Flushable moist wipe or hygiene tissue
AssigneeSCA Hygiene Products AB
InventorsMikael Strandqvist, Susanne Gungner
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Abstract
A flushable moist wipe or hygiene tissue includes a hydraulically entangled nonwoven material impregnated with a wetting composition. The nonwoven material contains at least 70%, by fibre weight, pulp fibres and at least 5%, by fibre weight, manmade fibres and/or natural fibres with a length of at least 6 mm. The moist wipe or hygiene tissue includes at least two plies of the hydraulically entangled nonwoven material, each ply having a basis weight between 30 and 50 g/m2, and the plies are held together by frictional forces without additional mechanical bonding like embossing, needling and hydroentangling and without adhesive.
Claims10
A flushable moist wipe or hygiene tissue comprising a hydraulically entangled nonwoven material impregnated with a wetting composition, said hydraulically entangled nonwoven material containing 70-95%, by fibre weight, pulp fibres and 5-30%, by fibre weight, at least one of manmade fibres and/or and natural fibres with a length of at least 6 mm,
- said moist wipe or hygiene tissue comprising at least two plies of said hydraulically entangled nonwoven material, each ply having a basis weight between 30 and 50 g/m2, and said at least two plies are held together by frictional forces without additional mechanical bonding and without adhesive, and each individual moist wipe or hygiene tissue is folded and comprises a leading edge panel, and a trailing edge panel, wherein the leading edge panel is provided with an additional fold so as to provide a double-folded leading edge panel lip.
A moist wipe or hygiene tissue as claimed in claim characterized in,
- that said manmade fibres or natural fibres having a fibre length of up to 20 mm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.