Fluid management layer for an absorbent article
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsGerard A. Viens, Carlos Domingo Naranjo Martin, Paul Dominic Mellor
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Abstract
A fluid management layer having an integrated, carded, nonwoven is described. The fluid management layer has a basis weight of between about 40 grams per square meter (gsm) and about 75 gsm; a plurality of absorbent fibers, a plurality of stiffening fibers and a plurality of resilient fibers; wherein the fluid management layer exhibits a total compression of greater than 0.40 mm and has a total recovery of at least 0.35 mm, and wherein the fluid management layer has a density of less than or equal to 0.08 g/cc.
Claims20
A fluid management layer comprising an integrated, carded, nonwoven having a caliper of greater than 0.20 mm per 10 gsm for a basis weight of between about 40 grams per square meter (gsm) and about 75 gsm, the fluid management layer comprising a plurality of absorbent fibers, a plurality of stiffening fibers and a plurality of resilient fibers, as determined by the Material Compositional Analysis specified herein, the stiffening fibers comprising sheath-core bicomponent fibers having a core component comprising polyethylene terephthalate and a sheath component comprising polyethylene;
- wherein a plurality of heat-formed bonds are present between adjacent stiffening fibers;
- wherein the fluid management layer exhibits a total compression of greater than 0.40 mm and has a total recovery of at least 0.35 mm, as determined by the Compression Caliper method specified herein and wherein the fluid management layer has a density of less than or equal to 0.08 g/cc, as determined by the Density method specified herein.
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