Cleaning article having multi-layer gather strip element
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorNicola John Policicchio
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A cleaning article. The cleaning article has a laminate construction. The cleaning article comprises a sheet and a hydrophilic gather strip element joined together at an elongate bond. The gather strip element has plural layers folded upon one another, providing strips extending outwardly from the bond. The folded layers provide a construction which allows the strips to advantageously present a dynamically changing area to the target surface during cleaning, under normal usage conditions. By changing the surface area, more liquids, and associated debris, can be cleaned from the target surface.
Claims16
An elongate cleaning article extending along a longitudinal axis, said cleaning article comprising:
- an outwardly facing nonwoven sheet;
- an inwardly facing nonwoven sheet;
- an absorbent core between said outwardly facing nonwoven sheet and said inwardly facing nonwoven sheet;
- and
- a gather strip element joined to said inwardly facing nonwoven sheet and extending along said longitudinal axis;
- wherein said gather strip element comprises:
- at least four layers bonded to one another along a central bond, wherein each said layer comprises two open c-folds on opposite sides of said longitudinal axis, wherein for each said layer each said c-fold has a distal end oriented towards said longitudinal axis and said distal ends are spaced apart from one another, wherein each said layer comprises strips extending in a direction away from said central bond, and wherein at least two of said four layers are also joined to said inwardly facing nonwoven sheet by two outboard bonds transversely outboard of and on opposite sides of said central bond.
An elongate cleaning article extending along a longitudinal axis, said cleaning article comprising:
- an outwardly facing nonwoven sheet;
- an inwardly facing nonwoven sheet;
- and
- a gather strip element joined to said inwardly facing nonwoven sheet and extending along said longitudinal axis;
- wherein said gather strip element comprises:
- at least four layers bonded to one another along a central bond, wherein each said layer comprises two open c-folds on opposite sides of said longitudinal axis, wherein for each said layer each said c-fold has a distal end oriented towards said longitudinal axis and said distal ends are spaced apart from one another, wherein each said layer comprises strips extending in a direction away from said central bond, and wherein at least two of said four layers are also joined to said inwardly facing nonwoven sheet by two outboard bonds transversely outboard of and on opposite sides of said central bond.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.