Shaped nonwoven
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsArman Ashraf, Kelyn Anne Arora, Paul Thomas Weisman, Nathan Ray Whitely
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Abstract
A nonwoven fabric. The nonwoven fabric can include a first surface and a second surface and a visually discernible pattern of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface. Each of the three-dimensional features can define a microzone comprising a first region and a second region. The first and second regions can have a difference in values for an intensive property. The nonwoven further has a plurality of apertures, wherein at least a portion of the aperture abuts at least one of the first region and the second region of the microzone.
Claims20
A nonwoven fabric comprising a first surface, a second surface, and at least first and second visually discernible zones on one of the first or second surface, each of the first and second zones having a visually different pattern of three-dimensional features that each comprise at least two distinct three-dimensional features, each of the patterns of three-dimensional features defining a microzone comprising a first region and a second region that correspond to the at least two distinct three-dimensional features, wherein the difference in values for an intensive property for the first region and the second region of the microzone in the first zone is different than the difference in values for the intensive property for the first region and the second region of the microzone in the second zone, wherein the intensive property is one or more of:
- a. thickness,
- b. basis weight,
- c. volumetric density;
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- wherein a plurality of the microzones of the nonwoven fabric comprise an aperture, and wherein at least a portion of the aperture abuts at least one of the first region and second region in the first zone or the second zone.
A nonwoven fabric comprising:
- a. a first surface a second surface, and at least first and second visually discernible zones on at least one of the first and second surface, each of the first and second zones having a different pattern of three-dimensional features that each comprise at least two distinct three-dimensional features, each of the patterns of three-dimensional features defining a microzone comprising a first region and a second region that correspond to the at least two distinct three-dimensional features, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property;
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- b. wherein the difference in values for an intensive property for the first region and the second region of the microzone in the first zone is different from the difference in values for the intensive property for the first region and the second region of the microzone in the second zone;
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- wherein a plurality of the microzones within at least one of the first or second visually discernible zones comprise an aperture, and wherein at least a portion of the aperture abuts at least one of the first region and the second region in the first zone or the second zone.
A nonwoven fabric comprising a first surface, a second surface, and at least first and second visually discernible zones of three-dimensional features on one of the first or second surface, each of the first and second zones having a different pattern of three-dimensional features that each comprise at least two distinct three-dimensional features, each of the patterns of three-dimensional features defining a microzone, the microzone comprising a first region and a second region that correspond to the at least two distinct three-dimensional features, wherein the difference in values for an intensive property for the first region and the second region of the microzone in the first zone is different than the difference in values for the intensive property for the first region and the second region of the microzone in the second zone, wherein the intensive property is one or more of:
- a. thickness,
- b. basis weight,
- c. volumetric density;
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- wherein a plurality of the microzones of the nonwoven fabric comprise an aperture, and wherein at least a portion of the aperture abuts the first region in the second zone, and wherein at least a portion of the aperture abuts the second region in the second zone.
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