Sanitary napkin for clean body benefit
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsJohn Lee Hammons, Susan Nicole Lloyd, Stewart Lawrence Taub
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Abstract
A disposable absorbent article having a facing layer joined to a backsheet and an absorbent core disposed between the facing layer and the backsheet, is described herein. The facing layer is a composite material having a plurality of apertures extending through the facing layer.
Claims15
A disposable absorbent article having a longitudinal axis defining a longitudinal orientation and longitudinally-oriented side edges, a transverse axis orthogonal to the longitudinal axis, and a thickness measured orthogonal to a plane defined by the longitudinal axis and the transverse axis, the disposable absorbent article comprising:
- a facing layer, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the facing layer and the backsheet, wherein the facing layer comprises a composite material comprising a plurality of apertures extending through the facing layer, wherein the composite material comprises a first nonwoven layer and a second nonwoven layer, wherein the second nonwoven layer comprises a plurality of fibers having a diameter of greater than 7 microns, and wherein the first layer forms a portion of a body-facing surface of the disposable absorbent article.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.