Array of sanitary tissue products

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9242775-B2
Application number	US-89776607-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 31, 2007
Priority date	Feb 23, 2007
Publication date	Jan 26, 2016
Grant date	Jan 26, 2016

Abstract

An array of sanitary tissue products, for example an array of toilet tissue products, wherein one of the sanitary tissue products exhibits a total dry tensile strength that is greater than another sanitary tissue product within the array, and a process for making such an array, is provided.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An array of sanitary tissue products comprising a first sanitary tissue product and a second sanitary tissue product wherein the first sanitary tissue product is housed within a first package and the second sanitary tissue product is housed within a second package, wherein the first sanitary tissue product exhibits a value of total dry tensile strength that is different from the second sanitary tissue product and wherein the first package comprises a dominant strength indicia and wherein the first package and the second package are separate from each other such that the first and second packages are displayed on a store shelf separate from each other as individual packages in a way that the first and second packages are visible to a consumer during the consumer's purchasing decision process and that are designed to be sold individually and wherein the first and second packages each comprise a common brand name.

2. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the value of total dry tensile strength exhibited by the first sanitary tissue product is at least 20% greater than the value of total dry tensile strength exhibited by the second sanitary tissue product.

3. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the value of total dry tensile strength exhibited by the first sanitary tissue product is 550 g/in or greater and the value of total dry tensile strength of the second sanitary tissue product is less than 550 Win.

4. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 2 wherein the value of total dry tensile strength exhibited by the first sanitary tissue product is from about 600 to about 950 g/in and the value of total dry tensile strength of the second sanitary tissue product is from about 350 to about 550 Win.

5. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the first sanitary tissue product within the array exhibits a texture that is different from the second sanitary tissue product's texture.

6. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the first sanitary tissue product exhibits a surface pattern that is different from the second sanitary tissue product's surface pattern.

7. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein at least one of the sanitary tissue products within the array comprises more than one ply.

8. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 7 wherein two or more of the sanitary tissue products within the array comprise more than one ply.

9. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the dominant strength indicia is selected from the group consisting of: texture, text, picture, character representation exhibiting an action pose, color and mixtures thereof.

10. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the first sanitary tissue product exhibits a lint value of greater than 2.5.

11. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the second sanitary tissue product exhibits a lint value of less than about 9.0.

12. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the first sanitary tissue product exhibits a dust value that is less than about 75% of the dust value of the second sanitary tissue product.

13. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the second sanitary tissue product exhibits a value of a common intensive property other than total dry tensile strength that is different from the value of the common intensive property for the first sanitary tissue product.

14. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 13 wherein the common intensive property is selected from the group consisting of:
softness, lint, absorbency, thickness, basis weight, density, scent and mixtures thereof.

15. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 13 wherein the common intensive property is softness.

16. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the array further comprises a third sanitary tissue product that exhibits at least one value of an intensive property that is different from at least one of the first and second sanitary tissue products.

17. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 16 wherein the third sanitary tissue product comprises a lotion composition.

18. The array of sanitary tissue products according to claim 1 wherein the sanitary tissue products are toilet tissue products.

Assignees

• Knobloch Thorsten
• Steeves-Kiss Jennifer Lori
• Burns Michael Ricardo
• Thomas Illya Torrance
• Brase John Paul
• Legault Dennis Xavier
• Duval Dean Larry
• Burns Mary Windes
• Procter & Gamble

Inventors

• Knobloch Thorsten
• Steeves-Kiss Jennifer Lori
• Burns Michael Ricardo
• Thomas Illya Torrance
• Brase John Paul
• Legault Dennis Xavier
• Duval Dean Larry

Classifications

• B65D71/00 Primary

  Bundles of articles held together by packaging elements for convenience of storage or transport, e.g. portable segregating carrier for plural receptacles such as beer cans or pop bottles; Bales of material · CPC title