Method of producing a hydroentangled nonwoven material
AssigneeSCA Hygiene Products AB
InventorMikael Strandqvist
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Abstract
A method of producing a nonwoven material by hydroentangling a fiber mixture containing spunlaid filaments, natural fibers and synthetic staple fibers, wherein a fibrous web of natural fibers and at least 10% by fiber weight of manmade staple fibers is wetlaid by means of an inclined wire formation, the wetlaid fibrous web is hydroentangled in a first hydroentangling station and spunlaid filaments are laid on top of said hydroentangled wetlaid fibrous web to form a combined web. The combined web is hydroentangled in a second hydroentangling station.
Claims10
A method of producing a nonwoven material by hydroentangling a fiber mixture comprising spunlaid filaments, natural fibers and synthetic staple fibers, the method comprising
- wetlaying a first fibrous web of natural fibers and at least 10% by fiber weight of manmade staple fibers by means of inclined wire formation,
- hydroentangling said first fibrous web in a first hydroentangling station,
- laying spunlaid filaments on top of said hydroentangled wetlaid fibrous web to form a combined web, and
- hydroentangling said combined web in a second hydroentangling station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.