US 12,331,430 B2
Article of manufacture making system
Christopher Michael Young, Loveland, OH (US); Steven Lee Barnholtz, West Chester, OH (US); and Fei Wang, Mason, OH (US)
Assigned to The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed by The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH (US)
Filed on Aug. 21, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/452,703.
Application 18/452,703 is a continuation of application No. 17/541,688, filed on Dec. 3, 2021, granted, now 11,767,617.
Application 17/541,688 is a continuation of application No. 16/511,428, filed on Jul. 15, 2019, granted, now 11,220,789, issued on Jan. 11, 2022.
Application 16/511,428 is a continuation of application No. 15/172,174, filed on Jun. 3, 2016, granted, now 10,378,133, issued on Aug. 13, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/170,172, filed on Jun. 3, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2023/0392298 A1, Dec. 7, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. D01G 13/00 (2006.01); D01G 1/02 (2006.01); D04H 1/732 (2012.01); D04H 1/407 (2012.01); D21H 27/00 (2006.01)
CPC D01G 13/00 (2013.01) [D01G 1/02 (2013.01); D04H 1/732 (2013.01); D04H 1/407 (2013.01); D21H 27/002 (2013.01)] 10 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An article of manufacture making system that makes an article of manufacture comprising a plurality of dry solid additives selected from the group consisting of fibers, particulates, and mixtures thereof, the article of manufacture making system comprising a dry solid additive delivery system comprising one or more dry solid additive inlets and one or more dry solid additive outlets, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive inlets is intimately associated with at least one dry solid additive source that supplies dry solid additives to the at least one dry solid additive inlet wherein the dry solid additives are conveyed through the dry solid additive delivery system from at least one of the dry solid additive inlets to at least one of the dry solid additive outlets from which the dry solid additives are formed into an article of manufacture, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive outlets is intimately associated with the article of manufacture, wherein one or more prime movers are located between at least one of the dry solid additive inlets and at least one of the dry solid additive outlets;
wherein the one or more prime movers have an outlet and the CD dimension of the one or more prime movers outlet is greater than the CD dimension of at least one of the dry solid additive inlets;
wherein the Stokes Number of the dry solid additives within the dry solid additive delivery system has a value of less than 2000 in any region of analysis between at least one of the dry solid additive inlets and at least one of the dry solid additive outlets.