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US 12,024,805 B2Granted
Fibrous structures and methods for making same
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsSteven Lee Barnholtz, Michael Donald Suer, Christopher Michael Young, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Mattias Schmidt
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Abstract
Novel fibrous structures that contain filaments, and optionally, solid additives, such as fibers, for example wood pulp fibers, sanitary tissue products comprising such fibrous structures, and methods for making such fibrous structures and/or sanitary tissue products are provided.
Claims19
A multi-ply fibrous structure comprising a plurality of filaments comprising a thermoplastic polymer selected from the group consisting of:
- polypropylene, polyethylene, polyester, polylactic acid, polyhydroxyalkanoate, polycaprolactone, styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer, styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer, poly-urethane, and mixtures thereof and a plurality of solid additives, wherein the multi-ply fibrous structure exhibits a sled surface drying time of less than 50 seconds as measured according to the Sled Surface Drying Test Method;
- wherein the multi-ply fibrous structure comprises a visible interply void volume between two adjacent plies of fibrous structure of at least 20 μm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.