Patent ID: 11866852
Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANY
Field: Textile and paper machines (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC D | IPC D

Claim 5:
6. An article of manufacture making system that makes an article of manufacture, wherein the article of manufacture comprises a plurality of dry solid additives, 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 intermediate outlets 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 intermediate outlets, wherein the dry solid additives are supplied to the one or more dry solid additive inlets by one or more dry solid additive sources comprising a discretizer comprising a screen, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive sources is intimately associated with at least one of the dry solid additive inlets, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive inlets, at least one of the dry solid additive sources, and at least one of the dry solid additive intermediate outlets exhibits an aspect ratio of greater than 1, wherein at least one of the dry solid additive intermediate outlets exhibits a cross machine direction (CD) dimension that is greater than the CD dimension of at least one of the dry solid additive inlets and at least one of the dry solid additive sources, wherein the dry solid additive delivery system further comprises one or more prime movers wherein at least one of the prime movers exhibits an aspect ratio of greater than 1;
wherein at least one of the prime movers is an eductor.