Nancy D Kollin

US Patent:

6410823, Jun 25, 2002

Filed:

Jun 30, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/108096

Inventors:

Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Mark Bruce Majors - Cumming GA
Ali Yahiaoui - Roswell GA
Arthur Edward Garavaglia - Alpharetta GA
Michael David Powers - Canton GA
David Wayne Primm - Cumming GA
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA
Gregory Alan Zelazoski - Kennesaw GA
Jon Edward Tinsley - Roswell GA
Jaime Braverman - Atlanta GA

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

604383, 60438501

Abstract:

A film cover for use in absorbent materials such as feminine care products, surgical drapes, fenestration reinforcement, absorbent pads and the like including a polymeric film having a top planar surface and a bottom planar surface and forming a plurality of apertures, at least a portion of which have an aperture region having a higher wettability than a portion of the top planar surface of the polymeric film.

US Patent:

6627789, Sep 30, 2003

Filed:

Sep 1, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/654442

Inventors:

Thomas William VanDenBogart - Slinger WI
Amy Michele Achter - Alpharetta GA
Bruce Wilfuhr Achter - Alpharetta GA
Barbara Jean Burns - Appleton WI
Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Peter Robert Elliker - Appleton WI
David Martin Jackson - Roswell GA
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA
Gregory Marc Lefkowitz - Atlanta GA
Sylvia Bandy Little - Marietta GA
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA
Cynthia Marie Phillips - Neenah WI
David Charles Potts - Dunwoody GA
Lawrence Howell Sawyer - Neenah WI
Michael William Veith - Oshkosh WI
Kevin Wilson Wood - Neenah WI
Dmitry Yavich - Appleton WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

604378

Abstract:

There is provided an intake/retention/transfer material for personal care products like feminine hygiene products, which is a heterogeneous composite containing between 5 and 25 weight percent of a superabsorbent or gelling material and having a density less than 0. 17 g/cc. A more particular embodiment contains less than 20 weight percent and a still more particular embodiment contains 15 weight percent or less of a superabsorbent or gelling material. Also provided are absorbent articles which contain the class of intake/transfer materials mentioned above along with additional absorbent layers such that the absorption of a menses simulant provides fluid partitioning of less than 72% of fluid in the intake/transfer/retention composite. Additionally said composite should have retention capacity values greater than 2. 7 g/g.

US Patent:

6723892, Apr 20, 2004

Filed:

Sep 1, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/653389

Inventors:

Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA
Bruce Wilfuhr Achter - Alpharetta GA
Charles Wilson Colman - Marietta GA
Joseph DiPalma - Neenah WI
David Martin Jackson - Roswell GA
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA
Margaret Gwyn Latimer - Alpharetta GA
Gregory Marc Lefkowitz - Atlanta GA
Sylvia Bandy Little - Marietta GA
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA
David Charles Potts - Dunwoody GA
Lawrence Howell Sawyer - Neenah WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

604378

Abstract:

There is provided an absorbent system that not only takes in fluid, but then transfers that fluid further beneath the first composite. This is achieved in this invention through paired permeability, capillarity, and void volume of the first and second composites. The invention is an absorbent system composed of at least two absorbent composites that have complementary structural/surface energy characteristics. Such an absorbent system has a first absorbent Composite A which has a first permeability, a first capillarity, and a first void volume and at least one second absorbent Composite B which has a second capillarity and a second porosity multiplied by second thickness. The first absorbent Composite A is in liquid communication or contact with at least one second absorbent Composite B, such that the first absorbent Composite A, and the second absorbent Composite B have a fluid partitioning amount in Composite A, a third triple intake time (IT3) and a rewet value.

US Patent:

6759567, Jul 6, 2004

Filed:

Jun 27, 2001

Appl. No.:

09/892947

Inventors:

Charles Wilson Colman - Marietta GA
Rodney Lawrence Abba - Oshkosh WI
Jaime Braverman - Altanta GA
John Thomas Cooper - Clinton TN
Maureen Myrl Falls - Neenah WI
Tiffany Marshalle Lee Hunter - Stone Mountain GA
Steven Rashad Inabinet - Knoxville TN
David Martin Jackson - Roswell GA
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA
Yen-Ling Lai - Duluth GA
Sylvia Bandy Little - Marietta GA
Robert John Makolin - Neenah WI
David Joseph Nickel - Neenah WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

604378, 604379, 604377, 604375, 604372

Abstract:

A personal care product that has a liquid impermeable backsheet, a liquid permeable topsheet, and an absorbent composite located between the topsheet and backsheet. The absorbent composite has an upper layer made of synthetic fiber with at most 20 weight percent pulp and the upper layer has a density between about 0. 03 and 0. 15 g/cc and a basis weight between about 20 to 75 gsm. The composite has a lower layer having from 80 to 95 weight percent pulp, at most 20 weight percent binder, and has a density greater than the upper layer and between 0. 06 and 0. 20 g/cc, and a basis weight between 120 and 200 gsm.

US Patent:

6838154, Jan 4, 2005

Filed:

Dec 9, 1998

Appl. No.:

09/209044

Inventors:

Eugenio Go Varona - Marietta GA, US
Monica Lynn Bontrager - Appleton WI, US
Jaime Braverman - Atlanta GA, US
Kuo-Shu Edward Chang - Roswell GA, US
Michael Allen Daley - Alpharetta GA, US
Karen Lynn English - Alpharetta GA, US
Arthur Edward Garavaglia - Alpharetta GA, US
Hristo Angelov Hristov - Roswell GA, US
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA, US
Tamara Lee Mace - Doraville GA, US
David Michael Matela - Alpharetta GA, US
Sharon Rymer - Neenah WI, US
Reginald Smith - Roswell GA, US
Michael Donald Sperl - Greenville WI, US

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

D06N 704
D04H 100
D04H 1300
D04H 300
D04H 500
D04H 316
A61F 1315
A61F 1320

US Classification:

428152, 442340, 442401, 604358, 604367, 604368, 604372

Abstract:

There is provided a resilient, three dimensional material having fibrous texture and appearance and capable of fluid handling. It consists of a top surface and a bottom surface wherein fiber-like elements typically extend from one surface to the other forming flat to undulating surfaces characterized by a multiplicity of interconnected fluid passageways. Deformed, discontinuous film-like or encapsulated regions connect fiber-like elements and stabilize the material. The material of this invention is unique based on the three principle characteristics which are communicated in this application: 1) f(ψ)

US Patent:

61722766, Jan 9, 2001

Filed:

Mar 25, 1998

Appl. No.:

9/047778

Inventors:

Connie Lynn Hetzler - Sparta NJ
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA
Crystal Sutphin Leach - Atlanta GA
Jack Nelson Lindon - Alpharetta GA
Lawrence Howell Sawyer - Neenah WI
Heather Anne Sorebo - Appleton WI
Garry Roland Woltman - Greenville WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

604378

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.

US Patent:

62214608, Apr 24, 2001

Filed:

Sep 12, 1995

Appl. No.:

8/527284

Inventors:

Mary Eva Garvie Weber - Alpharetta GA
Stanley Michael Gryskiewicz - Woodstock GA
Pamela Jean Mayberry - Appleton WI
James Arthur Davis - Roswell GA
Michael Tod Morman - Alpharetta GA
Gary Howard Meitner - Winneconne WI
Leslie Warren Collier - Roswell GA
Nancy Donaldson Kollin - Roswell GA
Douglas Bryan Cole - Appleton WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc. - Neenah WI

International Classification:

A61F 1315

US Classification:

428131

Abstract:

Disclosed herein is a liquid absorbent material that is particularly useful as a liner material for personal care absorbent articles such as diapers, training pants, incontinence garments, sanitary napkins, bandages and the like. The material contains a plurality of peaks across its surface at spaced-apart intervals separated by channels. Disposed within the peaks is a liquid absorbing material capable of absorbing body exudates and liquids in general. Due to the materials and the nature of the construction of the present invention, when used as a liner material for personal care absorbent articles such as diapers, it tends to reduce the total surface area in contact with the infant's skin and it also provides a plurality of air channels within the diaper from the front waistband to the back waistband of the diaper thereby providing a path for increased air circulation. The material of the present invention has other uses as, for example, a packing or liner material for packaging and shipping materials containing liquids. In addition, the peaks can contain other additive such as soaps so the material can be used as a wash pad or cloth.

US Patent:

51926067, Mar 9, 1993

Filed:

Sep 11, 1991

Appl. No.:

7/757778

Inventors:

Deborah L. Proxmire - Larsen WI
Wanda W. Jackson - Alpharetta GA
Nancy D. Kollin - Roswell GA
Tamara L. Mace - Alpharetta GA
Ann L. McCormack - Cumming GA
Daniel R. Schlinz - Appleton WI

Assignee:

Kimberly-Clark Corporation - Neenah WI

International Classification:

B32B 506
D04H 100
A61F 1315
A61F 1320

US Classification:

428284

Abstract:

A distinctive absorbent article includes a backsheet layer which has a width dimension and a length dimension, and which includes a front waistband section, a back waistband section, and an intermediate section interconnecting the front and back waistband sections. An absorbent body is superposed on the backsheet layer, and an intermediate transfer layer, which is liquid permeable, is disposed in facing relation with the absorbent body to generally sandwich the absorbent body between the backsheet and transfer layer. The transfer layer has an appointed bodyside, inner surface, and a bodyside liner layer is located on the inner surface of the transfer layer. The bodyside liner comprises a bonded carded web which has a basis weight within the range of about 15-40 gsm and is composed of bicomponent fibers having a fiber denier within the range of about 1. 0-3. 0 dpf. The bodyside liner is constructed to provide for a Penetration rate index of at least about 1. 5 ml/sec and a Retention index of not more than about 0. 8 gm.