Cleaning or dusting pad cross-reference to related applications
AssigneeS.C. Johnson & Son, Inc.
InventorsDavid Hoadley, Ralph Schwarz
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Abstract
A cleaning pad 28 is disclosed. The cleaning pad 28 includes a cleaning pad that includes a combination of fibers 203 bonded to a base sheet 402 such that 100% of the fibers are bonded to the base sheet 402 at a first joining location 407 and between 5-90% are bonded to the base sheet at a second joining location 444. The first and second joining locations may take a variety of forms such as discrete points, points on a line, or sections of a line.
Claims42
A cleaning pad comprising:
- at least one nonwoven sheet;
- and
- a combination of fibers connected to the nonwoven sheet by a plurality of spots.
A cleaning pad comprising:
- a combination of strips and at least one nonwoven;
- and
- wherein 100% of the strips are bonded to the nonwoven at a first joining location and between 5-90% are bonded at at least a second joining location.
A cleaning pad comprising:
- fiber bundles attached to a nonwoven sheet in an alternating fashion such that a fiber length from a binding site to a free end of a fiber bundle differs from a length of an adjacent fiber bundle.
A cleaning pad comprising:
- an open fiber bundle bonded to a nonwoven material such that 80% of the total fiber bundle comprises fibers that are not bonded along at least 50% of their length from a first weldment.
A cleaning pad comprising:
- a base sheet, the base sheet comprising an outer unperforated, uncut outer edge;
- and
- a combination of fibers connected to the nonwoven sheet, wherein individual fibers are connected at at least one joining location.
A cleaning pad comprising:
- a base sheet;
- and
- a combination of fibers connected to the nonwoven sheet at at least one point along a curved bonding line.
A cleaning pad comprising:
- at least one nonwoven sheet;
- and
- a combination of fibers connected to the nonwoven sheet only by a plurality of spots.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.