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AssigneeKimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
InventorsDavid Kaufman, Timothy McFarland
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Methods and systems by which a consumer may select or specify optional features of an absorbent paper product, such as a facial tissue or paper towel product, and then receive an absorbent paper product having the very features selected by the consumer. These optional features may include the color, scent, size, shape or graphic design of the product. Further, a consumer can preferably provide a graphic design (e.g., including text, photographic images, or other graphics) together with a purchase order for an absorbent paper product, and then receive such a product which bears the consumer's graphic design. These absorbent paper products may be “made to order” at the point of purchase or a remote location. In the latter case, a consumer may provide information relating to desired product features over a communications network to a remote production machine which then produces the specific product desired by the consumer.
A method of providing a consumer with a product, the method comprising:
A method of producing a product to order, the method comprising:
A system for producing a product comprising a network interface for receiving information from a consumer over a communications network, said information relating to one or more features of an absorbent paper product desired by the consumer, and a production machine configured to receive the information provided by the consumer over the communications network, and configured to produce the absorbent paper product desired by the consumer based on said information.
The system of claim 19 wherein the production machine is configured to automatically produce the absorbent paper product desired by the consumer in response to receiving said information from the computer server.
The system of claim 20 wherein the production machine includes a packager configured to automatically package the absorbent paper product desired by the consumer.
A method of producing a custom facial tissue product for a consumer, the method comprising:
A method of customizing an absorbent paper product for a consumer, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.