Laura M 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:

6608236, Aug 19, 2003

Filed:

May 5, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/072172

Inventors:

Andrew Scott Burnes - Lawrenceville GA
Rebecca Lyn Dilnik - Neenah WI
Connie Lynn Hetzler - Sparta NJ
Thomas Patrick Jorgenson - Neenah WI
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA
Jayne Bramstedt Nelson - Neenah WI
Lawrence Howell Sawyer - Roswell GA
Heather Anne Sorebo - Appleton WI
James Allyn Spiers - Acworth GA
Laura Jane Walker - Appleton WI
Rodney Lawrence Abba - Oshkosh WI
Charles John Chappell - Menasha WI
Valerie Victoria Finch - Neenah WI
Ann Marie Giencke - Menasha WI
Michael Brent Kottek - Neenah WI
Allan James Krueger - Winneconne WI
Andrew Michael Lake - Combined Locks WI
MeeWha Lee - Appleton WI
Janice Gail Nielsen - Appleton WI
Ann Margaret Vanevenhoven - Appleton WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

604378, 60438501

Abstract:

There is provided a distribution material for personal care products which is a fabric which wicks artificial menses according to a horizontal wicking test a distance of about 1 inch in less than about 1. 5 minutes. Materials meeting this performance criteria generally have a pore size distribution with a high percentage (usually more than 50 percent) of pore diameters between about 80 and 400 microns and a density below about 0. 15 g/cc. There is also provided a personal care product system having a distribution/retention layer and a pad shaping layer wherein each layer has a stain length ratio of 0. 5 or less and the distribution/retention layer has a saturation profile of 4 or less.

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.