillarity, which is adjacent a retention layer. In a preferred embodiment, a creped spunbond layer is used as the cover material and a co-apertured intake/distribution layer and transfer delay layer are the capillarity fabric. Combining these improvements into an integrated absorbent system allows the successful achievement of variable flow management and a successful balance between intake and cover desorption properties. The result is improved multiple intake performance and a clean and dry cover surface during use.

US Patent:

6613028, Sep 2, 2003

Filed:

Dec 22, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/218851

Inventors:

Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA
Yvette Lynn Hammonds - Fond du Lac WI
Eugenio Go Varona - Marietta GA
Arthur Edward Garavaglia - Alpharetta GA
Laura Jane Walker - Appleton WI
Ann Marie Giencke - Menasha WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

60438501, 604358

Abstract:

A personal care absorbent article having a fluid intake/distribution layer, a fluid transfer delay layer disposed beneath said fluid intake/distribution layer, said fluid transfer delay layer enabling the transfer of fluid from the fluid intake/distribution layer(s) to a pad layer disposed beneath the fluid transfer delay layer while still allowing fluid distribution by the fluid intake/distribution layer along the machine direction of the article resulting in saturation levels of less than or equal to about 0. 86 g/g/in of fluid in the intake/distribution layer(s) and/or essentially equal to or greater than 0. 06 g/g/in. of fluid in the pad layer.