Novel nonwoven fabrics with advantageous properties
AssigneeThe Procter & Gamble Company
InventorsAlbert E. Ortega, R. Wayne Thomley, Jan MacKey
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Abstract
This invention relates to nonwoven fabrics with advantageous characteristics and the method to produce these fabrics. Advantageously, the fabrics of the subject invention have increased thickness (loft) compared to conventional nonwoven fabrics and have high air permeability and open space while maintaining softness and strength at the same basis weight.
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A method of producing a thicker more open nonwoven fabric, said method comprising providing at least two different denier sizes of filaments such that the larger denier filaments comprise at least about 5% of the filaments and directing a plurality of these filaments onto a collection surface to form a web and forming a multiplicity of discrete bond sites in the fabric to bond together said large and small filaments.
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