Article of manufacture making system

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 and wherein the dry solid additive delivery system exhibits a non-circular cross-section in its entirety such that a 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 ignoring the prime movers.