Topsheets integrated with heterogenous mass layer
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsChristopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, Clint Adam Morrow, Dean Larry DuVal, John Lee Hammons
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Abstract
An absorbent article and method of making the absorbent article are disclosed. The absorbent article having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core structure having one or more layers wherein at least one layer is a heterogeneous mass layer, wherein the topsheet and the heterogeneous mass are integrated such that they reside in the same X-Y plane.
Claims9
A sanitary napkin comprising a liquid pervious topsheet, a liquid impervious backsheet, and an absorbent core structure comprising a heterogeneous mass layer comprising a layer comprising open cell polyurethane or High Internal Phase Emulsion (HIPE) foam and a fibrous nonwoven layer, wherein fibers of the nonwoven layer have been driven into the layer comprising open cell foam so as to be vertically integrated with the layer comprising open cell foam, wherein the absorbent article exhibits a wet bending measurement between 1.25 and 10 gf*cm2/cm according to the Kawabata method measured in either the MD or CD direction and is able to remove more than 30% of fluid within 60 seconds after insult as measured via the Kinetics and 1D Liquid Distribution by NMR-MOUSE method described herein.
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