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US 12,496,238 B2Granted
Shaped nonwoven
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsArman Ashraf, Paul Thomas Weisman
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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, wherein the intensive property is one or more of thickness, basis weight, or volumetric density, and wherein the first surface has a TS7 value different than a TS7 value of the second surface.
Claims18
An absorbent article comprising:
- an absorbent core, wherein the absorbent core comprises an absorbent material, and wherein the absorbent core comprises one or more channels substantially free of the absorbent material;
- a topsheet and an outer cover nonwoven, the topsheet and the outer cover nonwoven each comprising a nonwoven fabric, the nonwoven fabric of the topsheet and the nonwoven fabric of the outer cover nonwoven each comprising:
- continuous fibers forming the nonwoven fabric;
- a first and a second surface, wherein the first surface defines an X-Y plane;
- a first visually discernible zone on the second surface, the first visually discernible zone having a first pattern of three-dimensional features, each of the three-dimensional features comprising continuous fibers, extending from the first surface, and defining a microzone comprising a first region and a second region, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property;
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- a second visually discernible zone on the second surface, the second visually discernible zone having a second pattern of three-dimensional features, each of the three-dimensional features comprising continuous fibers, extending from the first surface, and defining a microzone comprising a first region and a second region, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property,
- wherein the first pattern of three-dimensional features is different from the second pattern of three-dimensional features, and
- wherein the first pattern of three-dimensional features and the second pattern of three-dimensional features are shaped outwardly in a same Z-direction away from the X-Y plane and have the same Z-direction maximum dimension relative to the first surface.
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An absorbent article comprising:
- an absorbent core, wherein the absorbent core comprises an absorbent material, wherein the absorbent core comprises one or more channels substantially free of the absorbent material, and wherein the absorbent material is substantially free of cellulose;
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- a nonwoven fabric forming a topsheet or an outer cover nonwoven and comprising:
- continuous fibers forming the nonwoven fabric, wherein the continuous fibers are bicomponent fibers consisting of two components in a side-by-side arrangement;
- a first surface and a second surface, wherein the first surface defines an X-Y plane;
- a first visually discernible zone on the second surface, the first visually discernible zone having a first pattern of three-dimensional features, each of the three-dimensional features comprising continuous fibers, extending from the first surface, and defining a microzone comprising a first region and a second region, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property;
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- a second visually discernible zone on the second surface and extending from the first surface, the second visually discernible zone having a second pattern of three-dimensional features, each of the three-dimensional features comprising continuous fibers, extending from the first surface, and defining a microzone comprising a first region and a second region, the first and second regions having a difference in values for an intensive property,
- wherein the first pattern of three-dimensional features is different from the second pattern of three-dimensional features, and
- wherein the first pattern of three-dimensional features and the second pattern of three-dimensional features are shaped outwardly in a same Z-direction away from the X-Y plane and have the same Z-direction maximum dimension relative to the first surface.
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